Brendan Kunkle | Santa Rosa Personal Injury Lawyer

Brendan Kunkle is an attorney who has practiced at Abbey Weitzenberg since 2000. He previously practiced in San Francisco since having been admitted to the bar in 1994. He is currently the Managing Partner at Abbey Weitzenberg. For the past 19 years, he has dedicated his practice solely to the representation of plaintiffs.

He has been named a SuperLawyer by that publication every year since 2015 and was recently awarded as a Top Attorney in Northern California as published in San Francisco Magazine. He has successfully tried and resolved cases involving significant personal injury and wrongful death resulting from general negligence, automobile accidents, defective products, premises liability, elder abuse, fine claims, and medical negligence, as well as employment disputes, bad faith insurance disputes, construction defect disputes, business tort litigation, civil rights, and public entity liability litigation.

He has been a speaker to the Sonoma County Bar Association on the topic of mediation, as well as utilizing technology in litigation and at trial. He has served as a Settlement Conference Panelist for the past 15 years for the Sonoma County Superior Court. Since 2015, he has been a Professor of Trial Practice at a local law school.

He is active in the community at large, currently serving as the Chair of the Redwood Empire Food Bank Board of Directors. He has also served in the past as Chair of the Board of Directors of the United Way of the Wine Country, Chair of the Board of Directors for Schools Plus, Executive Partner for Celebrate Community, President of the Consumer Attorneys of Sonoma County, and is a longtime member of the Richard M. Sangster American Inns of Court and the Consumer Attorneys of California, and a past member of the Press Democrat Leadership Forum.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Partner	Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery P.C.	Santa Rosa, CA	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Golden Gate University School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1994
California Polytechnic State University	Bachelors		1991

State / Court	Date
California	1994

• Schools Plus | Board Member | 2010 - Present
  United Way of the Wine Country | Board Chair | 2004 - Present
  Sonoma County Bar Association | Member | 2000 - Present
  State Bar of California | Member | 1994 - Present
  Association of Trial Lawyers of America | Member
  American Inns of Court | Member
  Consumer Attorneys of California | Member
  Consumer Attorneys of California | President | 2004

• Super Lawyers | 2015 - 2020
  America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys | 2019
  Avvo Excellent Attorney | 2015
  San Francisco Magazine’s Top Attorneys in Northern California | 2015
  

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(1994) Licensed as Attorney in California. Verified with California Bar Association.	March 02, 2020

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