Women’s Initiative

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Jennifer Lowis is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. She was recently promoted to lead the firm’s growing medical malpractice group.  Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Lowis was a partner at Lowis & Gellen, a firm she founded in Chicago in 1995. A seasoned trial lawyer, Lowis has tried many high-exposure jury trials and successfully settled hundreds of other cases short of trial. She specializes in defending high-stakes medical malpractice lawsuits – including catastrophic injury and death cases – on behalf of teaching hospitals, community hospitals, long-term care facilities and physicians in virtually every field of medicine. Learn more about this accomplished Chicagoan turned San Diegan below.

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Kat Lee is Senior Counsel and a Team Leader in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office. With nine years’ experience as an attorney, Kat specializes in insurance defense, medical malpractice, catastrophic accidents, subrogation matters, personal injury, premise liability, business litigation and contract law. Learn more about this Ally McBeal fan and beach lover below.

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Cayce Greiner was recently promoted to Administrative Partner in the San Diego office. Cayce oversees all of Tyson & Mendes’ administrative functions, including staffing and human resources, marketing, finance and accounting, facilities management, and IT.  Starting out as a litigator, Cayce quickly advanced her role within the firm.  Prior to her promotion to Administrative Partner, she helped the firm more than double in size while overseeing all marketing and business development efforts, coordinated numerous full trial preparations, and founded the firm’s Women’s Initiative and Young Professionals groups. Read on to meet Cayce.

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Catie Johnson is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office, where she defends individuals and private entities in state and federal general liability matters, including but not limited to premises liability, motor vehicle negligence, products liability, habitability, excessive force, and civil rights claims. Catie, who was recently promoted to Team Leader, is a creative and proactive negotiator with an outstanding track record of obtaining favorable settlements for her clients. In 2017 and 2018, she was named Super Lawyers Rising Star! When not in the office, you can catch her in the kitchen whipping out new recipes or at the park with her family. Read on for more.

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Susan Oliver is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ La Jolla offices, where she leads a multi-attorney team focused on catastrophic personal injury defense, employment practices litigation defense, the defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged, including sexual assault and child sexual abuse, and medical malpractice defense. Susan is known for finding novel legal arguments and has been extremely successful in positioning cases for summary judgment, including two recent cases where summary judgment was granted and saved her clients over $100 million collectively. A long-time friend of the firm’s Founding Partners Robert Tyson and Patrick Mendes, Susan is also an avid traveler and big college football fan (“Go Hawkeyes!”). Read on for more.

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Justina “Tina” Tate is Senior Counsel and Team Leader in Tyson & Mendes’ new UTC office in San Diego. Her practice focuses primarily on defending personal injury, products liability, general liability and professional malpractice claims. In addition to leading a multi-attorney litigation team, Ms. Tate has achieved significant success throughout her career, including resolving a $612,500 demand for $42,500; resolving a $500,000 premises liability claim for $40,000; resolving a $100,000 demand for $4,000; and obtaining a case dismissal through a successful anti-SLAPP motion. Outside the firm, Tina is brushing up on her Italian and enjoys days at the beach with her puggles. Read on to learn more.

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Jessica Heppenstall is a team leader in the firm’s Automobile Liability practice group. As an emerging leader, Ms. Heppenstall has more than 10 years of experience in the legal industry. Her representation of individuals and businesses includes high-exposure matters involving alleged catastrophic injury and wrongful death. Read on to learn about her biggest accomplishments, and what she enjoys most about being part of the T&M team.

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Kristi Blackwell is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ San Diego office and leads the firm’s Retail, Restaurant, and Hospitality practice group. Kristi was the third partner for the firm (after Bob and Pat), and played a key role in preparing the petition and opening brief for Howell v. Hamilton Meats, one of the firm’s most significant wins. Kristi’s practice focuses primarily on general liability, personal injury, premises liability, and complex litigation. Read on to learn more about Kristi, including her love of sports and latest music downloads.

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The new Managing Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Los Angeles office, Heather Bean, is also a leader in the firm’s Retail, Restaurant, and Hospitality practice group. Heather has more than 15 years of experience in the legal industry and has become an expert trial attorney in general liability, personal injury, premises liability and products liability claims. She is also a classically trained pianist. Read on to learn about her biggest accomplishments, and what she enjoys most about being part of the T&M team.