Admiralty & Maritime lawyers in California Joel Krissman to Roger Booth

Firm: Krissman and Silver LLP

444 W Ocean Blvd Ste 940 , Long Beach , California 90802

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Construction Accidents, Products Liability, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Venardi Zurada, LLP

101 Ygnacio Valley Road , Walnut Creek , California 94596

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Employment & Labor , Insurance , Personal Injury, Personal Injury, Personal Injury

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

Firm: Andrade and Associates

23332 Mill Creek Drive , Laguna Hills , California 92653

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Construction , Environmental , Labor , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Andrade & Associates (A&A) is a law firm specializing in all aspects of Construction Law, Labor and Employment Law and general business litigation. The firm was founded in 1981 by Richard B. Andrade. A&A has been in business for over 30 years and have obtained thousands of favorable outcomes for our clients including jury verdicts, bench trial judgments, arbitration awards and settlements. Call us today for a free initial consultation.. We serve the entire State of California (as typically you must litigate in the county where the project sits) with the majority or our cases in the greater Orange County, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. Our goal in representing our clients is to achieve the optimum cost-benefit result possible within the context of the facts, law and good legal representation. As attorneys, we attempt to solve problems, not create them, to achieve ends rather than frustrate them, and to do so in an aggressive yet ethical manner. Mr. Andrade is a licensed contractor holding a General Engineering Contractor's license ("A") and worked in the trades for several years. This experience allows A&A to get to the heart of the problem quicker which in turn allows for a faster and more efficient result.

Firm: Weltin Streb & Weltin LLP

1432 Martin Luther King Way , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Child Abuse, Construction , Elder , Personal Injury, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice

Firm: Fant Law Office

P.O. Box 695 , Kentfield , California 94914

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Insurance , Transportation , Insurance, Insurance

For the past 35 years I have recovered millions of dollars for insurance companies by prosecuting property and marine subrogation claims in state and federal courts.  My office is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and I handle subrogation claims throughout California.

Firm: Weltin Law Firm

1432 Martin Luther King Jr Way , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Workers Compensation

Firm: Cox Wootton Lerner Griffin & Hansen, LLP

12011 San Vicente Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90049

Practice Areas: General Practice, Admiralty & Maritime

Neil S. Lerner is a partner with Cox Wootton Lerner Griffin & Hansen, LLP (CWL), a regional law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Honolulu serving the Western U.S. and the Pacific Rim. Neil practices maritime and transportation law (including trucking) and has been designated a Southern California "Super Lawyer" for 2012-2018. In his core business, he represents domestic and foreign insurers in first and third party cases, and local maritime and transportation companies in business litigation involving unfair competition and misclassification and in constitutional law cases involving preemption, public trust, water and navigational rights.. Neil has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Forbes Magazine and LA Magazine. He has been designated a “Go-To” lawyer by Corporate Counsel Magazine, the exclusive “Transportation Law Expert” by Legal Elite, a “Top Rated Transportation/Maritime Attorney in Los Angeles" by Super Lawyer and is rated “Superb” by AVVO. He was one of the first Certified Admiralty & Maritime Law Specialists in California (2012 -2/2018) and served on California's Admiralty and Maritime Law Advisory Commission until February 1, 2018.. Recently, in his core practice of maritime and transportation law, he won summary judgment in a million dollar plus cargo case, argued for a federal motor carrier at the CA Supreme Court, settled a dispute with the Port of SD over navigation rights and the public trust doctrine, which saved his client a $20 million capital expense, won a five week jury trial involving negligent hiring of a salvor, exonerated a terminal operator from claims by an injured longshoreman under the joint venture immunity defense and obtained a judgment of exoneration in a Limitation of Liability action, arising out of a dockside fire that originated on his client's vessel and caused millions of dollars in vessel and dock damage. In December 2016, the DLSE (in LA) conceded his position that CA lacks jurisdiction to fine vessel owners who carry Jones Act insurance, but not state comp. This dovetailed with his previously forcing the CA DIR (in SD) to withdraw fines it levied on vessel owners for not carrying workers compensation insurance because they carried Jones Act coverage. Notwithstanding, that fight against CA continues.. His emerging practice areas are unfair competition cases (two recent successful jury verdicts in trials involving unfair competition and unfair business practices) and advising private equity on due diligence issue re transportation and trucking (recently advised a private equity in NY on TNC issues re its participation in an Uber finance round, a private equity in Boston on TNC issues re its securing a stake in SambaSafety and a start-up in Silicon Valley on a TNC application).. Neil often speaks on panels addressing emerging issues in maritime and transportation law. He was an invited panelist on “The Legal Framework of Insurance Policy Rescission and Claims Misrepresentation Webcast,” which aired February 02, 2017 and was produced by The Knowledge Group. .  He was an Instructor at IAMI on May 2, 2017 regarding "Admiralty Law-Barratry & Marine Claims," in Nevada, and was a featured speaker on "bad faith and the duty to settle," on August 8, 2017, for The Knowledge Group.. Neil is best known, however, for representing Cigna in winning the Rex DeGeorge insurance fraud case, which started off the coast of Italy and ended in downtown LA with DeGeorge going to federal prison for sinking his vastly over-insured yacht, on its maiden voyage, in the Med. His true crime book about that 12 year saga, which involved “credible” death threats, Hollywood and ancient maritime doctrines, and which Federal Judge J. Spencer Letts called "the single most incredible story I’ve ever heard from the stand," is entitled "An Act of Piracy," and is contracted with NY publisher Morgan James.. (This page may constitute Attorney advertising.  Please know that prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.)

Firm: Swain & Dipolito, LLP

555 E Ocean Blvd Ste 600 , Long Beach , California 90802

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime

Firm: Law Office of Mark J. Zanobini P.C.

591 Redwood Highway , Mill Valley , California 94941

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Automobile Accidents, Aviation & Aerospace, Civil , Construction Accidents, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Railroad/FELA, Personal Injury, Personal Injury

601 Street   1800  9 , San Francisco , California 94108

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime,Transportation

Firm: Rouda, Feder, Tietjen and Zanobini

44 Montgomery   4000 , San Francisco , California 94104

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime,Animal Bites,Automobile Accidents,Aviation & Aerospace,Civil ,Construction ,Elder ,Medical Malpractice,Premises Liability,Sexual Abuse,Slip and Fall,Wrongful Death

Firm: Cox Wootton Lerner Griffin & Hansen LLP

900 Front Street, Suite 350 , San Francisco , California 94111

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime

Firm: Law Offices of Lyle C Cavin Jr, Attorney

201 4th Street , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime

Lyle C. Cavin, Jr. has been a practicing trial lawyer for 40+years, specializing in maritime law representing seamen, longshoremen and fishermen. He received his J.D. degree from Golden Gate Law School and is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Consumer Attorneys of California, Western Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and board member of the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association. He is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.  Mr. Cavin is a Judge Pro Tem for the San Francisco Superior Court, and a Pro Tem Settlement Commissioner for Alameda County. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts and participated in maritime seminars including the 1985 joint American-English American Bar Association meeting in London where he spoke on maritime punitive damages. He has published articles relating to maritime law, including The Unseaworthiness Doctrine and Seaman’s Assault and Pleasure Craft Personal Injury.  He also co-authored and Amicus Curiae Brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in a recent successful case on the availability of maritime punitive damages.

Firm: Kaye, Rose and Partners, LLP

West Broadway , San Diego , California 92101

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime,Civil ,Insurance

Firm: Burge & Strid Law Offices

22952 Mill Creek Drive , Laguna Hills , California 92653

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Animal Bites, Assault & Battery, Bankruptcy, Business & Commercial, Civil Rights, Construction , Contracts, Debtor/Creditor, Elder , Employment & Labor , Estate Planning, Health Care & Hospitalization, Housing & Construction Defects, Insurance , Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Defects, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Probate , Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Real Estate , Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Death, Car Accidents

39 years of representing consumers with personal injury claims or business law issues.  Personal injury cases are handled on a contingency fee where there is no fee if there is no recovery.  Selected business or collection law cases may be handled on a contingency fee as well, or on a flat fee or hourly fee depending on the circumstances of the case.  For more biographical and practice area information go to

Firm: Horton Law Firm

9045 Corbin Avenue , Northridge , California 91324

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor

AV Peer Review Rated Practice Areas: Employment Law; Sexual Harassment; Discrimination; medical leaves, CFRA/FMLA; whistleblower; wage & hour; Personal Injury; Civil Litigation; ; General Liability Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; California Employment Lawyers Association-Board Member; National Employment Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles; Consumer Attorneys of California; Trial Lawyers College Alumni.

Firm: Gray Duffy LLP

15760 Ventura Blvd 16th FL , Encino , California 91436

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Asbestos , Assault & Battery, Aviation & Aerospace, Banking & Finance, Business & Commercial, Civil Rights, Construction , Consumer Protection, Contracts, Drugs & Medical Devices, Employment & Labor , Environmental , Government Agencies, Health Care & Hospitalization, Housing & Construction Defects, Labor , Legal Malpractice, Lemon , Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Defects, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Real Estate , Sexual Harassment, Social Security Benefits & Disability, Toxic Substances, Transportation , Wrongful Death, Defective and Dangerous Products, Defective and Dangerous Products

I have maintained an extensive trial and appellate practice in Southern California since 1980. I am a member of the federal bars in California, Nevada, Utah and Florida, as well as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal and the B.A.P. in the 9th Circuit.. AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell since 1991.

Firm: Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker

525 Market Street 17th Floor , San Francisco , California 94105

Practice Areas: General Practice, Admiralty & Maritime, Admiralty & Maritime

Firm: Saunders & Walker P.A.

1901 Avenue of the Stars , Los Angeles , California 90067

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Sexual Abuse, Personal Injury

My firm represents claimants against major corporations in complex pharmaceutical products liability cases. We are active in class action, federal maritime, and federal multidistrict litigation nationwide. We also handle chemical exposure and environment pollution cases as well as sex abuse and child molestation cases against the catholic church.

Firm: Booth Law - Torrance

21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 475 , Torrance , California 90503

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Child Abuse

In a legal career spanning almost 20 years, Roger Booth has handled many large, complex cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and both individuals and corporations, throughout California and the United States. Since 1997, he has focused on representing people who have suffered catastrophic injuries or the loss of a loved one.. Mr. Booth graduated with honors from Pomona College in 1987. He spent a semester during his senior year of college studying at Oxford University in England. He went on to attend Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California - Berkeley, graduating in 1991. Mr. Booth then went on to work as an attorney at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (then the largest law firm in California) in San Francisco, where he handled a variety of large, complex business litigation and insurance bad faith matters. During his time at the Pillsbury firm, Mr. Booth took a leave of absence to work at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, where he gained valuable jury trial experience representing criminal defendants.. In 1997, Mr. Booth joined his father, Larry Booth, at Booth & Koskoff and quickly made his mark as a plaintiff’s attorney. In 1998, in just his second personal injury trial, he (along with Richard Koskoff) obtained a $1.6 million verdict in Orange County, setting a record for a hand injury case in that courthouse. That result generated a great deal of attention in the legal press. [Article PDF] Since then, Mr. Booth has handled more than 20 cases that have resulted in verdicts or settlement in excess of $1,000,000. Beggining in 2009, he has been named a “Super Lawyer”  every year, an honor limited to the top 5% of attorneys in Southern California.