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Walnut Creek trial attorney Michael P. Verna of Bowles & Verna LLP offers legal services to those in need of personal injury, construction accident, real estate, employment, insurance, business and more areas of representation. We have more than 75 years of combined experience and many of our Walnut Creek attorneys have been practicing for more than 10 years. We are more than litigators; we are trial lawyers. We all have experience bringing a case to trial and verdict. Contact our office today to schedule a consultation.

Professionally. Most of all, people want a lawyer they can trust, someone that will look out for them and do whats in their best intesest - that is what I do everyday.. Personal. I am a proud father of 4 great children, all productive members of society. I enjoy horseback riding my three horses, which I keep on my horse property in Walnut Creek. Fly fishing all over the country but especially in California, Pennsylvania and Montana. But most of all, I enjoy doing all these activities with my constant companion and love, Debbie. You will talk with her when you contact me at the office.. Other interests. I play guitar and cello. Enjoy field sports. Photography. Physical fitness. Reading about philosophy, religion and politics.. Speaking and writing. I care about those less fortunate and have a strong interest in helping people improve their lives. I am an author of, Jack Vincents - The Way to Wealth and give talks around financial empowerment.

My practice is focused almost entirely on civil litigation, with an emphasis on ethics and professional liability, particularly legal malpractice and related issues, real estate litigation, insurance coverage litigation, and appellate advocacy.  I am a certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in Legal Malpractice Law.

Mr. Kaster is an attorney with offices in Walnut Creek and San Francisco who practices in the areas of estate planning, trust administration, probate, conservatorships, trusts and estates litigation and civil litigation.. Mr. Kaster graduated cum laude from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2000, where he earned membership in the Order of the Coif. He received the highest class score in several of his law school classes (Torts, Civil Procedure and Negotiation/Settlement).. Mr. Kaster began his legal career as a litigator at a major national law firm. More recently, he worked as a senior associate at a mid-sized litigation firm in Oakland.. Mr. Kaster is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section of the State Bar of California, the Elder Law section and Conservatorship, Guardianship, Probate and Trust section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association and has served as a volunteer attorney at Legal Assistance for Seniors in Oakland. He lives with his wife, two children and two dogs.

Jerome C. Pandell joined the Firm in September 2008.  He is admitted to practice law in all state and federal courts in the State of California.  A 2008 graduate of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Jerome served as co-chairman of the Moot Court Board and was Executive Editor of the Hastings Communications & Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent).  As a moot court competitor, he won numerous awards for his brief writing and oral advocacy skills.  Notably, he received Best Brief awards at the 2006 John Marshall International Information Technology & Privacy Law and 2008 Tulane University Mardi Gras Sports Law competitions.  During his third year, Jerome received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence and CALI Excellence for the Future Award® for his performance in the Seminar on the Judicial Process.  Jerome also completed a federal judicial externship in fall 2007 for the Honorable Martin J. Jenkins, formerly of the United States District Court, Northern District of California, now Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, First District.  Jerome completed his undergraduate education in 2005 at Northwestern University, receiving his B.A. in Political Science and Religion with Honors.  He also served as managing editor of The Daily Northwestern from 2004 through 2005 and as a staff writer at the Tri-Valley Herald from 2003 through 2005.  In October and November 2008, Jerome acted as a volunteer legal adviser to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in the state of Nevada.  Active in local, state and national politics, Jerome also serves on the State Central Steering Committee of the California Democratic Party.

In addition to my law practice, I am a husband and family man, an avid cyclist (both mountain-biking and road cycling), a runner and a musician.

Bio“Every day I think about where I’m from and how it has felt in my own life to have people care, so I am committed to helping people from all walks of life receive justice for their injuries.”. Mark Venardi, the senior founding member of the Venardi Zurada Law firm, was born in 1962 in Seattle, Washington but was raised in Peoria, Illinois; a Midwest blue-collar town in a hardworking Italian family of 3 boys. After high school Mark followed his passion for service and the sea and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, where he proudly served our country from 1980 to 1985.. Life at SeaDuring his military career at sea, Mark was assigned an incredible variety of challenging tours. From working on a sea-going tug performing search and rescue and marine law enforcement to sailing the Eastern seaboard in boats ranging from 37 to 205 feet. His early years were spent sailing from the Grand Banks to the Windward Passage on the famed Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa, the Cutter that later performed the rescue in the movie “The Perfect Storm.” From the Tamaroa he then sailed the seas of Southeast Alaska aboard the Coast Guard cutter Planetree, a 180-buoy tender, a tour that also included a round trip voyage from Alaska to Hawaii. Mark’s final year in the Coast Guard was spent back in search and rescue at Group Seattle and it is from there that he received an honorable discharge in 1985 from the USCG as an E-5.. Law SchoolAfter serving our country and a short stint on an oil platform, Mark decided to pursue a career in law. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1994. During law school, Mark was the Co-Chairperson of the Moot Court Competition Committee, a recipient of the Snodgrass Competition Outstanding Oral Argument Award, a member of the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Review, and served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Charles Legge, United States District Court Northern District of California. Mark was admitted to the California Bar in December 1994.. CareerAfter graduating law school Mark worked as an associate at Cox Wootton, Griffin & Hansen before joining Haight, Gardner, Holland & Knight in 1998. Mark made partner at the end of his 6th year of practice at Holland & Knight LLP, a multinational law firm with over 1,000 attorneys. In his first years of practice, one of the managing partners regularly shared his short mantra, “Be somebody.” Those words stuck with Mark and while he loved his early years of practice, he found himself wanting to do more. In 2004 he struck out on his own, deciding to serve people instead of corporations. Even with the huge move to the other side, there was no hiccup in Mark’s rapid rise to the top, and he has been serving members of the community with compassion and dogged determination ever since.. Areas of PracticeAuto AccidentsMotorcycle AccidentsBoating AccidentsTrucking AccidentsPersonal InjuryWrongful DeathMaritime Personal InjuryEmployment LawHarassmentDiscriminationWhistleblower Protection CasesRetaliationWage and HourSeverance AgreementsEmployment AgreementsExecutive CompensationInsurance Bad FaithSelect Commercial and Intellectual Property Disputes on Contingency Fee. Honors and AwardsNorthern California Superlawyers, 2009-2024National Trial Lawyers Top 100, 2013-2023Best Attorneys in California, 2012-20232023 California Top 100 Verdicts“AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell, 2001-2024Top 10 Best of the Best Attorneys for Personal Injury, 2022America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigator, Northern California, 2017, 2021Lawyer of Distinction, Personal Injury Law, 202010 Best Attorneys as Published By the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys, 2019National Trial Lawyers Top 25 Brain Injury Trial Lawyers, 2019Million and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Lifetime Member since 2007America’s Top 100 Attorneys Lifetime AchievementRecipient, Outstanding Oral Argument Award, Snodgrass Competition, 1993. RecognitionsMark is one of the select few graduates of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College, the most demanding and prestigious trial lawyer program in the country.. National Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only organization has recognized Mark as a Top 100 Trial Attorney from 2013-2024, in 2012 and 2013 his peers recognized him as one of the Best Attorneys in California as featured in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Wall Street Journal. From 2009-2024 Super Lawyers magazine selected and recognized Mark with the prestigious Super Lawyers award for Northern California (only the top 5 percent of attorneys are selected).. From 2004-2024, his peers have awarded him with a Martindale Hubbell “AV” Preeminent Rating.. Throughout his career, Mark has also tried multiple cases to verdict and received multiple verdicts more than $1,000,000, entitling him to be a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization made up of less than 1 percent of US lawyers.. What Drives HimWhen you ask Mark where he gets his drive from, he is quick to cite the example of his mother who was struck with illness at an early age and has lived her life without complaint. Her strength is one of the reasons he believes in being self-disciplined, dedicated, and above all positive. Mark is passionate about caring for people and does much of what he does to ensure that he will create a legacy of working for justice. Mark knows that the people who seek his counsel are living through the worst times of their lives, and it matters to him that those he helps have faith in him and know he can be trusted. Mark will take risks for you, he will fight for you, and he won’t give up until you are satisfied.. Mark is most proud of how he has helped clients in need, his friendships, the dedication he and his employees have to each other, and his family. Together, they enjoy anything waterborne including power boating, surfing, sailing, wake surfing, wakeboarding, fishing, and scuba diving. They also love camping, road biking, mountain biking, and his most competitive sport of all, Scrabble, which he regularly (and happily) loses to his wife, Shelley, who has lit his way for over 30 years.. Bar AdmissionsCalifornia, 1994All State Courts within CaliforniaU.S. Court of Appeals 9th CircuitU.S. District Court Northern District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court Central District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court Southern District of CaliforniaMark has also litigated cases “pro hac vice” or as a guest attorney in New Hampshire, Arizona, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii.. EducationGerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College, studied trial skills over a 5 year period and graduated from the Trial Lawyers College in August, 2013Pepperdine University, Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, became a certified mediator upon completion of required coursework in 2012University of San Francisco, patent law class. Earned an A in class.University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CaliforniaJ.D. – 1994Honors: Snodgrass Award for Best Oral ArgumentHonors: Chairman, Moot Court Competition CommitteeLaw Review: University of San Francisco Maritime Law Review, Member, 1994University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CaliforniaB.A. – 1991Major: Political Science. Published WorksAuthor, “To Arbitrate or Not”, Silicon Valley Business Weekly, 2001. Classes/SeminarsSpeaker, “A Primer on Maritime Law”, Young Barristers’ Division Admiralty Committee, 1995“Investigating Personal Injury Claims”, California Association of Private Investigators, 1996“California Lawyer Roundtable Discussion on Employment Law”, 2002“Employment Related Records in California”, Lorman Education Services, 2003“Employment Related Records in California”, Lorman Education Services, 2004. Professional Associations and MembershipsConsumer Attorneys of CaliforniaAmerican Association of JusticeSan Francisco Trial Lawyers AssociationNational Employment Lawyers AssociationCalifornia Employment Lawyers AssociationContra Costa County Bar Association, Board Member Employment Law Section 2011, 2012, 2013American Bar Associations, MemberState Bar of California, Member. Past Employment PositionsCox Wootton, Griffin & Hansen LLP, Associate 1994-1998Haight, Gardner Holland & Knight LLP, Associate 1998-2000Holland & Knight LLP, Partner 2001-2004. VeteranUnited States Coast Guard, 1980-1985

Andrew J. Chan is a partner in the Walnut Creek office of Lewis Brisbois and member of the Insurance Coverage, Bad Faith Litigation, and First Party Property Practices.. Andrew has extensive legal experience representing individual and corporate clients. He previously served as a partner and appellate practice group co-chair for a California statewide civil litigation firm. He also represented healthcare professionals and practices for a boutique law office, banks and lenders for a national financial services law firm, and multinational insurers for a Florida insurance coverage and litigation practice. In addition, he clerked for Judge Maxine Cohen Lando in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit, the State Attorney's Office for Miami-Dade County, the Office of the City Attorney for Miami, Florida, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and a Florida transactional firm.. Andrew is a California real estate broker, a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US), a professional in human resources - California (PHRca), and a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.