Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger have represented injured people in the Bay Area since 1959. It is the only firm in Northern California with two members in the Inner Circle of Advocates. That society is capped at 100 plaintiff trial lawyers nationwide.
Verdicts include $52 million in a propane explosion death case and $38.6 million for a failure to diagnose a stroke. The attorneys take traffic collision claims, product liability suits, and catastrophic injury cases across the state.
Martindale-Hubbell rates the practice AV, its highest mark. Clients pay no fee unless the firm recovers money.
More than $750 million recovered since 1990 puts Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers among the busiest injury practices in California. The firm keeps offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, and a dozen other cities.
Verdicts on record include $32.7 million and $29.3 million in auto accident cases, plus $26.6 million for a pedestrian. Attorneys also handle motorcycle and truck crashes, defective products, and wildfire claims.
Staff work in English and Spanish. Case reviews are free, and there is no legal fee until the firm wins.
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Christopher B. Dolan supervises every case his firm litigates, and he has personally won more than 26 settlements and jury awards above $1 million. The practice has collected over $1 billion for clients.
Dolan Law Firm is the reason Uber and Lyft must carry $1 million in coverage for injured passengers in California. Alongside injury work, the team handles employment, elder abuse, and civil rights claims.
Offices sit in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Redondo Beach.
Before he represented accident victims, Anderson Franco defended insurance companies in negligence claims. That background shapes how his San Francisco car accident lawyer practice builds a file from day one.
Recent results include $1 million in policy limits after a truck crash and $800,000 for a woman hurt by an uninsured freeway driver. Franco has argued before the California Court of Appeal and earned Super Lawyers Rising Stars honors.
He was raised in the Bay Area and works in English and Spanish. Fees are contingent, so nothing is owed unless funds are recovered.
MJQLAW takes injury and fire damage claims only, and Matthew J. Quinlan has led every case since 2005. The practice is known locally for MUNI, BART, and dog bite matters.
Settlements include $660,000 for a family whose father was killed by a city bus. The team also represents cyclists, pedestrians, and victims of Eaton Fire.
Few plaintiff firms operate at this scale. Lieff Cabraser has recovered more than $133 billion in verdicts and settlements since 1972.
Lawyers here lead class actions and mass torts over defective products, data privacy, securities fraud, and consumer harm. The New York Law Journal named it 2025 Products Liability and Mass Tort Department of the Year. Offices run from San Francisco to New York, Nashville, and Munich.
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Abramson Smith Waldsmith runs as a boutique, capping how many files it accepts so each client gets the full team. Four partners bring close to 120 years of combined trial work.
Payouts total more than $300 million across nearly 50 years, including a $15.13 million verdict against the City and County of San Francisco. The firm helped create the Oath of Civility that California now requires of new attorneys.
Boone Callaway is both AV rated and a Super Lawyer, and he belongs to the American Board of Trial Advocates. Fewer than 5% of attorneys hold even one of those credentials.
His firm has worked with Bay Area clients since 1995 on auto collisions, cable car and BART injuries, brain damage, and medical malpractice. A second office serves Oakland.
Stephen Meyers and Leonard Jacoby opened their first office in 1972, and the firm now reports more than $2 billion recovered. Its San Francisco team studied local crash data and found 37 wrecks at Octavia and Market between 2020 and 2024.
Case results include $19 million for a paralyzed rideshare passenger and $9.24 million for a pedestrian with a spinal cord injury. Consultations cost nothing.
The Brandi Law Firm has practiced from San Francisco since 1992 and reports over $1.75 billion in verdicts and settlements. Its trial attorneys hold licenses in California, Nevada, and Arizona.
Notable results include $29.3 million in a crossover crash that killed two children and $26.6 million for a pedestrian struck in a crosswalk.
Serving Northern California from Alameda since 1981, Berg Injury Lawyers now counts more than 45 years of accident work. One recent auto case settled for sixty times the insurer's first offer.
The firm backs its work with a registered No Fee Guarantee and staff who will meet clients at home when travel is hard.
Guy O. Kornblum answers his own phone, which is rare in this market. His sole practice covers insurance bad faith, serious personal injury, brain injury, and legal malpractice.
Peers selected him for the 33rd edition of The Best Lawyers in America in insurance law and plaintiff injury litigation. He also writes trial handbooks and serves as an expert witness.
Founder Gregory J. Brod represents accident victims, tenants in unsafe housing, and healthcare fraud whistleblowers. Motor vehicle claims, nursing home neglect, and lead poisoning cases all run through the office.
Brod Law Firm keeps locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Petaluma, and case evaluations are free.
A $21.4 million recovery for an Oakland man injured by smoke inhalation shows what this two-partner litigation shop can do. Michael Bracamontes and Ryan Vlasak split their docket between injury, tenant, and workplace claims.
Both attorneys carry Super Lawyers recognition, and the office speaks Spanish.
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Attorney Alan Daneshrad founded this practice and has run it for over a decade. His network handles auto and motorcycle crashes, truck wrecks, dog attacks, and workplace injuries from San Francisco down to San Diego.
A San Francisco native and lifelong cyclist, Benjamin Winslow concentrates on bicycle and sports injury claims. He also takes auto, motorcycle, and premises cases. Martindale-Hubbell gives him its top AV rating and lists him in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
TorkLaw reports over $250 million obtained across more than 10,000 cases, and it represents plaintiffs only. Founder Reza Torkzadeh co-wrote a book on what to do after a crash. US News has named the firm to Best Law Firms five years running.