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Molly A. DeSario serves as an Associate for Scott Cole & Associates, APC. Ms. DeSario is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law where she served as a Teaching Assistant for the first-year legal research and writing course. During law school, Ms. DeSario interned for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia where she drafted judicial opinions for employment law cases. Ms. DeSario became a member of the Maryland State Bar in 2002 and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. In 2004, Ms. DeSario joined the California State Bar and is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association, the San Francisco Barristers Club, and the American Bar Association. Ms. DeSario has experience representing workers in class action litigation and has collaborated with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on federal employment discrimination matters. She has also practiced in other areas of law including product liability, professional negligence,medical malpractice, insurance coverage, criminal defense, personal injury, civil rights and family law.

I am committed to helping our clients achieve maximum results.. I have worked with Randall Aiman-Smith and Reed Marcy for 20 years, starting as a legal assistant while in college.  They inspired me to pursue a law degree as I witnessed the intellecutal honesty and passion they exerted on behalf of our clients.  I am now a partner in the firm and we continue to fight for workers' rights and for those who have been misled by fraud or have suffered investment losses.. While not working, I spend time with my family traveling and our dogs, and I enjoy running.  I also use running as a platform to raise money for childhood cancer to support The Ronan Thompson Foundation.

I am a partner at Gibbs Law Group LLP and Of Counsel to Girard Gibbs LLP, and I represent clients in a wide variety of medical mass tort matters, including In re: Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation; In re: Yasmin and Yaz (Drospirenone) Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation; In re: Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation; In re: Risperdal and Invega Product Liability Cases JCCP 4775; and In re: Mirena IUD Products Liability Litigation, among others.. I also represent consumers in class action litigation, and have experience working closely with class representatives and consumer contacts and participating in all stages of litigation. I have been involved in successful actions against Chase Bank, Ducati, and Dish Network. I am currently speaking with clients and investigating claims about the effects of Syngenta’s GMO corn seed on U.S. corn export prices in In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation.. I am admitted to the California Bar and the Florida Bar.

I am a founding partner at Gibbs Law Group and a partner at Girard Gibbs LLP. I represent plaintiffs in a broad range of cases, including employment, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and consumer class actions. I've achieved significant recoveries on behalf of my clients, and have served as court-appointed lead counsel, class counsel and liaison counsel in numerous class and collective actions in state and federal courts, and in arbitration actions throughout the United States.

Arthur Lazear has practiced law for more than 30 years, helping to obtain successful results for worthy clients nationwide. Mr. Lazear has prosecuted some of the biggest class actions ever litigated in employment law, but has never abandoned his level of personal attention to each client, which is the firm’s hallmark.. Mr. Lazear’s father was a janitor, a Russian immigrant who worked nights in a tireless effort to provide his children the hope of a better life, that they might realize the American Dream.  The example set by his father inspired Mr. Lazear’s lifelong commitment to protecting and enforcing the rights of working men and women at the hands of unethical or careless employers. He began his career arbitrating on behalf of labor union employees, including steelworkers, communications workers, federal government employees, and of course, janitors, completing more than 100 labor arbitrations in his storied career.. In the Continental Can cases, Mr. Lazear, along with Dan McIntyre, an in-house counsel for the Steelworkers, represented hundreds of workers at plants nationwide who were discriminated against by being laid off illegally to defer or deny their entitlement to pension benefits, in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).  Ultimately, after multiple, lengthy trials, the firm recovered nearly half-billion dollars of damages for the workers.. In the Pacific States Steel case, which has been in and out of litigation since 1979, Mr. Lazear fought successfully to force the company to pay hundreds of steelworkers’ their promised lifetime medical benefits.  After their plant was shut down, he was able to secure the land and the plant itself as collateral against the amounts owed the many pensioners. After convincing the United States District Court to force the company to turn over to the plaintiffs the large piece of contaminated property in Union City, California, which had held the plant, Lazear’s diligence ultimately saw the land remediated, sold, and developed into 800 homes, with tens of millions of dollars in proceeds distributed to the plaintiff class.. Having tried dozens of employment cases to verdict, Mr. Lazear has also fought for employees’ rights at the California Supreme Court, at the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and at numerous other courts in California and nationwide.. Mr. Lazear has not only helped empower employees in the workplace, but has tried to verdict complex matters relating to medical malpractice, commercial disputes, and land use. The common theme of Mr. Lazear’s high-quality, diverse representation is that he works to make a positive societal impact in every case.. Mr. Lazear has trained generations of lawyers how to practice law and how to write persuasive arguments, and his briefs are often used as teaching tools in law schools. He is native of New York, a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley and Boalt Hall School of Law, and remains an avid Cal and East Bay sports fan. Mr. Lazear is married to Angela Lazear, also a firm employee, and they have two children.

After defending corporate and government entities during the first five years of practice, I became lead counsel in a series of  class actions that garnered national media attention and resulted in the first court-ordered automotive recall in U.S. history and, ultimately, a settlement valued at $2.7 billion. Since then, my firm has specialized in complex civil litigation in trial and appellate courts in California and other jurisdictions throughout the United States.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.

Experienced Class attorney serving clients in Oakland and surrounding areas.