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 extensively on multiple trials, appeals, and in the management of complex cases in different jurisdictions, both as, and with, national counsel for various clients in state and federal courts. He is a decorated combat action veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and supervised its JAG law center. In 2002, he was honorably discharged after over 10 active-duty years of military service.

Mr. Tugade earned his J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, and his B.A. from The College of William & Mary. He has written and lectured on various legal topics as an adjunct professor of law, and is regularly invited to speak at legal and business conferences and seminars. He is fully engaged in the community and maintains multiple leadership positions including President and Executive Officer, Director, and Chairperson of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada (a 700+ membership of civil defense attorneys), actively involved in many of its committees, as well as several bar associations, such as DRI, Primerus, and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys.

He is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of California, the United States District Court (Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts) and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.