Top Litigation Lawyers in SAN FRANCISCO | 286 available
286 Litigation lawyers are available in SAN FRANCISCO, California, including Harry Efstratis, Heidi Hugo, Hillary Huth, and Ian Boyd. These lawyers are rated between 3.8/5 to 4.2/5 and 45% provide free consultation.
Litigation timelines in San Francisco commonly range from 9 to 30 months, depending on case complexity, court schedules, and settlement likelihood.
SAN FRANCISCO Court Backlog
The Superior Court of San Francisco typically manages a backlog of 4,000 to 9,000 active litigation cases, reflecting the city's high legal activity.
Litigation SAN FRANCISCO Filing Volume
Estimated new litigation filings average between 350 and 600 cases per month, based on recent public court data.
Litigation Case Outcomes
Approximately 30% of disputes resolve pre-litigation, 45% post-filing (before trial), and around 15% proceed to and succeed at trial, according to industry surveys.
Four Embarcadero Center , San Francisco , California 94111
Practice Areas: Litigation
Jason Goldwater represents companies in litigation, arbitration and mediation, primarily in employment matters. He also provides highly tailored advice and counsel to employers of all sizes on emerging issues — such as pay transparency and reporting requirements, mass employment arbitrations, and drug testing compliance — as well as other complex issues — such as meal and rest break policies, leaves of absence, FLSA and California Wage & Hour compliance, etc. Jason also has experience conducting internal investigations, providing guidance on company policies and procedures, advising on offer letters and termination/severance agreements, and all other issues facing employers in California and the United States.. In litigation, Jason represents companies of all sizes, ranging from the largest Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies, to closely held corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships. His clients have included household names in the technology, biotechnology, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing industries, among others.. In addition, Jason has extensive cross-border experience representing international companies and dealing with international discovery and litigation issues (such as depositions outside the United States, sovereign immunity claims, Hague Convention procedures, and so forth). Besides employment litigation, he has also represented clients in commercial litigation and product-liability litigation, including consumer class-actions, mass-tort class-actions, and multi-district litigations. He has participated in several bench and jury trials, and has experience litigating cases to verdict in both contexts and in arbitration. Finally, Jason represents companies and individuals in anti-SLAPP matters regarding protected speech.. Jason is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish.. Prior ExperienceJason has deep experience in employment and commercial litigation. Before joining Faegre Drinker, he served at as a partner at an AmLaw 100 firm in San Diego handling single plaintiff, class action and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) cases. Jason also owned his own civil litigation practice. He has represented clients throughout California’s state and federal courts, as well as California’s Court of Appeal and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Jason was also an associate at a global firm in San Francisco.. While in law school, Jason served as a student attorney in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and as a summer honors intern with the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission.. Personal InterestsJason is a licensed private pilot, was born and raised in France, and loves to travel the world and explore different cultures.
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4 Embarcadero Center, Ste. 1400 , San Francisco , California 94111
Practice Areas: Litigation
Mr. Quadra is a trial attorney with extensive litigation experience in class actions and cases involving employment issues, unfair business practices, business disputes, civil rights, police misconduct, municipal law, catastrophic injuries and wrongful death. He has tried cases in state and federal courts.
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“Jim was one of my teachers at the week-long NITA course on advance trial skills. I learned more that week than during a whole year in a courtroom. All lawyers should aspire to be l…”
220 Sansome Street, 2nd Floor , San Francisco , California 94104
Practice Areas: Litigation
Noah Hagey is the managing partner of BraunHagey & Borden LLP, a boutique firm that protects businesses, investors and entrepreneurs in high-stakes legal disputes in California, New York and around the country. He has successfully prosecuted and defended dozens of bet-the-company cases for Fortune 500 companies, private businesses, foreign sovereigns, and other clients throughout the U.S. and internationally. Noah also has served as general counsel to several companies and routinely consults private equity and hedge funds regarding litigation risk, pre- and post-exit due diligence, and other liability issues.. Under Noah’s leadership, the firm has secured ground-breaking judgments and settlements exceeding several billion dollars, including a highly publicized Top-100 national trial judgment. BHB is one of the only litigation firms to have successfully dismissed and resolved over 40 class actions without a single class ever certified against a firm client.. As lead trial counsel, Noah has led client victories in cases involving trademark, patent, financial services, business torts, class actions, and other civil matters. He is a regular contributor to industry press on litigation involving financial services firms and, in particular, liability arising against private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Noah’s decisions have been featured in various industry and legal publications, including Reuters, National Law Journal, Law360, HedgeFundNet, Futures, CFO and The Recorder. He also has been featured on Bloomberg Television and other news organizations regarding regulatory and litigation issues.
580 California St 12th Fl. , San Francisco , California 94104
Practice Areas: Litigation
Professional Recognition:. Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers - 2011-2013 - Martindale-Hubbell. Achieved AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell - 1997-2013 - AV rating is exclusive to attorneys who have achieved the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards.. Academy Award, Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences - Co-Producer, Best Documentary Short Subject - 1978. Philosophy:. Ms. Phillips places a high value on listening to the client's needs and producing results in the best interest of the client and in a cost effective and timely manner.. Key goals include, producing nothing but the best work. She thrives working for clients who expect nothing less.. Profile:. Ms. Phillips has been called "a lawyer's lawyer" by attorneys who have known her for over 25 years.. Ms. Phillips has extensive experience in both complex business and real estate litigation and transactional work. She is known as an attorney with exceptional analytical and problem solving abilities. In her experience one of the key problems that delays resolution and increases legal costs in a dispute, is the failure of the attorneys on both sides, very early in the case, to focus on the issues that will be determinative of the outcome. Ms. Phillips prides herself on being the exception in this regard.. After Ms. Phillips' first 10 years of practice she received the AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell in Los Angeles jurisdiction for the Highest Possible Rating in Both Legal Ability & Ethical Standards.. Experience:. Law Offices of Jacqueline M. Phillips.. Real Estate. Ms. Phillips has represented nationally known real estate developers such as Benderson Development, Inc. out of Sarasota, Florida as well as smaller developers, owners and design professionals. Ms. Phillips has been married to a real estate developer and licensed architect/builder and general contractor for over 22 years who specializes in high end luxury single family homes. Ms. Phillips has been personally involved in the development and sale of over a dozen luxury homes in California, Florida and Hawaii.. In her own firm, Ms. Phillips represented Benderson Development, Inc., a major shopping center and subdivision developer as co-counsel in litigation regarding engineering malpractice and as sole counsel in a Federal Tort Claim, arising out of the crash of an F16 on the client's property.. Having been on both sides of the fence, personally and professionally, Ms. Phillips offers unique experience and expertise to advise owners, real estate brokers, architects, engineers and general contractors in virtually any matter. She welcomes the opportunity to be of such service.. Although her current focus is primarily on real estate related matters, Ms. Phillips brings a wealth of knowledge and close to 25 years of experience, including in such fields as Entertainment Law, Professional Malpractice, Securities Fraud Litigation, and Environmental Litigation.. Of Counsel, Vittal and Sternberg:. While Of Counsel to Vittal and Sternberg, Ms. Phillips co-chaired the defense of a general partner for alleged breach of a $20,000,000 commercial real estate loan agreement where the lender sought a $1,000,000 penalty for failure to close the loan.. Senior Attorney at Rogers & Wells' Los Angeles Office:. Ms. Phillips handled environmental PRP litigation and complex business litigation cases including defense of D&O's, shareholder and security fraud litigation, accountant malpractice in both federal and state courts and on appeal.. Senior Attorney at Shea & Gould's Los Angeles Office:. Ms. Phillips gained extensive experience on federal and state matters, including handling depositions, discovery, settlements, trial and appellate matters - considered the go-to person in the litigation department to handle complex matters for defense of major clients.. Production Attorney at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Beverly Hills:. Ms. Phillips was Staff Production Counsel for the Motion Picture and Television Division. Bringing a wealth of knowledge from her prior experience as a licensed talent agent and WGA signatory, Ms. Phillips represented the studio in producer, writer, director, actor, production, distribution and licensing agreements, including contracts for Tom Hanks, Signorey Weaver and others. She also provided the studio with copyright opinions in connection with the acquisition of film and television rights.. Extern-Clerkship - Federal Court.. From January through May 1984, Ms. Phillips was an extern-clerk for the Hon. Wm. Matthew J. Byrne, Jr. , Chief Justice, U.S. District Court, Central District, Los Angeles.. Alternate Dispute Resolution - Services as Mediator or Arbitrator:. Ms. Phillips also is available to act as a mediator or arbitrator in real estate, construction, attorney-client disputes, professional malpractice and entertainment law matters. She has served as a court appointed arbitrator for the Hawaii First Circuit Court, Honolulu.. Admitted to Practice Before The Following Courts:. California State Bar (1985), Florida State Bar (1997) Hawaii State Bar (2003). United States District Court, Central District, CA (1985). United States District Court, Northern District, CA (1990). United States District Court, Middle District of FL - Tampa (1997). United States District Court, Hawaii (2003). United States Court of Apeals for the Ninth Circuit (1985). U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals (2006). U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2007). Other Professional Legal Experience/Education.. Ms. Phillips is a 2007 graduate of the prestigious Strauss Institute's intensive Advanced Mediation, Mediating the Litigated Case seminar, Pepperdine University's George L. Graziadio School of Business & Managment and of the NITA, the National Institute For Trial Advocacy's 2000 Florida Regional. She also holds a professional certification from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Ext. in Environmental Studies - Hazardous Materials Management, 1994.. Experience Prior to Practice of Law: Documentary Films.. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Phillips worked in documentary films with her husband, Ben Shedd in their own company, Shedd Productions, Inc. She won an Oscar in April 1979 for a short documentary, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, about the first airplane and its inventor, Dr. Paul MacCready, to win the prestigious Kremer Prize for designing, building and successfully flying an airplace around a figure 8 course, taking off and landing solely on its own man-powered engine. During the making of that film, the original funders, WGBH in Boston, decided that Dr. MacCready would never succeed and pulled out their funding of the project leaving Ms. Phillips and her husband in considerable debt and owing some $60,000 to DuArt in New York who threatened to auction off the negative if not paid. Ms. Phillips (Phillips-Shedd) and Ben Shedd were represented by Peter Hoffman at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, on a pro-bono/reduced fee basis of $50.00 per hour to attempt to resolve the dispute with WGBH. During that representation, Mr. Hoffman told Ms. Phillips that "he'd hate to get up against you in court"..."you should go to law school." Ms. Phillips decided that if she could get into a good law school, she would, as she also had a 5 year old daughter to support as a single mother. Subsquently, Ms. Phillips divorced, was accepted to the University of Southern California's School of Law and graduated with her J.D. in 1985. Between 1969 and 1976, Ms. Phillips assisted and worked to support her husband for him to attend and graduate with a Masters in Cinema from the University of Southern California. It was with a great deal of love and pride for the school and a sense of an accomplishment, that Ms. Phillips was able to return to USC in the fall of 1982 to attend law school there.. Literary Agent.. Between winning the Oscar in 1979 and starting law school in 1982, Ms. Phillips worked as a literary agent for H.N. Swanson, Inc. ("Swanie"), Writers & Artists, Inc. and in her own agent, The Jacqueline Shedd Agency, in Beverly Hills, representing writers, directors and producers.
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