A native of Staten Island, New York, Bob Tyson is the Strategic Managing Partner of the firm. Mr. Tyson is a trial lawyer and author of the #1 best-selling, first book written for the defense to limit exposure at trial, Nuclear Verdicts: Defending Justice for All…
A San Diego native, Pat Mendes is a Founding Partner of Tyson & Mendes and works from the firm’s San Diego headquarters. Over the course of his career, Mr. Mendes has developed a formidable track record in defending insurance companies and businesses…
Jennifer Akre serves as the Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes’ Houston, Texas office. Ms. Akre brings more than 15 years of experience litigating high-risk cases in both the civil and criminal arenas. She has significant experience in trucking and transportation, premises liability, products liability…
Lynn Allen is the Southwest Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes. Ms. Allen is an experienced trial lawyer who represents her clients in a wide variety of complex cases, including insurance coverage disputes, insurance bad faith…
Emily Beck is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Los Angeles offices. Her practice primarily focuses on general liability and commercial and insurance litigation, including personal injury defense…
Sitar Bhatt is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Scottsdale and Seattle offices. His practice focuses primarily on general liability, personal injury, premises liability, professional liability, employment, and bad faith litigation…
Kristi Blackwell is the California Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes and leads the firm’s Retail, Restaurant, and Hospitality practice group. Her practice focuses primarily on general liability, professional liability, personal injury, products liability, premises liability, coverage, and complex litigation. Ms. Blackwell has wide-ranging litigation experience representing…
Michelle A. Campbell is a Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office and a Partner in the Los Angeles office, where she is a member of the Complex Trial Team. Her practice includes general liability, directors and officers liability, and errors and omissions…
Kirsten K. Cinquemani is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County and Los Angeles offices. She is a skilled litigator as it pertains to all phases of insurance defense and complex civil litigation. Ms. Cinquemani has worked on a wide range of high-exposure matters involving personal injury…
Catherine Crawley is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses premises liability, transportation and trucking, construction, professional liability, negligent security, and cyber claims…
Maureen Daley is the Managing Partner of Tyson & Mendes’ Philadelphia office. Her practice focuses on corporate entity defense, with an emphasis on cases involving premises liability, products liability, employment, construction defect, commercial motor vehicle litigation…
Danielle DeGeorgio is Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ New York and New Jersey offices. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death defense. She specializes in insurance coverage analysis and disputes, as well as defense of professional malpractice claims…
Rachel Donnelly is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. She applies her extensive trial and litigation experience as a member of the Complex Trial Team, focusing her practice on personal injury and insurance litigation…
Michael Drews is the Northwest and Central Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes. He has a wealth of experience and enjoys the challenge of handling cases that draw from diverse practice areas, including professional liability…
Codie Dukes is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. A member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team, she has extensive litigation experience representing individuals and businesses in California state and federal district court cases…
Derek Earley is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on defense of personal injury, general commercial liability, professional liability, and business litigation matters. Mr. Earley has extensive litigation experience, having represented individuals…
Julee Fritsch Earley is Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses primarily on catastrophic personal injury. Ms. Earley has extensive experience litigating cases in both federal and state courts, representing clients in areas including…
Daniel Erwin is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Houston office. His practice focuses on complex, high-exposure cases, frequently involving catastrophic personal injury in transportation and trucking matters, as well as general civil litigation, often for Fortune 500 companies…
Dan Fallon is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Mr. Fallon leads a group of litigators specializing in professional liability, personal injury, general commercial liability, and business litigation…
Randy Faust is the Tri-State Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes’ New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut offices. He brings more than 25 years of experience to representing clients in all facets of insurance defense litigation…
Jacob Felderman is Head of Legal Operations and the East Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes. Mr. Felderman has in-depth experience handling cases in California and Colorado in many practice areas, including general negligence…
David Frankenberger is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. His practice areas includes complex litigation, trucking and transportation, premises liability, construction defect liability, products liability, medical malpractice, sexual assault and molestation, and elder abuse cases.
David M. Frishman is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office, where he is a leader of the Los Angeles Complex Trial Team. His practice includes all facets of the defense of cases involving personal injury…
Kevin Gray is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office and leads a multi-attorney team. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, defense of trucking companies, defense of governmental entities, premises defense, and Special Investigation Unit work.
Haldon Greenburg is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Fort Lauderdale office, where he represents individuals, businesses and insurance carriers related to a variety of different legal matters including claims of personal injury, construction defects, premises liability, wrongful death, first party property claims, and contract related matters.
Candice Nguyen Hamant is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California and Seattle offices. Her practice focuses primarily on general liability, construction litigation, and premises liability…
Harry Harrison is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on personal injury, employment, and the defense of entity and organization defendants involving allegations of sexual misconduct.
Griffith Hayes is a Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Las Vegas office. His practice includes general liability, products liability, professional liability, and premises liability as well as construction…
Stephen C. Haynes is a Complex Trial Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ San Antonio office. His practice focuses on personal injury defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Haynes was a partner at a Texas firm. He has tried more than 125 jury trials…
Amy Headrick is the Managing Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ New Mexico office. Her practice focuses on insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, complex civil litigation, medical liability, products liability, trucking, and general insurance defense….
Ashley L. Hollingsworth is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on general liability, transportation, automobile negligence, wrongful death, premise liability, and construction defect matters. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Hollingsworth…
Margaret M. Holm is a Partner in the Orange County, San Diego, and Los Angeles offices and Chair of the Healthcare practice. Ms. Holm is one of the country’s leading trial and appellate litigators for large health care entities…
E. Holland “Holly” Howanitz is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office and a Partner in the Nashville office. Her practice focuses on premises liability, transportation, construction defect, professional malpractice, general and automobile negligence, and products…
Amanda N. James is the Managing Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ San Antonio office. Her practice focuses on insurance defense, construction defects, and personal injury. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. James was partner at a large Texas law firm…
William Johnson is the Managing Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Nashville office and is a Partner in the San Diego and Los Angeles offices. His practice focuses on defending against claims of catastrophic personal injury, sexual torts…
Mark Kiefer is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience, his practice focuses on the healthcare industry and medical and professional malpractice, representing hospitals, doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, psychiatrists…
Gordon Klug is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office and a member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, construction defect, premises liability and construction liability.
Allison Lawrence is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses primarily on general litigation, premises liability and personal injury matters. Ms. Lawrence has extensive litigation experience defending clients in both civil and criminal California state courts.
Michael Lehman is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. He brings over 30 years of experience to the firm. His practice focuses on products liability, employment law, and professional negligence…
Edward Leonard is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office with 45 years of litigation and trial experience. His practice focuses on general liability matters with a long-term emphasis on transportation cases involving the trucking industry and logistics…
Jack Liebhaber is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice of 40 years focuses on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and fraud defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Liebhaber was an attorney with several other law firms, including leading his own…
Joseph F. Longo is a Partner in our Philadelphia office. Mr. Longo’s practice consists of representing individuals, corporate clients, employers, businesses, insurance companies and third-party administrators in matters ranging in casualty, products liability, premises liability, trucking…
Cayce E. Lynch is the firm’s Administrative Partner. As part of the strategic leadership team, she drives the formulation, development, and execution of Tyson & Mendes’ administrative functions firmwide and has led the firm through a period of unprecedented growth…
Kevin P. McNamara is a Partner at Tyson Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial vehicle litigation, premises liability litigation, and general liability litigation…
Kristina Milone is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. Ms. Milone has extensive experience leading all phases of insurance defense, civil, and government litigation…
Joseph J. (“J.J.”) Minioza is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. He brings over 20 years of experience to the firm. His practice focuses on general liability, habitability, employment, elder abuse, D&O, E&O, appellate, and wage and hour cases….
Mina Miserlis is the Chair of Complex Trials. Based in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office, she brings more than 20 years of litigation and trial experience to leading the firmwide Complex Trial Team. She focuses her practice on complex personal injury matters.
Darrell Nguyen is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. His practice focuses on complex multi-party construction litigation, real estate litigation, professional liability, landlord tenant and habitability, personal injury and general liability litigation…
Susan Oliver is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and leads a multi-attorney team. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged…
Priscilla O’Briant is a Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Las Vegas office. Ms. O’Briant’s practice focuses on insurance law and bad faith litigation. This includes defending insurers in claims arising from motor vehicle accidents and property losses…
Steven M. O’Brien is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Boston office and a Partner in the Connecticut office. His practice focuses on premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, construction litigation, catastrophic injury litigation, commercial and general litigation, automobile liability, and professional liability. Mr. O’Brien has 36 years of litigation and trial experience and has represented various types of clients.
Robert O’Malley is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Ft. Lauderdale office. He brings more than two decades of experience to defending clients in auto, civil litigation, trucking and transportation, and premises liability cases. He also has significant capabilities handling…
Kara Pape is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office and is a leader of the Complex Trial Team. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense; general liability defense; commercial vehicle litigation; and the defense of public entities where sexual torts are alleged, including child sexual assault and harassment.
Danielle Pascale is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ New York and the Connecticut offices. Her practice focuses on the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse…
Jocelyne Peregoy is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Philadelphia office. Her practice focuses on general casualty, products liability, premises liability, church sexual abuse law, and commercial motor vehicle cases. Ms. Peregoy brings more than 20 years of experience to the firm…
Charles Reynolds is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Tampa office. His practice includes casualty and liability, with a focus on premises liability, toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, professional liability, and construction…
Scott Ruksakiati is the Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Chicago office and a Partner in the Seattle office. For more than 25 years, he has defended clients in diverse and challenging litigation involving catastrophic injury and death, professional liability…
Brett Runyon is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. He brings more than 34 years of experience to the firm, spanning five decades. His practice includes many types of civil litigation throughout federal and state courts…
Christopher Schon is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He specializes in high exposure catastrophic personal injury and general liability defense. Mr. Schon also assists privately held businesses in state regulatory and compliance matters.
Carol Ann Seita is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. Her practice focuses on automobile and autonomous vehicle liability, premises liability, products liability, and personal injury…
Jim Sell is the Managing Partner of Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office and leads a multi-attorney litigation team. Mr. Sell has practiced law in the Bay Area since his admission to the California Bar in 1988…
Mark Shanberg is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Chicago and Seattle offices. Mr. Shanberg is a seasoned litigation attorney in his 30th year of practice. He has successfully defended his clients in a variety of concentrations including medical liability…
Richard Somes is a Managing Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on general liability, premises liability, products liability, personal injury, surety law, construction…
Morgan Van Buren is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and a member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team. His practice focuses primarily on general liability and high exposure litigation. Mr. Van Buren has significant litigation experience, including handling of matters involving diverse damages claims and potential excess exposure.