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 three 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
Strobel v. Johnson & Johnson (2021) DJDAR 9894
Trial court improperly disregarded expert witness’ opinion that relied on both inadmissible hearsay and general knowledge in the expert’s field.
READ MORESandoval v. Qualcomm Inc. (2021) DJDAR 9399
A party who fully and effectively delegates work to a contractor owes no tort duty to that contractor’s workers.
READ MOREMedina v. Equilon Enterprises, LLC (2021) DJDAR 9558
An entity can be a joint employer of an intermediary entity’s employee if the putative joint employer exercises sufficient control over the intermediary to dictate the intermediary’s employee’s ages, hours, or working conditions.
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