Partners Christopher J. Beeman and Andrew K. Murphy obtained a defense verdict after a contentious four-week trial in Northern San Diego County.  The high exposure personal injury case involved a gardener who came to the defendant's home to inspect a dripping water heater in her garage.  After wa...

Partners Matthew Constantino and Stuart Home successfully defended our client, a property management company, and beat our client's 998 Offer following a 3.5 week jury trial in Sacramento.  The case involved claims of negligence and breach of contract arising from our client's oversight of renova...

Partner Matthew Constantino and Senior Trial Attorney Jesmin Alam successfully defended their client, Liang's Remodeling, Inc., and beat their client's 998 Offer following a 5-day bench trial in Alameda County. The case involved alleged construction defects related to work performed by Liang's Re...

Matt Constantino was a panelist at the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada's Annual Construction Litigation Seminar in Walnut Creek. Matt's topic was “Strategies in Defending HOA Claims” and he presented from the perspective of the developer and general contractor. Th...

Football: Traumatic Brain Injury Chris Beeman and Paulo Kline Simon recently prevailed on a motion for summary judgment on behalf of their clients in a contentious traumatic brain injury involving a youth football player. The plaintiffs alleged that our clients, a football league and the oppos...

After a four week jury trial, Founding Partner Jeff Vucinich obtained a defense verdict in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of an East Bay municipality. Plaintiff claimed that he was injured while riding his bicycle across a highway overpass and was struck from behind by a motor vehicle. T...

Senior Partner Chris Scheley and Associate Kirill Devyatov prevailed on a Motion for Summary Judgment in a premises liability action filed against our client and his three brothers in Sonoma County. The plaintiff (a real estate agent) was voluntarily assisting the Defendant brothers in painting t...

Partner Chris Scheley recently won a motion for nonsuit after trial of a products liability action in San Francisco Superior Court.  The plaintiff claimed that he developed priapism and permanent erectile dysfunction after riding on a motorcycle seat designed and manufactured by our client.  Afte...

Clapp Moroney has more practicing members of The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) San Francisco Chapter than any other firm that specializes in civil litigation defense. ABOTA is an esteemed, nomination-only trial lawyers' group comprised of members who have extensive trial experience an...

Chris Beeman and Team picked three juries in three counties over the last third of 2018. A construction site injury trial (plaintiff was an inspector who almost lost his foot due to an exploding underground line) in Santa Clara settled favorably before opening statements when Paulo Kline Simon c...

Clapp|Moroney sponsored an event hosted by the San Mateo County Bar Association's Diversity Committee honoring California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye is the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state's Chief Justice. ...

Named partners Chris Beeman, Jeff Vucinich, Ted Scheley and Chris Scheley have all been designated “Super Lawyers” by San Francisco Magazine, recognizing them as attorneys in the top 5% of their profession. Pleasanton Associates Paulo Kline Simon, Andrew Murphy and Asheesh Mohindru, along with Sa...

Chris Beeman and Ash Mohindru recently obtained a judgment in favor of the defense at the conclusion of a four week trial in Alameda County Superior Court. The case involved allegations of defamation and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage. Plaintiff was an HOA property m...

Kory Phillips spoke at MC Consultants annual West region construction defect and insurance coverage conference in San Diego. The panel addressed the builder's right to repair legislation in the Western states, and specifically the pros and cons of such legislation. Bob Bellagamba was a panelist a...

Partner Chris Beeman participated as a panelist in The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) “Masters in Trial” program last fall in San Francisco. He is also a State Chair for Claims and Litigation Management (CLM) and  continues in his role as a chairperson for the ABOTA “Civility Matters” ...

Partner Ted Scheley, and associates Daniel Lee and Catharine Christian represented a national wholesale distributor of construction products in a personal injury matter involving a plaintiff that partially severed three of his fingers while using a sliding miter saw. Utilizing key portions of pla...

Following a deadly bus crash in Mexico that left 3 dead and 1 severely injured, Plaintiffs filed a complaint against various defendants in San Francisco, including the bus company.  When all other potential deep pockets were tapped, Plaintiffs' counsel sued our client, a grocery store in Napa, cl...

Partners Christopher Beeman and Ashley Meyers obtained a Defense Verdict after a month long jury trial in Sacramento, California. The jury found that the accident, which resulted in the deaths of two passengers using the Lyft rideshare application, was 100% the result of the negligence of co‐defe...

Partner Stephen Harrington recently obtained a voluntary dismissal on behalf of a general contractor client in a wrongful death case filed in San Francisco County.  Decedent died from complications of metastatic mesothelioma and his widow and heirs filed suit against various defendants claiming t...

An elderly plaintiff suffered memory loss and emotional injuries when he tripped on a raised sidewalk that our client repaired eight months before the incident.  Plaintiff filed an action against the property owner alleging that the poorly maintained sidewalk created a dangerous tripping hazard. ...

Partner Paul Sheng and his associate Mary Kate O'Neill recently obtained a voluntary dismissal with prejudice on behalf of a restaurant owner defendant in a premises liability case filed in San Francisco County Superior Court. The Plaintiff alleged that she suffered severe injuries to her hamstri...

Chris Beeman and Christine ‘Missy' Reinhardt recently won a summary judgment motion in a wrongful death case filed in Contra Costa County. The decedent was shot and killed in the street outside our client's home by guests of defendant's teenage kids, who threw a Halloween party. The assailant was...

In Kern County, Chris Beeman started 2019 off with a bang by obtaining a non-suit on behalf of his janitorial service client. The plaintiff's slip and fall in a Save-Mart store was caught on video surveillance and documented his head bounding off the concrete floor. Counsel contended that her 61 ...

In a very challenging and highly charged climate given the publicity surrounding Ferguson and other high profile police brutality incidents, founding partner Jeff Vucinich still obtained a defense verdict in United States District Court in San Francisco on behalf of two police officers and a Peni...

Chris Beeman and Ashley Meyers recently won a motion for Nonsuit in Napa County Superior Court. The case involved an allegation of negligent property management against our firm's client, whose adult son was using and selling methamphetamines and was involved in burglarizing and then burning down...