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Elise Sanguinetti is a founding partner at Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos LLP with offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Montreal.  Ms. Sanguinetti’s main focus of expertise is serious injury, wrongful death cases, civil appeals and legal malpractice. She exclusively represents plaintiffs in civil litigation, and holds an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a California Super Lawyer every year since becoming eligible.  The last two years Elise was named one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Bay Area.. Elise graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.).  She was admitted into the California state bar in 1997. When not in the courtroom, she is a frequent speaker at seminars and writes articles that are featured in various legal publications.  Her copious amount of work has been recognized with numerous awards and honors including the prestigious, Joe Tonahill Award from the American Association of Justice.. Ms. Sanguinetti is the Vice President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), was the president of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) from 2015 to 2016, and a past president of the Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association.

Denise's law practice focuses exclusively on employment issues and litigation in support of the rights of employees.  As a former associate in legal defense firms, Denise defended public and private entities against discrimination, harassment. retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. As a result, Denise understands how employers work and can often achieve results before a lawsuit is filed. As a seasoned litigator, she has enjoyed an extensive law and motion practice and has chaired several state court trials and arbitrations. Dedicated to making the workplace right for everyone, Denise's practice has included developing and presenting workplace trainings on such subjects as sexual harassment and the mandated reporting laws.. While in law school, Denise was on the editorial board of Law Review and received Witkin Awards for Academic Excellence in Remedies and Community Property and a CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Appellate Advocacy. She also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Maria-Elena James, United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California. From 2010-2011, Denise served as the Director for Examinations for the State Bar of California, where she was responsible for the development of the California Bar Examination and testing accommodations for disabled applicants. Prior to starting her own firm, Denise worked as an associate at Gordon & Rees and Liebert Cassidy Whitmore where she gained invaluable experience in all aspects of employment law, in administrative and civil proceedings and through mediation and arbitration.

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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.

Bill Johnson is a tenacious and compassionate advocate for his clients. Recognized by his peers as one of California’s top personal injury lawyers, he works tirelessly on each case, consistently obtaining impressive results for his clients.. Bill specializes in personal injury and wrongful death cases, and over the last 30 years has built extensive experience in a wide variety of case types, including traumatic brain injury, paralysis, vehicle and bicycle negligence, medical malpractice, products liability, premises liability, government liability and wrongful–death related claims.

As an attorney and executive with extensive experience in the public and private sectors, Stephen has practiced law for over 25 years representing individuals in personal injury and mass torts cases and consumers in class action lawsuits. Stephen has received rating of AV Preeminent from Martindale Hubbell, the highest ranking of professional excellence from a lawyer's peers.. Over the course of his legal career, Stephen has represented consumers in class action lawsuits against major national banks and credit card companies for imposing improper late and overlimit fees and promoting and selling worthless add-on products. Stephen also represented home owners in litigation against the leading title insurance companies in California. Settlements in the cases brought a total of $50 million for consumers, and resulted in industry-wide changes in the providing of escrow services.. Serving as special counsel for the State of California, multiple California counties and the City and County of San Francisco, Stephen investigated a half-century of efforts by the tobacco industry to promote smoking by teenagers as part of the multi-state litigation against the tobacco industry. He deposed senior tobacco marketing executives and succeeded in obtaining the production of documents from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR) on current marketing programs. The documents produced by RJR included its infamous "Project SCUM" campaign.. Upon the successful conclusion of the historic litigation, Stephen drafted a lengthy letter to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer calling for him to bring an enforcement action against RJR for advertising in magazines with a high teen readership. The Attorney General filed a lawsuit against RJR in 2001. Three years later, a settlement was reached requiring RJR to pay a $17 million fine and cease its advertising in magazines with a teen audience of 15% or more of its readers.. Today, Stephen serves as Of Counsel at the Dolan Law Firm. He directs the firm's marketing efforts and actively participates in the investigation and review of new cases involving serious personal injuries, bicycle, motorcycle and vehicle accidents, employment discrimination and wrongful termination, elder abuse and neglect, and fraud against the government (False Claims Act and whistleblower cases).. Stephen is a frequent speaker on topics related to legal marketing. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys of California from 2007 to 2015, and remains an active member of the organization. From 2010 through 2014, Stephen held elective office as the Mayor of San Leandro, spearheading the transformation of the city into a new center of innovation in the San Francisco Bay Area

An Oakland native, Matthew D. Haley joined his father J. Frederick “Doc” Haley’s law practice in 1982, where together they built a thriving and respected practice representing clients in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, and medical negligence claims.. Matthew Haley is a graduate of UCLA and received his law degree in 1982 from the University of San Francisco School of Law. While in law school, he worked for the San Francisco insurance defense firm of Lynch and Loofbourrow, and clerked in the Law and Motion Department of the San Francisco Superior Court for the Honorable Ira A. Brown, Jr.. Matt has developed a reputation as a skilled litigator and is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest rating available. He is also certified as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Alameda County Bar Association and the Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association. Matthew is also proud to be an Associate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.. He is admitted to practice in all of the state and federal courts in California.

Ambrosio A. Sacramento III devotes his career to the pursuit of truth and justice for his injured clients involved in motor vehicle accidents and other catastrophic personal injury matters. Mr. Sacramento has successfully litigated and settled a wide range of cases and considers himself a tireless advocate for the underdog. He takes pride in being persistent and tenacious while providing individualized representation to tailor each client’s needs.

Aggressive. Honest. Experienced. Hard-working. When you or a loved one has been injured, and when your heath and livelihood is at risk, these are the words you want to describe the attorney of your choice.

My name is Steven R. Jacobsen, "The Accidental Lawyer," and these are the words the attorneys and staff of our law firm strive to live up to each day. We are attorneys specializing in personal injury litigation.

After graduating high school in the East Bay, David Kleczek attended the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.  Active in the school CEDA Debate Team, the school ranked in the top 20 nationally.  After obtaining a bachelor degree in Economics, Mr. Kleczek moved to Chicago.  In 2002, Mr. Kleczek graduated with honors from The John Marshall Law School.  During his law school tenure, Mr. Kleczek was appointed to the Moot Court Executive Board.. Mr. Kleczek began work as an associate at Levenfeld Pearlstein, LP Legal, downtown Chicago, Illinois, where he had worked as an intern prior to graduation.  After several years at LP Legal, Mr. Kleczek opened his own practice.  In 2008, Mr. Kleczek returned to the East Bay, and operates Kleczek Law Office from its Downtown Oakland Offices.  Since returning to the East Bay, David Kleczek has continued his successful representation of those wronged.