Timothy Tosta was given two years to live ... 19 years ago
08 | 01 | 2010
Recognition
By Rose Nisker / Photography by Larry Marcus
In 1991, land use attorney Timothy Tosta was on fire. The 41-year-old attorney had a wildly successful practice, a reputation for sealing some of San Francisco's most impossible development deals, and a future that could only get bigger. On the cover of a 1988 edition of California Executive, the attorney appears under the headline, "Tim Tosta: Pit Bull or Polly Pure?," his face revealing both his determined nature and youthful demeanor.
Then he received a phone call from his dermatologist with news that the lump on his back was a malignant melanoma. Tosta, father of three children under the age of 10, was told he had two years to live.
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Reprinted from the August 2010 issue of Northern California Super Lawyers magazine. © 2010 Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business. All rights reserved.