Catia G. Saraiva

Ms. Saraiva has handled hundreds of complex cases to successful completion and obtained multiple seven-figure results for her clients. She began her legal career working full-time at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora as a law clerk during the day while attending McGeorge School of Law's evening program. In 2004, Ms. Saraiva graduated from McGeorge School of Law, ranking number two in her class and earning Order of the Coif membership, awarded to only the top 10 percent of students at recognized law schools. She was one of only two candidates selected as a 2004 Judicial Extern to a United States Federal District Court judge. Ms. Saraiva has devoted her legal career to exclusively representing injured victims. Her mission is to work on behalf of the most vulnerable members of our society who often have no one to champion them. In 2010, Ms. Saraiva was nominated for Attorney of the Year by CAOC (Consumer Attorneys of California) for her work in the Linville v. PSI, Inc . case where, with Mr. Buccola, she represented the heirs of a dependent adult patient (under the California Elder Abuse & Dependent Adult Laws) who died days after her admission into a Sacramento acute-care hospital due to use of an unsafe restraint. As a condition to settlement, the hospital had to change its policies and training practices in several key areas of patient neglect uncovered during the case. In 2011, Ms. Saraiva earned a second Attorney of the Year nomination and a Woman Trial Lawyer of the Year nomination for her work in the trial of Parken v. Smart-Vasquez , where she obtained a $3.6 million verdict (with Mr. Greenblatt) in a rear-end collision case. In 2013, Ms. Saraiva once again received a Woman Trial Lawyer of the Year nomination. Along with Steve Campora, she represented the Botell Family in Botell v. United States , arguing the management of Lassen National Park was to blame for the death of Tommy, age 9, and injury to sister Katrina, age 13, during a family vacation.