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"Sal"
PRACTICE:
Personal Injury
Product Liability
General Civil Litigation
Insurance Bad Faith Litigation Free-Lance Trial Lawyer assisting Outside Firms
Arbitrator in Binding Arbitrations
Neutral Arbitrator for the Kaiser Permanente Arbitration System
Mediation
Will accept cases on any of the following arrangements: contingent fee basis for individual clients, referral basis from other lawyers nationwide, or as a free-lance trial lawyer assisting outside firms.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS:
2008 Santa Clara Law School Alumni Special Achievement Award
Selected in 2007 by "Lawdragon" as one of the 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America.
Selected 2007 & 2008 among the "Top 100 Trial Lawyers" by the American Trial Lawyers Association
Selected to be included in 2009 edition of "The Best Lawyers In America" in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation.
Named one of the top 100 lawyers in Northern California in "Northern California Super Lawyers" 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Named one of Silicon Valley's top lawyers in "San Jose Magazine" 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Invited member since 1974 of the Inner Circle of Advocates, limited to 100 of the most prestigious plaintiff trial lawyers in America.
1994, Trial Lawyer of the Year by Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association.
Highest rating (A.V.) by Martindale-Hubbel publication on lawyers and law firms continuously since 1971.
Invited member since 1986 to the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an organization of distinguished and accomplished trial lawyers from throughout the world. Member of the Board of Directors 2008-2010. Faculty member for the "China Project" educating leading and accomplished Chinese government lawyers on the role of "The Rule of Law" in America.
A founder and elected president of Public Justice (formerly known as Trial Lawyers for Public Justice) (1989-1990), a national public interest law firm that specializes in cutting edge civil cases that protect the rights of every American and our environment as against corporate and government wrongdoing.
Appointed to MDL-926 Breast Implant Litigation: Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) by Judge Sam Pointer, Federal District Court, Birmingham, Alabama (1992-1999)
Appointed to California Coordination Proceedings 2754 (Silicone Breast Implant Litigation), Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Judge O'Neill, San Diego (1993-1999)
NOTABLE EXPERIENCE:
2009: $825,000 settlement for 18 yr. old pedestrian/auto head & face injury in Eureka, CA.
2007: $501,000 verdict in Eureka, CA for soft tissue lumbar back injury
2006: $2.5 settlement shortly before trial for 17 yr. old pedestrian/auto wrongful death, venued in Eureka, CA.
Settled one week before trial for 2.2 million in a no-offer pedestrian/truck collision resulting in severe soft tissue leg injury in 2005.
Increased $100,000 offer to $2.3 million settlement for aggravation of pre-existing brain damage for a 30 yr. old man in 2004.
Increased $200,000 offer to $1.8 million settlement for head injury to motorcyclist from defective parking gate in 2003.
$2.3 Million Settlement after Trial for Head Injury to 2002 Winter Olympic Bobsled Team Member Incurred While Filming a GM T.V. Commercial.
$5.5 Million Settlement Against Manufacturers of Defective Wheels Allowing Air to Escape and Low Profile Tires for Concealing Under inflation Resulting in Rollover & Quadriplegia.
$10 million Post Trial Settlement for Breast Implant/Scleroderma Victim.
1974- $1.25 Million Verdict for "the Pill": Highest Pharmaceutical Case Verdict In Nation at That Time.
2.3 Million Against Pest Control Company For 55 yr. old female paraplegic.
$5.5 million settlement after trial in Golf Cart Rollover Case against manufacturer for brain damaged 40 yr. old golf maintenance man.
Corvair and other Automobile Design Defect and Crash-Worthiness Trials
110% Recovery for 187 Victims of Technical Equities Corporation Scam.
Substantial Settlement Against Manufacturer of Defective Infant Auto Seat.
Substantial Settlement in Negligent Fork-lift Design Case Against Manufacturer.
* For more detail, click on specific case.
ASSOCIATIONS:
California State Bar (1962-Present)
Santa Clara County Bar Association (1962-Present)
American Bar Association (1962-Present)
American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) (1965-Present)
Consumer Attorneys of California (1965-Present)
Inner Circle of Advocates (1975-Present)
Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers (1986-Present)
American Board of Trial Advocates, Diplomate (1985-Present)
Founder, President 1989-1990, Member of Board of Directors & Benefactor of Public Justice (formerly known as Trial Lawyers for Public Justice) (Washington, DC - 1981-Present)
Appointed to MDL-926 Breast Implant Litigation: Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) by Judge Sam Pointer, Federal District Court, Birmingham, Alabama (1992-1999)
Appointed to California Coordination Proceedings 2754 (Silicone Breast Implant Litigation), Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Judge O'Neill, San Diego (1993-1999).
EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS:
University of Santa Clara, B.A., 1956
University of Santa Clara, J.D., 1961
California State Bar, 1962
Ninth Circuit Federal Court, 1962
U.S.D.C. - Northern District of California, 1962
United States Supreme Court, 1966
U.S.D.C. - Southern District of California, 1995
Founding Partner of Liccardo, Rossi, Sturges & McNeil, 1963-2001
Founding partner of THE LICCARDO LAW FIRM, 2001
PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES:
Click Here For a List of Publications and Lectures
PERSONAL (HOBBIES):
Sal enjoys many sports, particularly down-hill skiing, sailing and golf. He enjoys playing the piano and barbequing with his own sauce recipes. |
