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Bruce James Berger
Fresno, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 36 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Whittier Law School
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Colleen Frances Van Egmond
Modesto, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Agricultural, Business and Construction
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
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Scott David Perlman
Bakersfield, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 37 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Real Estate
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
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Angelina Maria Plumtree
San Luis Obispo, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business and Construction
California Western School of Law
Plumtree & Brunner LLP is a boutique construction law firm specializing in representing general contractors, custom homebuilders, 8a contractors, remodelers, subcontractors, suppliers, engineers and architects in both California and Nevada. The firm represents clients in public, industrial, commercial and residential construction. Area of representation include, contract litigation, mechanics liens, bonded stop notices, delay claims, differing site conditions, change order negotiation/litigation, disgorgement, California Home Improvement Contract Issues, contract drafting/negotiation, CSLB license issues, business formation, expansion and dissolution, zoning, code enforcement, etc.
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Karyne Ghantous
San Ramon, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Karyne T. Ghantous is a California licensed attorney with over 25 years of litigation and insurance defense experience successfully trying cases and serving as independent/ Civil Code section 2860 “Cumis” independent counsel in all Northern California counties. Ghantous Law Corporation represents contractors, property owners, and insureds facing liability claims and litigation. We prioritize the best interests of the insureds over the carrier’s while making every effort to end rather than prolong litigation disputes.
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Andrew John Chan
Concord, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 15 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Construction, IP and Legal Malpractice
University of Miami School of Law
Andrew is a senior counsel in the Oakland/East Bay office of Ericksen Arbuthnot and co-chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. He is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star by Thomson Reuters. Andrew has extensive litigation experience representing individual and institutional clients in state and federal court. His areas of practice include insurance coverage and defense, intellectual property, personal injury, professional liability, real estate, and other commercial issues.
Andrew has B.A. degrees in Cognitive Science and History, and a minor in Philosophy, from the...
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Raymond Babaian
Ontario, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 20 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business and Employment
UC Hastings COL
During my practice I have gained extensive experience in all facets of complex litigation. My expertise includes litigation of employment, general liability, class action, construction, products, and general business litigation matters – from start through trial, and appeal. Further, I have prepared volumes of employment handbooks, construction and real estate disclosures and agreements, and general business contracts aimed to fully protect my clients and, when applicable, transfer risk to the appropriate parties. This allows me to offer a unique perspective to my clients and create strategies for any scenario.
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Ziyad Ibrahim Naccasha
San Luis Obispo, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 34 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Employment and Real Estate
University of Notre Dame
Ziyad is a partner and co-founder of Carmel & Naccasha LLP. He counsels domestic and international companies, their shareholders and officers in a variety of matters relating to their formation, business structure, employment litigation and insurance needs. Ziyad also serves as outside general counsel to SESLOC and a number of other companies and local businesses for their contract, real estate, employment, insurance and litigation needs. He also has represented domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in the defense of claims, on coverage disputes and in insurance policy drafting. As a complement to the representation of businesses, he also works with...
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Robert Steven Gianelli
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 46 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Insurance Claims
Southwestern University School of Law
Insurance Attorney in Los Angeles, CA.
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Kamran M Shahabi
Ontario, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense and Business
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
Kamran represents clients in complex insurance, employment, construction, general liability and business litigation. Those clients include some of the world’s largest insurance carriers, governmental entities, Fortune 500 companies, several of California’s largest publicly- held and privately-held businesses, builders, real estate developers and contractors. In connection with the litigation practice, he also advises and represents a wide spectrum of London market insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries in all lines of insurance business, including professional liability, construction, property, maritime, general liability, environmental, energy, and directors & officers (D&O) policies. Kamran’s coverage practice includes knowledge and experience relating to the different types of insurance...
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Zein Obagi
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(424) 284-2401
811 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1721
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Appeals, Military and Real Estate
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Attorney Zein Obagi and friend Seth Stodder founded Obagi Law Group. P.C. in 2013, having worked previously with Allen Matkins LLP and Jones Bell LLP. Attorney Obagi focuses on several areas of the law, in particular litigation, debt collection, and bad faith insurance cases. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, Attorney Obagi is admitted to practice law in California and in the U.S. District Court for the Central and Southern Districts of California. For your no-cost case evaluation to discuss your issue with the firm, call Attorney Obagi today at (310)...
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Tahj Emmanuel Gomes
Chico, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 25 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Appeals, Business and Personal Injury
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
Mr. Gomes was raised in Siskiyou County, California. He graduated from California State University, Chico with a degree in Political Science in 1996, and obtained his Juris Doctorate and certificates in public interest and high technology law from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1999. During law school he interned in and directed the Consumer Law Program at the East San Jose Community Law Center, worked in the legal department at Computer Curriculum Corporation, and externed for Magistrate judge Patricia V. Trumbull at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Jose. After law...
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Marnin Weinreb
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business, Legal Malpractice and Personal Injury
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Mr. Ronnie R Gipson Jr
San Francisco, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 19 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business and IP
University of San Francisco School of Law
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Mark T. Coffin
Santa Barbara, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 31 years of experience
1334 Anacapa Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93191
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Mark is a 20-year civil litigation attorney with a practice focusing on on business, construction, real estate, and personal injury litigation. Mark’s clients include property owners, businesses, contractors, and manufacturers that he has successfully represented in trials involving contract claims, property disputes, jobsite accidents, product liability and professional liability litigation. Mark spent the year 2003 in the record eleven-month construction defect/mold trial of El Escorial v. Santa Barbara Villas. He obtained defense verdicts for his three clients in that case. Prior to joining Christman, Kelley & Clarke, PC, Mark was a founding partner of Hardin & Coffin, LLP...
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JuLyn M. Park
Santa Clara, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Construction and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
I provide aggressive representation for Real Estate, Construction, and Insurance Defense law matters. I advocate for clients in all venues of California and federal courts, and in mediation, judicial reference, and arbitration cases.
In addition to experience, skill and knowledge, I am dedicated to exceptional service and cost-effective representation. I am committed to achieving successful resolutions to meet my clients' needs.
Born in Seoul, Korea, I was brought up primarily on the West Coast. I attended college and law school in California, and have been licensed as an attorney in good standing continuously since 2001.
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Steven Craig Smith
Santa Ana, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Estate Planning and Insurance Claims
Brigham Young University
Experienced and successful trial attorney, with experience in business, real estate, and development.
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Marvin Jonathon Straus
San Diego, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Insurance Defense
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Marvin J. Straus earned his law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 1997. He is a Partner of Parker Straus LLP’s San Diego and Los Angeles officers. Primarily focusing on areas of complex fraud litigation and insurance defense, he has earned a reputation for his landmark case results and in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry. He has conducted many depositions, mediations, discovery, and examinations in cases ranging from arson, property theft, commercial, cargo, to specialty claims. Passionate about educating others on insurance defense, he frequently presents to insurance companies and organizations on fraud, coverage, and examinations.
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Rodney James Hahn
San Diego, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Construction
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Charles Salvatore LiMandri
Rancho Santa Fe, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 41 years of experience
(858) 759-9930
16236 San Dieguito Road
Building 3, Suite 3-15
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
Insurance Defense, Business, Environmental and Personal Injury
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Wales
As a dedicated Rancho Santa Fe attorney at LiMandri & Jonna LLP, Charles LiMandri has had a lot of success. His extensive legal history includes many successful trials and cases. Through hard work, tenacity, and the relentless pursuit of excellence, he has obtained tens of millions of dollars on behalf of his clients. He started his legal career at the University of San Diego and went on to Georgetown University Law Center. His list of accolades include inclusion into the Million Dollar Advocates Circle, recognition as one of “San Diego’s Top 120 Top Most Influential, and more. If you want...
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Frank Satalino
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business, Construction and Real Estate
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Full service law firm handling business, contract, construction, real estate, insurance and labor law and litigation throughout Southern California and Nevada, with extensive experience in civil litigation and the handling of multiple successful trials and arbitrations. Our firm handles all matters for clients aggressively and efficiently, with a clear goal of the bottom line results for its clients.
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Timothy John Broussard
Irvine, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 28 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Construction and Employment
Whittier Law School
All Aspects of Construction, Litigation and Commercial Law
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Kirk Allen Lauby
Riverside, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 46 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Employment and Personal Injury
Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School
Kirk A. Lauby has a varied and comprehensive background in business management which is of particular benefit to the firm's business and business litigation clients. Mr. Lauby was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1978, and has combined his legal practice with business endeavors in the food marketing industry, oil and gas exploration, and real estate building and development.
Mr. Lauby is an experienced trial attorney with a focus on business litigation, construction defect litigation, construction injury litigation, premises liability, contractor general counsel assignments and personal injury. He has the distinction of having represented the developer defendants in what...
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Michael Heath Wellen
Woodland Hills, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 17 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Employment, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Southwestern University School of Law
Michael Wellen earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, where he was on Law Review. While pursuing his law degree, Mr. Wellen worked in the Orange County Distrct Attorney's Office, felony panel unit.
Mr. Wellen has been practicing for over ten years and has concentrated on civil liability with a focus on medical malpractice, personal injury, public entity liability, premises liability and general civil liability matters. He has also worked on employment law matters and public entity defense.
Mr. Wellen currently focuses...
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Kelli G. Hawley
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Construction and Personal Injury
University of San Diego School of Law
Kelli G. Hawley is the managing partner of McCathern’s Los Angeles office. Mrs. Hawley concentrates her practice in construction law, with additional expertise in litigation of real estate disclosure, business, contracts, products liability, construction injury, and subrogation disputes.
Mrs. Hawley regularly handles high-exposure defense of developers and general contractors under Owner Controlled Insurance Programs (“OCIP”) and Contractor Controlled Insurance Programs (“CCIP”), better known as wrap-up insurance policies. She has an established track record of early and economic resolution of pre-litigation claims both under SB800 and Calderon statutes. Mrs. Hawley has practiced law since 1985, with both jury and bench trial experience....
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Andrew Hubert
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 39 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School
Andrew C. Hubert. Over 30 years experience in general casualty litigation, including catastrophic injury, and SIU. Practice also includes products liability and premises liability matters. Clients include major regional and national insurance carriers and self-insured corporations. Education and Certifications: Claremont McKenna College (B.A., English Literature, concurrent B.A., Political Science, 1981); University of Nantes, France (Political Science); Southwestern University (J.D., 1984); Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mediation Program. Court Affiliations: Judge Pro Tem, Los Angeles County Municipal Court (1994-1995), United States District Court, Arizona, Central District of California, the Ninth...
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Ernest Lutz
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 28 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Criminal Defense, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
Western State University College of Law
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Lutz Law Group & Law Office of Ernest Lutz Criminal Defense, Personal Injury Call us today for a free legal consultation so we can better understand your case and work with you to achieve the best possible results
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Kristi Weiler Dean
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Business
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
Kristi W. Dean, Managing Partner, is a skilled trial lawyer who represents clients in business disputes. Kristi was named a 2013 Trusted Advisor by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. She has been consistently named a "Southern California Super Lawyer" and recognized as "one of the top" lawyers in Southern California by her peers in Los Angeles Magazine, Law & Politics Media, Inc., and Super Lawyer publications. Kristi represents corporations and business organizations in various litigation disputes, including breach of contract, shareholder disputes, unfair business competition, trade secret misappropriation, tortious interference, wage & hour, shareholder derivative actions, and breach of...
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Robyn Michele McKibbin
Woodland Hills, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Business
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
Robyn M. McKibbin, Partner, has a broad-based litigation practice representing both corporate and individual plaintiffs and defendants with primary emphasis on employment law including wage and hour, harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination. She represents clients in private mediations and arbitrations, before administrative agencies and in state and federal courts. She provides preventive personnel advice concerning hiring, firing, leaves of absence, internal investigations, and disciplinary action. Robyn prepares and evaluates client personnel manuals, policies and forms, and negotiates and drafts employment, confidentiality, separation, and severance agreements. She also provides anti-harassment, discrimination and retaliation training for supervisors and...
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Erica Lynn Rosasco
Rocklin, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business and Employment
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
Erica Rosasco is a partner at McKague Rosasco LLP in Rocklin, California. She has received an “AV® Preeminent™” Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating available from Martindale-Hubbell, the leading independent attorney rating entity. She also was just named this year as a Super Lawyer of Northern and last year as a Super Lawyer California Rising Star, Sacramento Magazine’s 2016 Top Lawyers in Sacramento and a Who’s Who Top Attorney for 2016. Her clients sing her praises, resulting in Ms. Rosasco receiving Avvo’s Client’s Choice award for 2015 and a “superb” attorney rating. ...
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Te'Reisha N. Graves
San Francisco, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 8 years of experience
(415) 421-3100
50 California Street, 34th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Insurance Defense, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
Florida A&M University College of Law
Te’Reisha Graves represents individuals, businesses and public entities as both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of tort and personal injury matters in courts throughout California. Having handled litigation from both sides of the table, she has developed a unique skill set that allows her to quickly analyze claims and develop resolution strategies to meet her client’s needs. Te’Reisha was designated as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers, and in 2021, on the plaintiff’s side, she resolved her first 7-figure settlement in a wrongful death matter.
Te’Reisha is a 2015 magna cum laude law school graduate from Florida A&M University....
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Paul B. Arenas
Long Beach, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 31 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Employment and Maritime
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Civil litigation, maritime and transportation attorney with experience representing cargo handlers, motor carriers, air carriers, freight forwarders, NVOCCs, logistics providers, terminal operators, marinas, warehousemen and vessel operators in both state and federal court throughout California.
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Andrew Spencer Meyers
San Diego, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Insurance Claims, Products Liability and Trademarks
California Western School of Law
Andrew Meyers has more than 14 years of experience representing insurance companies, insureds, businesses, and individuals as an attorney. He specializes in civil litigation defense, insurance coverage, Examinations Under Oath, bad faith defense litigation, breach of contract cases, and intellectual property prosecution. Andrew is methodical in analyzing cases and claims and takes pride in remaining available to clients as much as possible. His experience has resulted in numerous multi-million dollar fraudulent claims being denied. Moreover in defending insured, his case strategy and guidance has resulted in efficient settlements, and case dismissals maximizing clients' resources and protecting the utmost interests...
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Nicholas Andrew Konoske
San Diego, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 16 years of experience
(858) 385-0871
16880 West Bernardo Drive, Suite 250
San Diego, CA 92127
Insurance Defense, Business, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
California Western School of Law
Nicholas A. Konoske is a member of the firm acting as a business advisor and general counsel for businesses at various stages in their growth cycle, from start ups to mature operating companies, and he has particular expertise in counseling early stage and emerging growth technology companies. Mr. Konoske advises clients in business strategy, start up business formation and structuring, corporate formation and entity selection, corporate governance, the development of funding strategies and the alternatives available to entrepreneurs. He is actively involved in a full range of legal projects, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing (including angel and...
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Raeet D Taddesse
Riverside, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Civil Rights, Immigration and Insurance Claims
Whittier Law School
Raeet (Rita) D. Taddesse is a Partner with Fernandez & Lauby LLP. She has handled a wide variety of complex matters, including quasi class actions, professional liability, securities fraud, intellectual property, trade secrets, unfair competition, slip & fall, construction accidents, construction defect, antitrust, banking, real estate, community association, and insurance litigation. Ms. Taddesse has experience in mediation, arbitration, trial, and appellate practice.
Ms. Taddesse graduated with honors from California State University at Long Beach in 1994 and obtained her Juris Doctorate degree from Whittier College School of Law in 1996, where she was on the Dean's Honor List.
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James H Olson
Riverside, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Asbestos, Business and Legal Malpractice
University of San Diego School of Law
James Olson is an associate in the Riverside office of Fernandez & Lauby. Mr. Olson graduated from University of California, San Diego in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. In 2008, he received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Olson volunteered for the San Diego County Public Defender's Office and received recognition for honors in Advanced Legal Writing and Negotiations. Also while in law school, Mr. Olson clerked for Kolod Wager Law Offices. Mr. Olson has worked as an associate attorney at...
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Rebekah Ryan Main
Rancho Cucamonga, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business, Divorce and Family
California Southern LS
"In addition to being an attorney, I am a mom, a grandmother, and was a professor of law. While I consider my three daughters to be my greatest accomplishments, I am very proud of my students, and I also now have grand children! Teaching law, and raising children, means that I am always learning and able to approach family law matters involving children with a special sensitivity. I came to the practice of law a little bit later in life, after having other jobs (including being a medic for 10 years) which is how I...
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Nate Bernstein
Woodland Hills, CA Insurance Defense Attorney with 31 years of experience
(818) 383-5759
20929 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 47-277
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Free ConsultationInsurance Defense, Business and Real Estate
Golden Gate University School of Law
A seasoned, veteran real estate litigation and transaction attorney and trial lawyer, Nate Bernstein of the LA Real Estate Law Group, serves sophisticated clients in the areas of real estate litigation, business and commercial litigation, and bankruptcy matters and litigation. Nate Bernstein was formerly in house counsel at Fidelity Title Insurance Company and Denley Investment and Management Company, and has been in private practice for 18 years on Southern California.
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James V. Sansone
Santa Rosa, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Insurance Defense, Business, Employment and Real Estate
Empire College of Law
James (Jim) V. Sansone is a litigation and trial associate with CMPR. Jim has been practicing in Northern California since 2006 and holds a Martindale rating of 4.7/5.0.
Jim has successfully tried a wide variety of civil and bankruptcy legal disputes over his legal career in both State and Federal Court. A persuasive and successful trial lawyer, Jim captures the respect of clients and judges alike.
Jim also holds positions as an adjunct professor at Santa Rosa Junior College teaching Business Law and Introduction to Law for Paralegals in their Business Administration Department and a law professor at Empire College School of...
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Timothy James Morris
Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Lawyer with 47 years of experience
Insurance Defense and Insurance Claims
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Facing insurance disputes can cause a great deal of hardship in anyone's situation. If you are being denied a claim, or if you are not receiving the funds that you are entitled to, it is imperative that you seek the assistance of an experienced attorney who knows how to help you fight for your rights. my name is Timothy Morris from Gianelli & Morris, and I am a Los Angeles insurance attorney with many years of experience. Contact my office today to discuss your situation and to pursue the results that you need for your future.