SAN FRANCISCO — Litigator William Edlund, a fixture in the Bay Area legal community for more than 60 years, died Dec. 24 at California Pacific Medical Center. He was 87.
Edlund became one of the top litigators at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro during a 45-year tenure there, representing Chevron Corp. in billion-dollar ownership battles with Pennzoil and defending motion picture studios such as Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount and Universal against antitrust claims brought by theater owners. His work for Bank of America in a case against Timblerlane Lumber established the legal test for extraterritorial jurisdiction in antitrust cases.
