Richard Somes is the Managing Partner of the Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on general liability, premises liability, personal injury, surety law, construction, medical malpractice, toxic and mass torts, and employment law.
Michelle A. Campbell is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles and Orange County offices, where she is a member of the Complex Trial Team. Her practice includes general liability, directors and officers liability, and errors and omissions. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Campbell gained significant experience in an insurance defense firm in Orange County, California.
Gregory M. Alvarez is a Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Mr. Alvarez’s practice primarily focuses on retail defense, business litigation, construction defect, and general liability matters.
Brandon Kerr is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on general liability/insurance defense and construction litigation.
Kathryn Lee Colgan is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Orange County offices. Ms. Colgan is an experienced ten plus year attorney and leads two multi-attorney litigation teams in the areas of general liability and labor and employment practices. Ms. Colgan specializes in insurance defense including catastrophic accidents, personal injury, premise liability, business litigation, and some medical malpractice cases and labor and employment defense including wrongful termination, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, retaliation, wage/hour claims, class actions and PAGA representative actions.
Nathan E. Malone is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice is focused exclusively in civil litigation, primarily in the areas of personal injury, general liability, complex and environmental tort, and products liability. Mr. Malone also has experience in lemon law, business litigation, HOA defense, and representation of corporate and HOA creditors in Bankruptcy Court.
Sean McGah is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practices focuses on personal injury defense and general liability litigation.
Issa Mikel is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes who primarily practices general liability and commercial litigation. Mr. Mikel has extensive litigation experience, including representing businesses and individuals in state and federal courts in California and New York. Today, his practice primarily focuses on premises liability, motor vehicle collisions, product liability claims, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and other business torts.
Heather R. Whitehead is Senior Counsel at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on insurance defense, general liability, personal injury, premises liability, professional liability, and catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation.
Allen Aho is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, general liability, and premises liability.
Stephen Budica is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. His practice focuses on insurance defense, general liability, personal injury, premises liability, and wrongful death litigation. He also has experience defending hospitals and physicians against medical malpractice cases, as well as business owners against claims for violations of the ADA.
Cinnamon J. Carr is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense, including general liability, auto, premises liability, and wrongful death, as well as property damage and defamation cases.
April M. Cristal is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Orange County office. Her practice focuses on personal injury defense and general liability matters. Ms. Cristal also has experience in the areas of collections matters, medical malpractice, and child abuse cases.
Dara R. Fairchild is an Associate in the firm’s Orange County Office. She has experience in representing design and construction professionals in a wide array of legal matters. Ms. Fairchild also has experience in the area of family law, including property division, custody, and support issues.
Grace Kim is an Associate at Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles and Orange County offices. Her practice focuses primarily on labor and employment litigation on both a single plaintiff and class action level. Ms. Kim represents public and private clients in a wide range of employment cases, including discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, harassment, and reasonable accommodation matters.
Christine Luong-Pham is an Associate in the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices. She has experience in litigation, including catastrophic personal injury defense, product liability, toxic tort, and civil qui tam. She has extensive experience handling all aspects of litigation claims, from initial case evaluation, discovery, law and motion, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.
Kyle R. Maland is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Orange County offices. Mr. Maland focuses his legal career on representing employers of all sizes on a broad spectrum of employment law issues. He has extensive experience in handling employment litigation in state and federal court, as well as before various California agencies.
Emily Meeson is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego and Orange County offices. Her practice focuses on employment practices litigation defense including wrongful termination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims.