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Boone Callaway
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Personal Injury
University of Missouri School of Law
Boone Callaway has been a personal injury lawyer & medical malpractice lawyer since 1988. Boone exclusively represents injured people. Some of his notable recent cases have included:
- A bicyclist hit by a street sweeper who received a $4.7 million dollar settlement
- A woman who received an arbitration award for the legal maximum pain and suffering damages in a medical malpractice case—$250,000—due to a negligent gynecological procedure
- A pedestrian who received a $352,000 verdict against the City of San Francisco
- A pedestrian who sustained a badly broken leg when he was struck by a car, and received $500,000
- $450,000 for a...
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Sarah Van Voorhis
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationDivorce and Family
Stanford Law School
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Sarah Arnott
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Santa Clara University School of Law
Sarah Arnott is an Attorney at Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP. Ms. Arnott was certified as a specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization in 2015, and served as the chairperson of the family law section of the San Francisco Bar Association's Barristers Club in 2013.
A native of New York and North Carolina, Ms. Arnott moved to California to attend Santa Clara University School of Law, from which she received her J.D. Ms. Arnott has exclusively practiced family law since 2008. She is well-versed in all areas of family law, including dissolutions, custody,...
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Richard J Vaznaugh
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
UC Hastings COL
For the last 27 years ago I have focused my practice on representing workers from executives to rank and file in claims against their former and current employers.
I maintain a limited case load to make sure each case gets the attention it deserves.
I am highly experienced, so you can be sure you have the right lawyer to take on your civil employment dispute.
I try to make a real and positive difference for each client by honest advice and advocating vigorously and ethically for you.
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After living in several countries and several states as a child, at 18, I...
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Robert P. Gaffney
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 45 years of experience
(415) 989-1998
601 Montgomery Street
Suite 1114
San Francisco, CA 94111
Immigration
UC San Francisco School of Law (formerly U.C. Hastings)
A California State Bar Certified Specialist in immigration and nationality law, has over 25 years of experience counseling a wide range of corporate and individual clients in areas of employment-related, investment, and family-based visa and immigration matters. He has developed significant expertise and a strong practice focus representing alien entrepreneurs under the EB-5 visa program and counseling U.S. businesses in the development of investment opportunities designed to qualify foreign direct investors for immigrant status under the EB5 provisions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and is the author of "Country Specific Issues and Challenges in Representing EB-5 Petitioners...
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Nancy Barron
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 44 years of experience
Appeals, Consumer, Elder and Products Liability
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
I represent clients with Products Liability, Appeals & Appellate, Consumer Law, Lemon Law, Elder Abuse, and Unfair Debt Collection disputes. I am dedicated to aggressive advocacy for California consumers facing deceptive or predatory business actions.
With nearly 30 years of trial and appellate experience, I have brought justice to thousands of clients. I have the knowledge, skill and insight needed to fight against unfair and dishonest practices. I am committed to zealously pursuing the best possible outcomes for my clients.
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Stuart K. Tubis
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 14 years of experience
Business
Harvard University
Stuart Tubis is a civil litigator representing clients in a wide range of matters, including Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claims and intellectual property disputes. Stuart regularly counsels businesses on the full spectrum of ADA compliance and represents their interests in civil litigation and Department of Justice investigations. Stuart has a background in technology, which provides a unique aptitude for web accessibility issues (a subject of increasing importance given recent regulatory action). Stuart has experience in all aspects of litigation, including negotiation, binding-arbitration, trial advocacy, settlement and alternative dispute resolution.
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Jamie K. Ogden
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 14 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning and Tax
New York University School of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law and University of Washington School of Law
Jamie Ogden is a partner in the Taxation and Trusts & Estates Groups. He advises individuals and business entities on a range of tax planning, tax controversy and estate planning matters. In addition to his experiences in private practice, Jamie also brings several years of service from both state and federal government, including a federal district court clerkship with the Honorable Patricia A. Seitz in Miami, Florida.
Jamie routinely advises U.S. and non-U.S. individuals on complex income, estate and gift tax planning, along with business succession and general family office matters. He serves as lead tax counsel on M&A transactions, financing,...
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Scott D. Righthand
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and University of Colorado Law School
The Law Office of Scott Righthand, P.C. was founded in 1992 and provides clients in the San Francisco area with outstanding representation in all types of personal injury cases. Attorney Scott Righthand is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named to The Best Lawyers in America for 6 consecutive years, from 2009-2014. In addition, he was selected for the list of Northern California Super Lawyers for 2007-2014 and is rated Superb by Avvo. If you need a dedicated lawyer to represent your personal injury case in the Bay Area, call our team at the Law Office of Scott Righthand,...
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Geri N. Kahn
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 34 years of experience
(415) 397-5446
465 California Street
Suite 607
San Francisco, CA 94104
Immigration and Social Security Disability
U of San Francisco School of Law
I practice both Immigration and Nationality Law and Social Security Disability law.
As to the Immigration field, I represent people in removal (deportation) proceedings. I also assist small businesses in obtaining professional visas such as H-1Bs or L-1s for their employees. I represent applicants for political asylum, and religious workers and individuals at all stages of the naturalization process. Finally, I help people who wish to bring their family members to the United States.
In the Social Security field, I represent disabled individuals at administrative hearings and in federal court.
In both areas I...
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Christopher Whang
San Francisco, CA Attorney
Business, Civil Rights, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Christopher Whang is a Civil Litigator representing clients in a wide range of litigation matters, particularly commercial landlord-tenant issues, contract disputes, bankruptcy, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claims. Most notably, Christopher has worked with several, high-profile, Fortune 500 companies in the Bay Area in various litigation matters.
Christopher has extensive experience in the full spectrum of litigation, including pre-lawsuit investigations, drafting pleadings, conducting discovery, taking and defending depositions, performing legal research, motion practice, trial preparation, negotiations, and client interaction.
Prior to becoming a Civil Litigator, Christopher worked at various Public Defender offices all across the Bay Area and Sacramento....
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Kiana Moradi
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 23 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Harvard Law School and Cornell University
Known for her expert representation of California’s senior executives and their spouses, Kiana protects her clients in high asset divorces and contested custody cases.
In her twenty years of legal practice, Kiana has negotiated and litigated the full spectrum of disputes that occur in financially sophisticated divorces and contested custody cases.
Kiana graduated Cornell Law School with a concentration in business law.
Prior to finding her passion in family law, she was a business litigator at Reed Smith LLP one of the nation’s 20 largest global law firms.
She has a B.A in psychology from UC Berkeley and has taken countless negotiation trainings at...
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Andrei Romanenko
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 13 years of experience
Immigration
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Esther R. Lerner
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationDivorce and Family
Golden Gate University School of Law
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William S. Shepherd
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationSecurities and Stockbroker Fraud
Georgetown University Law Center and South Texas College of Law
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Martin Alperen
San Francisco, CA Lawyer
Attorney Martin Alperen is a former police officer and search and rescue team leader who understands the risks that first responders face in service to their communities. Law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs, and healthcare providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic can all benefit from an estate plan that accounts for their own needs if they are incapacitated, as well as their family’s needs if they are no longer alive to support and provide for them. We strive to make our services accessible to first responders so that you can put an estate plan in place without hesitation,...
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Jacob Harker
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily and Personal Injury
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Jacob Harker is a San Francisco Bay Area attorney. Mr. Harker has set up and run his law practice in a cost-effective and practical manner. He has done so in an effort to pass on the savings to his clients. As an attorney, Mr. Harker sees his practice as taking the lead in a new era of legal services.
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Bruce James Highman
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 43 years of experience
Employment
Stanford Univ Law School
I specialize in representing employees in all types of employment cases. I have been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year from 2004 through the present. Only about five percent of the lawyers in Northern California earn the Super Lawyers honor. I have also been named one of the Top 100 High Stakes Litigators in Northern California from 2020 through the present. I have been lead counsel on a number of cases that have resulted in published precedent decisions, have participated in numerous trials, and have appeared as a guest lecturer on employment law issues....
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Ryan S. Cook
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
South Texas College of Law
As an associate attorney of Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas LTD LLP, Ryan Cook maintains an active securities arbitration and litigation practice. Mr. Cook has worked on numerous cases dealing with individual investors, high net worth and institutional investors, corporate executives, regional banks and municipal issuers.
Prior to beginning his law practice, Mr. Cook worked in the securities industry as a licensed and registered representative with a large broker/dealer. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from South Texas College of Law, where he earned his degree Summa Cum Laude (with highest honor) as the graduating salutatorian. Mr. Cook...
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Seth Paul Chazin
Albany, CA Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and White Collar Crime
Golden Gate University School of Law
San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Seth P. Chazin is certified as a Criminal Law Specialist by the California State Board of Legal Specialization and has been named a Northern California Top 100 Lawyer. During his more than 20 years of experience, attorney Chazin has effectively defended thousands of clients accused of crimes in the Bay Area, California and in various places throughout the United States. Drawing upon his history of success, he will provide clients with the knowledge, skill and aggressiveness needed to secure the best possible results.
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Mark Hooshmand
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil 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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Michael Frederick Cardoza
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer
Georgetown University Law Center
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, joined the Marine Corps and then went to law school. After my active duty time as a trial attorney, I became a senior executive in the debt buying and collections industry on the East Coast. I spent 7 years buying and collecting debts and even running a law firm that collected consumer debt exclusively. I know all the tricks.
I founded The Cardoza Law Corporation to bring the truth to consumers and help you get what you deserve from illegal debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, robo-callers, and businesses that just plain rip...
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Paul W. Thorndal
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
Appeals, Divorce and Family
UC Hastings COL
Paul W. Thorndal is a partner at Wald & Thorndal. He specializes in divorces of all kinds with an emphasis on gay divorce. Mr. Thorndal is a Certified Family Law Specialist (The State Bar of California Legal Specialization).
Wald & Thorndal's practice areas include:
Divorce, Dissolution & Contested Parentage Actions for all families; Custody Disputes; Mediation; Marvin Actions. Legal services provided at both the TRIAL and APPELLATE level.
Assisted Reproduction; Adoptions of All Kinds; Family Contracts; Parenting Law including Surrogacy; Donor Contracts for Egg and/or Sperm Donations; Pre-Nupital Agreements; Co-Parenting Agreements; Domestic Partnership Agreements; Name Changes.
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Cynthia Bernet McGuinn
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 44 years of experience
(415) 940-7176
44 Montgomery Street
Suite 4000
San Francisco, CA 94104
Free ConsultationConsumer, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Golden Gate University
San Francisco injury lawyer Cynthia McGuinn is a partner at the firm Rouda Feeder Tietjen & McGuinn. Attorney McGuinn has worked in the legal field for over 33 years. Ms. McGuinn has been selected for inclusion in the 2006 to 2014 Editions of Top 50 Women Northern California Super Lawyers®. She is a fellow at the International Society of Barristers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America and American College of Trial Lawyers. Get in touch with her firm today to arrange for a free case evaluation.
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George Ruben Bravo
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 7 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
Santa Clara University School of Law
I form businesses; draft contracts; protect the business’ brand, secret formulas, or creative works (intellectual property protection); and I assist with buying or selling businesses. Every legal solution is tailored to each client’s specific goals.
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Tom Harold Elke
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationLandlord Tenant and Personal Injury
UCLA School of Law
A San Francisco native, Mr. Elke has counseled thousands of Bay Area residents on tenant law and renters-rights issues. For the past five years in a row, Mr. Elke has been recognized as a Northern California “Rising Star” by SuperLawyers Magazine. He has also been honored on multiple occasions as an Outstanding Volunteer Attorney by the San Francisco Bar Association. In 2016 he was named both a “Top 40 Litigation Lawyer Under 40” by The American Society of Legal Advocates and a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” by The National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Elke received his bachelor’s degree from...
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Sidney Alex Luscutoff
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Sidney Luscutoff is an experienced Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate Law attorney. His practice areas include bankruptcy estates, probate estates, trust estates and conservatorships. Sid provides quality, practical and strategic advocacy to the residents of California.
Sid's personal experience as a business owner and real estate developer give him a unique understanding of his clients' legal needs. Contact Sid to see how he can help you meet your goals.
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Jessica Lucille Chylik
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 25 years of experience
(415) 938-6552
2358 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94114
Free ConsultationLandlord Tenant
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
My office is open by appointment only for in-person, virtual or telephone consultations.
Currently my practice focuses on San Francisco residential evictions, vacancy agreements, and Rent Board petitions for tenants, landlords, master tenants, and subtenants. My expertise includes 20+ years practicing landlord-tenant law under the San Francisco Rent Ordinance. Additionally, I volunteer at local free advice and referral clinics and appear on public radio legal rights shows.
I look forward to hearing from you!
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Henry Murphy Burgoyne III
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Business, Communications and IP
Stanford University
Hank Burgoyne is an AV-rated counselor and litigator with more than a dozen years' experience advising technology and other businesses on commercial, intellectual property, advertising, speech, trade secret and data security issues. Hank has particular expertise in digital forensics and evidence, and in licensing, outsourcing, development and similar technology-related transactions.
Hank has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in some of California's most important Internet-related advertising cases, both at the trial court level and before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. A former reporter and newsroom lawyer, Hank counsels clients on copyright, defamation, trademark, privacy and other communications-related issues, and has...
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Svetlana Kristal
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 8 years of experience
Flood Building
870 Market Street, Suite 767
San Francisco, CA 94102
Free ConsultationGolden Gate University School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law
The Law Office of Svetlana Kristal focuses on wills and trusts: complete estate plans, estate plan reviews and updates (trusts and wills), probate, and trust administration.
Whether you need help creating a new estate plan, updating an existing plan, assisting elderly parents or administering an estate after the death of a loved one, Svetlana is ready to offer legal solutions tailored to your needs and the needs of your family.
I believe that estate planning is more ‘life planning’ than ‘death planning’. And the main goal of estate planning is to give people the legal tools they need to navigate marriage and...
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Mr. Ronnie R Gipson Jr
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 19 years of experience
Business, IP and Insurance Defense
University of San Francisco School of Law
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Sally Lea Morin
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
Have you been seriously injured in a pedestrian, automobile, motorcycle or bicycle accident? Do you want an attorney who can settle this issue fast and fairly so you can get back to your active life? Sally Morin Law in San Francisco is the personal injury law firm that specializes only in pedestrian, bicycle and auto accidents. All of our resources and experience are focused on traffic accidents exclusively. For our clients, that means they are represented by one of the most successful traffic accident injury law firms in the entire Bay Area! A Refreshing Client–Lawyer Relationship...
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Joseph Steve Franco
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Workers' Comp
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Steve Franco is an award-winning attorney who has dedicated his legal career toward fighting on behalf of injured workers. He is one of the few workers’ compensation attorneys in Northern California to have received part of his legal training at the prestigious California Supreme Court where he oversaw and worked on numerous labor and employment cases affecting all Californians when he served as a judicial extern for Justice Carlos Moreno. In 2018 and 2017, Steve was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star in the area of Workers' Compensation Law. The attorneys selected as Rising Stars are limited...
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Benjamin D. Weisenberg
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Capital University Law School and The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law
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Howard Mark Ullman
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 32 years of experience
(415) 773-5652
The Orrick Building
405 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Appeals and Business
Harvard Law School
Attorney, private practice. I handle civil litigation and also advise and counsel primarily in the areas below.
Litigation
* I represent clients (both defendants and corporate plaintiffs) in antitrust litigation. On the defense side, I have represented clients in private suits, class action litigation, class action opt-out litigation, and government actions.
* I routinely work on claims involving pricing, price fixing, below-cost pricing, information exchanges, monopolization, attempted monopolization, and unfair competition.
* I often work on cases at the intersection of antitrust and competition law and intellectual property (“IP”) law -- particularly on cases involving patents.
* I have worked on the responses to numerous...
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Douglas Ralph Williams
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Maritime
Florida State University College of Law
As a child, Doug Williams spent a good amount of the time when he wasn't in school on the cruise lines, where his father was the chief medical officer. These experiences gave him the knowledge and passion he needed to pursue a career in maritime law. After graduating magna cum laude at Florida State University and earning his Juris Doctorate, Doug accepted a position with a leading maritime law firm in Tampa, Florida. Here, he handled commercial disputes and the defense of casualty lawsuits.
In 2011, Doug and his wife relocated to Seattle, Washington, where Doug joined a Seattle maritime...
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Amanda Brooke Whitten
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
University of California - Davis
Amanda Whitten specializes in suing large corporations for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination. She is a native of the Central Valley, has a passion for Bulldog football at Fresno State, running marathons, and social justice. Ms. Whitten's law practice extends from Bakersfield to Sacramento to Oakland. She has cases filed in federal and state courts all over the Central Valley. She has significant experience with jury trials in courts throughout the state. She knows how to get your case ready for a jury trial. Just within the last few years, Ms. Whitten has recovered millions of...
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Erin Patricia Farley
Petaluma, CA Attorney with 25 years of experience
(707) 776-4772
775 Baywood Drive, Suite 117
PO Box 7331
Petaluma, CA 94954
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."
Erin Farley brings over 24 years of legal experience to the firm. She is well-respected in the community for her work and was voted in 2013 and 2015 as the Best Attorney in Petaluma by the Argus-Courier's People's Choice Awards.
Ms. Farley's work focuses on dissolutions, child support, child custody, spousal support, post-judgment support, comprehensive property division, and prenuptial agreements. Ms. Farley brings experience, insight, and compassion to what is likely the most emotionally difficult of court proceedings.
Ms. Farley is a member of the...
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Sandra Ribera Speed
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(415) 576-1600
157 West Portal Avenue, Suite 2
San Francisco, CA 94127
Free ConsultationEmployment, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Loyola Law School
Throughout her career, Sandra Ribera Speed, ESQ has played a pivotal role in numerous high profile and multimillion dollar cases and settlements. She was a young member of the legal team that represented The Notorius B.I.G. which filed a $360 million wrongful death claim against the LAPD. Ms. Speed has also represented Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, in a number of issues, including a wrongful death action.
Recently, Ms. Ribera Speed has focused on victims of sexual abuse. She obtained a seven figure settlement against Kink.com in favor of three performers in the porn industry who...
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Shayda C. Yamini
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationNursing Home, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Southwestern Law School
Shayda Yamini was born in raised in Los Angeles CA. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. She attended law school at the Southwestern University School of Law, receiving her J.D. in 2012. She is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association; the State Bar of California, and CAALA.
Shayda is a highly talented, resourceful and aggressive trial attorney, bringing tremendous passion and enthusiasm to her work as an advocate for the rights of her clients. She is an expert in representing injured individuals and their families...