Oakland, California Personal Injury Lawyers

Weber & Nierenberg

1999 Harrison Street
Suite 670
Oakland, California 94612
USA

(510) 663-6000 or(866) 288-6010

www.weberandnierenberg.com

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Weber & Nierenberg is an experienced, dedicated law firm with several offices all over California including Oakland.

We are respected, successful and tenacious attorneys specializing in representing individuals and families who have been seriously injured or lost a loved one from accidents involving automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, pedestrians or uninsured motorists.

We handle cases involving injuries to children, wrongful death, dangerous conditions on private or public property, and bus/public transit accidents. These injuries can involve fractures, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and amputations. Our firm is kept small because we prefer a hands-on approach to every aspect of each case, and our style is to personally serve each client.

We have each spent our entire career with more than 57 years of combined experience representing injured persons exclusively, and our law firm has been recognized for personal, caring and effective service. Attorneys Steve Weber and Joe Nierenberg and legal assistant Lorraine Burciaga are focused on helping injured people and the families of wrongful death victims.

Year this Office was Established: 1999

Languages: Spanish and English.

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: Amputation & Severed Limbs; Broken Bone Injury; Carbon Monoxide Injuries; Deck Collapse; Drunk Driving Accidents; Elevator Accidents; Fractures; Gas Explosions; Knee & Shoulder Injury; Light Rail Accidents; Public Transportation Accidents; Roadway Defect Accidents; Scaffolding and Ladder Accidents; Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Accidents; Whiplash & Soft Tissue Injury.

Areas of Law Description

Weber & Nierenberg serves clients in the following areas of practice:

- Fractures

The more serious the bone fracture you suffered in a motorcycle accident, car accident, bicycle accident or truck accident, the more you need a fracture injury lawyer who understands the complex medical issues involved — and how that bone fracture injury will continue to affect your life.

- Spinal Cord Injury

A single, catastrophic impact can change a life in an instant. The physical, financial and psychological impact on the victim and the victim's family and friends can be difficult to measure. Our spinal cord injury law firm has extensive experience helping spinal cord injury victims obtain the pretrial settlements or jury verdicts necessary to compensate them for their injuries and monetary losses.

- Traumatic Brain Injury

In an injury caused by an auto accident, truck accident or dangerous property condition on private or public property, a direct blow to the head or a severe jolt that causes the brain to hit the skull can cause traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sometimes hard to diagnose, TBI requires knowledgeable medical diagnosis and care.

- Wrongful Death

When a loved one dies suddenly because of an accident, the family faces extraordinary grief and a wide range of legal matters to settle. If your relative was killed in a wrongful death accident, turn the legal matters over to a wrongful death lawyer at the Weber & Nierenberg law firm. Our wrongful death attorneys have handled many types of wrongful death claims.

- Auto Accidents

If you were seriously injured or lost a loved one in an intersection accident, rear-end collision, accident involving a pedestrian in the crosswalk, freeway crash, multiple-car pile-up or other car accident, then you need a San Francisco auto accident attorney to help you with your insurance claim.

- Motorcycle Accidents

If you have been injured in a motorcycle accident, talk to an attorney who has represented hundreds of motorcyclists. The Weber & Nierenberg motorcycle accident law firm has a reputation in the cycling community as a law firm that aggressively represents motorcyclists in personal injury cases.

- Bicycle Accidents

Our law firm, Weber & Nierenberg, has handled many bicycle accident injury cases, most of which involve cars turning right across a bike lane and hitting a bicycle and rider. Such collisions can cause serious injuries for the bicyclist. You can depend on the bicycle accident lawyers at the Weber & Nierenberg law firm to establish how the accident happened and make a claim for your injuries and monetary losses.

- Pedestrian Accidents

Even though a pedestrian walking lawfully within a crosswalk has the right of way, drivers of cars, trucks, buses and trolleys sometimes do not notice pedestrians or misjudge a pedestrian's location and speed of walking. Whatever the cause, being hit by a moving vehicle can cause substantial injuries.

- Premises Liability

A premises liability case against a public entity begins differently from those against a private person. You must file a claim within six months of the accident date if you want to seek compensation for your injuries. A premises liability attorney at Weber & Nierenberg will talk to you about your accident and evaluate whether you have a premises liability claim against the government entity that caused the dangerous condition.

- MUNI / BART / AC Transit / SamTrans Bus Liability / Marin Transit / Golden Gate Transit / VTA

Your first step in the process is to file a claim. When the accident involves a municipal transit carrier, you must file a formal claim against it within six months of the date of the accident. A transit accident lawyer at our law firm can guide you through the claim process to ensure that the circumstances of the accident and your injuries are well documented.

- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

California does not require residents to install carbon monoxide detectors in their home. Every year, hundreds of men, women and children are injured or die from carbon monoxide poisoning. In fact, carbon monoxide is the leading cause of poison-related deaths in the United States.

- Boating Accident and Watercraft Injuries

With the many lakes and waterways in California, accidents are bound to happen. Far too often, people don’t take reasonable precautions when operating a speedboat or a Jetski®, or they mix alcohol with boating, with disastrous consequences. If you have been hurt in a boating accident or water-related accident in the Bay Area or in northern California, you want an experienced San Francisco Boating Accident Lawyer to help you pursue full and fair compensation for your losses.

- Burn Injury

Burns are undoubtedly one of the most serious injuries. The complications arising from burns can vary a great deal depending on the area burned and the severity of the burn. In some cases, a burn causes permanent deformity and scarring; in other cases, it causes death.

- Construction Site Accident Injury

In many instances, when you are injured at work, you must seek any damages through a workers’ compensation claim. However, when your injuries are caused by someone other than your employer or a co-employee, you can seek compensation by a lawsuit in court through a third party claim.

- Drunk Driving Accident Injury

If you have been injured in a car accident involving a drunk driver, whether as the operator of another vehicle, or as a passenger or pedestrian, you want an experienced lawyer to help you pursue full and fair compensation for your losses. Many drunk drivers are repeat offenders and, as such, may be uninsured or underinsured.

- Industrial Accident Injury

At the law office of Weber & Nierenberg, we handle all matters related to industrial accidents. We will help you determine whether your sole recourse is through a workers’ comp claim, or whether you have a third party claim as well. We will help you seek full and fair compensation for all your losses, including wages and income, medical expenses, loss of consortium or companionship, and physical pain and suffering.

- Train Accident Injury

Given the sheer size of a commuter train, the number of passengers traveling by train, and the speeds with which trains travel, the injuries suffered in a train accident can be serious and catastrophic. Our attorneys handle all types of injury claims resulting from train accidents, including brain and spinal cord damage, paralysis, broken bones, and amputation or loss of limb.

- Amputation

The loss of an extremity in an accident typically requires extensive rehabilitation and, often, costly prosthetics. For that reason, if you have had a limb severed in a motor vehicle accident or by a dangerous or defective product, you will want legal representation from an attorney who understands your future and all the costs associated with the loss of a limb and how to obtain the compensation necessary to pay for your present and future care.

- Back Injury

Back injuries are painful and often disabling. A back injury can prevent you from performing your job and enjoying many of life’s activities. The vast majority of our clients who suffer a back injury would gladly trade their compensation for a healthy back. Back injuries often result from a sudden impact, including falls and motor vehicle accidents.

- Brain Injury

If you or a family member has suffered a brain injury, you should immediately seek counsel from a personal injury attorney who has experience handling brain injury claims and understands many of the issues you will face. With offices throughout northern California, the personal injury attorneys at Weber & Nierenberg have extensive experience handling injury claims involving serious injury, including brain injury.

- Drunk Driving Accident

If you have been injured in a car accident involving a drunk driver, whether as the operator of another vehicle, or as a passenger or pedestrian, you want an experienced lawyer to help you pursue full and fair compensation for your losses. Many drunk drivers are repeat offenders and, as such, may be uninsured or underinsured.

- Head Injury

Head injuries can be serious, even deadly. If you or a family member has suffered a head injury in an accident, you need to seek proper medical attention. Then, you should speak with an experienced personal injury lawyer to ensure that your interests are adequately protected and that you understand your options regarding any claim you may have.

- Heavy Equipment Accident

At Weber & Nierenberg, we bring almost 30 years experienced to people in the San Francisco Bay area and northern California, including people who have been injured in an accident involving heavy equipment or machinery. We have a strong commitment to a high level of personal service and attention.

- Knee Injury & Shoulder Injury

Knee and shoulder injuries can make ordinary tasks extraordinarily difficult. Insurance adjusters and their lawyers might play down the seriousness of your injury in an attempt to pay you as little as possible. That is why if you have a knee injury or shoulder injury caused by an accident, such as being struck by a car or slipping and falling, you should seek guidance from an experienced attorney.

- Neck Injury

If you or a family member has suffered a neck injury, you should seek immediate medical attention because severe neck injuries may not immediately show symptoms of the real damage. It is common for a neck injury to show symptoms of significant damage hours, days or even weeks after an accident.

- Roadway Defect Accident

When you take your vehicle on the roadways in northern California, you have a reasonable expectation that the roads have been designed, constructed and maintained in ways that minimize your risk of personal injury. This is not always the case. Heavy use can lead to potholes that can jeopardize your safety.