Best Lawyers in Northern California 2016

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NEWLY LISTED LAWYERS

THOMAS J. BRANDI

PROFILED FIRM/LAWYER

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION – PLAINTIFFS

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS Jill S. Dodd, Alvin T. Levitt, Jordan P. Rose MORRISON & FOERSTER Thomas F. Kostic, Thomas H. Steele* NIXON PEABODY David S. Foster ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE Grady M. Bolding, George G. Wolf** PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN William E. Bonano**, Julie A. Divola, Jeffrey M. Vesely** SHARTSIS FRIESE Patrick R. McCabe SIDEMAN & BANCROFT Steven M. Katz*, Emily J. Kingston, C. Jean Ryan, Jay Weill TRUCKER HUSS Lee A. Trucker WELLER PARTNERS Lou Weller WINSTON & STRAWN Charles J. Moll III WOOD Robert W. Wood

COOLEY Myron G. Sugarman EVANS, LATHAM & CAMPISI Dominic J. Campisi*, Charles P. Wolff* FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL George T. Argyris, R. Frederick Caspersen FRIEDMAN, MCCUBBIN, SPALDING, BILTER, ROOSEVELT & MONTGOMERY D. Keith Bilter, Donald J. McCubbin, George F. Montgomery II, Michael A. Roosevelt, Philip F. Spalding HANSON BRIDGETT Theodore A. Hellman, William J. Hoehler LAW OFFICE OF NELSON H. WILD Nelson H. Wild LAW OFFICES OF CHARLOTTE ITO Charlotte K. Ito LAW OFFICES OF CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG Christopher S. Armstrong LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS B. WORTH Thomas B. Worth MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS Jill S. Dodd** ORRICK, HERRINGTON & TECHNOLOGY LAW SUTCLIFFE Raymond G. Ellis BUNSOW DE MORY SMITH ALLISON REED SMITH Craig Y. Allison Bette B. Epstein*, John COOLEY L. McDonnell, Jr. John W. Crittenden ROBB & ROSS GUNDERSON DETTMER STOUGH Sterling L. Ross, Jr. VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN & SHARTSIS FRIESE HACHIGIAN Richard S. Kinyon**, Thomas F. Villeneuve April Hopkins Rox KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & SIDEMAN & BANCROFT STOCKTON James B. Ellis, Ellen I. James G. Gilliland, Jr. Kahn, Hilary C. Pierce O’MELVENY & MYERS SKOOTSKY & DER George A. Riley Robert R. Cross*, TENSEGRITY LAW GROUP Seth M. Skootsky Matthew D. Powers SPRINGS & ASSOCIATES TIMBER LAW Clare H. Springs** TUFTS STEPHENSON & KASPER LAW OFFICES OF EDGAR B. Debra L. Kasper, Charles WASHBURN G. Stephenson Edgar B. Washburn WEINTRAUB TOBIN CHEDIAK MORRISON & FOERSTER COLEMAN GRODIN Chris J. Carr Gary Rothstein* TRADE SECRETS LAW WITHERS ARENT FOX Diana M. Hastings Dana J. Finberg 415.872.3200 | page 25 DURIE TANGRI UTILITIES LAW Mark A. Lemley, Ragesh K. Tangri TRANSPORTATION LAW GOODIN, MACBRIDE, SQUERI & DAY Jeanne B. Armstrong WILLIAMS & GUMBINER Gordon D. McAuley HOLLAND & KNIGHT TRUSTS AND ESTATES Tara S. Kaushik MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS ADLER & COLVIN Lenard G. Weiss Erik D. Dryburgh VENTURE CAPITAL LAW BANCROFT & MCALISTER George R. Dirkes, COOLEY Genevieve M. Moore Kenneth L. Guernsey COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS Philip B. Feldman**, James P. Mitchell

Thomas J. Brandi represents people in consumer class actions, injury, and wrongful death including aviation, dangerous roads, defective drugs, and unsafe products. Tom has 18 verdicts from $1 million to $1 billion, has tried cases to verdict in 15 California counties, and settled over 150 cases over $1 million. He has been court-appointed to numerous executive committees in mass tort cases. Tom has been recognized for his trial skills named Trial Lawyer of the Year by CAOC (2004), nominated for Trial Lawyer of the Year by the CAOC (2002, 2004, 2012) , four-time nominee for Trial Lawyer of the Year by the SFTLA (2000, 2002, 2004,2012), and named to the Top 25 Plaintiff Attorneys in California (Daily Journal 2015). He was also nominated as National Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (2004). The Brandi Law Firm practices throughout California and has three attorneys licensed in Nevada and Arizona as well. Tom has been selected to The Best Lawyers in America since 1995 for mass tort litigation and personal injury litigation and was 2013 Personal Injury Trial Lawyer of the Year and Top Ten Super Lawyers 2013 and 2014. In 2015, The Brandi Law Firm was ranked Tier 1 nationally in mass tort litigation and class actions-plaintiffs by U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” Tom teaches trial practice at USF Law School where he was 2009 Distinguished Alumni of the Year and Professor of the Year in 2010. Tom was president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, and is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, LCA, and ABOTA.

THE BRANDI LAW FIRM

354 Pine Street, 3rd Floor | San Francisco, CA 94104 | phone 415.989.1800 email tjb@brandilaw.com | www.brandilaw.com

DANIEL DELL’OSSO PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

THE BRANDI LAW FIRM 354 Pine Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 toll free 800.481.1615 phone 415.989.1800 email ddo@brandilaw.com www.brandilaw.com

Oakland, California native Dan Dell’Osso graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School. He attended Virginia Military Institute, where he was one of the state of Virginia’s two nominees for a Rhodes Scholarship. After graduating from VMI with honors in 1975, Dell’Osso was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Marine Corps and selected for flight school. In his six years of active duty as a fighter pilot, and later as a pilot with the Marine Corps Reserves, he rose to the rank of Lt. Col. and was the commanding officer of the Marine A-4 squadron in Alameda, California, before retiring after 22 years of service. Dell’Osso is licensed to practice in California, Arizona, and Nevada, and he has been involved in the preparation and/or trial of automobile crashworthiness cases against Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Kia, Nissan, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Volvo, and Mazda in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. In 2009, Dell’Osso obtained an $18 million verdict against Ford Motor Company that is listed by Verdict Search as one of the top 100 verdicts of the year. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Lawyers, past chair of the Products Liability Section of the American Association of Justice, a member of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, and on the board of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. Dan was Best Lawyers’ San Francisco Lawyer of the Year for personal injury in 2012.

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