Nathan Verbiscar-Brown is an attorney at Steven Adair MacDonald & Partners, P.C. He is an experienced litigator, having represented clients in federal and state courts throughout California, as well as in New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Idaho. His practice areas include complex commercial litigation, construction litigation, franchise law, trademark enforcement, employment law, trespass, catastrophic personal injury, class action, and more. Over the first ten years of his practice, he obtained settlements and judgments in excess of $14,000,000. Nathan now applies his zeal for justice to real estate litigation, with an emphasis on landlord-tenant disputes. He firmly believes in the principles of civility, both within the courtroom and without, and he strives for timely and efficient resolution of his clients’ matters. Above all, Nathan is guided by his compassion and optimism. Nathan earned his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also earned a B.A. with Honors, graduating cum laude. He is admitted to practice in the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern District Courts of California, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoys swimming, skiing, and camping with his children. He is an Eagle Scout and a native son of Sonoma County, California.

James F. Regan is a native San Franciscan and has been an attorney for nearly 20 years. He was previously a partner at one of San Francisco’s oldest law firms. He is an experienced trial attorney and has been lead or co-counsel in multiple civil jury trials throughout California. He has argued pre- and post-trial motions and has argued before the California Court of Appeal multiple times. He has been named as a Rising Star by SuperLawyers in the area of civil litigation (only 2.5% of California Lawyers receive this designation). He is also a mediator.

 Prior to working in private practice, he was the Research Attorney in the Presiding Judge’s Department in San Francisco Superior Court.

 He graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory, University of San Francisco, and Western State College of Law, where he was student body Vice President. He lives in the West Portal neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife and daughters.

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.

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.

Jocelyn Burton has an in-depth understanding of the unique of the employment laws in California. Jocelyn Burton has over twenty-two years of legal experience and has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts. Jocelyn Burton has successfully litigated a variety of matters ranging from administrative employment cases to class actions with multiple plaintiffs and potential damages ranging in the millions.

William G. Panzer is a practicing lawyer in the state of California. Attorney Panzer received his J.D. from the Golden Gate University School of Law.

Personal Injury, Business, Civil Rights, Real Estate, Family Law

Larry is a family law specialist, certified by the California Board of Legal Specialization, with the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbell as AV-Preeminent. He has practiced family law exclusively since 1975, and was certified as a specialist at the beginning of the certification program in 1980. In addition to family law, Larry has had successful trials in San Francisco and Monterey involving damages to real and personal property. He has also litigated securities actions and estate proceedings. Larry has experience across the entire range of family law matters, including prenuptial agreements, child custody, and family law matters involving jurisdictional, bankruptcy, immigration, and tax issues. Larry was born in Reno, Nevada October 23, 1941, attended Reno High School (winning honors in debating and the state championship in extemporaneous speaking), and then attended Northwestern University where he was on the Inter Fraternity Council and acted as its Student Senate Representative and earned a B.A in Philosophy. He attended Hastings College of Law, was on the Moot Court Board, and graduated with a J.D in 1967. He then attended New York University, and earned an LL.M in Corporation Law. After returning to San Francisco, Larry became a partner in Cushing, Cullinan, Hancock and Rothert, before beginning his own law practice in family law. Larry's experience in family law grew with its evolution into one of the most complex, demanding areas of law practice. As part of this expanded range of experience, Larry became interested in the relationship between the management of complex family law issues of a more personal nature, particularly those involving child custody, and began to include a practice of regular consultation with therapists as a way to obtain better understanding of issue management in especially difficult situations. With his wife, Jan C. Thorpe, PhD, and Ron Grassi, now retired, Larry conducted a successful series of continuing education programs in San Francisco designed to expand the family law practitioner's use of consulting therapists to bring greater insight into family law issues, particularly in child custody cases. Larry continues to be fascinated with the variety and complexity of family law cases and derives great satisfaction in solving problems and bringing cases to a settled conclusion without litigation, if possible. It has been particularly rewarding for Larry to be able to practice family law with his sons, his daughter in law and his wife, who acts as a consultant, to whom Larry gives primary credit for engineering such a successful marriage of work and family life. Larry has been active in local community affairs, and is the past President of the Kensington Improvement Council. He is currently on the board of Directors of the Pacific Chamber Symphony (www.pacificchambersymphony.org).

When the legal system fails you, you can’t leave yourself or your child at the mercy of a judge and 12 jurors. Seth Morris has saved his clients from the grasp of the system time and time again by securing dismissals and no-time deals on murder cases and people facing life in prison.