California Lawyers - Oakland

Firm: Sommers Employment Law Group

411 Euclid Ave , Oakland , California 94610

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Stephen Sommers has been practicing in the area of labor and employment law for over ten years.  He focuses on representing employees who have been wronged in some way by their employers.  He has represented hundreds of clients, from top executives to employees who clean the floors.  Mr. Sommers also has successfully litigated several employment focused class action lawsuits.  Most recently, Mr. Sommers and his associates settled a class action law suit for employees of a single  IHOP franchise for $650,000.. Stephen Sommers currently represents employees in cases involving sexual harassment, disability discrimination, failure to properly pay employees, wrongful termination, family medical leave rights, pregnancy rights, retaliation, employment contracts and severance, and age discrimination.. Stephen Sommers also works with SEIU Local 1021 by being lead negotiator on the union's behalf for collective bargaining agreements with area municipalities.. Stephen Sommers has been twice selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star.  Not coincidentally, each of Stephen Sommers' associates eligible has also been selected by Super Lawyers as Rising Stars.  Every year of eligibility, Mr. Sommers has been selected as a Super Lawyer, which is a process that reviews a mix of case success and other factors.. Stephen Sommers has been actively engaged with the AIDS Legal Referal Panel for ten years.  He has been selected for the Hero Award each of the ten years and was Attorney of the Year in 2008.. Before attending law school, Stephen Sommers worked as a union organizer for seven years, mainly in the rural southeastern United States.  Stephen Sommers also was the Southwest Pennsylvania Director of Citizen Action, where he led campaigns to strengthen Pennsyvania's environmental laws.. Stephen Sommers was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, Africa.  He was a water santiation volunteer in the village of Mao, which sits atop a sand dune in the Sahara desert.

Firm: People Law Practice

3871 Piedmont Ave # 4 , Oakland , California 94611

Practice Areas: Family

Firm: Venardi Zurada LLP

1418 Lakeside Dr , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

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.

Firm: Filice Brown Eassa and McLeod, LLP

1999 Harrison Street   18th Floor  94 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Civil ,Products Liability,Toxic Substances

Firm: Hunter Pyle Law

428 13 Th St Fl 11 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Firm: Eliason Legal Solutions

2323 Broadway , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Trademark Application

Tanya's dedication to serving small and mid-sized businesses and artists is purely personal. Many of her closest family and friends are entrepreneurs and/or artists. She’s seen first-hand the frustration they endure when they need legal advice, but don’t know where to look or can’t afford it. Or even worse, she’s seen the mistakes they make when they desperately needed legal advice but didn’t know it. Tanya draws on those experiences to help her clients avoid legal pitfalls and plan/strategize for the future.

Firm: Stein, Rudser, Cohen and Magid, LLP

Washington Street , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Corporate ,Estate Planning,Land Use & Zoning,Probate ,Real Estate

Firm: Law Office of Sylvia Woods

499 14th Street , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Child Custody & Visitation, Child Support, Divorce, Family , Family

Firm: Cardwell Steigerwald Young LLP

1999 Harrison St., Suite 1800 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Family

I am a Certified Family Law Specialist by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. My practice specializes in client-focused, result-driven legal representation whether you need an experienced divorce mediator, passionate litigator, help drafting a marital agreement, or assistance resolving a child-related dispute.

Firm: Law Offices of Stuart M. Flashman

5626 Ocean View Drive , Oakland , California 94618

Practice Areas: Election Campaign & Political , Environmental and Natural Resources, Environmental and Natural Resources

Welcome to my Avvo page. I'm a solo attorney in private practice. My primary areas of practices are land use and environmental law (especially the California Environmental Quality Act) and elections law, focusing on ballot measure. My primary focus is litigation, although I also represent clients in administrative processes. I primarily represent environmental and community groups. You may send me an e-mail to check whether your legal needs match what I can provide.. As you can tell from my biographical information, I didn't start off intending to be an attorney.  I went through college, graduate school and a post-doc intending to do genetics, and spent ten years doing so, first in academia and then as an industrial biotech researcher.  After being laid off and facing relocation to the midwest, I decided to switch careers instead.. I had gotten involved in local politics and served a short term on the Emeryville City Council.  That got me interested in government, and specifically environmental and land use regulations.  It was a short step from there into law school, and thence into my current practice.. My practice is oriented primarily towards representing environmental and community groups as plaintiffs in environmental and land use disputes.. I got into law intending to do environmental law only.  However, land use law is so connected with environmental law, especially in urban areas, that one can hardly do one without the other.  My electoral law work arose from helping environmental groups first draft, and then qualify ballot measures.. I have also done a few cases involving illegal or improper expenditure of public funds (Code of Civil Procedure Sect. 526a).  Such cases are not easy. They involve a lot of discovery and a full-blown bench trial, compared to most of my cases, which are petitions for a writ of mandate.  The latter usually don't involve much if any discovery and are briefed and then heard, usually with at most two or three hours of oral argument.

Firm: Haapala, Altura, Thompson & Abern LLP

1939 Harrison Street , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Construction Defects, Landlord & Tenant, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Real Estate , Litigation

Firm: Stice & Block, LLP

2335 Broadway. , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Environmental , Real Estate , Environmental and Natural Resources

Firm: Beeson Skinner Beverly, LLP

One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 750 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Trademark Application

Experienced international trademark attorney. All aspects of trademark practice in the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); global trademark portfolio development, maintenance, protection, and enforcement; copyright registrations with the US Copyright Office; IP licensing, enforcement, and defense.. The former research assistant to J. Thomas McCarthy, author of McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition and The Rights of Publicity and Privacy; USF Law Intellectual Property & Technology Law Certificate with honors and CALI award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Survey.

Firm: Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

1111 Broadway 24th Floor , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Corporate , Lender , Real Estate , Litigation

Firm: Neal & Associates

6200 Antioch Street Suite 202 , Oakland , California 94611

Practice Areas: General Practice, Litigation

Firm: Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood

55 Harrison Street , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: General Practice, Mesothelioma & Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Asbestos

Steven Kazan is one of the nation’s preeminent and most experienced asbestos litigation attorneys. For the past 44 years, he and the law firm he founded have represented hundreds of injured workers suffering from asbestos-related mesothelioma in some of the most high-profile cases in history, against Johns-Manville, Fibreboard, Johnson & Johnson, and others.. Steven’s groundbreaking work has helped victims and their families redress the wrongs done to them, and his work has prompted changes in asbestos law that benefit victims. He is also active in helping to improve workplaces through education and legislative advocacy.. In 1994, Steven and his firm established the Kazan McClain Partners Foundation Inc. to support institutions that fight for the little guy and provide funding for mesothelioma research. To date, the foundation has given out more than $20 million in grant money to help make a difference in people’s lives. The foundation worked with University of Chicago researchers to fund pleural mesothelioma research, which was presented at the International Mesothelioma Interest Group conference in May 2018. The foundation also supports thoracic cancer programs at UCSF and Stanford.. In recent years, Steven has shifted his focus from trying cases to advising on the bankruptcy reorganization of asbestos companies and the management of asbestos bankruptcy trust funds. About 50 corporations have set up asbestos trust funds to remain viable in the face of massive liability for toxic asbestos exposure.. Steven has won numerous citations and awards for his pioneering asbestos litigation work. He has been named to Super Lawyers and made the Best Lawyers list 10 times; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce selected his firm as a Top Plaintiffs’ Firm for Asbestos Litigation. In 2017, Steven received the prestigious Consumer Attorneys of California Edward I. Pollock Award “in recognition of many years of dedication, outstanding efforts and effectiveness on behalf of the causes and ideals” of consumer attorneys.

Firm: The Accidental Lawyer Law Offices of Steven R. Jacobsen

901 Clay Street , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Civil , Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Personal Injury

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.

11 Embarcadero West , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Consumer Protection

1999 Harrison St Ste 1600 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: Edward L. Blum

201 19th Street   200 , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Construction Defects,Corporate ,Real Estate