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.
Heather M. Abissi is Senior Counsel in Tyson Mendes’ New York office and a member of its Law & Motions Team. Ms. Abissi’s practice focuses on written advocacy through the crafting of persuasive and dispositive motions, petitions, memoranda…
Terra Affourtit is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. She specializes in high exposure catastrophic personal injury and general liability defense. Ms. Affourtit has experience representing insurance and public entity defendants in a variety of legal matters, including class action tax litigation, tort litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, construction and premises liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, quiet title and boundary disputes, and civil rights and police liability.
Martin Alperen is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Mr. Alperen is an experienced litigator who has practiced law in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and the United States Virgin Islands…
Marvin Amaya is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on personal injury and general liability. Before joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Amaya practiced social security disability law for over 10 year…
David Anderson is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Denver office. He is a seasoned litigation attorney who specializes in serious personal injury defense, construction defects, trucking and automobile accidents, commercial litigation, and wide variety of other areas…
John A. Anselmo is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office, where he vigorously defends clients in general liability matters. He has over twelve years of experience litigating throughout New York…
Debra Avenmarg is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Ms. Avenmarg has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals, tribes, and local governments throughout California…
Louis R. Barella is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. He specializes in personal injury and general liability defense. Mr. Barella has successfully defended and resolved hundreds of matters for his clients.
Kevin F. Barrett is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California and Seattle offices. Mr. Barrett has extensive litigation experience representing individuals and businesses in state and federal courts, including at trials, arbitrations, mediations and federal administrative…
Leah Beverly is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office, bringing more than 12 years of litigation experience to the representation of clients in civil defense matters in California. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Beverly worked for the State of Nevada as a prosecutor…
Scott Bonavita is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Tampa office. His practice includes casualty and liability, with a focus on premises liability, first party property claims, products liability, personal injury, professional liability, and construction…
Keith Bostwick is a Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New Jersey office. His practice focuses primarily on civil litigation defense, specializing in the areas of transportation liability, professional liability, products liability, premises liability, and insurance coverage disputes…
Stav Bottner is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on premises liability, personal injury, general and automobile negligence, and negligent security. Mr. Bottner has a diverse litigation background involving federal and state courts…
David Bregman is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He has spent the better part of his legal career analyzing and resolving complex business and commercial and construction related disputes and achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards. Mr. Bregman successfully represents clients in a wide range of complex business transactional and litigation matters including contractual disputes, contract review and negotiation, corporate formation, real estate, complex construction litigation, delay claims, mechanics lien actions, and risk management.
James Brewer is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Scottsdale office. His practice focuses on insurance defense litigation, including insurance coverage disputes, personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits, premises liability…
Betsy Brown Burgess is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense and employment practices litigation defense. Ms. Burgess has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses in state courts…
Eurus Cady is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office with over 30 years of experience. His practice has focused primarily on real estate litigation including general liability, personal injury, premise liability, construction defect, as well as tort and contract law…
Christopher L. Campbell is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, employment practices defense, and sports-related disputes from high school to Olympic levels.
Randel Campbell is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Before becoming an attorney in 2000, Mr. Campbell worked in construction for 17 years, and owned and operated his own contracting business…
Amanda Carruth is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on tort claims of catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, premises liability, and product liability actions. Mrs. Carruth is an experienced litigator in conducting pre-trial discovery…
Lisa Castellanet is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County Office with over 15 years of experience. Her practice focuses on general liability, personal injury, construction, and tort defense…
Sergio G. Chaidez is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He represents public entities and school districts in litigation involving personal injury and the sexual assault of minors.
Russell D. Christian is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Las Vegas office. His practice focuses on personal injury and general liability defense litigation. He is licensed to practice in all Nevada state and federal courts.
Tara Corsello is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. Ms. Corsello brings over ten years of litigation and advisory experience to the firm. Her practice areas include insurance coverage litigation; construction, including design and defect claims…
William Downes is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. His practice focuses on personal injury defense and New York Labor Law, with a particular focus on insurance defense. Mr. Downes has extensive experience in New York litigation, representing both defendants…
Stephanie Drenski is Senior Counsel and Team Lead in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses on general liability, personal injury defense, premises liability, product liability, and professional liability…
Yaron Dunkel is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Mr. Dunkel has extensive experience representing businesses, individuals, and public entities against claims of orthopedic, neurological, and traumatic brain injuries…
Kyle J. Ellison is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County and Nashville offices. His practice is focused on the defense of complex civil litigation. Mr. Ellison has experience handling dram shop, products liability, construction defect…
David H Failer is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. He specializes in matters of insurance, including regulation, agency, claims compliance, and bad faith. After serving as a clerk with the United States District Court in St. Louis, Mr. Failer practiced law in Southern California…
Joshua Ferguson is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. He defends clients in a broad variety of tort litigation, including premises liability, construction defect, and fraud cases. He also provides coverage analysis for insurers, as well as litigating coverage disputes…
Bryan Ferrara is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. His practice focuses on insurance defense, construction litigation, commercial motor vehicle litigation, casualty litigation, general civil litigation…
Ashley Paige Fetyko is Senior Counsel & Communications Director. Ms. Fetyko is based in the Denver and San Diego offices but serves all offices across the firm. Her practice focuses on client relations, education and advancement of Tyson & Mendes attorneys, and trial…
Jordan Fine is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Houston office. Her practice focuses on a variety of defense matters, including complex commercial litigation, product liability torts, and employment issues. Ms. Fine is a litigator with trial experience in both state and federal courts…
Tara Floyd is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on transportation, professional malpractice, nursing home and assisted living, medical malpractice, general and automobile negligence, and products liability…
Dana Furman is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office with a wide range of practice areas including legal malpractice, bad faith, wrongful death and general liability matters. Ms. Furman has been praised by the judiciary for her legal skill and trial ability and has secured multiple judgments in favor of her clients at trial, arbitration, through motion practice and on appeal.
Sarah Garrick is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice includes the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse, as well as catastrophic personal injury defense…
Matthew Gibbs is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, employment practices litigation defense, the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child…
Chase Goodman is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Mr. Goodman primary practice focuses on catastrophic accidents, personal injury, premise liability, and business litigation.
Michael S. Greenfield is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office, where he vigorously defends clients in general liability matters. He has over a decade of experience litigating matters throughout New York, both in federal and state court…
Jonathan Hack is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York and Connecticut offices. He has over 12 years of experience in insurance defense litigation. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Hack was a partner at an insurance defense firm in New York City…
Christopher Hall is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office and is part of the complex civil litigation team. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense…
Leslie Harrach is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Scottsdale office. Her practice focuses on civil litigation, general liability, insurance defense, personal injury, premises liability, products liability, construction defect, and bad faith litigation…
Johanna Harrington is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on general liability defense. Ms. Harrington has extensive legal experience, including representing healthcare providers in both Missouri and the U.S. Virgin Islands…
Adrian Hern is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Novato Office. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, catastrophic property loss defense and defense of entity defendants where bad faith is alleged. Ms. Hern has extensive litigation experience representing individuals…
Christina Herrera is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Antonio office. Ms. Herrera brings more than 19 years of experience litigating insurance defenses cases in San Antonio and throughout Texas. Ms. Herrera has significant experience in personal auto, trucking and transportation…
Kelly Hill is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Ms. Hill has extensive litigation experience in personal injury law, as well as commercial creditor’s rights law. She has represented individuals and corporations throughout California. Ms. Hill has worked as…
Anne Honey is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office, where her practice focuses on general insurance defense litigation. Ms. Honey has extensive experience representing individuals, businesses, and insurance companies in complex general liability…
Royce Y. Huang is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. His practice includes medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, elder abuse, automobile liability, premises liability, products liability, construction defect, and other general civil liability…
Davina Hurt is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Ms. Hurt’s practice focuses on civil litigation and insurance defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Hurt built trusted relationships with clear, frank solution-oriented counsel and successfully negotiated…
Tim Irving is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Mr. Irving concentrates his practice on representing insurance carriers and corporate clients in high-stakes litigation. He has more than 25 years of courtroom experience representing clients in complex insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation, and the defense of professional liability and general liability claims. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Irving was a litigation partner at an AmLaw 100 firm.
Susan Jorgensen is a Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on appellate law, including federal and state cases, commercial and business litigation, and fraud. Ms. Jorgensen has extensive appellate and litigation experience, including representing individuals…
Dane Joseph is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on general liability matters, including automobile liability and personal injury matters…
Charles G. Eichhorn, Jr. is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice areas include insurance defense, premises liability, medical malpractice, assisted living facility and nursing home defense litigation…
Mr. Zuetel is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, general civil litigation, and medical malpractice defense. Mr. Zuetel has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses…
Allan Goulding, Jr. is a Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Philadelphia office. His practice includes premises liability, construction, product liability, and casualty litigation. Throughout his career, Mr. Goulding has worked hard to defend clients in complicated matters. He brings more than…
Matthew Junk is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Philadelphia office. His practice focuses on defending complex personal injury cases involving products liability, premises liability, and construction accidents. Mr. Junk also represents non-profit and for-profit social and human…
David Kahn is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office specializing in the defense of complex, multi-party general litigation and personal injury matters. Mr. Kahn has extensive litigation experience representing individuals, businesses…
Brandon Kerr is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on general liability/insurance defense and construction litigation.
Tony Kirkwood is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. His practice focuses on a wide range of matters, including first party commercial property claims, personal injury suits, employment disputes, professional liability disputes, and non-solicitation, non-compete…
Gary Klein is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on personal injury, general liability, and fraud defense. Mr. Klein has over 40 years of experience in civil litigation. He has handled numerous types of cases, including personal injury, transportation…
Shelley Kramer is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. With over 35 years of legal experience, in and out of the courtroom, Ms. Kramer specializes in catastrophic injury…
Marnie C. Lambert is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on general liability, products liability, medical malpractice, toxic and mass torts, premises liability, employment law, personal injury, and construction…
Charles Lawrence is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Nashville offices. His practice focuses on general liability, catastrophic personal injury, vehicle and premises liability, construction defect, and mass tort defense…
Christopher Lund is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Las Vegas office. His areas of practice include employment law, personal injury, general liability, commercial litigation, and representing homeowner’s associations…
Neil MacMillan is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office and is a member of the Law & Motion team. He focuses on crafting persuasive motions—including motions for summary judgment and other dispositive motions…
Mitchell B. Malachowski is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Northern California offices and engages in full-spectrum civil litigation defense. His trial-court and appellate practice specializes in complex litigation…
Gregory A. Mase is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office and a member of the firm’s Law & Motion Team. Mr. Mase brings 29 years of experience to the firm. Mr. Mase has focused primarily on preparing, opposing, and arguing dispositive motions in high-stakes cases…
Garry (Gerald) McCarthy is a Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He has almost 30 years of experience as both a business attorney and a litigator, and has extensive experience in all phases of litigation including investigation and discovery…
Amy McGuiness is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on automobile negligence and personal injury defense. Ms. McGuinness has extensive litigation experience in first party property, first and third-party personal injury, premise liability, and criminal…
Ann Merrill is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice areas include negligence, premises liability, habitability, nuisance, and breach of contract claims…
Kevin Metros is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office and concentrates on the defense of personal injury, employment, and sexual tort matters. He has nearly a decade of experience representing physicians, hospitals, surgery centers, urgent care clinics, and dentists in civil cases involving allegations of negligence, negligent credentialing…
Wendy Mitchell is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice, wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, premises liability, sexual abuse, class action, and products liability…
Roberta Nalbandian is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. With over 30 years of litigation experience, Ms. Nalbandian’s practice focuses on diverse complex litigation including construction defect, general liability, personal injury and other related areas of practice.
Aika Nelson is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. Her practice focuses on the defense of owners of residential and commercial properties, labor law defense, and defense of business entities and individuals involved in motor vehicle accidents…
Anh Nguyen is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Ms. Nguyen’s practice focuses on personal injury and civil litigation. Ms. Nguyen is licensed to practice law in California and New York. In addition, she is admitted to practice in the Federal Court of New York…
W. Scott Noel is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. He practices in the areas of construction defect and insurance defense (auto bodily injury claims, premises liability, product liability, timber trespass, and other general civil litigation)…
Alexandra Noyes is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. Her practice areas include a full range of insurance defense litigation. She represents clients in complex litigation, premises liability, construction defect liability, personal injury and products liability…
Rob Olson is Senior Counsel in the Orange County and San Diego office. Mr. Olson has specialized experience handling all types of personal injury lawsuits – from major brain and concussion injuries to minor trip and falls…
Traci Owens is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses on wrongful death defense, catastrophic personal injury defense, traumatic brain injury defense, defense against claims of mental anguish/distress, and defense against sexual assault…
Brooke Park is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on general liability and commercial litigation. Ms. Park has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses as both plaintiff’s counsel and defense counsel…
Erin Patterson is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. Ms. Patterson has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and corporations in Washington State and California. Before joining Tyson & Mendes…
Ms. Pham is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense, general liability, and employment law. Ms. Pham has extensive experience handling all aspects of litigation claims, from initial case evaluation, discovery, law and motion, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.
Deborah Purcell is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. Her practice includes general liability and personal injury litigation. Ms. Purcell is adept at translating complex facts into persuasive arguments. She has successfully won many summary judgment motions…
Laura Reiland is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. She is a seasoned negotiator and litigator with over 30 years’ experience in the fields of construction defect defense, premises liability, professional liability, real estate, and personal injury defense…
Deborah S. Reisdorph is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. She defends employers in civil litigation and provides prelitigation preventative consultation to insulate companies and employers from unwarranted litigation. Ms. Reisdorph brings more than thirty years of experience…
Matthew Riley is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on litigating complex labor disputes and insurance matters before state, federal, and administrative courts. Mr. Riley has extensive litigation experience, including notable successes at jury trial and appeals…
BeJae Roberts is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Roberts tried over 20 jury cases while practicing criminal law. She is admitted to practice in Florida State Courts and the Middle District of Florida…
April Rosenbaum is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Houston office. Ms. Rosenbaum has extensive litigation experience in insurance defense, insurance coverage, construction law, construction defect, real estate, and first-party claims. Her experience includes representing public…
Kareen Sassounian is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on general liability, personal injury, and premises liability. Ms. Sassounian has extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts…
David Seal is Senior Counsel at Tyson Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial vehicle litigation, premises liability litigation, and general liability litigation. Mr. Seal has experience in various types of civil litigation, including experience…
David Seal is Senior Counsel at Tyson Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial vehicle litigation, premises liability litigation, and general liability litigation. Mr. Seal has experience in various types of civil litigation, including experience…
Pegah Shetabi is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses on personal injury and general liability litigation. Ms. Shetabi joins Tyson & Mendes as an experienced litigator…
Leah Shover is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ New Mexico office. Her practice focuses on medical malpractice defense and catastrophic personal injury defense. Ms. Shover has extensive litigation experience in New Mexico. She began her career in 2009 as a prosecutor with the…
Danit L. Sibovits is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office. Her practice focuses on premises liability, labor law and construction defect, and the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse…
Jeffrey R. Siegel is Senior Counsel in the Law and Motion Department in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He handles complex motions and appeals. Mr. Siegel has extensive experience in trial and appellate work. He has tried cases in California, Missouri, Kansas, Guam, and Saipan…
Dwight Slater is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Mr. Slater is certified as an Appellate Practice Specialist by the Florida Bar. He has represented hundreds of clients before Florida circuit courts acting in their appellate capacity, all the Florida District Courts of…
Jessica J. Slusser is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Los Angeles offices. She handles a wide range of cases, including general liability and commercial and insurance litigation, catastrophic personal injury defense, employment practices litigation defense, the defense of entity…
Saryah Sober is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ New York and New Jersey offices. His practice focuses on premises liability, New York labor law, and contractual disputes…
Emily Straub is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice focuses on defending personal injury, general liability, and professional liability claims. Ms. Straub’s practice is also geared towards representing businesses of all sizes, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, in business disputes and employment litigation.
Ms. Stuppiello is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and a member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team. Ms. Stuppiello has comprehensive experience representing businesses and individuals through all phases of civil litigation. Her practice primarily focuses on defending against personal injury and property damage claims. Her background also includes defending subrogation actions brought on behalf of insurance carriers.
Maihuong Ta is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses on general liability and civil litigation. Ms. Ta has experience representing both individuals and institutional clients in a wide range of practice areas, on both plaintiffs’ and defense…
Matthew G. Tang is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, complex commercial litigation, and other general liability matters.
Judson D. Taylor is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. His practice currently focuses on all aspects of insurance defense. Prior to joining Tyson Mendes, Mr. Taylor’s practice focused on commercial liability, personal lines…
Kristy Kramp Vancore is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense, medical malpractice, and employment practices litigation defense. Ms. Vancore has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses…
Ana Walsh is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice areas include complex and catastrophic loss litigation, commercial real estate, and contracts. Ms. Walsh has extensive experience in business and litigation matters…
Aaron J. Weissman is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. He has been AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 2015. He has worked in civil and business litigation for over 42 years, with an emphasis in motion and appellate practice…
Ian Wilson is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office and is part of a multi-attorney team. He practices general litigation, with a primary focus on construction defect, personal injury, and professional liability defense.
Sara Woods is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. Her practice focus includes personal injury, professional liability, and employment practices defense…
Brian Woolfall is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on litigating complex construction defect and property damage claims on behalf of developers, general contractors, and subcontractors along with our construction defect litigation team. Mr. Woolfall also has also litigated cases involving personal injury, products liability, unfair business practices, and antitrust violations over nearly 25 years of experience.
Jennifer H. Yeung is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on the defense of general liability and medical malpractice matters. Ms. Yeung has extensive litigation experience representing individuals and businesses…
Molly Gilardi is Special Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice focuses primarily on personal injury and general liability litigation. Ms. Gilardi is an experienced litigator, having successfully defended individuals and businesses throughout the state of California.
Grace Shuman is Counsel for Client Relations and Legal Education at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego Office. Ms. Shuman’s focus is on developing legal content for the firm’s marketing, education, and training programs.
Bill Koska is Of Counsel at Tyson & Mendes in the Environmental & Toxic Tort practice group. Mr. Koska has 50 years’ legal experience, the last 30 of which have been devoted to environmental issues. Mr. Koska represents a variety of clients, both large and small, on a broad range of environmental matters in various courts and administrative boards, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These litigations include CERCLA, CEQA, Clean Air Act, Proposition 65, asbestos-related cases, federal and state safe drinking water laws, and air quality issues.
Amaia Sanz de Acedo is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Ft. Lauderdale office. Her practice focuses on civil litigation, automotive, and premises liability. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Sanz de Acedo began her legal career as a law clerk with a large national…
Adrian Alba is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego Office. His practice focuses on complex litigation. Prior to becoming licensed to practice law in the state of California, Mr. Alba clerked for Tyson & Mendes, gaining experience in strategically and effectively defending a wide…
Will Aldrete is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Houston office. His practice focuses on catastrophic injury defense, commercial vehicle litigation, premises liability defense, construction defects, and employment law. Mr. Aldrete takes creative approaches to meet his clients’ needs…
Amanda Ashworth is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Ms. Ashworth has conducted multiple jury trials on her own. She has experience arguing motions, preparing hundreds of briefs submitted to the court, questioning witnesses during live testimony, and conducting…
Alexandra Bendayan is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Ft. Lauderdale office. Her practice focuses on premises liability and transportation. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Bendayan worked at a large national law firm. She also gained experience working as a paralegal…
McKenzie Cannata is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. She handles matters focused on personal injury defense and habitability litigation…
Rebecca Cavalier is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Cavalier worked as a law clerk at a personal injury defense firm, where she played a role in securing favorable…
Nick Concilla is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on premises liability, construction defect, trucking, and general automobile negligence. Mr. Concilla has represented individuals and businesses in state courts throughout Florida…
Clark R. Conforti is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. He has extensive experience litigating personal injury, consumer, and business matters involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, unfair business practices, and false advertising…
Sohrob Eghtessadi is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. His practice focuses on personal injury, real estate transactions, and contracts. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Eghtessadi gained valuable experience providing legal services…
Daniel El Arnaouty is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ New York and New Jersey offices. He represents businesses and individuals in all aspects of civil litigation. His practice focuses on the defense of claims related to general casualty, automobile liability, insurance coverage…
Joleene Flores is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on general liability, premises liability, products liability, personal injury, surety law, construction, medical malpractice, toxic and mass torts, and employment law..
Christian Foster is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles and Nashville offices. Mr. Foster focuses his practice in the areas of personal injury, insurance defense, and complex civil litigation…
Samuel Frasher is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on complex multi-party litigation and general liability matters. Before joining the firm, Mr. Frasher worked at a preeminent Los Angeles law firm…
Abigail Gallagher is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Tampa office. Her practice focuses on premises liability, construction defect, and general liability…
Ariel Gozzip is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Before joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Gozzip worked with law firms and legal departments domestically and abroad. As a legal intern at an international technology company in Silicon Valley, her work focused on employment…
Faizan Habeeb is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ New York office, where his practice focuses on litigating high-exposure, catastrophic casualty cases, including claims arising from New York State Labor Law, strict products liability, general negligence and premises liability…
Jordan Harirchi is an Associate at Tyson and Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on insurance defense, premises liability, negligent security, and general and automobile negligence. Mr. Harirchi has been a litigator his entire legal career, and he melds experience with creativity, attention to…
Ross Harper is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He is a member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team, where his practice focuses on a variety of complex civil litigation matters.
Asya Hogue is an Associate Attorney at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her areas of practice include dependency, personal injury defense, nursing home medical malpractice, and premises liability. Ms. Hogue has represented individuals and corporations throughout Florida…
Lauren Holappa is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Before joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Holappa clerked for a plaintiff’s attorney, where she learned all about plaintiffs’ tricks for personal injury cases and saw all the ways plaintiffs try to shift the balance against defendants…
Nicholas Husher is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial vehicle litigation, premises and product liability litigation, and general liability litigation…
John J. Van Hise III is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on defending matters involving insurance coverage, general litigation, automobile negligence, labor and employment, and premises liability…
Michael Incorvaia is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. Prior to joining Tyson Mendes, Mr. Incorvaia practiced municipal law in Seattle, where he advised local governments across Washington State how to better serve their communities by providing legal guidance on a variety of topics…
Magdalena Jacquez is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. Her practice area includes a full range of civil litigation. Ms. Jacquez is a Central Valley native. Before joining Tyson & Mendes, she was a summer law clerk for the Kern County District Attorney’s…
Catheryne Jenkins is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on personal injury, general commercial liability, professional liability, and other business litigation matters. Ms. Jenkins is licensed to practice in Georgia. Her Florida law license is pending…
Paul (“CJ”) Repper, Jr. is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on premises liability, transportation, construction defect, and general and automobile negligence. Mr. Repper has represented individuals and businesses in state courts throughout Florida…
Andrew Katseanes is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice he focuses on general litigation. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Katseanes worked in family law and criminal defense. He gained valuable experience taking and defending depositions…
Jason Ketchum is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. He has experience in employment & labor law, environmental law, products liability, and professional liability. Mr. Ketchum has extensive legal research and writing experience, having worked as an extern and clerk in several state…
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick is an Associate at Tyson and Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on general liability. Ms. Kirkpatrick is a trial attorney and has extensive litigation experience, including representing individuals and businesses in state court throughout Florida…
Tobias Koch is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Ft. Lauderdale office. His practice focuses on general litigation, with an emphasis on premises liability cases. Prior to joining Tyson and Mendes, Mr. Koch served as a Public Defender for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Orlando, Florida…
Christopher Lawrence is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial carrier defense, and defense of corporate entities where labor violations and sexual torts are alleged.
Amy Lee is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of personal injury-related civil litigation matters. Ms. Lee participated in Tyson & Mendes’ Summer Clerkship program in 2022 at the Orange County office…
Nancy Leon is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’s Fresno office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Leon worked as an office administrator and case manager at a plaintiffs’ personal injury law firm…
Austin Lewis is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Seattle office. His practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, premises and products liability, and general negligence matters. Prior to joining Tyson and Mendes, Mr. Lewis practiced personal injury litigation in northern Florida…
Maryan Lowery is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Ms. Lowery gained trial experience as a Post Bar Certified Law Clerk at the San Diego Public Defender’s Office, where she notably served as second chair. Additionally, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk…
Sarah Lux is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Antonio office. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, she worked at two previous law firms based out of Texas. Sarah brings a vivacious personality and leveled demeanor, as she works diligently to deliver results…
Jessica McKennon is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. She handles all stages of civil litigation with a focus on defense of personal injury, premises liability, general commercial liability, and business litigation matters…
Alexandra Muehl is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Ms. Muehl’s practice focuses on professional malpractice defense, catastrophic personal injury defense…
Mai Nguyen is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. Her practice consists of defense of catastrophic personal injury, general liability, and premises liability. Ms. Nguyen has extensive experience defending health care providers against claims of medical malpractice…
Jason Nguyen is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Phoenix office. His practice focuses on a broad range of personal injury defense cases. Mr. Nguyen compiled extensive litigation experience through his position as an Assistant Attorney General in the Maricopa County Superior Court…
Wilson Petty is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. He is a member of the firm’s Complex Trial Team. Prior to becoming licensed to practice law in the state of California, Mr. Petty garnered valuable experience as an extern at a prominent civil…
Alexis Philpott is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Ms. Philpott has experience defending insurance companies against breach of contract and insurance bad faith claims. She also has experience representing insured parties against personal injury claims on behalf of insurers…
Daniel Pittman is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Tampa office. His practice includes casualty and liability, premises liability, toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, professional liability, and construction…
Nicholas Psyk is an Associate in Tyson Mendes’ Las Vegas office. His practice primarily focuses on insurance defense. Mr. Psyk has experience representing individuals and businesses on both sides of litigation…
Anthony J. Puzo is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego Office. Mr. Puzo primarily defends against complex and high stakes personal injury lawsuits stemming from both products liability and premises liability claims…
Adam Rivera is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego Office, where he primarily focuses on personal injury and premises liability cases. Mr. Rivera is an experienced litigator with a track record of success representing both plaintiffs and defendants…
John-Michael Salas is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on general liability, professional liability, and insurance defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Salas worked for a boutique litigation firm which handled matters involving insurance defense…
Anna K. Sasaki is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of personal injury-related civil litigation matters. Ms. Sasaki was part of Tyson and Mendes’ Summer clerkship program in 2021 and gained hands-on experience with many stages…
Nicole Sebial is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Ms. Sebial has experience ranging from employment law, federal disaster loan resolution, and disaster risk management. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Sebial worked as plaintiffs’ counsel, allowing her to gain valuable…
Rena G. Sera is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office. Her practice includes defending premises liability and habitability matters, as well as employment discrimination, medical malpractice, construction defect, and other general liability matters…
Arya Sharifan is an Associate at Tyson and Mendes’s Orange County Office. His practice focuses on insurance defense, including personal injury and defense of entity defendants. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Sharifan gained valuable legal experience as a clerk…
Sarah Shavers is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on personal injury, construction defect, medical malpractice, premises liability, and general negligence…
Chloe Sherkat is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ San Francisco office. During law school, Ms. Sherkat clerked for a large international law firm. She belongs to the Beverly Hills Bar Association (Young Barristers), the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Marin County Bar Association…
Liam Sidebottom is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California Office. His practice focuses on a variety of civil litigation matters. Mr. Sidebottom received his J.D. magna cum laude from The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law in 2022 and was awarded…
Svetlana “Lana” Volkova is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Ms. Volkova has extensive litigation experience in personal injury law. She is passionate about fighting for justice and defending the American dream of local and national businesses…
Reese Swincher is an Associate at Tyson and Mendes’ San Antonio office. His practice focuses on personal injury litigation. Mr. Swincher has experience litigating personal injury cases from both plaintiff and defense sides, which gives him insight into countering…
Vic Vera is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Mr. Vera has experience in lemon law, employment law, and personal injury matters. Mr. Vera has also worked as a plaintiff’s attorney, giving him valuable experience and insight into the mindset…
Jordanae Walker is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Walker served as Trial Counsel for the State Bar of California. There, Ms. Walker honed her skills in litigation and legal strategy working on attorney misconduct cases…
Keren H. Wasserman is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Fresno office. She defends insurance carriers and individuals in third- and first-party claims in the areas of trucking and transportation, automobile liability, premises liability, dog bites, complex litigation, and other torts…
Grant Welbourn is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Scottsdale office. Prior to law school, Mr. Welbourn worked as a paralegal in D.C. assisting in general litigation matters and international trade. After law school, he practiced general litigation in Maryland…
Kianna Woods is an Associate at Tyson and Mendes’ Orange County office specializing in personal injury defense. Ms. Woods is a collaborative team player who represents her clients through each stage of a case. She is a successful litigator due to her ability…
Chase Wyatt is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County Office. His practice focuses on handling insurance defense litigation, including general liability, premises, personal injury, and employment law. Mr. Wyatt has proven success in many stages of litigation, including representing…
Isabella Wynn is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including insurance defense. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Wynn gained diverse legal experience at various private law firms and in-house…
Jacqueline Yee is Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Northern California office and works with multiple teams. Before joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Yee worked with patent firms and corporations. As a legal intern for a patent firm, her work focused on civil and criminal law. She provided support…
Maria Zurmati is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, commercial & general civil litigation, habitability & commercial property and healthcare and medical malpractice defense…
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