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Patrick Emmet O'Shaughnessy
Walnut Creek, CA Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationAntitrust, Business and IP
UCLA School of Law
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Elizabeth Grossman
Berkeley, CA Lawyer with 43 years of experience
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
UC Hastings COL
With over 25 years of experience, Ms. Grossman's mission as a criminal defense attorney is to ensure that the court and the prosecution perceive each client as the individual that they are — a person with a full life and background that separates them from the criminal charges that bring them before the court. Ms. Grossman works closely with her clients, as partners in their own defense, and strives to keep them fully informed as the case proceeds. Ms. Grossman represents her clients throughout California in felony, midemeanor, juvenile, traffic and professional discipline cases.
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Arlene Kostant
Lafayette, CA Attorney with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Erich Gerard Keefe
Berkeley, CA Attorney with 22 years of experience
Immigration
New Coll of CA School of Law
Erich Keefe is a former social worker, whose immigration practice is an extension of those values and goals. His practice focuses on asylum seekers, VAWA self-petitioners, U Visa applicants, green card applicants, and others facing immigration court proceedings.
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Shahpour Meir Matloob
Berkeley, CA Attorney with 26 years of experience
Immigration
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Immigration & Nationality Law Certified Specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization practicing U.S. Immigration and Nationality law with an emphasis on Asylum, Family Immigration and Naturalization since 1999 in San Francisco (SF) Bay Area. Member of 1) American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) NorCal and its Advisory Council as SF US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) Co-Liaison & AILA USCIS Field Operations Committee , 2) Iranian American Bar Association NorCal Chapter and its Advisory Board Member and 3) Jewish Community Relations Council's Public Policy Committee. Formerly served as AILA NorCal Liaison to SF Custom & Border...
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Derek M. Wagley
Lafayette, CA Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Real Estate
John F. Kennedy University
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Jasmine Davaloo
San Rafael, CA Attorney with 14 years of experience
Divorce and Family
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Anne Whatley
Martinez, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College
Anne M. Whatley has been practicing family law for over 20 years, and has experience in all aspects, including divorce, custody, support, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, domestic violence, and any other family law issue.
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Eric Sternberger
San Rafael, CA Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Business, IP, International and Real Estate
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Eric Sternberger is a partner of Ragghianti Freitas LLP. Mr. Sternberger acts as outside general counsel to corporations, LLC's and partnerships with an emphasis on business and corporate transactions including entity selection, succession planning, joint ventures, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, secured financing, licensing, and real estate matters. His representative clients include technology and intellectual property driven companies, shipping, construction, advertising/branding, web based, and the real estate and healthcare industries. Mr. Sternberger's business counseling also includes advising directors, officers, and managers regarding business strategies, consensus building and corporate governance. Additionally, he advises shareholders and LLC interest holders regarding...
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David Lee Fiol
San Rafael, CA Attorney with 36 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...
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Leslie Prince
Suisun City, CA Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
UC Hastings COL
Leslie Prince graduated from Hastings Law School in San Francisco in 1981. While in law school, Ms. Prince was a writer and editor for Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. In addition, she worked as a judicial extern for California Court of Appeals Justice Sidney Feinberg, and as a research assistant for Hastings Law Professor Leo Kanowitz. Ms. Prince has been an attorney in private practice for over 20 years, and was a sole practitioner in Alameda County for over ten years before coming to Solano County in 1994 to become a principal in the Law Offices of Russo and Prince. Ms....
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Joshua M Dale
Monte Rio, CA Lawyer with 30 years of experience
19420 Highway 116, POB151
Monte Rio, CA 95462
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For over 25 years, clients have trusted Josh Dale to handle their cases all over the San Francisco Bay Area - He's always working to save your driver's license, avoid your conviction, keep you out of jail, and minimize the effects of your arrest - DUI and Criminal Defense help in California's San Francisco Bay Area and the North Bay wine country. Award winning defense attorney Joshua M. Dale is available for consultation - call 707-520-4350 or 415 750-4350. Find out how to succeed in court and at the DMV. Josh Dale has been a member of the California DUI...
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John Daniel Hodson
Vacaville, CA Attorney with 39 years of experience
Divorce and Family
George Washington Univ LS
John Hodson is managing and founding partner of Hodson & Mullin, Attorneys at Law, a six lawyer firm with offices in Vacaville and Fairfield, California. He is AV-Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a board-Certified Family Law Specialist (California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization) and a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). His practice is entirely devoted to family law as litigant's counsel, arbitrator, mediator, private judge, judge pro tem, special master, and collaborative counsel spanning over 30 years.
A graduate of The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington,...
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David Robert Donadio
Novato, CA Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Environmental
University of San Francisco School of Law and Vermont Law School
Mr. Donadio was raised in Concord, Massachusetts, where he graduated in the top 10% of his high school class. In 1985 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. After moving to California, Mr. Donadio went to the University of San Francisco Law School (USF), where he was president of the Environmental Law Society. After graduating from USF, Mr. Donadio spent a summer clerking for the White House's Council on Environmental Quality and obtained a masters degree in law, with a concentration in environmental law, from Vermont Law School. Mr. Donadio began work...
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Malcolm Ruthven
Santa Rosa, CA Lawyer
Bankruptcy
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Are you afraid to answer the phone? Do you wonder if you'll ever have peace of mind again?
My clients and I are partners throughout this journey. I enjoy seeing the relief in the eyes and improved manner of my clients during their bankruptcy case. It's a privilege to be an important part of that process.
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Anthony Regner
Fairfield, CA Attorney with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Anthony Proffitt is an attorney located in Fairfield California. His practice areas are criminal defense and family law matters, including divorce, custody, visitation, and restraining orders. He has experience in debt collections and judgment enforcement as well. As a paralegal in the early 2000's, Anthony worked in a law firm located in Napa California that specialized in three strike laws and family matters. As a paralegal he opened his own business while working for the law firm and started assisting clients with affordable document preparation and filing for their legal matters. The attorney he worked for eventually became a judge...
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Peter A Wallis
Fairfield, CA Attorney
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
I grew up in the San Francisco bay area. At age 18, I joined the US Army infantry and I was was trained as a paratrooper. I have also been a real estate agent and broker, owned retail businesses, and I owned several small apartment buildings. I finally went to law school because I saw that there are (obviously) many problems with our legal system and I want to be part of solutions and reform of that system or, at least, help some people avoid these problems. I received a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern California School...
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John Francis Carella
Suisun City, CA Lawyer with 60 years of experience
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
U of San Francisco School of Law
I joined the Law Offices of Russo & Prince in January of 2006. Throughout his time at Russo & Prince, I have focused my practice entirely on family law, including family law litigation. I obtained my undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, and my Juris Doctorate at the University of San Francisco, School of Law.
I am happy to say that I practice exclusively in the area of family law. My practice includes dissolution of marriage (divorce), annulment, and legal separation, as well as spousal support (alimony), child custody, visitation, child support, division of assets and debts...
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Sydney Elise Fairbairn
Novato, CA Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Collections and Real Estate
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
I am a Marin County raised person having attended Terra Linda High School, UC Berkeley and Golden Gate University Law school. I love working with the people of Marin County and am very acquainted with the court system here. Please call for a free consultation. If I cannot help you I will try to find another attorney to help you. Thank you, Sydney.
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Jason S. Buckingham
Benicia, CA Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
John F Kennedy Univ School of Law
Jason S. Buckingham is a California licensed attorney who helps people with estate planning (living trusts, trust administration) and real estate (practice limited to real property partition) issues.
Mr. Buckingham graduated from John F. Kennedy University School of Law, Cum Laude, in December 2004, and was admitted to practice law in the State of California in May 2005, and to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of California in February 2009 and the Northern District of California in March 2009. Mr. Buckingham is also a licensed real estate broker. Mr. Buckingham is a member of the California...
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Ms. Renee Marcelle
San Rafael, CA Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationDivorce and Family
Seattle University School of Law and University of Washington
30 years of practice experience in Divorce Law; 12 years of Real Property practice prior to that; Real Estate Broker 20 years. Corporate background; business valuations; division of property.
Years of trial experience, but love collaborative law and am a highly trained mediator.
Highly skilled with custody of children at once heartbreaking and often cruel. Serious trial experience with false sexual abuse allegations; true sexual abuse allegations.
Empathic, concerned, and compassionate, yet can draw boundaries because every minute I am engaged in your case; you will receive an hourly bill.
Trial lawyer Trained Child Counsel Mediator Collaborative Law Practitioner
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Stephen Reynolds
Davis, CA Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
University of California - Davis
Representation of debtors, creditors and trustees in bankruptcy court since 1990.
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Deepa Ajit Kulkarni
Davis, CA Attorney with 13 years of experience
Employment and Estate Planning
McGeorge School of Law (University of Pacific)
Ms. Kulkarni began her employment career in Human Resources (HR) after obtaining her Master’s degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also certified as a Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR). Ms. Kulkarni spent more than a decade performing a variety of HR functions for various size companies, before deciding to go to law school. She obtained her law degree with distinction from the McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific where she was a member of the Roger J. Traynor Honors Society.
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Jonathan Purcell
PETALUMA, CA Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Estate Planning, Real Estate and Tax
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Trevor Caldwell Thorpe
Berkeley, CA Attorney with 27 years of experience
Divorce and Family
Golden Gate University School of Law
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James Joseph Fishel
Martinez, CA Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
The University of Florida of College of Law
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Tracy Barrett
Mill Valley, CA Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense
Member of the California Bar Association for 17 years.
The last twelve years of practice have been devoted exclusively to criminal defense, representing both adults and juveniles accused of crime.
Practice includes defending all types of cases - from vehicle code violations to homicides. Additionally experienced with DUI, drug, domestic violence, theft and assault cases, as well as multiple other types of cases.
Specialties:This office is solely dedicated to criminal defense.
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David John Holcomb
Mill Valley, CA Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationDivorce and Family
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
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Otto Philip Cipolla Jr
Concord, CA Lawyer with 41 years of experience
2300 Clayton Rd.
Suite 540
Concord, CA 94520
Workers' Comp
Rutgers School of Law-Newark, Seton Hall University School of Law and Pepperdine University
Otto P. Cipolla, Jr. is the founder and owner of The Law Offices of CIPOLLA, CALABA, MARRONE, WOLLMAN & SILVA. Mr. Cipolla founded the firm in 1995. He has since grown the firm from 2 attorneys to 30 attorneys. The firm now has seven offices throughout California. Mr. Cipolla has taught, lectured and given seminars in all aspects of Workers’ Compensation Law for employers, insurance carriers, brokers and third party administrators. Mr. Cipolla has been a Judge Pro-Tem not only at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board but also in both Municipal and Superior Court. CCMW&S practice is...
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Pauli Sue Larsen
SAUSALITO, CA Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Workers' Comp
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
I am a graduate of McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, class of 2000, Juris Doctorate degree. I am a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature. I know how the insurance companies work. For the first four years out of law school I represented insurance companies in Workers’ Compensation claims. I switched sides to representing injured employees in 2004 and have remained on the side of working people since. In family law cases, while the legal system may ultimately be necessary to address your issues of...
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Jessica R. Ward
Pleasant Hill, CA Attorney
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Probate
John F. Kennedy University
Attorney Jessica Ward has been in the legal industry for over 15 years. She started as a paralegal, then a legal administrator at a busy workers' compensation defense law firm. In 2016 she decided to start her own legal document preparation company, which focused on estate planning, family law and deed preparation.
During the COVID pandemic, she was re-evaluating her career goals, and had the opportunity to achieve her ultimate goal of attending law school. She graduated summa cum laude with honors and was sworn in and licensed in California to practice law.
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Steven Jeffrey Mehlman
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationAnimal, Business, Collections and Construction
University of Michigan
Mehlman Law Group is an East Bay (Walnut Creek, CA) real estate, business, and civil litigation law firm. We practice in all San Francisco Bay Area state and federal courts.
I believe all clients should have access to high-quality legal services. Many of my clients see me as their "in-house" counsel or trusted personal legal advisor. For legal advice or representation, contact me at (925) 935-3575 or steven@mehlmanlawgroup.com for a free consultation.
I have thirty years of experience representing small businesses and individuals. I consult with, provide guidance to, and refer clients to other professionals, including real estate and mortgage brokers, accountants,...
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David William Ginn
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction and Real Estate
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
GinnLaw, P.C. emphasizes real property and construction law. We assist clients with construction and real estate matters, including mechanic's liens, stop payment notices, payment bonds, home improvement contracts, construction contracts, payment disputes, defective work claims, delay claims, public works construction claims, private commercial and residential disputes, partition actions, easements, quiet title actions, purchase and sales, disclosures associated with sale of property, leasing, lease disputes, and assistance to small businesses.
David Ginn has been an attorney for over thirty-five years. He is the President of GinnLaw, P.C., a professional corporation. Mr. Ginn is one of the authors of...
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Michael Geller
Walnut Creek, CA Attorney
Domestic Violence and Family
University of Southern California and Santa Clara University School of Law
Michael Geller is an attorney licensed by the State Bar of California. He attended the University of Southern California for his undergraduate studies, the City University of New York for his medical training, and Santa Clara University School of Law for his legal education.
Michael started his legal career in Family Law where he was trained by a Certified Family Law Specialist. He then opened The Geller Firm to help with Family Law matters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Mr. Steven L. Derby
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
After 22 years as a trial attorney, I have decided to limit my practice to furthering the cause of disability access and ending disability discrimination in the workplace, at home and in public places. If you are disabled temporarily or permanently, you have special rights but no government agency to enforce them. If you think you have been the victim of discrimination, call us now for a free consultation.
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Mark Lain Venardi
Orinda, CA Attorney with 31 years of experience
Employment, Maritime and Personal Injury
UC Hastings COL
Mark Venardi was born in 1962 in Seattle, Washington. He was raised in Peoria, IL, a Midwest blue collar town. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and proudly served from 1980 through 1985. He spent the first two years on a sea going tug performing search and rescue and marine law enforcement from the Grand Banks to the Windward Passage aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa, which was the Coast Guard vessel that performed the rescue in “The Perfect Storm.”
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Robert Lease Gonser
Lafayette, CA Attorney with 35 years of experience
Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
Since 1990, Bob Gonser has practiced in the securities area, including representation of public investors before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly NASD), New York Stock Exchange and Pacific Exchange. He has successfully handled hundreds of cases involving losses sustained in brokerage accounts as a result of wrongdoing, mismanagement and fraud by brokers and brokerage firms. Over the years, Mr. Gonser's efforts have resulted in a multitude of awards and settlements for his clients including over $1.2 million in damages and interest for four employees of Cisco Systems in arbitration before the Pacific Exchange (Read the decision.)
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Jesse S. Gill
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, Family and Juvenile
I am licensed to practice law in California and have received federal admissions to practice law in the Northern and Central Districts of California. I have developed extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of Civil, Family, Juvenile, and Criminal Law from the inception of a case through the appellate process. I have extensive state and federal litigation experience in drafting and arguing law and motion, engaging in and defending depositions, and have engaged in dozens of hearings and Court trials. I have drafted writs and appeals in most appellate districts within the state and and have successfully received multiple...
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Thomas Appel
Walnut Creek, CA Attorney with 13 years of experience
100 Pringle Ave.
Ste. 730
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Free ConsultationNursing Home, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
University of San Francisco School of Law
Thomas has a passion for the law as it relates to personal injury and worker's compensation. His current practice at the Appel Law Firm LLP focuses on representing those involved in personal injury claims, as well as worker's compensation and other related matters. During law school, Thomas served as a judicial extern for Judge Timothy A. Reardon of the First District of the California Court of Appeal. He was a member of the University of San Francisco Advanced Advocacy teams for two years and served as the Social Chair on the Advanced Advocacy Board. Thomas also was a member...
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Jeffrey David Markham
Lakeport, CA Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
Empire Coll School of Law