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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

Carmichael v. Café Sevilla of Riverside, Inc. (2025) Cal.App.4th Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three, California

Negligence per se claim failed because violation of a conditional use permit is not a “violation of a statute of ordinance.” Further, a rap concert is not an ultrahazardous activity.  Such concerts, even ones with rival gang members performing and antagonizing each other, can be conducted safely with proper planning and security.

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Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Superior Court (2024) Cal.App.5th No. F087132

Railroad company did not have a duty to remove the tree or take measures to protect the public from the alleged dangerous condition posed by the tree on land abutting highway.

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