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Born on the East Coast, I moved to California when I was nine. I studied at UC Davis where I double majored in Political Science, and Communications, graduating in three years. After entering the workforce, I couldn't ignore my interest in law. I eventually started a night program at the Ventura College of Law. I was subsequently admitted to the California State Bar and have been in practice ever since.. My professional accomplishments include, but are not limited to the following: (1) successful settlement of over three hundred open cases; (2) co-founder KFT Legal Aid Clinic; (3) board member of the Ventura County Bar Association since 2020; (4) president of the Ventura County Barristers 2020; (5) treasurer of the Ventura County Barristers 2018 & 2019; (6) board member of the Ventura County Barristers since 2017.. After graduating from law school I went backpacking through Europe. It was there, in Rome, that I met my wife. We now live happily in Santa Barbara, CA. In my spare time I enjoy tennis, hiking, snowboarding, kayaking, and playing musical instruments.

Born Los Angeles, California, December 1, 1956.Admitted to State Bar of California, 1984; Admitted U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1985; Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1994.Education: University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A., 1977); Santa Barbara College of Law (J.D., 1983).Member: State Bar of California; Santa Barbara County Bar Association.. Delegate First Barrister's Club; Judge Pro Tem, Santa Barbara Superior Court, 1989 to 2005. Legal Aid Project Outreach Attorney, 1984 to present.. Past Member: American Bar Association (Panel of Arbitrators);. Consumer Attorneys of California; and California Public Defenders Association, and California Applicants' Attorneys Association.. Since 1984, my law practice has been located in the same office in downtown Santa Barbara in the beautiful La Arcada Building.. I'm available and waiting for your call! Please let me help you with your legal problem!

Before establishing Anticouni & Associates in 1979, Bruce Anticouni worked from 1971 until 1974 as a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.  From 1974 until 1979, he was Employment Counsel and later, Vice President and General Counsel, of a New York Stock Exchange company which employed over 50,000 Employees in over 1300 retail locations throughout the United States.. Mr. Anticouni obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from California State College at Long Beach and his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.  He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court, California Supreme Court, California Court of Appeal and the California Bar.  Mr. Anticouni has served on the Board of Directors for a number of for-profit and non-profit organizations.  He is a member of National Employment Lawyers Association, California Employment Lawyers Association, National Lawyers Guild, National Employment Law Project, American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of California, Santa Barbara County Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Ventura County Bar Association and Workplace Fairness.  He serves as a Settlement Master in the Santa Barbara Superior Court.Mr. Anticouni has received a LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® rating of AV Preeminent®.  AV Preeminent® is a significant rating accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers and judges rank him or her at the highest level of professional and ethical excellence. He was once again named one of the California’s top rated lawyers by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle in 2013-2017. Mr. Anticouni is a "Superb" (10.0 out of 10.0) by AVVO and recognized as one of the top 100 employment lawyers by the National Advocates in 2015.. Mr. Anticouni serves as a Special Settlement Matster in Santa Barbara Superior Court.

AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell

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Attorney Elise Cossart-Daly fights discrimination and advocates for civil rights in housing, education, and employment. She supports non-profit organizations that champion environmental causes and underserved communities. She also promotes environmental preservation, protection of neighborhoods and communities, and responsible land use in both administrative proceedings and litigation.. Ms. Cossart-Daly advocated for environmental protection and housing rights as an attorney with public interest firm Venskus and Associates, A.P.C. She helped self-represented litigants with housing and general civil litigation matters at the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County and represented individuals with disabilities in civil rights cases at Metz and Harrison, LLP.. Ms. Cossart-Daly graduated from Loyola Law School with honors in Loyola’s Public Interest Concentration. As a law student, she helped enforce anti-discrimination laws with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, assisted in excessive force cases against the Los Angeles Police Department, and served indigent clients with housing and employment matters at California Rural Legal Assistance. She also externed with the Honorable Harry Pregerson at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.. At Loyola Law School, she was Co-President of Loyola’s Environmental Law Society. In addition, she led the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (“IACHR”) Project as Chief Editor for Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review. Under her leadership, the IACHR Project launched the first-ever database and journal covering decisions rendered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She has published several articles on human rights abuses against women, indigenous communities, and people of color.. Ms. Cossart-Daly graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for over thirty years.

Attorney David Secrest is admitted to practice in all state courts in California, the United States District Court of California, Northern District, and Central District. Mr. Secrest received a BA in Political Science from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco.. After several years in the trenches as an insurance defense litigator primarily in the Bay Area, Mr. Secrest started his own firm focusing on employment litigation. In 2011, Mr. Secrest relocated his firm and family to Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Secrest continues to practice employment litigation across the Central Coast and Southland, as well as the Bay Area.. Mr. Secrest is a member of the American Bar Association, and a number of County Bar associations, including Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Mr. Secrest has a Peer Rating of 4.4/5.0 (“BV- Distinguished”), according to Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Secrest has been a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association for 20 years.. For the past 30 years, Mr. Secrest’s practice has been exclusively dedicated to the representation of employees in discrimination and related employment claims and civil actions. Mr. Secrest has tried at least 15 cases to a jury verdict, conducted 1,000+ depositions, and litigated well over 2,000 cases to completion, either through settlement, arbitration or judgment. By way of brief example: Saccio v. Romasanta, 49 Trials Digest 19th 13, jury verdict of $545,777, including $400,000 in punitive damages, Santa Barbara (age discrimination, hostile work environment, $35,000 wage loss, judgment of $920,000); Conrad v. Montgomery-Sansome Ltd. LP, 11 Trials Digest 11th 14, jury verdict of $930,000, including $350,000 in punitive damages, San Mateo County (constructive termination, $50,000 unpaid commissions); and Nichols v. Goodyear, 8 Trials Digest 3d 9, jury verdict of $368,000, including $200,000 in punitive damages, Santa Clara County (constructive termination, $9,000 unpaid commissions). Mr. Secrest recently settled a discrimination case against a major financial institution on behalf of a disabled employee for $5,000,000, and has achieved multiple settlements in excess of 7 figures.. Mr. Secrest also represents clients on appeal, and has completed such representation in 14 appellate cases to conclusion in the First District Court of Appeal, State of California; 3 cases in the Second Appellate District; 2 cases in the Fourth Appellate District; 12 cases in the Sixth Appellate District; and 3 cases before the California Supreme Court.

Approximately 50% of my practice is dedicated toward the aggressive confident representation of DUI offenders. In addition, my offices focus on domestic and family violence, narctotics and trafficking cases, as well major serious and violent felony matters.

Amy Steinfeld is a member of the Water & Public Lands Group. She has specialized experience in Colorado River Issues and Endangered Species Act compliance. She represents public water agencies, special districts, private landowners and water utilities in both litigation and transactional matters. Amy works on a broad range of water and land use issues, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance, water rights permitting, administrative proceedings, complex groundwater adjudications, and water supply planning under SB 610/2210.. Prior to attending law school, Amy gained valuable experience in the environmental field, serving as the environmental director and an environmental consultant and analyst for the California Safety Compliance Corporation. She traveled to 37 countries to conduct social and environmental audits of factories for large manufacturing companies. She also developed an environmental audit tool and a forestry chain of custody audit. In addition, Amy has worked with the National Wildlife Federation and Environmental Defense.

Alison Chase is a committed legal advocate. Alison practices in Keller Rohrback’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group. Her broad litigation experience includes white collar criminal defense, complex commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, and international litigation. Alison’s diverse experience and interests enable her to advise and guide clients through a wide variety of complex litigation.. Alison is currently part of the litigation team representing several of the Federal Home Loan Banks in mortgage-backed securities litigation. Alison also maintains an active practice in the appellate arena, representing a class of sitting judges as well as the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while also representing private entities in a wide variety of commercial litigation.. Prior to joining the firm, Alison practiced with Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco. She also served as a clerk to the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Valerie Baker Fairbank, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California.. At home, Alison stays busy keeping up with her three rescue dogs.

Alex is a <a href=""  target="blank">trademark attorney</a> for The Law Firm of Sausser & Spurr, LLC, which specializes in trademark registrations, trademark searches, trademark monitoring and copyright registration. As co-founder of The Law Firm of Sausser & Spurr, LLC, it is her mission to make hiring and working with an attorney as easy as possible.

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara in three years, Anthony enrolled at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, California. During his time at law school, Anthony also worked at a mid-size law firm in Irvine, California, obtaining practical experience with his education.  In 2008, Anthony received his JD in 2008, with an emphasis in business law.. After passing the bar exam at twenty-four years old, Anthony returned to Santa Barbara, where he began his personal injury career. From 2008 to 2017, Anthony operated his own law office, which focused on a variety of services for his clients but specialized in personal injury matters.. Anthony intends to bring his variety of experience and knowledge to ensure his clients receive the best recovery possible at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers.. In his spare time, Anthony enjoys golf, yoga, and hiking with his wife and dogs.

"A Passion for the Law,  Compassion for Our Clients" regardless of whether you come to us because you have been seriously injured or arrested for a crime.  At Andrade Law Offices in Santa Barbara, we are committed to providing positive results in criminal defense and personal injury cases. We have successfully defended clients charged with DUI, theft offenses, sex crimes, domestic violence, drug offenses, assault charges, and even murder. In personal injury plaintiff law,  we obtained one of the largest verdicts in California's history. In the noted case Fraiser v. Hanson, BC 186857, we received a $60.7 million verdict for a client who suffered severe physical injuries as a result of the defendant's negligence. Multimillion-dollar results are not new to Andrade Law Offices. Visit our website for more successful case results. The cases below are a sampling of Andrade Law Offices settlements or verdicts from $500,000 to $4.317 Million.. - Slip and Fall in Albertson's Grocery Store.. - Baby Burned by Hot Coffee in a restaurant.. - Pedestrian Motorcycle Accident (motorist failure to yield the right of way).. - Motor Vehicle/ Scooter Accident (policy limit).. - Bouncer beat down at a local Santa Barbara nightclub.. -  Wheelchair ramp failure resulting in head injury.. - DUI with injury to client.. Our record of success in both personal injury and criminal defense cases stems from the experience of lead attorney Steven R. Andrade. He is a former Assistant Attorney General and Supervising Deputy District Attorney. He is known for his willingness to take extremely difficult cases to trial and succeed. In many cases, our trial history gives us leverage when negotiating with opponents. Insurance companies and prosecutors know that if they do not accept our demands to resolve a case, they will have to go up against us in the courtroom, which is our battleground.. We have prevailed in criminal cases defending clients charged with:. Every person deserves to be heard and deserves a fair and equitable defense. People are often innocent of crimes for which they are charged. It is up to the defense attorney to present the strongest possible case on behalf of their client. As a former prosecutor, I know both sides of the law.. At Andrade Law Offices, we understand you are looking for a lawyer because you have encountered a potentially life-changing situation; count on us to give your case the attention it deserves. We are deeply committed to every case we handle because we care about getting the best possible outcome for our clients. Our goal, for every case, is to devise a strategy to obtain the best possible results.. No lawyer wins every case, but you want a lawyer who will never give up trying, and a lawyer who is experienced in difficult and hard fought trials, is the lawyer you want on your side.