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Austin Lenzkes
Austin is an associate in the Long Beach office of Demler, Armstrong & Rowland. He graduated cum laude from Western State College of Law in 2021 and, during his time, there he achieved academic awards for his legal writing in his Civil Procedure and Bar studies classes. Prior to law school, Austin attended Arizona State … Continue reading Austin Lenzkes
Salin Ebrahamian
Salin Ebrahamian is a Partner at Demler, Rowland, & Armstrong, LLP and an experienced litigator, who has successfully represented product manufacturers and suppliers in complex civil litigation for the last 15 years. Her practice has been primarily focused on product liability and toxic tort litigation in California and she has managed cases from inception through … Continue reading Salin Ebrahamian
Dean Pollack
Dean Pollack is Of Counsel in Demler Armstrong & Rowland’s Walnut Creek office. Mr. Pollack is a seasoned litigator having taken a broad spectrum of cases through binding arbitration and trial. His general liability practice ranges from product and premises liability and toxic tort cases to motor vehicle and train collisions, fires, road rage incidents, … Continue reading Dean Pollack
Denise Thompson
Denise Thompson is a successful trial attorney with extensive experience litigating matters before the state and federal courts in California. Ms. Thompson has tried numerous civil jury trials and arbitrations, including successfully trying and arbitrating high-exposure cases. She actively manages and participates in all aspects of her civil litigation practice. Ms. Thompson’s defense practice includes … Continue reading Denise Thompson
Erin McGahey
Erin McGahey is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Demler Armstrong and Rowland and is a member of the Landlord-Tenant, General Liability and Toxic Tort practice groups. Her current focus is representing property owners in landlord/tenant disputes defending individuals in habitability claims and wrongful eviction. Her practice also includes general liability defending claims … Continue reading Erin McGahey
David Jennings
David Jennings is a partner at Demler, Armstrong & Rowland’s Long Beach office. Mr. Jennings’ practice focuses on defence of insurance litigation, bad faith litigation, employment law, UM/UIM claims, contractual disputes, and general liability claims. Prior to joining DAR, Mr. Jennings was an associate at a large defence firm, defending individuals and companies in a … Continue reading David Jennings
Eric Brenneman
Eric Brenneman is a partner at Demler Armstrong & Rowland, LLP where he handles complex litigation, including insurance and reinsurance coverage, bad faith exposures, catastrophic personal injury, and contract disputes in their Sacramento office. In addition to working with policyholders and commercial carriers, Mr. Brenneman specializes in public entity coverage with experience spanning all related … Continue reading Eric Brenneman
Andres C. Hurwitz
Andres Hurwitz, a partner in the firm’s Long Beach office, is a seasoned litigator, with over 30 years of experience practicing in Southern California. Andres first joined the firm in 2000, and has worked for some of the firm’s clients since the early 1990’s. His expertise includes insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, defense of … Continue reading Andres C. Hurwitz
Jennifer C. Rasmussen
Jennifer C. Rasmussen is a Partner in the San Francisco office. She has an extensive experience in all facets of civil litigation, especially those with potential high value needing unique problem-solving skills. She has worked on the defense side, including in-house for an insurance company. Ms. Rasmussen handles all aspects of litigation from preparation of … Continue reading Jennifer C. Rasmussen
George A. Otstott
George A. Otstott is a partner in Demler’s San Francisco office. For 30 years he has represented individuals, companies and public entities in civil defense litigation and coverage work. Mr. Otstott typically handles catastrophic personal injury cases including traumatic brain injuries, neurostimulator implant cases, amputations and other lifelong care accidents, and property claims such as … Continue reading George A. Otstott
Brian Buddell
Mr. Buddell is a trial attorney with extensive experience in many areas of civil defense including: Products Liability, Premises Liability, Complex Personal Injury, Toxic Torts, Transportation/Trucking, Wrongful Death, Auto/Truck Casualty Claims, Environmental, Employment and Insurance Coverage. He has successfully defended his clients in hundreds of arbitrations and dozens of trials throughout twenty-eight of California’s fifty-eight … Continue reading Brian Buddell
Margaret Lesniak
Margaret Lesniak is a Partner in the San Francsico office of Demler Armstrong and Rowland and is a member of the Landlord-Tenant Group. Her practice focuses on premises liability and landlord-tenant liability, where she represents property owners and property managers in breach of contract and wrongful eviction matters. Margaret is a skilled litigator as it … Continue reading Margaret Lesniak
James V. Weixel
Jim Weixel, a partner in the firm’s Sacramento and San Francisco offices, has concentrated his practice on property and casualty defense litigation for almost thirty-five years. Mr. Weixel was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1990 and to the California bar in 1993. He has been an associate, partner, and of counsel at large and … Continue reading James V. Weixel
Paul A. Peters
Paul Peters is an attorney in our San Francisco office, where his practice focuses on insurance coverage and bad faith defense, personal injury defense, and general civil litigation. He has extensive experience representing insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation and in protecting their policyholders in insurance defense matters. He has defended insurers for many … Continue reading Paul A. Peters
Vicky Chan
Vicky Chan is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and the University of California Hastings College of the law. She has been a civil litigator since 2003, specializing in the defense of residential and commercial property damage and boundary disputes, landlord/tenant lawsuits in rent controlled jurisdictions in Northern California, and catastrophic personal injury … Continue reading Vicky Chan
Dalen Saludes
Dalen Saludes earned his law degree from Whittier Law School in 2007, where he was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for achieving the highest-class score in Legal Analysis. Prior to law school, Mr. Saludes graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2004. Before joining Demler, Armstrong & Rowland in 2011, Mr. Saludes started … Continue reading Dalen Saludes
Lisa Pan
Lisa L. Pan has over 40-years’ experience as a litigator, with a special emphasis on insurance coverage and large-loss claims. She also has experience evaluating insurance coverage for professional-liability cases involving insurance-agents, attorneys, accountants, engineers, securities brokers, real-estate professionals, pharmacists and podiatrists. Her current focus is on motions and appeals, especially on matters involving complex … Continue reading Lisa Pan
Timothy Lippert
Timothy Lippert, a litigation and trial partner, practices personal injury defense and insurance bad faith litigation. Early in his career, Mr. Lippert gained experience in employment litigation and defending physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice lawsuits. He handles all types of insurance defense matters, having taken many cases through arbitrations and trials. He currently focuses … Continue reading Timothy Lippert
Paul M. Bessette
Paul Bessette is a senior litigator with over twenty-five years of experience in corporate defense, products liability, construction defect, toxic tort and asbestos litigation. Mr. Bessette’s work has included all aspects of litigation, including multiple trials. He has represented a wide array of clients, including national defense contractors, elevator/escalator manufacturers, construction contractors, motor vehicle manufactures, … Continue reading Paul M. Bessette
Randy A. Moss
Randy A. Moss is an attorney in the firm’s San Francisco office, where his practice focuses on insurance bad faith litigation, personal injury defense, and general civil litigation. He has extensive experience in insurance defense litigation, representing the interests of insurance companies and protecting the interests of their insureds. He has also handled professional negligence … Continue reading Randy A. Moss
David A. Ring
David Ring?has broad experience in insurance coverage and litigation, including commercial general liability, homeowners, auto, fidelity, directors and officers, professional liability, and commercial crime, as well as insurance bad faith. His practice also includes appellate work; personal injury defense; commercial lease disputes and the economic loss rule; product liability; homeowner liability for injury to unlicensed … Continue reading David A. Ring
John R. Brydon
John R. Brydon, the firm’s managing partner of the San Francisco office, is an AV-Preeminent rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates for nearly 30 years, where he holds the rank of Diplomate and has been a Certified Specialist in Civil Trial Law and Diplomat of … Continue reading John R. Brydon
Brian C. Dunn
Brian Dunn, a litigation and trial partner in the firm’s Long Beach office, specializes in the representation of contractors, manufacturers, and material suppliers in complex construction, product liability, contract, and business disputes. His extensive litigation experience has encompassed multi-million dollar construction defect claims involving residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental projects, multi-million dollar product liability claims, … Continue reading Brian C. Dunn
Edward P. Tugade
Edward P. Tugade is an AV Preeminent-rated attorney with over 20 years of civil litigation experience. As a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, Mr. Tugade helps clients with a range of cases involving Transportation/Trucking, Wrongful Death, Auto/Truck Casualty Claims, Products Liability, General Liability, Professional Liability, Premises Liability, and Toxic Torts Litigation. He has worked … Continue reading Edward P. Tugade
Tamara A. Laskin
Tamara Laskin is a partner in the Long Beach office and focuses her practice on construction defect litigation. She has extensive experience representing subcontractors throughout California involving construction deficiencies in both residential and commercial settings. Ms. Laskin has successfully resolved numerous construction defect matters through litigation, arbitration and trial, and has also defended numerous bad … Continue reading Tamara A. Laskin
Bjorn C. Green
Bjorn Green has been with the firm for 22 years and currently divides his time between handling general liability cases and managing the firm’s Construction Law practice, which primarily focuses on the defense of contractors, subcontractors, product manufacturers and component part suppliers in defect and product liability cases. His background in construction law is a … Continue reading Bjorn C. Green
James P. Lemieux
James Lemieux, a litigation and trial partner, practices insurance bad faith and coverage litigation, personal injury defense, fraud/SIU investigations, and small business claims involving contracts and fraud. He also handles broker/agent liability cases involving their liability for placement of coverage on auto, homeowners’ and commercial liability policies, including a matter where the broker failed to … Continue reading James P. Lemieux
Terry A. Rowland
Terry A. Rowland is America’s Top 100 Lawyer, an A-V-rated jury trial specialist in serious personal injury, wrongful death, complex business, and bad faith litigation. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, with a rank of “Diplomat” (which requires in excess of 100 jury trials). He is also a Certified Specialist … Continue reading Terry A. Rowland
Robert W. Armstrong
Robert W. Armstrong has been AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell for 25 years, a Certified Specialist in civil litigation, and an associate in the American Board of Trial Advocates for over 20 years. He has also been recognized as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” (top 5%) every year since 2007. Mr. Armstrong was admitted to practice … Continue reading Robert W. Armstrong
Long Beach
4500 E. Pacific Coast Highway, 4th Floor
Long Beach, CA 90804
San Francisco
101 Montgomery St., Suite 1800
San Francisco, CA 94104
Sacramento
8950 Cal Center Drive, Suite 250
Sacramento, California 95826