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Kenneth Chike Odiwe
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer
7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120
Oakland, CA 94621
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Personal Injury
Golden Gate University School of Law
Kenneth Chike Odiwe is a skilled attorney with extensive experience in Civil Rights and Personal Injury litigation.
He primarily focuses on representing clients in Civil Rights cases. Some of the areas of expertise he covers include:
Police Misconduct: Mr. Odiwe is well-versed in handling cases related to police brutality, excessive force, officer-involved shootings, and custodial deaths. He also specializes in cases involving restraint asphyxia, positional asphyxia, excessive tasing, baton strikes, beanbag shotgun use, and 40mm rubber rounds.
Medical Care: Chike Odiwe has a deep understanding of cases that involve inadequate or denied medical care, as well as interference with familial relationships. He...
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Nicole M Jaffee
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment, Landlord Tenant and Personal Injury
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Ms. Jaffee’s main area of practice is civil litigation. She represents clients in a wide range of matters, including personal injury, medical and dental malpractice, real estate, premises liability, employment and general business litigation.
She joined Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz in September 2016. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a civil litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area, including as a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of a multi-national law firm.
During law school, Ms. Jaffee interned with the State Bar of California and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ms. Jaffee obtained her...
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Erika Angelos Heath
SAN FRANCISCO, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 14 years of experience
Civil Rights, Appeals, Consumer and Employment
Northeastern University School of Law
Getting her start in the trenches as a legal aid attorney, Erika has years of experience in seeking justice for employees and consumers against unfair practices. She has fought off debt collectors, obtained justice for wrongfully terminated employees, and untangled thorny credit reporting issues. She has taken on local government for refusing proper restroom access to transgender people. In 2015, she even had a federal court declare a state's garnishment statute unconstitutional for violating the rights of low-income debtors.
Whether your case is just starting, or whether you are up on appeal, Erika has the experience and...
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Robert Salinas
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 28 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Employment and Landlord Tenant
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
I am an accomplished California attorney. I represent employees and tenants in a broad range of Employment, Landlord-Tenant and Civil Rights matters.
Dedicated to exceptional advocacy, I am diligent in fighting for the rights of my clients. I am genuine, experienced, and committed to justice.
I am also active in the community, currently volunteering at both Centro Legal and the Western Service Workers Association where I provide pro bono assistance to low-wage workers.
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Tiega N Varlack
Hayward, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 17 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Consumer and Employment
Howard University School of Law
Since starting Varlack Legal Services in 2009, I have been on the front lines of litigation as a trial attorney. Valuable experience in the courtroom was gained as a member of the Alameda County Bar’s CAAP program and Lawyer Referral Service. These programs helped me grow my practice as a young attorney while allowing me to grow as a litigator. As a graduate of Howard Law School, I chose to become “a social engineer” rather than a “parasite on society.” After law school, I served on the Charles Houston Bar Association’s Board of Directors, as membership...
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Bryan Jeffrey Schwartz
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Appeals and Employment
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Bryan Schwartz is an Oakland, California-based attorney dedicated to helping employees protect their rights in the workplace. He has fought prohibited discrimination, retaliation, and harassment, obtained reasonable accommodations for disabled employees, vindicated whistleblowers' rights, and ensured that corporations pay workers all wages they are owed. He has successfully litigated individual and class action complaints nationwide, helping to recover millions of dollars for thousands of employees, forcing corporations and Government agencies to change their practices and punish wrongdoers.
Bryan Schwartz is also one of the few Bay Area-based attorneys with extensive experience representing Federal employees in their unique Merit Systems...
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Mark Hooshmand
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Civil Rights, Consumer and Landlord Tenant
UCLA School of Law
The Hooshmand Law Group is one of the largest tenant firms in the Bay Area that assist Tenants with recovering damages resulting from false Owner Move Ins (OMI), wrongful eviction, lack of repairs, retaliation and retaliatory eviction, buy outs, Illegal Apartments, In Law Apartments and Illegal Units, harassment, and enforcement of the local San Francisco Rent Ordinance, Oakland Rent Ordinance and Berkeley Rent Ordinance.
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Jeffrey L. Tade
Salinas, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
UCLA School of Law
Mr. Tade is an experienced civil litigator specializing in personal injury, workers' compensation, labor and employment law.
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Gina Szeto-Wong
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 11 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment, Family and Personal Injury
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Ms. Szeto-Wong completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley. She obtained her law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law and has been litigating civil rights, family law, and employment cases in state and federal court since 2012.
Ms. Szeto-Wong has a successful track record including favorable verdicts and awards in the millions of dollars. She is bilingual in English and Cantonese.
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Steven Michael Fink
San Jose, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 53 years of experience
(408) 256-2979
160 W. Santa Clara Street
Suite 1180
San Jose, CA 95113
Civil Rights, Business and Employment
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Though he began his career practicing Entertainment Law in Los Angeles, Mr. Fink and his wife traded the glamour of Hollywood for the San Jose area' s charms. That early exposure to big city, high-pressure civil cases has served him well, particularly when dealing with the complex issues involved in contemporary employment cases.
Mr. Fink is a partner in Mesirow & Fink, a small but energetic and creative law firm founded in 1976. Mr. Fink is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall, and he has six times been selected by San Jose Magazine as one of the...
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Izaak Schwaiger
Sebastopol, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of Wyoming College of Law
Izaak Schwaiger is an advocate and champion for the rights of regular people. A decorated veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a former Sonoma County prosecutor, and a respected presence in the courtroom, Mr. Schwaiger has devoted his practice to defending the criminally accused and upholding the civil rights of those who have been wronged by the police. Following ten years of service to his country in the Marine Corps, Izaak enrolled in law school at the University of Wyoming, where he did not graduate with honors, but was named "most likely to become a rockstar." Called the...
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Julius Young
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 47 years of experience
Civil Rights, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Scott Adrian Lewis
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 33 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Education and Employment
U of San Francisco School of Law
Mr. Lewis’ main area of practice is civil litigation. He has litigated diverse subject areas such as First Amendment Rights, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Employment and Housing Act, wage laws, trade secrets, contracts, securities laws and real property laws, as well as many others. Mr. Lewis’s central area of practice involves business and employment related issues and real estate matters. Mr. Lewis also represents clients regarding homeowner's association disputes.
Mr. Lewis is also a trainer in areas of employment law for organizations with an emphasis on prevention. He has taught hundreds of courses in subject areas that include sexual harassment...
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John Francis Hyland
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
Golden Gate University School of Law
John Hyland is a partner with Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP. He practices exclusively in the area of employment law. John was Of Counsel with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the firm’s San Francisco office where he advised and represented companies in State and Federal court actions covering all areas of employment law, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, disability law, employee privacy, employee leaves, and wage and hour issues. John regularly conducts training seminars and presents on a wide array of employment law issues. Law & Politics Magazine selected John as one of its Northern California Super Lawyers...
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N. William Metke
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Employment
U of San Francisco School of Law
An Advocate for Your Rights in the Workplace.
The Law Office of N. William Metke specializes in employment law litigation. The firm provides vigorous advocacy on behalf of individuals who have encountered injustice in the workplace. This includes discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, unpaid wages, and other wrongs in the employment context. We represent clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
tel: 415-572-9556
email: nwm@metkelaw.com
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Aaron Clefton
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights
John F. Kennedy University
Aaron Clefton is the Managing Partner of Rein & Clefton. He is dedicated to advancing the civil and economic rights of persons with disabilities and all people who are vulnerable or impoverished.
Aaron is lead counsel on all ADA cases for Rein & Clefton. He has over 17 years working in the field of disability rights, 5 years of that as an attorney.
He has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer honor of “AV-Preeminent” in 2021, given to attorneys “who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers.” That same year...
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Scott Edward Cole
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Consumer and Employment
University of San Francisco School of Law
Scott Cole is the founder and principal attorney at Cole & Van Note, one of California's best-known and most highly-respected employment and consumer rights class action law firms. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law (1992), and San Francisco State University (B.A., Speech Communications; 1989). He is a member of the California State Bar and the State Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section, is admitted to practice before all California federal courts (including the 6th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals), has prosecuted cases in numerous states including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida,...
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Brian Lance
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Elder, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of San Francisco School of Law
Brian is a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Attorney and was selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers.
Brian represents severely injured plaintiffs in cases involving personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and elder abuse.
Brian represents clients throughout the State of California including the counties of Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Marin, Solano and San Francisco.
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Mr. Aaron Judson Lodge
Santa Cruz, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Civil Rights, Divorce and Family
Santa Clara Univ School of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law
Aaron J. Lodge received his BA degree and first graduate work in math. He taught math at both the high school and college level for nearly 10 years, before changing careers and going to law school. Mr. Lodge now has a general practice law firm, where he focuses on family law, mediation, civil rights, and is now affiliated with other larger firms for personal injury and other areas of law. Mr. Lodge is highly dedicated to his clients, is very personable, and excellent in both litigation (in court), and in mediation.
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Joseph Salama
San Rafael, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 23 years of experience
Civil Rights, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Employment
Boston University School of Law
In the last seventeen years, Law Offices of Joseph Salama has helped companies and individuals navigate successfully through the legal system. For some, this meant going before a jury, whether in federal or state court, or before an administrative law judge. For some, it meant getting out of the case as quickly and painlessly as possible. For some, it meant putting the right knowledge, documents, and systems in place to minimize the risk of litigation. But for all of them, it meant listening, understanding, and then making the commitment to meet their needs such that they could begin to outsource...
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Annie B. Banh
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment and Landlord Tenant
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Ryan Joshua Vlasak
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(415) 835-6777
220 Montgomery Street, Suite 870
San Francisco, CA 94104
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Insurance Claims
Temple Univ School of Law
Mr. Vlasak focuses his practice on civil litigation for plaintiffs, including habitability and wrongful eviction suits for tenants, as well as consumer, employment and personal injury actions. Mr. Vlasak earned his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, where he was Staff Editor of Temple International and Comparative Law Journal.
Prior to his career as an attorney, Mr. Vlasak was an Adjunct Professor and taught courses including philosophy, ethics, and logic.
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Michael Delos Green
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 22 years of experience
(707) 542-5050
100 Stony Point Rd #200
P O Box 1566
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law and The University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Mike attended law school on a merit-based scholarship and graduated with honors. Since joining the firm in January 2001, Mike’s practice has been dedicated solely to representing plaintiffs. Mike specializes in litigating serious injury and wrongful death cases. He has extensive experience handling cases involving personal injury, product liability, automotive defect/crashworthiness, medical malpractice, elder abuse, civil rights, fire claims, insurance bad faith as well as government entity liability. Mike’s practice also focuses on representing property owners, both residential and commercial, in construction defect matters. He has successfully represented hundreds of homeowners and businesses in Northern California seeking recovery for defective...
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Pamela Kong
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment and Landlord Tenant
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Walter Herbert Walker III
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Personal Injury and Products Liability
UC Hastings COL
Walter ("Skip") Walker is the managing partner of Walker, Hamilton & Kearns, LLP, a firm he founded in 1988. He and the firm specialize in high-profile personal injury and wrongful death matters, particularly in the areas of police abuse of power, dangerous condition of public property, highway design, sexual abuse, product liability and accidents involving vehicles of all kinds. He was San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018, has been nominated for that award several times and a finalist twice. He has also twice been a finalist for Marin County Trial Lawyer of the Year...
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Nancy Lee Hersh
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 53 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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John M. Harrigan
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 47 years of experience
Civil Rights, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Fulvio Francisco Cajina
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney
Civil Rights, Employment, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Cornell University
I was born in Latin America and grew up in San Francisco. A product of the Bay Area, I studied economics at UC Berkeley before moving to Washington, DC, where I worked at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve. In 2003, I embarked on my legal studies at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Upon graduation, I worked as a corporate associate in Manhattan at a boutique international law firm. There I had the opportunity to work on a wide array of corporate transactions, from financing the construction of a hotel in NYC, structuring investments...
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Francisco J. Rodriguez
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 26 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
New College of California SOL and California State University, Chico
"I am dedicated to my clients and work hard to achieve the results needed in every case" I have represented clients and continue to to serve the counties of San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Napa, San Joaquin and all other Northern California Counties. No case is to big, and no case is to small. Each one has a certain value to the client and each deserves 110% effort. This is what I do!
We Handle everything from: Traffic stop signs; to DMV suspensions; to DUI cases; to serious felonies.
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Elizabeth M. "Lisa" Peck
San Jose, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 31 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
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Sarah Jane T.C. Truong
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Consumer and Stockbroker Fraud
University of California - Berkeley
Ms. Truong's practice focuses on all aspects of civil litigation and general business litigation.
Ms. Truong joined Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz in October 2018. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a litigation attorney at two Am Law 100 firms in New York, New York, where she practiced in the areas of complex and multidistrict commercial litigation, contract disputes, data/records management, E-Discovery, cross-border litigation (including the U.K, France, Israel), securities litigation, corporate internal investigations, governmental investigations (including Securities Exchange Commission investigations and antitrust investigations from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission), bankruptcy litigation (as a member...
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Marlon L. Monroe
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Entertainment & Sports
St. Thomas University School of Law
Marlon Monroe brings a background of court battles and life experiences rarely found in employment law & civil rights attorneys. Prior to practicing law, Marlon taught middle school in Los Angeles for five years and worked in the music industry. After graduating from law school in South Florida, he began his legal career and moved back to Oakland, CA, where he practiced criminal defense for 15 years and became known as “The People’s Champion” due to his zealous advocacy, successful outcomes and representation of prominent members of the local community.
While cultivating his skills in the courtroom, Marlon also worked with...
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Inez Kim
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 9 years of experience
Civil Rights, Elder, Employment and Personal Injury
American Heritage University School of Law and Northwestern University School of Law
Inez Kim, Attorney at Law specializes in representing individuals in various areas of law. She is known for her mission to take a genuine interest in her clients and bring fast resolutions. Her clients appreciate her immediate feedback and strong communication skills. She understands the uniqueness of each cases and meets the clients' expectations. She also holds an MBA degree and bring to the table real world business experience. She is dedicated to bring commitment, integrity and positive results for all her clients.
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Joseph James Bell
Grass Valley, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Domestic Violence, Environmental and Family
New Coll of CA School of Law
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Kathleen Elizabeth Wells
Soquel, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights
Monterey COL
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Peter Scott Rukin
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
New York University School of Law
As a partner with San Francisco's Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP, Peter Rukin represents Bay Area clients in a wide array of complex litigation matters, including employment, wage and hour, and business disputes. Mr. Rukin has built a reputation as a thoughtful and strong advocate for his clients, whatever their disputes may be. Mr. Rukin specializes in complex litigation, with a focus on wage and hour and equal employment opportunity claims. Since 2003, as class counsel he has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of thousands of California employees and consumers. Peter also represents clients with respect...
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John D Fitzpatrick
Saratoga, CA Civil Rights Attorney
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Criminal defense attorney John D. Fitzpatrick fiercely defends the constitutional rights of his clients in courts throughout the state, protecting them from racial profiling, excessive force, mass incarceration, and the prison industrial complex. He has repeatedly won dismissals of all charges, earned the release of numerous clients from custody, and negotiated the most favorable terms for his clients.*
John aggressively represents his clients from Arraignment through all phases of trial and will not rest until the case is dismissed or they are fully acquitted. He knows firsthand the effects that any conviction or incarceration can have on his clients and their...
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Maria Cristina Molteni
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 30 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment and International
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Cristina focuses her practice on representing clients in employment law matters—including litigating wage and hour claims, class action employment cases, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and discrimination law— and providing advice on prevailing wage and public works law, severance agreements, employee privacy, and workplace issues. Cristina conducts training seminars and presentations in Spanish and Portuguese on a broad range of employment law topics. Cristina has worked in the labor and employment law fields since the early days of her legal career. Before moving to California, she was a law clerk in the National Labor Court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and...
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Mandy Gina Leigh
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Education and Employment
Nova Univ Law Center
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David Lee Fiol
San Rafael, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Personal Injury
Harvard Law School
David L. Fiol received his BA in Government from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) in 1984 and graduated from the Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA) with his JD in 1988. He spent the first ten years of his career litigating aviation accident and other wrongful death and personal injury cases for a firm in New York City. He represented clients and family members injured by everything from automobile accidents to small private plane crashes to major disasters including the bombing and crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. During his tenure there he also litigated, insurance coverage, real estate...