Personal injury lawyers in Oakland.
Personal injury attorneys serving Oakland, California.
Top-rated personal injury lawyers in Oakland.
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Mory Ahmadi
AttorneyMorvarid 'Mory' Ahmadi is a senior trial attorney in the Los Angeles office of The Barnes Firm, advocating for individuals and families across Southern California who have suffered injuries due to negligence. Before joining The Barnes Firm, she spent a decade running her own practice, the Law Offices of Mory Ahmadi, and has handled thousands of personal injury cases including auto accidents, dog bites, and slip-and-fall incidents. She is the first lawyer to have served as President of both the Iranian American Bar Association (Orange County Chapter) and the Iranian American Lawyers Association. She earned her B.A. from UCLA and her J.D. from Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law.
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Laura Ajlouny
AttorneyLaura Ajlouny, Esq. is an Attorney at Habbas & Associates who joined the firm in 2016. She previously spent more than 18 years at the Law Offices of Conrad M. Corbett in San Francisco, where she exclusively practiced personal injury law, including representing seriously injured claimants in the San Bruno PG&E pipeline explosion cases that resulted in multi-million dollar settlements for burn victims and families. Earlier in her career, she gained litigation experience at Jacoby & Meyers in San Francisco. Ajlouny's experience covers automobile, trucking, and motorcycle accidents, premises liability, public entity claims, professional negligence, construction site injuries, and product liability claims. She is a member of Consumer Attorneys of California and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1990 and her Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley in 1986, with a double major in English and Political Science. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1991.
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Negin Akhavan
AttorneyNegin Y. Akhavan is an Associate Attorney at Jacoby & Meyers with three years of legal experience. Akhavan earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law and her Bachelor's degree in Public Relations from the University of Oregon. She is admitted to the State Bar of California. Akhavan initially worked in insurance defense before transitioning to personal injury law. During law school, she interned at a music law firm.
- Jacoby & Meyers Accident & Injury Lawyers20y
Michael Akiva
AttorneyMichael A. Akiva is Managing Partner of Pre-Litigation at Jacoby & Meyers, based in the Los Angeles office. He has 20 years of experience handling motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, and construction site accident cases. Akiva earned his Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where he served as Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and his Bachelor of Science in Finance magna cum laude from the University of Southern California. He has been admitted to all California state courts since 2006. Akiva joined the firm in June 2009 and became Managing Partner of Pre-Litigation in November 2018. He is recognized as a Super Lawyer and is fluent in Spanish and Hebrew. He is a member of the California Bar, Los Angeles County Bar Association, National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and Consumer Attorneys of California.
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Philip Alexander
Managing AttorneyPhilip C. Alexander, Esq. is the Managing Attorney at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc., specializing in complex personal injury litigation. He is motivated by the opportunity to help people and make a meaningful difference in their lives. Before joining Harris, Alexander was an Associate at Callister & Reynolds and served as a Law Clerk in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and volunteers with iCanBike Camp, the Down Syndrome Association of Orange County, and South Oceanside Elementary School. He earned his Juris Doctor from Penn State University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Georgetown University. He is admitted to the State Bars of California and Nevada, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California and the District of Nevada, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Richard Amico
AttorneyRichard P. Amico is Chief Trial Counsel for The Barnes Firm in New York and California and Co-Chair of the firm's Labor Law Department, based in Rochester, NY. With more than three decades as a personal injury trial lawyer, he has focused his practice on representing people injured in construction accidents, motor vehicle crashes, and by defective products, winning numerous million-dollar verdicts and settlements. Recent results include a $5.75 million judgment in 2023, a settlement of more than $9 million in 2020, and a $24.6 million award in 2018 for serious injuries. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from SUNY Buffalo and his J.D. from the University of Buffalo Law School, beginning his legal career in 1989.
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Mason Aria
AttorneyMason Aria is a dedicated personal injury attorney at The Barnes Firm, representing clients throughout Oakland and across the Bay Area. He focuses his practice on personal injury, wrongful death, and product liability cases, advocating for individuals and families whose lives have been disrupted by negligence. Before joining The Barnes Firm, he represented both individuals and companies in real estate, contract, immigration, and debt collection matters.
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Juan Asconape
AttorneyJuan Asconape is a veteran trial attorney at TopDog Law Personal Injury Lawyers, joining following the firm's November 2025 acquisition of Keller Swan Injury Attorneys. With over 15 years of experience in plaintiff's personal injury litigation, he has successfully resolved more than 2,500 cases and secured approximately $70 million in compensation for his clients. A native Spanish speaker, Juan spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and further enriched his linguistic skills through studies in Europe, becoming proficient in Italian and French. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from Indiana University in 2001 and his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2006. Prior to joining Keller Swan in February 2025, he practiced for many years at Schwed, Adams, & McGinley, P.A. in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
- Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.10y
Angela Astacio
Attorney at LawAngela Marie Astacio, Esq. is an Attorney at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers' Fresno office. Born and raised in Fresno, she is deeply connected to the Central Valley community. She has nearly a decade of legal field experience, progressing from paralegal roles in personal injury and criminal law to law clerk and attorney positions, including three years as a Certified Law Clerk gaining courtroom experience in criminal defense matters. Astacio is a member of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity and serves as a part-time Professor of Legal Terminology at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. She earned her Juris Doctor from Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California. She is admitted to the State Bar of California (member #363885) and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
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Sukhtej Atwal
AttorneySukhtej Atwal is a litigation attorney at M&Y Personal Injury Lawyers in Los Angeles, where she has practiced since 2022. She has been an attorney since 2015 and has assisted in multiple trials that resulted in six and seven-figure verdicts. Her practice focuses on personal injury litigation including car accidents, brain injuries, catastrophic injuries, slip and fall cases, and wrongful death claims. She has been selected as a Rising Star by Northern California Super Lawyers in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers20y
Alison Baird
Trial AttorneyAlison Baird is a Trial Attorney at the Dolan Law Firm, PC, working out of the firm's San Francisco office. She has litigated complex personal injury cases for more than 20 years, representing clients from initial consultation through trial. Her practice covers catastrophic injury, premises liability, vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, governmental liability, and products liability matters. Baird has participated in over 20 jury trials and 15 binding arbitrations, with notable cases involving catastrophic injuries, product defects, and vehicle accidents. Before joining Dolan, she worked at Greenberg & Panish, where she consistently achieved favorable results for plaintiffs, including multiple verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, litigating each case from initial sign-up through all phases of discovery, settlement, and trial preparation. Baird earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Irvine, additional undergraduate work in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School.
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Destiny Barbosa
AttorneyDestiny Rae Barbosa is a trial attorney at TopDog Law Personal Injury Lawyers (working through Keller Swan Injury Attorneys, part of TopDog Law SE, PLLC), based in Jupiter, Florida. She focuses on personal injury and property damage cases resulting from negligence and wrongdoing, including catastrophic injury cases. She earned her J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, graduating early in two years with Cum Laude honors and a certificate in Civil Litigation. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge Waddell Wallace III in Duval County's Repeat Felony Offender Court, served as a Certified Legal Intern with the State Attorney's Office, and practiced at Romano Law Group and Keller Melchiorre & Walsh, PLLC. She lectures on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and evidence preservation in personal injury cases.
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Mike Barchak
AttorneyMike Barchak is a Long Island-based personal injury attorney at The Barnes Firm's Garden City office, where he represents injured clients in car accidents, slip and falls, medical malpractice, and other injury matters throughout New York. A lifelong New Yorker, Barchak brings 4+ years of prior insurance industry experience before transitioning to plaintiff representation, giving him valuable insight into how insurers evaluate and defend claims. He has led numerous trials with over a dozen jury verdicts and has been hand-picked to speak at court seminars and commended by judges. He recently recovered $475,000 for an injured client.
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Steve Barnes
FounderSteve Barnes (1958-2020) was the founder of The Barnes Firm, dedicated to seeking justice for individuals harmed by the wrongdoing of others. A former Marine Corps officer and combat veteran of the Gulf War, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1984 and served on active duty as trial counsel, later serving as a Captain with the 8th Tank Battalion, Second Marine Division during Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He was a founding member of Cellino & Barnes of New York before founding The Barnes Firm of California and New York. Over a 30+ year career, Steve was involved as counsel in scores of multi-million dollar cases including motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, severe burns, traumatic brain injury, and medical malpractice matters, and acted as lead trial counsel in a Manhattan products liability case that resulted in one of the largest settlements in American history.
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Rich Barnes
AttorneyRichard J. (Rich) Barnes is President of The Barnes Firm with over 30 years of trial-law experience. A former Senior Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted felony cases, he was selected by the Chief Criminal Judge to prosecute a triple-homicide case. Since joining The Barnes Firm, he has focused exclusively on personal injury law, including motor vehicle accidents, truck collisions, motorcycle crashes, pedestrian and bicycle injuries, construction incidents, and wrongful death claims.
- Jacoby & Meyers Accident & Injury Lawyers5y
Mo Basharaheel
AttorneyMo Basharaheel is an Associate Trial Attorney at Jacoby & Meyers with five years of legal experience. His practice encompasses personal injury law, property law, and cases involving businesses and government agencies. Basharaheel earned his Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business from Fresno State University. He also holds a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Strauss Institute at Pepperdine. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2021.
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Jessica Behmanesh
AttorneyJessica Behmanesh is an Investigative Attorney at Jacoby & Meyers with six years of experience. Behmanesh earned her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where she received Moot Court Honors and Order of the Barristers, and her Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from UCLA. She is admitted to the State Bar of California. A Los Angeles native, Behmanesh externed at the UCLA Title IX Office and at the U.S. Federal District Court for the Central District of California under Judge John A. Kronstadt. She reached the finals in the Roscoe Pound Semi-Finals competition. Before personal injury practice, she worked on consumer protection and data privacy matters.
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Bretil Beitmirza
AttorneyBretil Beitmirza is a Trial Attorney at Jacoby & Meyers with 11 years of experience. She focuses on catastrophic injuries from motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, pedestrian mishaps, and dog bites. Since 2015, she has recovered more than $40 million in client compensation and leads one of the firm's litigation teams. Beitmirza earned her Juris Doctor from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and her Bachelor of Science in Business Law. She is admitted to the State Bar of California. Beitmirza was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for three consecutive years (2020-2023). She was nominated for Best Lawyers in America 2025 and recognized as a Southern California Rising Star in 2024.
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Jerome Bellotti
Attorney at LawJerome Bellotti, Esq. is a Trial Attorney at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc. specializing in representing individuals and families against insurance companies. He brings extensive courtroom experience, having taken 18 cases to verdict. Before joining Harris, Bellotti served as a trial attorney at Stratman, Schwartz and Williams-Abrego from 2013 to 2020, and previously was a post-bar legal intern at Santa Clara County Superior Court in 2012. He brings background in both defense and plaintiff litigation. Bellotti has been recognized as Harris Personal Injury Lawyers' Trial Attorney of the Year in 2024 and 2025, was selected for the Farmers Insurance Exchange Advanced Trial Advocacy Program in 2018, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum (limited to fewer than 1% of U.S. attorneys). He is a member of the William A. Ingram Inns of Court. He earned his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis. He is admitted to the State Bar of California.
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Maxwell Benoit
AttorneyMaxwell Benoit is a Pre-Litigation Attorney at Dayan | Houman - The Accident Guys, where he joined in September 2025. He earned his J.D. from the University of West Los Angeles and a B.A. in Communication Sciences from the University of Connecticut. Before law, he held business development, account management, and sales roles at Office1, Document Consulting Services Inc., Konica Minolta Business Solutions, and Anheuser-Busch.
- TopDog Law Personal Injury Lawyers26y
Sean Berberian
General CounselSean Berberian is the General Counsel of TopDog Law and TopDog Technologies, based in Phoenix, Arizona. He has practiced law for over 25 years across business litigation and transactional law, with extensive experience in business transactions, regulatory matters in highly regulated industries, and commercial litigation. Previously, he served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at a public company where he led the company's 2018 IPO, was a founding partner at White Berberian PLC, and was a litigation partner at the national firm now known as Stinson LLP, where he handled cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Karns & Karns Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys15y
Michael Blensdorf
Trial AttorneyMichael Blensdorf is a Trial Attorney at Karns & Karns Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys with over 15 years of plaintiff advocacy in Chicago. He brings a unique perspective from prior experience as an insurance defense attorney and in claims departments with major carriers, allowing him to anticipate insurer tactics. Blensdorf is admitted to the Illinois State Bar.
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Jeffrey Bodily
AttorneyJeffrey L. Bodily is a Senior Trial Attorney at The Barnes Firm's San Diego office, with extensive courtroom experience across Southern California. He has helped his clients obtain significant verdicts and settlements in personal injury matters, including motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, auto accidents, construction accidents, and slip-and-fall injuries. Jeffrey previously worked alongside Steve Barnes at Cellino & Barnes before joining The Barnes Firm. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from Brigham Young University and BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School.
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Alex Bouganim
AttorneyAlex Bouganim is the Managing Attorney of The Barnes Firm's Manhattan office and Co-Chair of the firm's Labor Law and Construction Accident Department. He oversees all cases handled out of the Manhattan office and concentrates his practice on general negligence matters, including car accidents, slip/trip and falls, wrongful death, and construction site accidents. He has been responsible for several multi-million dollar settlements on behalf of his clients and is a member of both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Mr. Bouganim earned his J.D. from the University at Buffalo School of Law (SUNY) magna cum laude in 2012 and a B.S. in Human Development from Binghamton University (SUNY) summa cum laude. He served as Managing Attorney of the Manhattan office at Cellino & Barnes from 2012-2020 before continuing in that role at The Barnes Firm.