When you need an attorney who is experienced and aggressive, look no further than The Law Offices of Robert M. Merritt. Located in Sacramento, Calif., attorney Merritt of The Law Offices of Robert M. Merritt provides knowledgeable legal counsel on every case he undertakes. Genuinely concerned about his clients’ well-being, attorney Merritt is hard-working and attentive. He seeks to get the most favorable outcome each and every time.

Geoffrey Evers is the founding partner of Evers Law Group with more than 40 years of hands-on litigation experience. He is well recognized in the Sacramento legal community as a zealous litigator and enjoys defending and prosecuting claims on behalf of business owners of all sizes. He approaches litigation as a personal challenge and as a matter of personal pride. Geoff began his legal career at the Orange County District Attorney's Office where he prosecuted cases focusing on environmental regulatory violations. He relocated to Sacramento and gained employment with an international law firm in their litigation department wherein he litigated in practice areas including environmental law, labor law, catastrophic personal injury and complex business litigation. Geoff now has the privilege of representing business owners, corporations and shareholders in a variety of areas of law including business litigation and employment matters related actions. He routinely represents businesses that have been the victims of partner or employee theft and embezzlement and works fervently to recoup their losses. Many of his clients seek his expertise in resolving business disputes and unwinding business agreements that no longer meet their objectives. He also represents businesses in litigation addressing compliance, licensing, trademark and real estate related issues. Geoff has extensive trial experience. He has represented hundreds of clients in claims involving partnership disputes and dissolutions, breach of contract claims, fraud and unfair business practice claims before state and federal courts. Geoff is a graduate of Western State University, College of Law in Southern California. He also acts as a Judge Pro Tem in the El Dorado County Superior Court. Geoff is admitted to practice law before all courts of the State of California and the Southern, Central, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Geoff is active in his community. He coached the Mock Trial Team at St. Francis High School, acted as the President of the Advisory Committee at St. Mel Catholic School, and coached his daughters' basketball team for many years.

John Joseph Pugh is a practicing lawyer in the state of California handling estate planning matters.

I started my firm because I wanted to provide my clients with my own brand of excellent legal representation, consistent with my unique human qualities of compassion, strength, caring and integrity. I have represented injured people for over twenty years. While I have very successfully tried and settled many cases over the years, I take nothing for granted. For that reason, I work very hard – harder than most. I do it because I love what I do and I am constantly striving to improve, learn new ways of doing things, better ways of connecting with juries. My clients deserve no less. I am proud of all of the great work that my team and I have done for our clients. Some of the cases in which I have made the biggest difference for my clients have included traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, motorcycle accidents, trucking and car accidents, medical malpractice cases, insurance bad faith cases, and product liability lawsuits. One of my trial victories involves the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Sacramento County history. With a former law partner, I recovered $7.6 million on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to a Medical Center’s failure to diagnose a mass on her spine. For the past three years, I have personally represented hundreds of families and business owners who lost everything due to preventable wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and in the Napa, Sonoma and Lake County regions of California’s wine country. My team and I have recovered millions of dollars on their behalf, and as we continue to battle wildfires across the state, we are committed to rebuilding California’s beautiful landscape and infrastructure.

Mr. Martin has been practicing law in Sacramento and the surrounding communities for 18 years. A graduate of California State University, Sacramento, Mr. Martin went on to earn his law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. As the principal of the firm, Mr. Martin makes every effort to ensure that our clients are positioned for success in their respective cases by working with staff and attorneys to develop winning strategies and by providing the necessary oversight to see that those strategies are properly implemented. Mr. Martin prides himself on making sure that what needs to be done gets done. His professional philosophy has always been to aggressively seek a fair and just result even with the most difficult of cases.

Executive-level professional with a broad range of experience in law and business: I am the Managing Director of the Sterling Law Group, A Professional Corporation, that is comprised of several highly talented and well-seasoned attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, and legal secretaries.

Timothy obtained a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Timothy is licensed to practice in California and has been an active member of the California State Bar since 1987. He is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts. Timothy has a BV rating with Martindate-Hubbell. During Timothy’s extensive twenty-eight years of practice, he has litigated and tried cases in both state and federal courts. During the course of his practice, Timothy has tried an excess of thirty bench trials, almost all of them resulted in favorable decisions. Timothy’s practice consists exclusively of litigation since his admission to the bar. At present, it includes complex litigation, probate and trust litigation and planning, fiduciary abuse, business and commercial disputes, professional negligence, toxic tort, real estate, and commercial landlord-tenant disputes.

With more than 20 years of legal experience, Attorney Robert A. Carichoff is known as an accomplished personal injury attorney in Sacramento. He is passionate about obtaining justice on behalf of those who have been victimized by another’s negligence or recklessness. As a result of his extensive knowledge and legal experience, he has obtained millions of dollars for his clients. Mr. Carichoff takes pride in being able to positively impact the lives of his clients. In every case, he works diligently to ensure his clients have access to the medical resources they need to make the most complete recovery possible, even in cases where clients do not have health insurance. When he handles a case, Mr. Carichoff takes his time to understand the nature of the accident as well as the client’s entire story. Because juries do not always make decisions based on facts, Attorney Carichoff utilizes the facts in combination with the client’s story in order to prove how that client’s accident and injury have affected their day-to-day lives. Attorney Carichoff attends numerous lectures and conferences every year in which he learns from and collaborates with the absolute best injury attorneys in California and across the entire country. He does this as part of his commitment to stay at the cutting edge of trial strategy and practice so that the triumphs in your case are as great as they possibly can be. Attorney Carichoff has served as an attorney fee arbitrator for both the State Bar of California and the Sacramento Bar Association. He also worked as a settlement conference attorney for the Sacramento County Superior Court, helping lawyers and their clients settle fee disputes. The State Bar Certified Lawyer Referral Service has recognized Attorney Carichoff as a “Top-Rated” Lawyer.

Joseph Angelo proudly serves the Bay Area including San Francisco, Contra Costa and Alameda Counties in Bankruptcy.

Hi! I'm Elliot W. Gale, I am a managing partner at Gale, Angelo, Johnson & Patrick, P.C. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida in 2004 and love all things "Gators" related. Later, I earned my Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University in 2008 which started my career in law. Prior to opening my own firm, I was a Senior Associate at a consumer bankruptcy law firm for 9+ years and oversaw more than one thousand Chapter 7, chapter 13 filings and argued before both the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and the 9th Circuit Court of appeals. In my spare time, I love to go to car shows and spend time with my wife and children.