Innovative & Successful Trial Attorneys
At Matheny Sears Linkert & Jaime, LLP we take pride in our reputation as innovative and successful trial attorneys with decades of litigation experience. We are trial attorneys who actually try cases. The two named partners have been elected as members of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and many of our other attorneys have first-chaired their own trials. We have earned a statewide reputation for
effective defense strategies that produce favorable resolutions, including dispositive motion and favorable settlements. If a case has to be tried, we are fully prepared to take the case to a jury-even on short notice and are proud of our track record.
Defending Catastrophic Exposure Cases Throughout California
We take pride in being a boutique trial firm capable of defending catastrophic exposure cases in a variety of scenarios that include personal injuries, products liability, transportation and trucking, premises liability, wildfire litigation, public entity (dangerous condition and sexual abuse), major construction defect cases, and employment litigation. Our ability to hold down damages using innovative litigation resolution strategies, effective dispositive motions, and trial spans the last 40 years. We are also proud of our record of defense verdicts in difficult cases.
Cases of Interest
Safechuck v. MJJ Productions, Inc. (2023) 94 Cal.App.5th 675
A corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of abuse.
READ MOREAllied Premier Ins. v United Financial Cas. Co. 2023 DJDAR 7496 California Supreme Court
Under California’s Motor Carriers of Property Permit Act (Veh. Code, § 34600 et seq.), a commercial automobile insurance policy does not continue in full force and effect until the insurer cancels the corresponding Certificate of Insurance on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles, regardless of the insurance policy’s stated expiration date.
READ MOREAdolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc. 2023 DJDAR 7311 Supreme Court of California
PAGA plaintiffs do not lose standing to litigate non-individual claims in court when the plaintiff’s individual claims are subject to arbitration.
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