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Scott R. Herndon is a former Stanford faculty member and an attorney with experience at one of the nation’s largest law firms, with an impeccable track record in personal injury litigation.. His experience as a lawyer ranges from catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, to trucking, motorcycle, and cycling accidents, as well as products liability, including asbestos cases involving mesothelioma and other cancers.

Robert is both a licensed attorney and family therapist who has been practicing understanding-based mediation for 12 years in a variety of family and legal settings. He is committed to helping people work through legal problems and preserving relationships.

REED KATHREIN works to protect the rights of individuals and institiutions though legal advocacy in investor, antitrust and consumer class actions. He has represented institutions, pension funds, investors and consumers in class and representative actions against corporations who commit securities or consumer fraud, unfair business practices, antitrust or environmental violations.

Provide wide ranging legal advice on environmental, health and safety issues with particular emphasis on international and domestic chemical regulation issues and risk management, environmental remediation and related litigation, real estate and other business transactions, and general compliance counseling.

Paul Glusman is a lawyer who has decades of experience in employment law. He has tried numerous cases, taken cases to arbitration, negotiated cases, mediated cases, and directly settled cases with employers. He has handled all aspects of trial work, including pre-trial work such as discovery and motions, trials themselves, and appeals for many years.. He worked for fifteen years representing employers before changing his practice in 1999 so that he now represents employees. He is well known by both sides of the employment bar and has the respect of both attorneys representing employers as well as those representing employees. His years representing employers has given Mr. Glusman insight as to how company managers and human resources personnel think and how they view employment problems so that he can more effectively represent employees.

Our firm specializes in real estate sales.  We are a select team of experienced Realtors who've been offering highly individualized attention to discerning clientelle since 1997. We are fiduciaries. Real state consultants.  Not salespeople.

Our firm is a dedicated California law practice offering high-quality and affordable legal services for individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses, with core emphasis in business, employment and intellectual property legal services.

Noah D. Lebowitz represents employees in many types of workplace matters, including harassment, discrimination, equal pay, retaliation, wrongful termination, defamation, breach of contract, and severance negotiations, with expertise in disability discrimination and medical leave related issues.

My practice sits at the intersection of entertainment and technology, helping a diverse range of clients from traditional artists to video game developers to tech start-ups. I firmly believe that quality legal services shouldn't break the bank, so I offer a variety of pricing models to help my clients thrive. My guiding principal is to always offer value, and the results are evident in my outcomes and client satisfaction.

My partner, Mathew, and I started our San Francisco practice to help  employees experiencing discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.

My partner, Deborah, and I started our San Francisco practice to help
employees experiencing discrimination, harassment, retaliation and
wrongful termination.

My core mission as a lawyer is to help  people get just compensation and fight back against unlawful, unscrupulous, and fraudulent business practices by lenders, debt collectors, credit agencies, telemarketers, landlords, real estate developers, insurers, and other corporate interests.

My clients greatly appreciate the communication, honesty and respect that I show them from the minute they walk in the door.  As a former insurance company attorney, I know their techniques for fighting cases, and I am able to help my clients navigate their way to achieve great results.. I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and my J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986.  After working for large firms for several years, I opened my own law firm in downtown Berkeley in January 1994, handling exclusively plaintiffs' personal injury and insurance litigation.  I am very passionate about communicating with my clients and zealously representing their interests, as well as being involved in the plaintiff's bar.. I serve on the Board of Governors for Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association (ACCTLA).  I am a member of American Association for Justice (AAJ), the State Bar of California, and the State Bar of Wisconsin.  I stay informed in my areas of emphasis by attending three days of seminars at the CAOC's Annual San Francisco Convention.  I also attend the ACCTLA's Annual Year In Review of the most recent breaking cases and changes in the law, along with numerous other continuing legal education seminars throughout the year.

Ms. Grossman's mission as a criminal defenseattorney is to ensure that the court and the prosecution perceive eachclient as the individual that they are — a person with a full life andbackground that separates them from the criminal charges that bringthem before the court.  Ms. Grossman works closely with her clients, aspartners in their own defense, and strives to keep them fully informedas the case proceeds.  Ms. Grossman represents her clients throughoutCalifornia in felony, midemeanor, juvenile, traffic and professionaldiscipline cases.. Ms.Grossman was admitted to the California State Bar in 1982 and is amember of the Bar of the Federal Court, Ninth Circuit. She has earnedan AV rating from Martindale-Hubbel. According to Martindale-Hubbel,the AV rating "indicates very high to preeminent legal ability and veryhigh ethical standards as established by confidential opinions frommembers of the Bar."

Mr. Willoughby focuses his practice on medical malpractice, personal injury and other injury-related lawsuits and has earned a reputation for success in these complex cases. Mr. Willoughby is a Trial Lawyer's trial lawyer. Other lawyers throughout California frequently turn to Mr. Willoughby for guidance on complex legal matters or seek his assistance when they need to go into a courtroom.. His medical malpractice victory in Keys v. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center created a blueprint for individuals to successfully bring claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress claims against doctors and hospitals. His formula is being taught to attorneys around the country and Mr. Willoughby has received widespread acclaim from his peers.

Methven & Associates is a law firm providing services in business law, intellectual property, real estate and estate-planning and probate.

Mark has started his solo firm 5 Bridges Law!. After nearly a decade with Tor Ekeland Law and TorMark Law, Mark has started his own firm to represent artists, authors, and other creative professionals.. Mark is one of the country's leading voices on termination rights under the Copyright Act, the rights that allow artists to get their copyrights back after they've assigned them.. He works with creative people and businesses, often from their inception. He writes and reviews their membership agreements, employment agreements, service contracts, trademark applications, and everything else they need to thrive.. For the right clients, the firm will take on litigation to protect rights. Mark has been litigating in state and federal courts in California and New York for 15 years.. Mark practices in California and New York

Linda S. Durston, Ph.D., J.D.,  practices estate, special needs and incapacity planning, probate and trust administration, conservatorship and guardianship law, and other aspects of  Elder Law.  She has a strong background in public benefits administration.. Ms. Durston is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, the Berkeley-Albany Bar Association, and East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers. She chaired the Elder Law, Conservatorship and Guardianship Committee Alameda County Bar Association and of East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers (2008-2010). She is a member of the California State Bar Trusts and Estates Executive Committee where she is active on the Incapacity, the Estate Planning, the Educating Consumers, and the Trust and Estate Quarterly subcommittees.. Ms. Durston is a contributing author to two of the University of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) practice treatises for lawyers: She coauthors Chapter 14 (“Duties of Conservators of the Estate”) and Chapter 22 (“Limited Conservatorships”) of CEB’sCalifornia Conservatorship Practiceand authors Chapter 5 (“Estate Planning”) of CEB’sSpecial Needs Trusts Planning: Drafting and Administration. She authored Chapter 12 (“Seeking or Opposing Removal of Trustee”) of Matthew Bender’s attorney practice guideCalifornia Trust coauthored a chapter on special needs trusts for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel’sAIDS Law Manual(2004 Fourth Edition). She is principal author with Linda G. Mills of “The Rhetoric, Politics, and Therapeutics of Opening Statements in Social Security Disability Hearings,”Yale Journal on Law and Feminism8, 1:119-144, 1996.. Ms. Durston is a frequent speaker to professional and community organizations on estate and special needs planning and administration. She recently appeared as a guest to discuss Social Security issues on Chuck Finney’s National Public Radio broadcast “Your Legal Rights” (station KALW).. Ms. Durston is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received undergraduate and graduate (A.B., M.A., ., and Ph.D.) degrees in Rhetoric. She received her J.D. from New College of California School of Law of San Francisco in 1999. She was admitted to practice law in the State of California and in United States Federal Court in the Northern District of California also in 1999. Before Ms. Durston entered the legal profession, she lectured in Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and in English at the University of California, Davis, and San Jose State University.. She is the proud mother of one, loves to read, cook, knit and hike, and has a soft spot for Beethoven, Bach and Boxer dogs.

Kevin Urbatsch is a principal of the special needs and settlement planning law firm, The Urbatsch Law Firm P.C. located in Berkeley, California. Kevin also serves as National Director of the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP), a national organization of special needs and settlement planning professionals. Kevin also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the NAELA Journal. Kevin is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Kevin is also a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).. Kevin hosts the Special Needs Planning Symposium an annual conference for planning professionals in wine country in Northern California. See .. In 2013, Parenting Magazine named Kevin as one of the nation’s Top Child Advocates for his work in fighting for the rights of children with special needs. In May 2011, Kevin was presented the NAELA’s Presidential Recognition Award for his work in special needs planning. In each year from 2010 to 2021, Kevin was named a Northern California Superlawyer. In 2009, Kevin was named KRON-TV’s Best of the Bay estate-planning attorney for Northern California.. Kevin is a frequent lecturer to professionals and consumers on special needs and estate planning. He also is the author (or co-author) of the following books and treatises and you can review his author’s page on

Julia Mezhinsky Jayne is a founding partner of Jayne Law Group, P.C. (formerly, Campbell & Jayne LLP).Ms. Jayne is an experienced and accomplished trial lawyer who concentrates her practice on both white collar and general criminal defense in felony and misdemeanor cases. She represents a broad array of individuals and small companies in state and federal court, at the investigative, pre-trial, and trial stages. Her successes range from outright case dismissals to extremely favorable plea agreements. Ms. Jayne also has extensive jury trial experience in both state and federal court. Ms. Jayne is committed to making sure each client is satisfied with the result of his/her case. She has handled several newsworthy and high-profile cases.Her white collar criminal defense matters include prosecutions involving mail and wire fraud violations, securities fraud (insider trading), bank fraud, environmental crimes, money laundering, alien harboring, money smuggling, antitrust, immigration crimes, false statements, identity theft, criminal contempt, tax evasion, and prosecutions with significant asset forfeiture implications.Ms. Jayne’s experience in general criminal defense runs the gamut — from violent felonies and vehicular manslaughter to drug possession and sales, sexual assault, firearms offenses, juvenile offenses, theft and fraud cases, robbery, burglary, and driving under the influence.Before founding her own firms, Ms. Jayne served as a Deputy District Attorney in Contra Costa County. There, she tried a variety of misdemeanor, felony, and juvenile cases. In her role as a prosecutor, she filed criminal charges, negotiated thousands of cases, and independently tried over 30 jury trials. After leaving the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. Jayne worked as a civil litigator at Larson • King in San Francisco. Thereafter, Ms. Jayne worked as a white collar criminal defense attorney and civil litigator at Sideman & Bancroft LLP, where she was involved in the representation of several high-profile white collar criminal defense clients.Ms. Jayne also served as a legal intern to the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys’ Office in San Francisco.  She is also an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law since 2003.

Jeffrey Wolfert grew up outside New York City before receiving his undergraduate degree from The University of Vermont. He was exposed to law at a very early age since both of his parents were lawyers. His father worked in Real Estate Law and mother worked for Legal Aide representing underprivileged individuals in the New York City area. It was the stories of those being taken advantage of by insurance companies, employers, landlords, and medical providers that interested him in representing individuals. His first experience was in trademark and patent litigation. It was clear early on that he was not interested in representing large companies. He then assisted with representation of individuals with all aspects of Immigration Law. After passing the California State Bar, he began to work in Workers’ Compensation Law. His first opportunity to work in this area of law came from a large law firm representing the insurance companies. Here he gained vast incite on how the insurance companies process Workers’ Compensation claims and how many of them strategize against injured workers to limit their benefits. He left to use this experience with representing injured workers’ in their claims against insurance companies.. Jeffrey has handled hundreds if not thousands of cases on both sides of the Workers’ Compensation issues. He has gone to trial on many of the cases but also knows when cases should be settled. He prides himself on building good relationships with his clients to ensure that they are heard throughout their litigation process, which can often be stressful to his clients.. He received his law degree from Golden Gate University in 2001, and has a B.S. in Political Science from The University of Vermont in Burlington Vermont. He has been with Law Offices of Barry P Gorelick since 2009. Before joining the firm, Jeffrey was employed by Laughlin Falbo, Levy and Moresi, Van Der Hout & Bragagliano and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Jacob Janzen, grew up in California’s Central Valley where he attended an elementary school devoted to arts education. There he participated in all manner of visual and performing arts. In college, Jacob majored in literature, certain that he would write the next great American novel.. For 6 years after college, Jacob managed the Community Thrift Store in San Francisco, helping them to donate their proceeds to not-for-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area whose missions range from serving the needs of the homeless, to the arts, to LGBTQ community building, and to animal rescue (just to name a few).. In 2015, Jacob earned a law degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where he studied Art Law, the drafting of Art Market Transaction documents, and also served as a law clerk to the Chicago History Museum President.. In 2016 Jacob earned a Master of Arts degree in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles and the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. While there, Jacob studied all manners of Art Business and Art World dynamics, visiting art fairs, galleries, museums, and artist studios in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Marfa, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Mexico City. While at Claremont, Jacob also studied economic strategy, marketing, accounting, finance, and creative entrepreneurialism.. All of these studies and experiences culminated in the conception of Start Art Legal, which was presented by Jacob as a business concept in the 2016 Kravis Concept Plan Competition. In that competition, Start Art Legal won first place, beating entries from students and alumni from Claremont’s MBA program, the Keck Graduate Institute, as well as Scripps, Pomona, and Pitzer Colleges.. Jacob Janzen was admitted to the California State Bar in 2016 (Bar #313474), and joined the California Lawyers for the Arts Modest Means Incubator Program in 2017. He is proudly married to a working metal artist and welder (), and is delightedly the father of one son, Buster.

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 family immigration, naturalization and asylum since 1999. Member of 1) American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) NorCal and its Advisory Council as SF Citizenship & Immigration Services Co-Liaison, 2) Jewish Community Relations Council's Public Policy Committee and 3) Iranian American Bar Association NorCal Chapter's Advisory Board. Formerly served as AILA NorCal Liaison to San Francisco Custom & Border Protection, Immigration Court and Asylum Office and on American Immigration Council's Writing Contest and Unauthorized Practice of Immigration Law Committees. A volunteer mentor attorney on asylum and other immigration issues to AILA and non-immigration attorneys and law students and speaker at different organizations regarding asylum law and practice and other immigration issues. J.D. with International Law concentration from UC Hastings (1999) and B.A. in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley (1996).

I split my time among domestic relations, personal injury, and general civil litigation matters. I tirelessly advocate for my clients so they receive the results they deserve. Regardless of my years in practice, I can never believe two cases are the same. I will work closely with you to understand your situation and achieve a result that is in your best interests.. I am also an active member in my legal community. I regularly volunteer at my alma mater, George Mason University School of Law (now the Antonin Scalia Law School), as a judge for various intramural competitions. Prior to joining Carluzzo Rochkind & Smith, I was an associate at a general practice firm in Vienna, Virginia and then a law clerk for The Honorable Rossie D. Alston, Jr. of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.. As an undergraduate at American University, I majored in Psychology and pursued minors in Mathematics, Film Studies, and Writing.

I represent employees who have lost their jobs for unlawful reasons or were forced to quit because of harassment or unsafe working conditions. My practice area is employment law, including all types of wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations.. I began my career as a field chemist, working for a small hazardous waste disposal consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I traveled all over California overseeing the packaging and shipment of hazardous waste, I witnessed many workers exposed daily to chemicals and other hazards with little to no controls. This inspired me to focus my career on worker safety and health, and work to protect everyone's right to a safe workplace.. Over time, I served as a lay or expert witness in cases involving employee or public exposure to hazardous chemicals, asbestos, or mold. In every case, I remarked how helpful it could be if the attorneys understood more about the core concepts of industrial safety and hygiene. I thought California workers might benefit from an attorney who understands the rules of safety and health on a practitioner level. So I set out to become that professional.. Later, as my legal career gained momentum, I decided that protecting workers from harm goes far beyond worker safety and health. It also involves protecting people from workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage theft, and labor code violations. And it involves taking action whenever a fired employee could potentially have been the victim of a workplace injury, or suffered an illness or disability based on chemical exposure or other hazards in the workplace.. And that's where I found my true calling – which is to protect the legal rights of employees and to fight for compensation when those rights are violated.