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John Michael Hosterman
Pleasanton, CA Attorney with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationProducts Liability
Santa Clara University School of Law
J. Michael Hosterman has over forty years of experience in personal injury law. He is known for his empathetic nature and vigorous advocacy on behalf of his clients. Civic-minded and forward-looking, Mr. Hosterman is involved in many community and professional organizations; he is a longtime member of the Pleasanton Downtown Association and the Rotary Club of Pleasanton.
"Mike was a great asset to me and my case. He and his staff were on top of the details of my case and were always going the extra mile for me."
- Kristi H.
Livemore, CA
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Carl R. Gustafson
Pleasant Hill, CA Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
In 2003, Carl R. Gustafson graduated from UCLA Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors in History. In 2005, he was a legal intern for Global Justice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he drafted sections of human rights situation reports and submitted them to the United Nations and other international bodies. He also researched issues of international jurisdiction and the enforcement of international treaties. Carl went on to graduate with honors from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2007, where he was also an associate editor for the Ecological Law Quarterly.
It was Carl's yearning to right wrongs...
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Mr. Stuart James West P.E.
Walnut Creek, CA Attorney with 26 years of experience
IP and Patents
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Douglas A. Prutton
Concord, CA Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
University of Illinois College of Law
Mr. Prutton graduated with high honors in 1979 from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Forestry. He received his law degree in 1982 (J.D. cum laude) from one of the top schools in the country, the University of Illinois College of Law. From 1982 - 1985 he practiced law with Baxter & Hammond in Grand Rapids, Michigan representing insurance companies and corporations. From 1985 - 1987 he represented similar interests while an associate with Low, Ball & Lynch in San Francisco.
In 1987, Mr. Prutton opened his own law office in the Bay Area, switched sides...
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Alexandra Danielle Wilson
Concord, CA Attorney
Immigration
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Alexandra Danielle Wilson is a Calfornia State Bar member and a Contra Costa County Bar Association member. She is a passionate member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and American Immigration lawyers Assocation (AILA). She volunteers at several Bay Area non-profit organizations. Alexandra graduated from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Alexandra is fluent in Spanish and passionately advocates for immigrant's rights.
While in law school, Alexandra focused almost exclusively in the area of immigration. She participated in the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic during which she travelled to Guatemala on a fact-finding trip to gather information...
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Leslie Prince
Suisun City, CA Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals
UC Hastings COL
Leslie Prince graduated from Hastings Law School in San Francisco in 1981. While in law school, Ms. Prince was a writer and editor for Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. In addition, she worked as a judicial extern for California Court of Appeals Justice Sidney Feinberg, and as a research assistant for Hastings Law Professor Leo Kanowitz. Ms. Prince has been an attorney in private practice for over 20 years, and was a sole practitioner in Alameda County for over ten years before coming to Solano County in 1994 to become a principal in the Law Offices of Russo and Prince. Ms....
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Robert Daniel Rodriguez
Pleasanton, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Administrative, Bankruptcy, Employment and Real Estate
Lincoln Law School
"I am a dedicated professional committed to ensuring that you receive the finest legal services available." Robert D. Rodriguez operates a full service law firm located in Modesto and Walnut Creek, California. The Law Office of Robert D. Rodriguez has been providing a broad range of high quality legal services to a wide range of clients, including both businesses and individuals, throughout the greater San Joaquin Valley Area. The Law Office of Robert D. Rodriguez is currently providing the same level of service to the San Francisco East Bay Area. If you...
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Sarbdeep Atwal
Yuba City, CA Attorney
Immigration
Trinity Law School
Attorney Sarbdeep Atwal received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Risk Management at the California State University of Sacramento. He then earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Trinity Law School –the California Campus and satellite location of Trinity International University. While he was in law school, he had the opportunity to study abroad, which allowed him to explore International Human Rights Law within the United Nations collective of Eastern Countries. This experience enabled him to develop a passion for immigration and criminal law. In 2010, Attorney Atwal was admitted to the California Bar. From this point on, he began working...
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Laura Nicolle Cowger
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Administrative, Business and IP
UCLA School of Law
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Jon Karl Wactor
Oakland, CA Attorney with 42 years of experience
Environmental
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
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Greg L Beattie
Berkeley, CA Attorney with 45 years of experience
Business, IP and Securities
Harvard Law School
Greg Beattie practices corporate and technology law, and represents a broad spectrum of hardware, software and internet based companies, food and beverage companies including several wineries, cleantech/greentech companies and a variety of other distribution, retail, service, and manufacturing concerns, often serving as their general counsel. Greg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1980 (J.D., cum laude) and from Stanford University (highest honors) in 1976. His started his career at Cooley Godward, and has served as General Counsel of UB Networks, a pioneering Silicon Valley tech company, chair of the Venture and Technology Practice Group at Reed Smith,...
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Tony E. Carballo
Hayward, CA Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Santa Clara University School of Law
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James Phillip Vaughns
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Entertainment & Sports and Immigration
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
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Robert Sakai
Hayward, CA Attorney with 51 years of experience
Business and Real Estate
UC Hastings COL
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Cynthia Jean Nelson
Fremont, CA Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Consumer
Indiana University - Indiana University-Bloomington
My mission is to help people cope with the financial crisis by advising them about bankruptcy solutions to their credit or foreclosure problems.
When people have mortgages that are much larger than the value of their house, or when they are sued for credit card debt, or when their pay checks or bank accounts are garnished, bankruptcy can be a very powerful tool to help people get their lives back under control.
At Nelson Wegner LLP we work for individuals and small businesses who have been hit hard by tough circumstances. Our website offers free bankruptcy information. http://www.nelsonwegner.com/bankruptcy-faq.html
We also offer free...
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Mark Lain Venardi
Orinda, CA Attorney with 31 years of experience
Employment
UC Hastings COL
Mark Venardi was born in 1962 in Seattle, Washington. He was raised in Peoria, IL, a Midwest blue collar town. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and proudly served from 1980 through 1985. He spent the first two years on a sea going tug performing search and rescue and marine law enforcement from the Grand Banks to the Windward Passage aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa, which was the Coast Guard vessel that performed the rescue in “The Perfect Storm.”
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Ronda Leigh Connor
Napa, CA Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Tax
John F. Kennedy University and University of California - Davis
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Micheal Anthony Thompson
Vallejo, CA Attorney with 40 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
UCLA School of Law
Personal Injury Attorney - owner of the Law Office of Micheal A. Thompson. Admitted to the CA State Bar in 1985. Graduate of UCLA Law School.
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Kathleen Hunt
El Cerrito, CA Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and IP
Hastings College of Law
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Eric Francis Pierson
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Employment and IP
Stanford University
Eric Pierson is a practical and results-oriented attorney with over twenty-five years of in-house and law firm experience and a proven track record of success as a strategic partner and trusted advisor serving for-profit and nonprofit entities.
Eric has deep expertise in general corporate matters, nonprofits, employment law, commercial transactions and crisis management, with a special focus on managing union organizing drives and contract negotiations for nonprofits that respect labor rights. He offers strong experience in litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, environmental, compliance, product liability, artificial intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity and ediscovery as well. He is fluent in cross-border issues and...
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Fulvio Francisco Cajina
Oakland, CA Attorney
Free ConsultationProducts Liability
Cornell University
I was born in Latin America and grew up in San Francisco. A product of the Bay Area, I studied economics at UC Berkeley before moving to Washington, DC, where I worked at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve. In 2003, I embarked on my legal studies at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Upon graduation, I worked as a corporate associate in Manhattan at a boutique international law firm. There I had the opportunity to work on a wide array of corporate transactions, from financing the construction of a hotel in NYC, structuring investments...
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Alden Jay Knisbacher
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer and Employment
Georgetown Univ Law Ctr
Alden Knisbacher has represented clients in the Bay Area and across California since 1994. He has litigated hundreds of cases in various areas of law including employment, real estate, contract and business disputes, probate disputes, civil rights and other matters.
Mr. Knisbacher is a Georgetown Law graduate.
When not practicing law he can be found hiking, biking, running or cycling with his two children. Or, perhaps, playing with their pet bunny, Bobby.
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Timothy Alan Larsen
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Real Estate
Willamette Univ COL
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Amanda J. List
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Appeals
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
Amanda J. List is an associate at the Wald Law Group. She specializes in divorces of all kinds with an emphasis on gay divorce.
The Wald Law Group practice areas include:
Divorce, Dissolution & Contested Parentage Actions for all families; Custody Disputes. Legal services provided at both the TRIAL and APPELLATE level.
Assisted Reproduction; Adoptions of All Kinds; Family Contracts; Parenting Law including Surrogacy; Donor Contracts for Egg and/or Sperm Donations; Pre-Nupital Agreements; Co-Parenting Agreements; Domestic Partnership Agreements; Name Changes.
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Kevin John Stewart
Oakland, CA Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Angela Bean
Oakland, CA Attorney with 41 years of experience
Immigration
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
Full service immigration law firm that specializes in procuring and protecting immigration status for individuals who want to live and work in the United States. We do family, employment, citizenship, greencard applications, removal and deportation defense, and provide expert immigration advice to non-citizens facing obstacles due to criminal arrests and convictions.
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Samuel Kesil Simpson
San Jose, CA Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Patents
George Washington Univ LS
I am a patent attorney that focuses on obtaining software patents. Having an engineering degree in computer science in addition a law degree, I routinely work with software engineers in terms they understand. I have eperience in a wide array of software technology areas, such as mobile app development, networks, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, and databases.
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Robert Lee Lewis
Oakland, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
PO Box 12336
Oakland, CA 94604
Immigration
U of San Francisco School of Law
Robert has advocated for immigrants and refugees since the early 1980s, when he worked with resettlement agencies in the placement of Cuban "Marielitos" refugees. After earning his law degree in 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice appointed Robert, under the Attorney General's Honor Program, to clerk for the immigration judges for one year at the Immigration Court in San Francisco. He opened his own law firm in 1995, and immediately focused on defending Central and South Americans from deportation. Robert has lived in Mexico and Brazil and speaks both Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
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Ms. Lucy Zheng
Oakland, CA Attorney with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Tax
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Lucy Zheng is a California licensed attorney, experienced in individual tax debt relief, DUI law, family law, personal bankruptcy filings, and tenant evictions.
Prior to forming her own practice, Lucy worked at a law firm handling multiple client cases all throughout Northern California. She witnessed the strengths and weaknesses of a larger law firm, and thus determined she could best provide her clients with the personalized attention and service that they deserve by starting her own practice.
Lucy received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with an emphasis on Public Law in only 3 years, from the University of...
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Carol Lynn Powell
Oakland, CA Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Workers' Comp
UC Hastings COL
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Alfredo Torrijos
Oakland, CA Attorney with 22 years of experience
(310) 844-9696
555 12th Street, Suite 1230
14th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
Products Liability
Stanford Univ Law School
Alfredo Torrijos is a partner of Arias Sanguinetti Stahle & Torrijos LLP. Mr. Torrijos prosecutes both individual and class actions in state and federal court, focusing on complex litigation matters in breach of contract, employment, consumer fraud, bad faith insurance, intellectual property and technology law. Mr. Torrijos has significant experience in technology related litigation, intellectual property law and class actions. Mr. Torrijos has handled class actions through trial and appeal and has successfully represented consumers in class actions against some of the biggest technology and insurance companies in the country, including: Google, Yahoo!, CitySearch, Network Solutions, Nationwide...
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Karl J. F. Runft
Oakland, CA Attorney with 23 years of experience
Business and Real Estate
University of Wisconsin Law School
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Jared M. Amory
San Jose, CA Attorney with 6 years of experience
Business, Employment, IP and Real Estate
University of San Diego School of Law
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Alin D. Cintean
Martinez, CA Lawyer with 20 years of experience
White Collar Crime
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
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Dana Louise Dean
Benicia, CA Attorney with 22 years of experience
Environmental and Real Estate
John F Kennedy Univ School of Law
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Robert Lease Gonser
Lafayette, CA Attorney with 35 years of experience
Securities
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
Since 1990, Bob Gonser has practiced in the securities area, including representation of public investors before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly NASD), New York Stock Exchange and Pacific Exchange. He has successfully handled hundreds of cases involving losses sustained in brokerage accounts as a result of wrongdoing, mismanagement and fraud by brokers and brokerage firms. Over the years, Mr. Gonser's efforts have resulted in a multitude of awards and settlements for his clients including over $1.2 million in damages and interest for four employees of Cisco Systems in arbitration before the Pacific Exchange (Read the decision.)
At Hunsucker Goodstein, he...
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Howard L. Williams
Martinez, CA Attorney with 25 years of experience
Business
The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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Cory B. Chartrand
Modesto, CA Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims and Products Liability
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
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Jonathan Brand
Walnut Creek, CA Attorney
Workers' Comp
John F. Kennedy Law School
Have you recently been denied workers' compensation? Are you seeking to appeal your application, or the application of a loved one? If so, then you can't wait to garner the help of an experienced Oakland workers' compensation lawyer. It's with the care of a professional that you will be able to fight for the financial compensation that you deserve. With more than two decades of experience fighting for workers in the Bay Area, the Law Offices of Jonathan M. Brand will be able to bring your questions the attentive care and understanding that's needed. Whether you have been denied workers'...
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Rex Wenstrom Halverson
Sacramento, CA Lawyer with 47 years of experience
Free ConsultationAdministrative, Appeals and Tax
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
I consult on a broad range of Federal and California state and local tax issues, including franchise tax, income tax, property tax, sales and use tax, employment / payroll tax, fuel tax and business license tax matters, as well as California New Employee Credits and California Competes Credits.