A native of Staten Island, New York, Bob Tyson is a Founding 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…
Kristi Blackwell is an Equity Partner and 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…
Dan Fallon is an Equity Partner and the Tyson & Mendes San Diego Branch Office Managing Partner. Mr. Fallon leads a group of litigators specializing in professional liability, personal injury, general commercial liability, and business litigation…
William Johnson is the Tyson & Mendes Nashville Branch Office Managing Partner and a Partner in the San Diego and Los Angeles offices. His practice focuses on defending against claims of catastrophic personal injury, sexual torts…
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…
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…
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…
Ashley Paige Fetyko is a Partner and the Head of Growth & Client Engagement. Ms. Fetyko is based in the Denver and San Diego offices but serves all offices across the firm. Her practice focuses on research, education, and thought leadership surrounding Nuclear Verdicts® and their causes, trends, and solutions.
Chase Goodman is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Mr. Goodman primary practice focuses on catastrophic accidents, personal injury, premise liability, and business litigation. Mr. Goodman has extensive litigation experience and has consistently obtained successful results for his clients in both state and federal courts in Southern California. Mr. Goodman has a track record of success in every stage of…
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.
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…
Hector Jimenez is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on general liability defense and the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
Cayce E. Lynch is the National Managing Partner and an Equity Partner at Tyson & Mendes. In this capacity, she leads the firm’s strategic vision and execution across all offices, focusing on optimizing the firm’s performance and addressing challenges in the evolving insurance defense industry.
Mitchell B. Malachowski is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles offices and engages in full-spectrum civil litigation defense. His trial-court and appellate practice specializes in complex litigation…
Mina Miserlis is an Equity Partner and the Chair of Complex Trials at Tyson & Mendes and a driving force behind the firm’s trial success and proven defense strategies. Based in the firm’s San Diego office, she brings over 25 years of litigation and trial experience to leading the firmwide Complex Trial Team.
Susan Oliver is an Equity Partner in 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…
Rob Olson is a Partner 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…
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.
Brian Woolfall is a Partner 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…
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.
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.
Beau Bryant is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses primarily on insurance defense litigation—including insurance coverage disputes, personal injury, and premises liability lawsuits. He also has experience with general complex commercial litigation, including representing Fortune 500 public companies…
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.
David Gittelman is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice includes vehicle accidents, slip/trip and falls, construction site accidents, construction defect, mudslides, boundary disputes, nuisance, trespass, libel/slander, assault/battery, products liability, insurance coverage, subrogation, business disputes, breach of contract, landlord/tenant disputes, and wrongful death cases…
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.
Dane Joseph is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Los Angeles offices. His practice focuses on general liability matters, including automobile liability and personal injury matters. Mr. Joseph’s legal experience also includes complex civil litigation, including residential construction. He has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 companies, including real estate developers, general contractors, and…
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…
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…
Matthew Riley is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Chicago offices. 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…
Alexis Schuler is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury defense, and the defense of entities where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse. Ms. Schuler has extensive civil litigation experience, including representing individuals and business entities in state courts and federal district courts throughout California…
Nathan Shaman is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and is a member of the firm’s law and motion team. Mr. Shaman’s practice includes all areas of the firm’s defense practice with a focus on strategizing for and winning important motions, writs, and appeals. Mr. Shaman has extensive and diverse litigation experience involving a range of cases representing individuals and businesses in the state and federal courts…
Emily Straub is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice focuses on defending personal injury, general liability, and professional liability claims. As a primary handling attorney, Ms. Straub has extensive experience in all aspects of civil 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.
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…
Jefferson Jay Cheney is Senior Counsel-Thought Leadership, within the Growth & Client Engagement Department of Tyson & Mendes. Mr. Cheney’s practice focuses on external and internal communications, business development, industry and firm growth, and client engagement. Jefferson Jay Cheney is Senior Counsel-Thought Leadership, within the Growth & Client Engagement Department of Tyson & Mendes…
Grace Shuman is Counsel – Thought Leadership in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego Office. Ms. Shuman’s focus is on developing legal content for the firm’s marketing, education, and training programs. Ms. Shuman was an extern for the Honorable Commissioner Kanazawa at the Division I Court of Appeals…
Adrian Alba is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles offices. His practice focuses on complex litigation. Mr. Alba has proven success in law and motion work, effectively utilizing discovery and civil procedure to succeed on dispositive motions. Prior…
Gabriela Alba is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Her practice focuses on complex litigation. Prior to becoming licensed to practice law in the state of California, Mrs. Alba clerked under San Diego criminal defense attorney Michael Crowley, where she assisted in a variety of criminal matters, state, federal and municipal code violations in addition to appeals. Afterwards, Mrs. Alba clerked for Tyson & Mendes….
Genesis A. Franco is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office, where she focuses on insurance defense litigation, including personal injury matters involving vehicle collisions and landlord-tenant disputes. Ms. Franco brings a diverse legal background to her practice, with prior experience in immigration, construction, and real estate law. Her interests also include employment law, which she concentrated on throughout…
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.
Arsine Israelian is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and a member of the Complex Trial Team. During law school and prior to licensure, Ms. Israelian gained significant legal experience in various practice areas, including in civil, criminal and family matters. Specifically, during her clerkship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Unit, Ms. Israelian assisted her…
Aidan Kassem is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. His practice focuses on defending claims of catastrophic personal injury, including the defense of entity defendants in cases involving alleged sexual torts, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse. At Tyson & Mendes, Mr. Kassem has helped secure favorable outcomes for clients in high-stakes civil litigation by contributing to the drafting of…
Karoline Kitlowski is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’s San Diego office. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of civil litigation matters. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Kitlowski worked in an office specializing in class actions and other complex litigation. She successfully brought and defended…
Alison (De Young) Koralewski is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and a member of the Law & Motion team. Her practice focuses primarily on appeals, writs, and law and motion matters in complex litigation. Ms. Koralewski is an experienced litigator, leveraging years of appellate and dispositive motion experience to successfully defend individuals, corporations, and public entities in both California…
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…
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…
Matt Velasquez is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. Mr. Velasquez has supported litigation at various stages—from investigation through pretrial motions and discovery—both in private firms and government settings. At the City of San Diego’s Office of the City Attorney…
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