Roberts Disability Law, P.C. is a disability benefits law firm located at 66 Franklin Street, Suite 300, Oakland, CA 94607, reachable at 510-230-2090. Founded by Michelle Roberts, who has specialized in ERISA litigation since 2005, the woman- and minority-owned practice fights vigorously for clients wrongfully denied short-term and long-term disability, life, and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance benefits. The team includes Michelle Roberts as founding attorney, Monica Lienke as associate attorney specializing in cases involving spine conditions, autoimmune disorders, chronic migraines, and other complex conditions, and Kristin Kyle as Of Counsel with extensive experience in ERISA and bad faith litigation. Michelle’s personal mission stems from seeing her disabled Navy veteran father struggle while supporting his family, driving her nearly twenty years of advocacy against powerful insurance companies.
Roberts Disability Law, P.C. has successfully handled matters against some of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., with Michelle Roberts earning a reputation as a formidable opponent after gaining insight from nearly two decades in the trenches. The Oakland and San Francisco firm specializes in ERISA claims, long-haul COVID claims, severance benefits, tech worker disability, and various insurance benefit disputes. Michelle volunteers with the Federal Bar Association, Legal Aid at Work Workers’ Rights Clinic, and AIDS Legal Referral Panel, demonstrating commitment beyond client representation. Monica Lienke brings high success rates in recovering benefits for clients with wide-ranging medical conditions, while Kristin Kyle contributes significant trial experience and has successfully postured countless cases for settlement through mediation, making the firm a comprehensive resource for disabled individuals fighting insurance companies.
Golden State Workers Compensation is a workers’ compensation law firm serving Oakland and surrounding California neighborhoods including Fremont, Alameda, Piedmont, San Leandro, Emeryville, Moraga, Berkeley, Ashland, Orinda, San Lorenzo, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Albany, Lafayette, Kensington, San Francisco, Hayward, El Cerrito, Brisbane, Walnut Creek, Alamo, Richmond, East Richmond Heights, South San Francisco, Danville, and San Ramon. Located at 337 17th Street, Suite 217, Oakland, CA 94612, reachable at 510-926-4053. The firm’s attorneys Ryan Davis Esq. and Dante Pride Esq. have over 50 combined years of experience and have recovered hundreds of millions in benefits for injured workers, offering free same-day case evaluations and operating on a contingency fee basis with no fees unless they win.
The practice specializes in comprehensive workers’ compensation representation including head and brain injuries, back and neck injuries, shoulder and elbow injuries, hand injuries, knee, ankle and foot injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), hearing loss, construction accidents, chemical exposure, stress cases, delayed cases, and denied cases. The firm accepts cases stemming from specific workplace accidents, illnesses or diseases from toxic chemical exposure, repetitive stress injuries, excessive workplace stress causing depression or anxiety, and tragic workplace deaths. Services include immediate medical treatment coordination, mileage reimbursement for medical appointments, handling denied and delayed claims, psyche and stress cases, filing workers’ compensation claims, and maximizing financial settlement values. The attorneys pride themselves on treating every client as they would like to be treated, providing aggressive representation against insurance companies who employ tactics to minimize payments.
GW Law Group is a law firm that has been serving clients throughout the world since 2003, with offices located at 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Ste 266, Oakland, CA 94612 (telephone (510) 763-6294) and 9245 Laguna Springs Drive, Ste 200, Elk Grove, CA 95758 (telephone 1 (888) 985-1840). The firm is led by partners Ana M. Gonzalez, licensed in New York and Colombia, and Bruce C. Wong, licensed in California and Ontario, Canada. GW Law Group provides legal representation pertaining to all matters of civil litigation and immigration law, serving both local and international clients since 2003. Ms. Ana Gonzalez practices in immigration law, immigration investor visa, family immigration, deportation defense, U visas and consulate processing, while Mr. Bruce Wong practices in civil litigation, personal injury and civil law.
GW Law Group has over 15 years of experience helping clients with complex immigration cases, handling all areas of immigration law including business immigration, immigration in removal proceedings, and immigration cases based on family petitions within and outside of the US. The firm’s civil and personal injury practice assists clients who deserve appropriate compensation when injuries are caused by accident or negligence, understanding that injuries involve more than just recovery and helping clients put their lives back together. Attorney Mark Shevchuk also works with the firm, providing professional service alongside Bruce Wong and Ana Gonzalez. Client testimonials praise the firm’s professional service, responsible representation, and quality legal work, with specific recognition for Bruce Wong’s handling of injury cases and immigration matters. GW Law Group maintains their commitment to serving clients worldwide from their Oakland and Elk Grove offices in California.
Ivancich & Costis, LLP is a workers’ compensation law firm located in Antioch, CA at 3440 Hillcrest Ave, Suite 175, Antioch, CA 94531, reachable at 833-604-4926. The firm identifies as the largest worker’s compensation firm in Contra Costa County and the Tri-Valley area, serving clients throughout Contra Costa County and Alameda County with additional offices in Oakland, California. Founded by attorneys Lisa E. Ivancich and Athena R. Costis, the firm operates with over 25 years of experience in workers’ compensation law. Ivancich & Costis, LLP operates Monday through Thursday from 9AM to 12PM and 1 to 5PM, with Friday by appointment only. All partners are Board Certified Specialists in Workers’ Compensation and Lisa E. Ivancich has been recognized by Super Lawyers. The firm specializes in Workers’ Compensation, Social Security Disability, and Personal Injury cases.
Ivancich & Costis, LLP focuses on providing aggressive representation for injured workers while maintaining individual service and personal attention. The firm has the resources and clout to take on large insurance companies and their teams of lawyers, built through decades of success in representing the injured. They are particularly known as the premier firm for injured police officers, firefighters and school district employees. The firm is deeply involved in the community and operates the IMC LLP Youth Foundation with the mission of helping young people through scholastic support and scholarships. Their practice extends beyond workers’ compensation to include personal injury and social security disability cases. The firm offers free initial consultations and serves as a legal resource for the injured throughout their service areas, emphasizing their commitment to helping injured workers get back on track while providing dedicated community support.
Alameda Injury Lawyers is a comprehensive directory for personal injury attorneys in Alameda, CA and the San Francisco Bay Area. The directory features qualified personal injury attorneys in Oakland, California with proven track records of obtaining maximum damages for clients who have suffered injuries due to someone else’s negligence. Featured firms include Law Offices of Joseph W. Campbell located at 1301 Marina Village Pkwy # 330, Alameda, CA 94501 at 510-865-5409, which has been serving Alameda and the San Francisco Bay Area for over seven decades in personal injury law. Lawyers Campbell and Moreno have earned a reputation of respect as a conscientious and dedicated legal team helping those affected by injuries, workplace issues, professional negligence, wrongful death, and government tort liability.
Alameda Injury Lawyers directory includes Burneikis Law, P.C. at 66 Franklin St 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94607 at 510-328-3238, specializing in traumatic brain injury, catastrophic physical injury, and wrongful death cases including motor vehicle and pedestrian accidents, bus accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, drownings, trip/slip-and-falls, and dog bite cases. Berg Injury Lawyers at 2440 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda, CA 94501 at 510-570-1920 has over 40 years of experience ensuring clients receive needed treatment with dedicated, compassionate, and determined staff protecting rights of injury victims throughout Northern California. Additional featured firms include Karns & Karns Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys, Prime Law Alameda, and other experienced trial lawyers successfully representing victims of various accident types, dangerous products, unsafe medical devices, construction site accidents, and insurance bad faith claims throughout Alameda County.
Harris Personal Injury Lawyers serves Vacaville, California and operates from their Oakland office located at 409 13th Street, 17th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 with phone number (510) 646-9616 and fax (510) 646-1342. The firm can be reached at 1-800-GO-HARRIS for free consultations and offers Spanish-speaking services. Harris Personal Injury Lawyers has a track record of success handling a wide array of cases with more than $300 million recovered in settlements and verdicts. The firm operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and works on a contingency fee basis, meaning clients pay nothing unless the firm wins a settlement or trial verdict on their behalf.
Harris Personal Injury Lawyers handles numerous types of accident cases in Vacaville and throughout Solano County including motor-vehicle accidents, train crashes, bicycle accidents, scooter accidents, spinal cord injuries, burn injuries, brain injuries, motorcycle crashes, rideshare accidents, aircraft accidents, dog bites and animal attacks, Turo vehicle accidents, tractor-trailer accidents, bus crashes, premises liability cases, slips and falls, pedestrian accidents, boat accidents, wrongful death claims, and other personal injuries. The firm has many decades of combined experience and has helped more than 5,000 people throughout California. Harris Personal Injury Lawyers maintains a vast network of expert witnesses and has built a strong reputation that makes insurance companies think twice about taking them to trial. The firm offers comprehensive services including coming to clients who cannot travel to their offices and provides constant communication throughout the legal process. Harris Personal Injury Lawyers operates multiple offices throughout Southern California, Central Coast, Central Valley, and Bay Area regions to better serve clients across the state.
Smoger Law Firm (Smoger & Associates, P.C.) is a personal injury law firm with offices in Dallas, Texas and Oakland, California practicing nationwide, reachable at 972-243-LAWS (5297). The firm’s principals are Dr. Gerson Smoger and Ilene J. Smoger, with Gerson H. Smoger winning Public Justice’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year” award in 2012. Gerson H. Smoger is a former President of the Public Justice Foundation and Chair of AAJ’s Legal Affairs Committee. Significant cases have included the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1984 Agent Orange settlement, “Light” cigarette class actions, and numerous mass tort cases involving unconscionable corporate conduct including groundwater and lead exposure. The firm is highly committed to pro bono work.
Smoger Law Firm comprises a team of highly dedicated personal injury lawyers with many years of trial experience in both state and federal courts nationwide. Their diversified experience in personal injury litigation includes injuries from prescription drugs, implantation of medical devices, automobile and motorcycle accidents, truck and boat accidents, wrongful death, construction accidents, head injuries, denials from insurance policies, near drowning incidents, falling objects cases, defective products, and complex cases. The firm strives to resolve each personal injury case in a timely, efficient, and advantageous manner while obtaining results that meet the different individual needs of each client. With assistance from highly trained support staff who enhance the professionalism of the entire team, they provide professional and personalized service to every client throughout each case. The firm handles personal injury claims for clients across the nation from their Dallas and Oakland offices.
Helm Law Office, PC is a civil rights and police misconduct law firm located at 644 40th Street, Suite 305, Oakland, California 94609, reachable at 510-350-7517. The firm fights for people whose civil rights have been violated under color of law by police officers, sheriffs deputies, correctional officers, and the counties, cities, and other public and private entities that employ them. The practice focuses on Section 1983 claims, excessive force cases, wrongful detentions and arrests, unreasonable searches, jail claims, loss of familial association, claims against supervisors and municipalities, qualified immunity issues, Americans with Disability Act violations, negligence, and wrongful death claims serving clients throughout California with free consultations available in both English and Spanish.
The firm specializes in police brutality, correctional misconduct, false imprisonment, premises liability involving law enforcement, and violations of federal civil rights including Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment claims. Helm Law Office handles cases involving excessive force by police, jail conditions of confinement, pretrial detainee rights, municipal liability under Monell claims, and California state law claims for false arrest and negligence. The attorney provides dedicated representation to help injured persons and survivors find out what happened to them or their loved ones when law enforcement agencies refuse to provide information. The firm offers comprehensive legal analysis of police misconduct cases including evaluation of qualified immunity defenses, supervisory liability, and pattern or practice claims against government entities while working to redress violations of civil rights through both federal Section 1983 litigation and California state law claims.
Burris Nisenbaum Curry & Lacy is a civil rights law firm with offices in Northern California at 7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120, Oakland, CA 94621, reachable at (510) 839-5200, Southern California at 9701 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1000, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, reachable at (310) 601-7070, and Midwest location at 1916 15th Avenue So, Minneapolis, MN 55404. Founded by Attorney John L. Burris in 1985, the firm has over 90 years of combined experience focusing on civil rights cases with notable victories including numerous million-dollar verdicts and settlements, along with major policy changes by police departments, government entities, and employers.
The firm specializes in police misconduct including deadly force, excessive force, false arrest, police brutality, police dog incidents, police shootings, racial profiling, and wrongful conviction cases, civil rights violations including ADA compliance, cruel and unusual punishment, hate crimes, and illegal search and seizure matters, employment discrimination covering gender discrimination, racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination, along with personal injury cases involving wrongful death, motor vehicle accidents, fatal accidents, spinal cord injury and paralysis, and traumatic brain injuries. Partners John L. Burris, Ben Nisenbaum, Ayana Curry, and DeWitt M. Lacy provide comprehensive representation throughout California including Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento, and Central California, with appellate practice capabilities for civil and federal appeals. The practice offers free initial consultations, operates on contingency fee basis for many cases, and maintains commitment to giving everyone access to justice regardless of their background or previous legal experiences.
Kazan Law is a nationally recognized asbestos litigation firm founded in 1974, located at 55 Harrison St. Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94607, reachable at 888-887-1238. The firm has represented thousands of people suffering from asbestos-related illnesses, particularly mesothelioma, with principals among the most experienced mesothelioma lawyers in the country. Partners include Steven Kazan (Founding, Senior and Managing Partner), David McClain, Joseph Satterley, Gordon Greenwood, Philip Harley (1947-2009), Denyse Clancy, John Langdoc, Benjamin H. Adams, and Michael T. Stewart. With 23 attorneys focused intensely on asbestos litigation, they stay on the cutting edge and achieve the best possible results for clients.
Kazan Law limits its practice to cases involving catastrophic injury and death from asbestos exposure, recognizing that asbestos litigation is a very complicated area requiring vast experience. Recent verdicts include $18.8 million for a Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder user, $26.5 million for another talc powder case, $12 million in a Colgate/J&J trial, $29.5 million for mesothelioma from baby powder, and $10 million for a former pipe installer (affirmed on appeal). The firm serves veterans exposed to asbestos during military service and maintains expertise in maritime, industrial, and consumer product exposure cases. Operating since 1974, they’ve built a reputation as pioneers in asbestos litigation, with founding partner Steven Kazan and the team maintaining the highest standards while focusing exclusively on this specialized practice area. Their 42 years as a professional law corporation demonstrate enduring commitment to helping asbestos victims and their families obtain compensation.
