California Personal Injury, Car Accident and Employment Law Attorneys

The Dolan Law Firm

2000 22nd Street
Sacramento, California 95818
USA

 (888) 424-5352
 (415) 421-2830

www.cbdlaw.com/
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Law Firm Overview

The Dolan Law Firm, with offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, has a history of obtaining record verdicts on behalf of our clients. Our personal injury and employment lawyers have helped many people just like you throughout the California Bay Area: people who have been hurt or have been treated unfairly in the workplace and are not sure where to turn, people who need legal help now. When you are injured or have your rights violated in the workplace, sometimes it seems like everything and everyone is against you. That’s where we come in.

Why should you have to bear the burden of an injury or suffer wage loss caused by something that was not your fault? Our goal is to shift the burden of the injury away from you and squarely back onto the person or company who caused it. We represent injured people – not the insurance companies. The Dolan Law Firm can help in all types of personal injury and employment matters.

The Dolan Law Firm is rated “AV” by the Martindale Hubbell’s Peer Review Rating™ process*. The ratings, which are periodically reviewed, come from confidential questionnaires and personal interviews of practicing attorneys and judges. "A" is the highest legal ability rating, while "V" signifies very high adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability and diligence. The Dolan Law Firm is proud to be rated "AV" and listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Accordingly, when clients hire the Dolan Law Firm, they can be assured they will be represented by attorneys recognized by their peers to have the highest professional ability, standards, and ethics.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Amusement Park Accidents, Age Discrimination, Race / National Origin Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Pregnancy Rights, Independent Contractor Harassment, Political Activity, Violations of Leave Laws, Medical Leave, Military Leave / Reserves, Wage and Hour Violations, Failure to Train Supervisors, Housing Discrimination, Sexual Orientation Harassment, Muni / BART Injuries, Dangerous Products, Airplane Accidents

Practice Areas Description

The Dolan Law Firm provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

- Personal Injury

If you are considering a personal injury lawsuit but have questions, call our office for a free consultation. We can help you decide whether to pursue an injury claim and explain how the process works. We can explain the role of medical experts and the burden of proof that must be met in your case.

- Motor Vehicle Accidents

We regularly represent plaintiffs who suffer serious injuries or wrongful death in all kinds of auto accidents. We handle single-vehicle and multiple-vehicle auto accident, truck accident, and bus accident cases in communities all across the Bay Area of California, including Oakland, San Jose, Alameda, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and San Francisco. Our auto accident attorneys litigate against anyone, from taxi companies in cases of aggressive taxi drivers to the government in cases of MUNI bus drivers.

- Defective & Dangerous Products

The lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have represented numerous individuals injured by defective products with excellent results. If you have been hurt by a product, you may be entitled to recover damages from the manufacturer, distributor, seller and / or installer of the product. Likewise, if the product, such as a car, or other device, was recently repaired, that repair may have been done negligently leading to liability for your damages. The Dolan law firm uses experts to investigate the cause of a product failure. We retain and employ metallurgists, mechanics, draftsman, machinists, accident reconstruction experts, physicists, rubber experts, scientists, chemists, doctors, designers, electricians, safety engineers and other experts to review these cases to identify what, if anything, about the product was defective.

- Nursing Home / Elder Abuse

The nursing home abuse lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have handled numerous cases involving abuse and neglect of the elderly and disabled. Examples of such negligence or intentional conduct include, but are not limited to; Death; Bed sores; Improper restraints; Physical abuse; Over medication; Failure to clean and bathe; Stealing property, money, checks; Malnutrition- failure to provide food and liquid; Failure to change sheets, adult undergarments, bandages; Injuries from falling; Undue influence concerning property and / or wills; Financial fraud. California law specifically provides for the recovery of punitive damages, economic damages, and pain and suffering where there has been recklessness, fraud and / or patient abandonment. Settlements and verdicts also include attorneys’ fees, which enables us to charge you nothing for our services.

- Public Transportation / Airplane Accidents

The attorneys of the Dolan Law Firm have handled hundreds of cases for people injured by on elevators, escalators, movable walkways, airplanes, MUNI, BART, SAMTRANS, Golden Gate Transit, Ferry Services, Yellow Cabs, Luxor Cabs, DeSoto Cabs, elevators, escalators, and countless other common carriers. Our lawyers work on a contingency fee basis; if we do not recover an award for you, you owe us nothing.

- Dangerous Property Conditions

Our premises liability attorneys have achieved some of the highest verdicts and settlements in California for people who have been injured because of dangerous condition of property.

* $2.4 million settlement for a 72-year-old woman who suffered a cervical fracture that led to complete paralysis (quadriplegia) after tripping on uneven sidewalk that was poorly maintained by the city and county of San Francisco.
* $175,000 settlement for a San Francisco renter who was injured when a stair gave way as she descended an old staircase.

- Medical Malpractice

The Dolan Law Firm is well-known for great successes in medical malpractice lawsuits. Cases handled by our lawyers have received national attention in articles published in the Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, The Independent, etc. Our main trial lawyer, Christopher Dolan, has been a guest on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss medical negligence cases. In one case, Chris Dolan won a $686,000 jury verdict for client whose abortion was botched by Planned Parenthood. In another case, a woman died because of a misdiagnosis and the administration of the wrong therapy. Through Chris Dolan’s efforts, her family was awarded $586,500 in arbitration.

- Wrongful Death

When someone is killed by the wrongful conduct, or gross negligence of another, it is called a “wrongful death.” These are the most tragic of cases. The Dolan Law Firm’s lawyers understand your suffering and grief having experienced the tragedy of an accidental death first hand. Some of our lawyers have lost family members and loved ones in serious personal injuries. We have been on both sides, as clients and attorneys, and we want to help you through the legal aspects of life’s greatest loss.

- Amputations

Amputation cases are especially complicated because they involve issues of retraining, prosthetic replacement, wound care, and home modification. Our San Francisco amputation accident lawyers employ experts to help calculate and prove all of your damages, maximizing your compensation. Our attorneys can meet with you free of charge and discuss your case, and if we take your case, you will pay us nothing until you win compensation.

- Burn Injuries

Our personal injury attorneys have represented many burn victims — persons burned in house fires from defective products or in car or truck accidents. We understand the many difficulties our clients face as they work to recover physically, financially, and in their work and home life. Our lawyers, under the direction of lead attorney Christopher Dolan, have obtained excellent results for seriously injured people in the Bay area. We work intensively with medical specialists and plastic surgeons throughout our clients’ treatment so that we can explain to a jury — or an insurance company — the lifelong physical and emotional scars that can be left by serious burn injuries.

- Brain Injuries

We have helped hundreds of people obtain financial recovery so they could receive the medical and rehabilitation services they needed. We have the experience, medical experts, and resources needed to bring an effective brain injury case to court. Our results for severely injured people speak for themselves.

* We secured a $4.25 million settlement for the family of a pedestrian struck by a car in the crosswalk of a dangerous intersection. The young man suffered severe head injury and is in a persistent vegetative state. We brought action against both the car driver and the city for failing to place proper signage and to mark the crosswalk, although the San Francisco Board of Supervisors had called for such signs to be placed on the roadway. The settlement ensured he could receive home health care for his lifetime.

- Spinal Cord Injuries

The spine is one of the most complex parts of the body. Understanding the medical facts and being able to explain them to a jury is a skill that a trial lawyer develops with time and experience. Our personal injury attorneys have tried numerous spinal cord injury cases and obtained excellent results for seriously injured people in the Bay area. We have the experience, medical experts, and resources needed to bring an effective spinal cord injury case to court.

- Employee Rights in Employment Law

Our law firm represents employees bringing harassment or discrimination cases because they are in a protected class and employees whose rights to leave have been violated. We defend employees who have been unfairly terminated or retaliated against when they tried to assert their legal rights or engaged in protected activity, such as whistle blowing on illegal company behavior. Contact an employment lawyer at the Dolan Law Firm if you need help bringing an employment-related lawsuit involving:

* Discrimination and harassment because of race or national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, independent contractor status or political activity
* Poorly trained supervisors failing to follow leave laws relating to pregnancy leave, family medical leave (FMLA), reserve duty military leave, and time off to vote
* Wage and hour violations
* We also accept housing discrimination cases for clients who have been denied housing because of their race, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

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