Oakland, California Personal Injury & Employment Attorneys

Dolan Law Firm

1498 Alice Street
Oakland, California 94612
USA

(510) 992-6005

www.cbdlaw.com

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The Dolan Law Firm, located in Oakland, CA, is a dedicated and experienced law firm providing satisfactory services on behalf of our clients.

Our personal injury and employment lawyers have helped victims of personal injury and treated unfairly by their workplace seeking legal help throughout the California Bay Area. When you are injured or have your rights violated in the workplace, it occasionally seems like everything and everyone is against you. That’s where we come in.

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

The Dolan Law Firm is proud to be 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. Accordingly, when clients hire the Dolan Law Firm, they know they will be represented by attorneys with the highest professional ability, standards, and ethics.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law 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

The Dolan Law Firm is one of the most successful law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area due to our dedication to our clients and exceptional legal experience. Our motor vehicle accident attorneys represent injury victims who have been hurt in a variety of traffic accidents.

• Public Transportation Accidents

The attorneys of the Dolan Law Firm have handled hundreds of cases for people injured on elevators, escalators, movable walkways, airplanes, Muni, BART, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, Ferry Services, Yellow Cabs, Luxor Cabs, DeSoto Cabs and countless other common carriers.

• Boat Accidents

At the Dolan Law Firm, we represent people who were injured on bodies of water all around the San Francisco area. We also help families recover compensation when they have lost a loved one in a watercraft accident and need to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit.

• Medical Malpractice

The Dolan Law Firm is well-known for great successes in medical malpractice lawsuits. Cases handled by our medical malpractice lawyers have received national attention in articles published in the Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, The Independent, etc.

• Wrongful Death

The Dolan Law Firm's lawyers understand your suffering and grief, having experienced the tragedy of an accidental death firsthand. Some of our lawyers have lost family members and other loved ones to serious personal injuries.

- Employment Law

The Dolan Law Firm and its San Francisco employment law lawyers have secured millions of dollars for people in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley who have been discriminated against and/or harassed in the workplace.

• Harassment

Harassment is unwanted conduct of an unlawful nature. If the harassing conduct is so severe and frequent that it affects the victim's ability to do her or his job, this is called a "hostile work environment."

• Wrongful Termination

Our San Francisco attorneys have handled hundreds of wrongful termination cases, recovering millions for our clients. Lead trial lawyer Christopher Dolan won a $750,000 settlement for an African-American female who was harassed and fired.

• Age Discrimination

The Dolan Law Firm has handled numerous age discrimination actions with excellent results, recovering damages on behalf of older employees who have suffered discrimination and/or harassment in the workplace.

• Disability Discrimination

The Dolan Law Firm employees attorneys who themselves suffer from disabilities and take disability discrimination seriously. We handle a variety of disability discrimination and employment law cases, including employment discrimination and housing discrimination.

• Retaliation

The Dolan Law Firm has successfully handled hundreds of cases involving retaliation for its clients in San Francisco, Marin, Oakland, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara and the Silicon Valley and throughout California.

- Motorcycle Accidents

The Dolan Law Firm is a leading authority on motorcycle accident law in California, with some of the largest multimillion-dollar results for injured riders.

• Motor Vehicle Accidents

The Dolan Law Firm is one of the most successful law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area due to our dedication to our clients and exceptional legal experience.

• Bike Accidents

The San Francisco bicycle accident lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have the experience and the resources to effectively represent bicyclists and their family members in recovering full and fair damages for catastrophic injuries and wrongful death.

• Pedestrian Accidents

A pedestrian must exercise reasonable care for his or her own safety. The care required of the pedestrian must be in proportion to the danger to be avoided and the consequences that might be reasonably anticipated.

• Car Accidents

The Dolan Law Firm is headed by one of California's best trial attorneys, Christopher B. Dolan. Mr. Dolan has achieved multimillion-dollar verdicts in catastrophic injury cases involving spinal cord injuries, loss of limbs, brain injuries and wrongful death.

• Truck Accidents

Our award-winning personal injury trial lawyers are experienced in handling California truck accident cases. We have helped hundreds of injured people get financial recovery, as well as family members who lost a loved one to wrongful death after a truck wreck.

- Segway Accidents

Our California Segway accident attorneys work with design engineers and safety experts in exposing foreseeable dangers and design issues involved in accidents that injure our clients. We understand the scientific and technical issues involved and hold Segway accountable.

- Product Liability

The San Francisco product liability 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.

- Medical Malpractice

The Dolan Law Firm is well-known for great successes in medical malpractice lawsuits. Cases handled by our medical malpractice lawyers have received national attention in articles published in the Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, The Independent, etc.

- Elder Practice

The San Francisco nursing home abuse lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have handled numerous cases involving abuse and neglect of the elderly and disabled.

- Premises Liability

At the Dolan Law Firm of San Francisco, our premises liability attorneys have achieved some of the highest verdicts and settlements in California for people who have been injured because of dangerous property conditions.

• Public Property Injuries

The Dolan Law Firm has handled dozens of these cases against the owners of dangerous and defective roadways/sidewalks and public places, including both private owners such as shopping centers as well as public owners and government entities.

• Dangerous Roadway/Sidewalk Injuries

The lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have recovered millions of dollars for clients as a result of dangerous and defective roadways, sidewalks and public places.

• Falling Object Injuries

If you or someone you know has been injured or killed in a wrongful death action, you should immediately report the incident to store management, the police, and/or the site foreman of the construction site.

• Dog Bites

The San Francisco dog bite attorneys of the Dolan Law Firm regularly represent plaintiffs injured in animal attacks and dog bites, including pit bull attacks, in San Francisco and other communities throughout the California Bay Area.

• Slip & Fall and Trip & Fall

The San Francisco personal injury attorneys of the Dolan Law Firm help people in the California Bay Area with premises liability cases from slip, trip and fall accidents.