For more than 35 years, I have represented people who don’t always have the resources to take on litigation against the big powerful institutions of our society: big corporations, insurance companies and governments. I have the experience, the brains, the chutzpa, the resource and the desire to fight on your behalf. I have represented people in many of California’s counties. I have spent my life in public service because I believe in it. I am passionate about it. My father, David Siegal, was an early organizer and subsequent president of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union in New York City. He understood that a meaningful quality of life was of the utmost importance. Today, in the pursuit of justice as a personal injury lawyer at Siegal & Richardson, I strive to ensure that no matter what trauma you or your family has experienced, your interests and your quality of life are my priority. My passion for law has allowed me to pursue justice in many significant cases as a personal injury lawyer. One of the first cases that I worked on was with noted Labor and Civil Rights Lawyer, Jerry Garchik; Liu v. Republic of China, a wrongful death case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Early in my career I also represented several families whose children were sexually assaulted and abused at the Presidio Army Base Day Care Center. I was one of several plantiffs’ lawyers in the case, which involved sixty children. The aforementioned case allowed me to pursue justice against an army Colonel with ties to the Church of Satan. These experiences also gave me the opportunity to work with some of the best lawyers in Northern California, such as Melvin Belli, who throughout his career, won over $600 million dollars for his clients.

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David H. Schwartz and his firm focus on providing cost-effective, expeditious and results-driven legal service, representing California clients in a wide range of commercial disputes. The firm has extensive experience in complex litigation, including securities and shareholder disputes, trade secrets litigation, and business torts.

Nabiel Ahmed was born and raised in the Bay Area. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in biology from the University of California at Davis prior to attending law school. Mr. Ahmed earned his Juris Doctor from the University of California at Hastings College of the Law. Since graduating from law school, Mr. Ahmed solely focused on representing clients accused of criminal offenses.Prior to establishing his law firm, Mr. Ahmed represented thousands of clients in felony and misdemeanor cases as a deputy public defender. He enjoyed much success in plea negotiations, motions practice, and at jury trials defending his clients. As an appellate advocate, Mr. Ahmed has worked at California's highest state court.Mr. Ahmed's clients share a common opinion of him; he is dedicated to his clients and zealously defends their rights. Mr. Ahmed always takes the appropriate time discussing matters with clients, and seeks to fulfill their goals.Mr. Ahmed is different than most attorneys- whether intentional or not- he cares about his clients, and never settles until they are happy.

Jethro Busch serves as Senior Counsel at LDY Law, adding depth in landlord-side defense litigation, partition actions, and buyer-seller disputes. His practice strengthens the firm's ability to handle the real estate matters that often grow out of landlord-tenant conflicts, especially when a dispute moves beyond an unlawful detainer or when insurance is not covering the defense. He brings senior litigation depth to the ownership, sale, and defense matters that can become high-stakes quickly for property owners, landlords, and referral partners. His background helps expand LDY Law's bench in the broader real estate disputes that do not fit neatly inside day-to-day tenancy issues alone.

Anna Liu is a co-founder and partner at LDY Law, PC, with over 15 years of real estate and landlord-tenant litigation experience. Her practice includes commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes, buyouts, evictions, partition actions, and broader real estate conflict and counseling matters. Before co-founding LDY Law, Anna spent more than a decade as a partner at a San Francisco real estate and landlord-tenant firm. She has tried cases, handled appeals, mediated and arbitrated disputes, and negotiated numerous settlements. Her work has included both the day-to-day landlord matters owners regularly face and the broader real estate disputes that can become business-critical when a conflict expands beyond a tenancy issue alone.

Olivia Dopler is a co-founder and partner at LDY Law, PC. She focuses on representing property owners and other landlords in residential and commercial landlord-tenant disputes across the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work includes Ellis Act evictions, owner move-in evictions, fault-based evictions, buyout negotiations, rent board mediations and arbitrations, court proceedings, rent increases, fair housing compliance, and other issues that arise throughout the landlord-tenant relationship. She has tried cases in civil court, handled complex local matters shaped by San Francisco's strictly regulated environment, and advised clients through both contested and negotiated resolutions.

Armed with considerable experience working for the District Attorney in Sacramento, CA and her voluminous representation of large corporate clients in the private sector, Jo-Anna M. Nieves has the skills and endurance needed to zealously advocate on her clients’ behalf. The Nieves Law Firm, APC, has effectively and successfully represented clients in a wide range of legal matters in Oakland,CA and throughout the Bay Area.

Tiffany W. Yee is a co-founder and partner at LDY Law, PC, with more than 10 years of landlord-tenant litigation experience. Her practice focuses primarily on residential landlord-tenant disputes in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially tenant buyout agreements, owner move-in matters, Ellis Act evictions, and San Francisco Rent Board proceedings. She regularly handles rent increases, mediations, arbitrations, and related strategic counseling. She also represents landlords sued by tenants and serves as counsel in mediation when a dispute has already escalated. Tiffany believes in resolving the right matters through buyout or settlement when that is the most practical and cost-effective path for the client. She speaks conversational Cantonese and is able to communicate directly with many Chinese-speaking clients in the firm's referral network and local market.

Jeremy Cloyd is a partner and trial attorney at Altair Law® in San Francisco. He focuses on injury cases that have impacted his clients’ life, work, or happiness. Mr. Cloyd has extensive trial experience having obtained successful trial verdicts in both state and federal court. He prepares all cases for trial, which has resulted in numerous, favorable, pre-trial settlements. Mr. Cloyd has experience representing victims of construction site negligence, medical malpractice, police misconduct, government claims, dangerous property, on-the-job injuries, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, gas explosions, auto accidents, dog bites, dangerous property, wrongful death and amputations.