California Personal Injury Trial Lawyers Serving Northern and Southern California in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Orange County, Fresno, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sacramento as Medical Malpractice Attorneys, Auto Accident Lawyers, Car Motorcycle Big Rig Truck Accident Attorneys, Pharmaceutical Product Liability Lawyer, Elder Abuse Attorney, Food Poisoning Ecoli HUS and Listeria Attorneys and Serious Injury Premises Liability Lawyers.

Our California personal injury lawyers welcome you to consider our "Practice Areas" pages and consider our attorney credentials and approach to the specific legal subject matter involved in your case. We are California auto accident lawyers, providing separate pages discussing our approach to serious injury car, motorcycle, bicycle and big rig truck accident cases. Our California medical malpractice attorneys also provide a separate page on obstetrical malpractice and birth injury cases. Our California food poisoning lawyers discuss litigation involving serious illness from contaminated food products, and provide separate pages discussing Ecoli HUS and Listeria litigation. Our California Elder abuse lawyers discuss elder abandonment and neglect, senior physical and psychological abuse, in cases against retirement facilities, nursing homes and convalescent centers. Our California product liability lawyers discuss the wide range of serious injury product defect cases, and provide a separate page on pharmaceutical product liability and our approach to drug and medical device defect litigation. And our California premises liability lawyers discuss our approach to serious injury cases involving falls on commercial, residential and public property due to property defects and negligent failures to maintain property.

Our California trial lawyers concentrate on serious injury litigation, and whether your case is a complex medical malpractice case or pharmaceutical product liability case, or what would appear to be a simple auto accident or premises liability case, all serious injury litigation is complex in the presentation of the client's general and special damages, and requires an experienced and highly qualified serious injury attorney. We welcome you to consider our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page at the top of our "Practice Areas" menu. We also provide separate pages discussing traumatic brain injury "TBI" cases, and paralysis, quadriplegia, and spinal cord injury cases.

Our serious injury trial lawyers serve all of Northern and Southern California, from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, from San Diego to Sacramento, in Orange County, San Bernardino the San Fernando Valley Ventura County Santa Barbara Fresno Santa Clara County San Jose Oakland and Berkeley.

We offer Free Consultations to all who contact us. Simply fill out our e-mail form "Case Evaluation Request" and Mr. Henke will personally contact you to discuss your case, provide his case evaluation, and initial recommendations.

Mr. Henke is a trial lawyer with a national reputation as a superior, highly qualified, serious injury and complex trial attorney. He is "AV" rated by Martindale & Hubbell, the highest rating offered by the most respected attorney rating directory in the United States. The Martindale & Hubbell ratings are awarded based upon interviews with judges before whom the attorney has practiced and on the basis of interviews with other prominent lawyers in the state who are knowledgeable about the lawyer's legal ability and ethical standards. The "A" in "AV" stands for "very high to preeminent" in legal ability. The "V" is defined as "very high" "general ethical standards." According to Martindale & Hubbell: "AV Peer Review Rating shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity."

Mr. Henke is a former Governor of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association and Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, and its nominee for "Trial Lawyer of the Year." He is a member of the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum," and recognized as one of the "Top Lawyers in America." He has been recognized for his trial work and California and national lawyer journals, from "California Lawyer" to "The National Law Journal." His national reputation as a trial lawyer is also reflected in articles about his trial work and successes in the legitimate press, from the front page of the New York Times to the front page of the Los Angeles Times, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. He as been interviewed, and his important litigation discussed on legitimate national and international television news, from Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News to CNN. Mr. Henke has provided testimony both about his important cases and on subjects of legal importance before Congress at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Below we will discuss only very briefly our practice areas, recommending our practice areas pages for a more complete discussion of our credentials and approach to the specific categories of litigation. You may also contact Mr. Henke directly if you were seriously injured in an auto accident, motorcycle bicycle or big rig truck accident, as the result of medical or hospital negligence, elder abuse, a defective product or premises, or if you suffered serious food poisoning illness. Simply submit the "California Personal Injury Lawyers Case Evaluation Request" and Mr. Henke will personally contact you to provide his free consultation. Our serious injury trial lawyers represent clients throughout Northern and Southern California, from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles, from Sacramento to San Francisco, in Orange County, Fresno, Santa Clara County, San Jose and Oakland. We are here to serve you.

California Auto Accident Lawyers - Serious Injury Attorneys for Car, Motorcycle, Bicycle and Big Rig Truck Accident Litigation, Serving Northern, Central and Southern California, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, San Bernardino and Orange County, Ventura, Fresno, Santa Clara County, San Jose and Sacramento.

Our California auto accident lawyers welcome you to consider our separate pages discussing the specific considerations leading to our, in some respects, distinct approaches to car, motorcycle, bicycle and big rig truck and commercial large truck accident cases. If you were seriously injured in an accident, our California auto accident attorneys strongly recommend that you consider our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page at the top of our "Practice Areas" menu. While it might appear that accident cases present relatively simple issues for presentation to settlement judges and juries, every serious injury case is complex, and requires proper preparation and presentation by an experienced serious injury lawyer.

To illustrate just two of the ways in which experienced and highly qualified serious injury lawyers contribute to assuring that the client obtains the best opportunity to maximize his recovery in serious injury litigation, please consider first our California auto accident lawyers approach to the preparation and presentation of general and special damages in serious and catastrophic injury cases, and then, please consider our auto accident attorneys' approach to solving the "collectability" issue in serious injury cases. "Collectability" refers to the problem presented in serious injury cases that often the driver who caused the accident may be woefully uninsured and without the assets to compensate the client for the full measure of his general and economic damages.

Our California auto accident attorneys' approach to the preparation of general and special damages is set forth in detail on our "Serious and Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page. Very briefly, the client is entitled to recover first, general damages, which most California personal injury lawyers refer to as "pain and suffering." In most serious injury cases, our California auto accident lawyers find that often the most poignant aspect of general damages is the client's "loss of enjoyment of life" damages. Our presentation of "loss of enjoyment of life" damages includes presenting the testimony of the client, the client's family members and friends, and their photographs and home videos, showing all of the activities the client most enjoyed in his life prior to the accident, juxtaposed against a professionally produced "Day in the Life" documentary, portraying the dignity and courage of the catastrophically injured client as he confronts all of the many difficulties of his daily post-accident life.

Special damages include past and future medical expenses and past and future loss of earnings. Our California auto accident lawyers approach particularly to the preparation and presentation of future medical expenses and future loss of earnings is complex, and for an adequate discussion, we urge you to consider our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page. Very briefly, in the presentation of future medical expenses our California auto accident attorneys employ a number of experts, most importantly a "life care planner" to identify all of the medical costs the client will require over the remainder of his or her life expectancy, and forensic economist to apply medical cost inflation statistics and then reduce the total medical costs to "present dollars." Our California auto accident lawyers' strategy for presentation of future earnings losses will vary widely according to the particular case, depending, for example, on whether the client was a business owner or wage earner. In the simplest case of a wage earner, our California auto accident lawyers present future earnings losses again through the testimony of a number of expert witnesses, most importantly, a "vocational rehabilitation expert" and forensic economist. The measure of future loss of earnings is the "net" earnings, meaning the difference between what the client probably would have earned over his pre-accident "work life expectancy" and what the client probably will or could earn in the occupations for which he is still qualified over the course of his post-accident "work life expectancy." The "vocational rehabilitation expert" performs a considerable amount of research to determine the professions, vocations and trades for which the client is disqualified because of his injuries, and those for which he remains qualified. Our California auto accident attorneys will present the vocational rehabilitation expert's report to our forensic economist who will in turn apply government wage growth statistics for the respective occupations and then discount the total loss of earnings to "present dollars."

The foregoing discussion actually minimizes the complexity in presenting general and special damages in serious injury auto accident cases. But hopefully it will serve to alert clients who have suffered serious injuries that even though liability in an car or motorcycle or bicycle or big rig truck accident case may be as simple as demonstrating that the other driver ran the red light, all serious injury cases are complex, and require appropriately qualified and experienced California serious injury auto accident lawyers.

The "collectability" issue is another very important consideration that requires the attention of sophisticated California auto accident lawyers in serious injury cases, because it is very common that the driver who caused the accident will be woefully underinsured and without the assets to compensate the seriously injured victim for his full measure of general and special damages. The client may be entitled to millions of recover millions of dollars, but the other driver might have only the statutory minimum auto liability coverage. Even in big rig truck accidents, unless the truck driver is carrying a hazardous load, he is only required by law to maintain only $750,000 in liability coverage, and the shippers commonly hire the drivers as "independent contractors" in their attempt to avoid liability for the accidents the drivers cause.

Our California auto accident lawyers have a number of different approaches to overcoming the collectability hurdle, including unique strategies we are at the forefront in urging all California auto accident attorneys to adopt. Some are discussed on our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page, others are discussed briefly below in our illustration of our approach to specific cases as we discuss our approach to motorcycle, bicycle and big rig truck accident cases below. Our California auto accident attorneys have unique strategies to establishing for example, employer liability, under "respondeat superior" theory. We provide an example below involving a serious injury motorcycle accident case. Our California auto accident lawyer, Ray Henke, is at the forefront in urging the use, inter alia, of cell phone records to establish that the driver was DUI level impaired and 4 times more likely to cause an accident as the result of his use of his cell phone while driving, and where it can be established that he was involved in a business call, this too can be used to establish the vicarious liability of his employer. Our California auto accident lawyers will also commonly take a close look at public entity liability in serious injury cases arising from road design or maintenance as examples. Our California big rig truck accident lawyers have additional strategies, discussed briefly below, to establish the liability of the trucking company or shipper.

Solving the "collectability" issue is another aspect of serious injury auto accident litigation which illustrates the potential complexity of the cases and the necessity for obtaining appropriately qualified and experienced California auto accident lawyers to prepare and present the case.

If you injured in a car accident or motorcycle or bicycle or big rig truck accident, you are welcome to contact our California auto accident lawyers for a free consultation. Simply fill out and submit the "California Auto Accident Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" and one of our highly qualified lawyers will contact you to discuss your case, your injuries, your economic damages, and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. Our case consultations are entirely free of charge. We are here to serve you.

California Motorcycle Accident Lawyers & Bicycle Accident Attorneys.

Motorcycle and bicycle accident cases often involve very different issues of liability than auto accident cases. Motorcycles and bicycles are single track vehicles, the significance of which may "lost" on many California car accident attorneys, until they find themselves "lost" attempting to cross examine the defense motorcycle or bicycle accident reconstruction expert. Consider how you will explain to the ordinary California personal injury lawyer why you couldn't just "slam on your brakes" in a turn when a car driver pulled into your lane and slammed on his brakes. Consider explaining how your single track motorcycle or bicycle turns as a function of its lean. Consider the devastation to your case as the motorcycle or bicycle accident reconstruction expert must explain to your auto driving California personal injury lawyer how a motorcycle or bicycle turns as a function of counter-steering.

We provide separate pages on this site, entitled "California motorcycle accident lawyers" and "California bicycle accident attorneys" on our "Practice Areas" menu, and you are invited to consider our credentials and approach to serious injury motorcycle and bicycle accident cases.

In one recent case, as an example, California motorcycle accident lawyer, Ray Henke, represented a motorcyclist who had pulled out into an intersection from between cars in two adjoining left turn lanes. The defendants contended that the accident was the motorcyclist's fault for "splitting lanes." Mr. Henke interrogated the law enforcement officer who investigated the accident in a deposition, obtaining from the officer his agreement that it was "not illegal" for motorcyclists to "split" lanes of traffic, and therefore, that it was "not illegal" in California for the motorcyclist to have pulled out into the intersection from between the two cars in the adjoining left turn lanes. California motorcycle accident lawyer, Ray Henke, also obtained the officer's agreement, therefore, that neither the motorcyclist's splitting lanes nor any other conduct on the part of the motorcyclist was a causative factor in the accident.

The driver of the vehicle which impacted the motorcyclist had only statutory minimum coverage. The motorcyclist suffered serious injuries, including a below knee amputation. Therefore, it was necessary to overcome the "collectability" issue discussed above. In this case, it was established first in discovery that on the morning of the accident the other driver was commuting to work. Under California law, however, it is insufficient to establish employer liability merely that the driver was commuting to his job. Through discovery, California motorcycle accident lawyer, Henke, was able to establish that the employee was also transporting equipment and tools essential for his work, and it was in this way that Henke was able to bring the driver's employer in as a defendant in the litigation under "respondeat superior" theory, and obtain a multimillion dollar settlement paid by the employer's liability and excess insurance carriers.

If you were seriously injured in a motorcycle or bicycle accident, please consider our "California Motorcycle Accident Attorneys" page and "California Bicycle Accident Lawyers" page, as well as our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Attorneys" page.

You are also welcome to contact us for a free attorney consultation. Simply fill out and submit the "California Motorcycle and Bicycle Accident Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" on one of our highly qualified and experienced lawyers will call you to discuss your case, and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations.

California Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyers - Commercial Large Truck Accident Attorneys.

Half a million commercial large truck and big rig accidents occur every year in America involving semi's, tractor trailers, 18 wheelers and other trucks weighing in excess of 10,000 pounds. Because of the greater weight of the trucks, 3 to 30 times the weight of an ordinary passenger car, these accidents account for thousands of deaths, 150 thousand serious injuries, one third involving paralysis, traumatic brain injury, debilitating internal injury, catastrophic orthopedic injury and limb amputations.

Serious injury big rig truck and commercial large truck accident cases involve very different strategies than auto accident cases and require the participation of highly qualified California commercial large truck and big rig truck accident lawyers. There are specific state and federal laws that govern everything from the weight of loads that these large trucks are permitted to carry, to securing the loads, to the hours a driver may operate the truck between time off periods, regulations requiring the driver to maintain logs and other regulations requiring the driver to inform those for whom he works with regard to his driving hours and off hours. It is essential that the California big rug truck accident lawyer be fully knowledgeable about the applicable laws as they can provide strategies both to aid in establishing liability and often to aid in overcoming the "collectability" hurdle in serious injury litigation, discussed above.

Our California commercial large truck and big rig accident lawyers involve investigators and accident reconstruction experts also to determine if the accident may have been caused by overloading or the failure properly to secure the load. Sometimes also the accidents may occur as the result of mechanical failure, as for example, a faulty brake assembly. Big rig truck accidents also commonly occur due to driver fatigue, lack of sleep and impairment due to use of drugs and/or alcohol. Sometimes the nature of the accident itself will suggest to our California big rig truck accident lawyers the possible causes of the accident, as when the truck jackknifes, usually resulting from deceleration causing the load to shift, leading us to consider whether a contributory factor might have been the failure properly to secure the load.

Again, the toughest hurdle for the California big rig truck accident lawyer, where the client has been seriously or catastrophically injured, is the "collectability issue." Unless the driver is carrying a hazardous load, he is only required by law to carry $750,000 in liability insurance; and the shippers commonly hire the drivers as "independent contractors" in their attempt to avoid liability for the accidents their drivers cause. But knowledgeable California big rig truck accident lawyers understand the various strategies for establishing shipper liability, including "negligent entrustment theory" and "negligent supervision theory." And the appropriately qualified California commercial large truck lawyer will also understand how to conduct the investigation essential to establish the shipper's liability under those legal theories. With knowledge of the federal and state laws governing trucking the appropriately qualified California big rig truck accident lawyer can also investigate to determine whether the truck was carrying a load in excess of weight limitations or that the shipper secured the load in violation of the law. If the shipper required or permitted the driver to operate the truck for time periods between rest stops in excess of the limitations set forth by law, or if it failed to keep records of the driver's on and off work periods, this may also provide the bases for shipper liability.

Large commercial truck accident cases are not simple auto accident cases, and require the involvement of appropriately qualified California big rig truck accident lawyers. Where there are serious injuries involved, the client also would be best served by California commercial truck accident lawyers who concentrate on serious injury litigation, as discussed above and on our "Serious and Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page.

If you were seriously injured in an accident involving a commercial large truck, you are welcome to contact our California big rig truck accident lawyers for a free attorney consultation. Simply fill out and submit the "California Commercial Large Truck Accident Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" and one of our lawyers will contact you to discuss the facts of your case, your injuries and economic damages, and will provide you with our initial case evaluation and recommendations. Our California big rig truck accident lawyers represent those seriously injured in commercial large truck accident cases in Northern, Central and Southern California, in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, Orange County, San Jose, from San Diego to Sacramento. Our case consultations are entirely free of charge.

California Medical Malpractice Lawyers, Hospital Negligence Attorneys, Obstetrical Malpractice and Birth Injury Lawyers, Serving Northern & Southern California in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Bay Area, San Diego, San Bernardino and Orange County, Ventura, Fresno, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento..

Our California medical malpractice lawyers provide a page discussing our credentials and approach to medical negligence cases, and a separate page discussing obstetrical malpractice and birth injury litigation. California medical malpractice lawyer, Ray Henke, is a nationally acclaimed malpractice attorney. His trial work and medical malpractice cases have been widely discussed in local and national legal journals, from "California Lawyer" to the "National Law Journal," widely chronicled in legitimate newspapers, from front page articles in the the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. For one body of medical and hospital negligence litigation Mr. Henke was nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, renamed the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.

The case recognized by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association provides an example California medical malpractice lawyer, Ray Henke's conscientious approach to medical negligence litigation. The case involved the first AIDS medical fraud case in the United States, brought against quack physicians and a cooperative hospital that were exploiting the vulnerability and desperation of AIDS patients with phony drugs they claimed to be "cures" for AIDS. Five of attorney Henke's clients were so immune compromised that he moved the Court to provide them a preferential trial date, and then tried all 5 cases in a single 4 month trial.

California medical malpractice attorney, Ray Henke's experts in the case included Michael Gotlieb, the discoverer of AIDS and cofounder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Luc Montagner, the discoverer of HIV, and head of France's National AIDS Laboratories, Don Francis, the head of the CDC's first AIDS task force and the epidemiologist who discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease, John Curnutte, the head of the largest AIDS vaccine project in the world, Roger Detels, Chairman of the UCLA Epidemiology Department and chief investigator on the largest AIDS epidemiology study in the world, and a dozen others of the most highly qualified AIDS scientists in the world.

The jury in the case found that the defendant physicians and the involved hospital conspired to defraud Mr. Henke's clients and rendered a multimillion dollar jury verdict, including a 1.9 million dollar punitive damage verdict against the hospital.

Our California medical malpractice lawyers will consider serious injury malpractice cases against health care providers generally. We provide a separate page on this site discussing obstetrical malpractice cases and birth injury litigation, and invite parents whose child was born with cerebral palsy, or who suffers delayed development or mental retardation as the result of oxygen deprivation during delivery to consider our "California Obstetrical Malpractice Lawyers" page. On that page our California obstetrical malpractice attorneys also discuss brachial plexus injuries and Erbs palsy.

In part because medical malpractice litigation is extremely expensive to properly litigate, and in part because the California MICRA "tort reform" legislation limits the malpractice victim's general damages to $250,000, our California medical malpractice lawyers can only consider serious injury claims in which the client has suffered substantial economic damages, either substantial future medical expenses or substantial past and future loss of earnings. Mr. Henke has been at the forefront, as a medical malpractice lawyer, in criticizing medical malpractice tort reform legislation, including by publishing in the Journal of the American Trial Lawyers Association one of the most highly regarded indictments of the rationale for medical malpractice legislation, an article Henke & Neubaurer, “Crisis Revisited Ten Years After: An Expose on the False Premises for Medical Malpractice Legislation,” Trial, January 1985, co-authored with one of the most highly regarded health care social scientists in the United States.

Our California medical malpractice lawyers provide free consultations and invite you to contact us. Simply fill out and submit our "California Medical Malpractice Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" and we will call you to discuss your case, your injuries and economic damages, and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. Our California medical malpractice lawyers serve Northern and Southern California in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, San Jose, from San Diego to Sacramento. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

California Pharmaceutical Product Liability Lawyers - Drug and Medical Device Defect Lawyers - Serving Southern and Northern California, from Sacramento to San Diego, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, in San Bernardino and Orange County, San Jose and Santa Clara County, in Ventura, Fresno and Oakland. Presently Considering Ortho Evra Patch Cases.

Our California pharmaceutical product liability lawyers are highly experienced drug and medical device defect attorneys. We provide a separate page on this site discussing our credentials in drug product liability litigation. Please also consider our pages discussing current pharmaceutical product liability litigation including our "California Ortho Evra Patch Lawyers" page. Our California pharmaceutical product liability lawyers have been involved in most of the major drug and medical device defect litigation of the past 25 years. California pharmaceutical product liability lawyer, Ray Henke, has been involved in drug and medical device cases from Thalidomide to the Dalcon Shield, DES, Bendectin, and DPT litigation as examples. Our California pharmaceutical product lawyers, led by attorney Henke, were responsible for the first AIDS drug fraud case in the United States, for which Henke received national acclaim in legal journals, the legitimate national print media, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and national and international television news media, Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News, CNN. He also testified before Congress with regard to the importance of the litigation at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives. He was also nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" for his trial work in that case, by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association/Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.

Pharmaceutical product liability cases usually succeed or fail on the basis of the expert testimony marshaled by both sides, and often with the experts on either side taking diametrically opposite positions, it is essential that the lawyers obtain experts with the highest credentials in their fields. In the last mentioned case, California pharmaceutical product liability attorney, Henke, designated as his experts Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV and head of France's National AIDS Laboratories, Michael Gotlieb, the astute clinician who discovered AIDS and cofounded the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Don Francis, the internationally regarded epidemiologist who headed the CDC's first AIDS task force and discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease, John Curnutte, the head of the largest AIDS vaccine study in the word and a dozen others of the most highly respected scientists in the world.

Our California pharmaceutical product liability lawyers consider each case individually in determining whether it best serves our clients to join in class actions. Attorney Henke has participated in leading class actions and has, when he considers it in the clients' best interest, opted them out of class actions. Indeed, California pharmaceutical product liability attorney, Henke, may be most well known for his opposition to mandatory class action in drug defect litigation. In one case, involving serious birth injuries suffered as the result of a teratogentic drug recommended for use in pregnancy, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio certified a national mandatory class action. It joined all filed and all yet-to-be filed cases in the country, including 1000 cases pending in the Southern District of Ohio; in the mandatory class action. The class action lead counsel committee, purporting to act for all of the children in the country born with birth defects as the result of the drug, then settled the case for $120,000,000.00, which would have amounted to just a few thousand dollars for each child. California pharmaceutical product liability lawyer, Henke, filed a petition for writ of mandamus on behalf of a single client in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, arguing that the mandatory class action violated his client's right to his choice of the attorney to represent him, and denied him the right to control of his individual litigation (absent evidence and a finding of a limited fund). The United States Court of Appeals granted attorney, Henke's petition for writ of mandamus, requiring the District Court to vacate the class settlement and vacate its order certifying the mandatory class action. The federal Court of Appeal also published an opinion on California pharmaceutical product liability attorney, Ray Henke's petition for writ of mandamus, adopting the same arguments Henke made in the petition, severely restricting the availability of future mandatory class actions, in favor of class actions in which the individual class members are permitted to opt in or opt out.

If you have been severely injured as the result of a defective drug or medical device, you are welcome to contact us for a free consultation. Simply submit the "California Pharmaceutical Product Liability Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" and one or our highly qualified drug defect lawyers will call you to discuss your case, and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. Our California pharmaceutical product liability lawyers will consider cases arising in Northern and Southern California, from San Diego to Sacramento, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, in Orange County, Ventura, Fresno, and Oakland. Our California drug and medical device defect attorneys welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

California Elder Abuse Lawyers - Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys Representing Seniors in Cases of Elder Neglect and Abandonment, and Senior Physical and Psychological Abuse, Against Elder Convalescent Centers and Retirement Homes, in Northern and Southern California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, Santa Clara County and San Jose, Fresno Ventura Orange County and San Diego.

Our California elder abuse lawyers represent clients how have been the victim of nursing home neglect and abandonment as well as physical and psychological abuse by employees of senior retirement facilities and convalescent centers. On our separate "California Elder Abuse Lawyers" page we discuss the tell tale signs and symptoms of elder abuse so that family members may be alert to detect early that their loved one has been the victim of elder abuse. Elder abuse is reprehensible and it is tragic. It must be prevented and stopped early for the sake of the well-being of the senior family member.

Our California elder abuse lawyers define "elder neglect" as the failure of the nursing home or retirement facility to use reasonable care in providing for the elder's medical and mental health care, as well as the elder's hygiene, and to protect the elder from hazards to his or her health or safety. Our California elder abuse attorneys describe "elder abandonment" as the "intentional" or "willful" failure of a nursing home or other elder facility to care for the elder.

Our California elder abuse lawyers define "senior physical abuse" as intentionally or willfully inflicted physical abuse, which can take the form of beatings, slapping, uncalled for physical restraint, or denial of food and water, and may also take the form of sexual abuse.

Our California elder abuse lawyers define "elder psychological abuse" as intentionally or willfully inflicted emotional abuse, which may take the form of verbal assault or threats, verbal acts or conduct calculated to instill fear or to humiliate the elder, or to isolate the elder or result in sensory deprivation.

Again, if you are a family member of a senior is living in a nursing home or retirement facility and suspect that your loved one may be the victim of elder abuse, please consult our California Elder Abuse page on this site to learn of the signs and symptoms of elder abuse, as often times, for a variety of reasons, the elder himself may be reticent to complain about mistreatment by his caregivers.

If you are an elder who has been the victim of abuse or a family member of an elder has been injured as the result of the negligence or intentional conduct or employees of a nursing home or senior convalescent home or retirement facility, you are welcome you contact us for a free consultation. We represent victims of senior abuse in Northern, Central and Southern California from San Diego to Sacramento, in Los Angeles and the San Francisco bay area, Oakland, Santa Clara County and San Jose, Fresno, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange County. Simply fill out the "California Elder Abuse Lawyers Case Evaluation Request" and one of our attorneys will contact you to discuss the case, inquire about the elder's injuries, and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

California Premises Liability Lawyers - Serious Injury Slip and Fall Attorneys - For Falls on Commercial, Residential and Public Property Resulting In Paralysis, Quadriplegia, Paraplegia, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI and Serious Orthopedic Injury - Serving Southern and Northern California, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Orange County, Fresno, from San Diego to Sacramento.

Our California premises liability lawyers represent those who have suffered serious injury as the result of a fall on commercial, residential or public property. We welcome you to consider our "California Premisis Liability Lawyers" page. Falls can result in a variety of serious injuries, including quadriplegia, paraplegia or other serious spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, TBI, catastrophic orthopedic injury, and other serious and catastrophic injuries. Our California premises liability lawyers welcome you also to consider our separate pages on this site specifically discussing traumatic brain injury, and paralysis and spinal cord injury litigation.

While liability in a slip and fall case may be as simple as identifying the hole or raised surface or failure to warn of the raised surface, or other defect in the property, or by establishing the commercial grocery store's failure to adequately maintain its premises, every serious injury case is complex, and requires the involvement of highly qualified and experienced serious injury lawyers. Our serious injury California premises liability lawyers welcome you to consider our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Attorneys" page at which we discuss the complexity of serious injury litigation, and our approach to the preparation and presentation of general damages and special economic damages in serious injury litigation.

If you were seriously injured in a fall on commercial, residential or public property, you are welcome to contact our serious injury California premises liability lawyers for a free case consultation. Our premises liability lawyers serve Southern and Northern California, from San Diego to Sacramento, in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, from San Bernardino and Orange County, Ventura and Fresno, to Oakland, Santa Clara County and San Jose. Simply fill out the "California Premises Liability Lawyers Case Evaluation Request" and one of our highly qualified serious injury California premises liability attorneys will call you to discuss the facts of your case, and provide you with our initial case evaluation and recommendations.

California Food Poisoning Lawyers, Ecoli HUS Attorneys, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura TTP Lawyers Listeria Botulism Campylobacter Norovirus Salmonella and Shingella Attorneys Serving Los Angeles San Francisco Orange County Ventura Fresno Santa Clara County San Jose Oakland, From San Diego to Sacramento.

On our California Food Poisoning Lawyers page we discuss our credentials and approach to cases involving serious illness from foods contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, Listeria, Botulism, Campylobacter, Norovirus, Salmonella and Shingella, as well as food poisoning outbreak cases. Our California food poisoning attorneys also provide a separate page entitle "California Ecoli HUS Lawyers" at which we discuss Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome as well as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, TTP, resulting from Ecoli exposure. Our California food poisoning lawyers also provide a separate page discussing Listeria and Listeriosis litigation. If you have suffered serious food poisoning illness, we also recommend our "Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page at which we discuss our approach to the presentation of general and special damages in serious injury cases generally.

One of our California food poisoning attorneys recently obtained one of the largest verdicts ever obtained in an Ecoli HUS case. The California lawyer also describes his extensive credentials in complex medical litigation, a very highly respected attorney, a former President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, who took the time out from his busy practice to take the course of study to pass the test to become a "Certified Food Manager" to gain an understanding of food management practices from the bottom up. He also describes his devotion of the last several years of his practice to food poisoning litigation.

If you have suffered serious food poisoning illness, from foods contaminated with Ecoli, Listeria, Botulism, Campylobacter, Norovirus, Salmonella or Shingella you are welcome to contact our California food poisoning lawyers for a free consultation. We serve Northern and Southern California in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland and Berkeley, as well as Santa Clara County and San Jose, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange County and Ventura, from San Diego to Sacramento.

To obtain a free case consultation, simply fill out and submit the "California Food Poisoning Lawyers Case Evaluation Request" and one of our highly qualified lawyers will contact you to discuss the facts of your case, your illness and the consequences of your illness, and will provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

California Serious Injury Lawyers - Attorneys for Clients Who Have Suffered Paralysis, Quadriplegia or Paraplegia, Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, Catastrophic Orthopedic Injuries, Debilitating Internal Injuries, Limb Amputation, and Other Serious and Catastrophic Injury - Serving Northern, Central and Southern California in Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Bernardino and Orange County, Ventura, Fresno, Oakland, San Jose and Santa Clara County, from San Diego to Sacramento.

Whether you were seriously injured as the result of a "simple" car, motorcycle, bicycle or big rig truck accident, or a fall on commercial, residential or public property, serious injury litigation is always complex and requires appropriately qualified California serious injury attorneys to assure that you have the best opportunity to achieve fair compensation for the full measure of your general and special economic damages.

Our California serious injury lawyers provide a separate page on this site specifically discussing paralysis, quadriplegia and paraplegia, and other serious spinal cord injuries, as well as a specific page discussing traumatic brain injury, TBI litigation. The "California Paralysis Lawyers" page and "California Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI Attorneys" pages, as well as our separate "California Serious & Catastrophic Injury Lawyers" page are listed above in our "Practice Areas" menu.

Medical malpractice cases, product liability and drug and medical device defect litigation, as well as food poisoning cases are always complex and require the appropriately qualified lawyers, and where the client is seriously injured, the cases require the involvement not only of attorneys qualified in the legal subject matter, but highly qualified and experienced in the preparation and prosecution of serious injury litigation.

If you were seriously injured as the result of car, motorcycle, bicycle or big rig truck accident, or from a fall on commercial, residential or public property, or from medical malpractice, or a defective product or contaminated food, you are welcome to contact our California personal injury lawyers for a free consultation. Our California personal injury lawyers serve Northern and Southern California in San Francisco and the Bay Area, San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Fresno, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento.

Simply submit the "California Personal Injury Lawyers Case Evaluation Form" and one our highly qualified attorneys will contact you to inquire about your case and provide our initial case evaluation and recommendations. We are here to serve you.

California Contingency Fee Lawyers - Contingent Fee Attorneys Serving Southern, Central and Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County, Oakland Santa Clara County and San Jose, Fresno and Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange County, from San Diego to Sacramento. The Contingency Fee System "Your Key to the Courthouse Door."

Our California personal injury lawyers serve our clients on a contingency fee basis. On our California Contingency Fee Lawyers page we discuss some of the advantages of retaining counsel on a contingency fee basis, as well as the potential advantages of hiring lawyers on an hourly basis. Generally speaking California contingency fee lawyers perform their services under a contract that provides that the lawyers will be paid as attorneys fees a percentage of the recovery obtained by way of settlement or judgment after trial. The percentages vary with they type of case, for example, in medical malpractice cases a MICRA statute sets for a schedule defining the maximum attorneys fees percentages that may be charged. One advantage to the client under the usual contingency fee contract is that he is not required to pay attorneys fees unless the case is successful. All potential clients should carefully read the attorney-client contracts before signing them and contingency fee lawyers and hourly fee lawyers should always be pleased to answer any questions you may have as to the terms of the contracts.

On our California Contingency Fee Lawyers page we also attempt to dispel some of the insurance industry propaganda that has molded the views of many about "contingency fee lawyers," and which sometimes interferes with the establishment of the good attorney-client relationship essential to permit the lawyer and client to work closely in the preparation and presentation of the client's case. We describe the the contingency fee system as "Your Key to the Courthouse Door," and indeed, we strongly believe that if is only this much maligned contingency fee system that permits all people, rich, middle class and poor alike, access to this most important of our democratic institutions, our court system. If it were not for the contingency fee system, indeed it would be only the rich who would be able to avail our courts. The public should embrace our contingency fee system, and recognize that California contingency fee lawyers perform an important societal and democratic purpose.