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Terry Buller Bio
BioTerry Buller was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1950, spent his childhood in Buffalo New York until his family moved to California when he was 12. He attended Serra high school in San Mateo and grew up in San Bruno.. As the oldest of seven children, he had to work in a gas station to support himself through college. He was the first in his family to graduate, magna sum laude, from San Francisco State University. He began a graduate school program in experimental psychology, but changed paths after a year to enter law school.. He went to law school at the University of San Francisco where he participated in law review, a participatory course at the California Atty. Gen.’s office and especially enjoyed acting as a mentor/tutor for special admission first-year students. He worked the last year of law school as a law clerk in a prestigious Oakland law firm specializing in personal injury cases. He became a member of the California State Bar December of 1976 and had his first personal injury trial in January of 1977. (He won the product liability case against Coca-Cola and has continued to receive client referrals from the East Bay community ever since). Terry has been exclusively representing persons who are the victims of negligence since 1976; medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, products liability, airplanes, motorcycles, boats, bicycles, pedestrians, workplace accidents, legal malpractice etc.. Areas of PracticeAuto AccidentsMotorcycle AccidentsBoating AccidentsTrucking AccidentsPersonal InjuryWrongful DeathMaritime Personal InjuryInsurance Bad FaithBiking AccidentsPremises Liability/Slip and FallDog Bites/AttacksMedical Malpractice. Honors and Awards“AV” rating from Martindale-HubbellNorthern California Superlawyers. Professional ActivitiesState Bar of CaliforniaAlameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association (Sustaining Member)American Association For JusticeAlameda County Bar Association (Interprofessional Committee; Lawyer Referral Service, former chairperson)Alameda County Superior Court, settlement Commissioner, arbitrator.. Community ActivitiesFounding member of Students Run Oakland, and outreach program or underserved students in Oakland schools.Running for a Better Oakland (RBO), mentor since the beginning of the program.Oakland Yellowjackets.. PersonalGrandfather of four boys.Lifetime runner.Road bike rider.