
Christopher B. Dolan San Francisco, California
Consumer Trial Lawyer of the Year -- California Christopher B. Dolan is an experienced civil trial attorney having successfully tried over 40 trials to verdict with numerous multi million dollar results on behalf of satisfied clients. Mr. Dolan, bilingual in English and Spanish, only represents individuals who have been injured, denied their rights, harassed, or wrongfully terminated. Christopher B. Dolan, has been selected from among all of California's Lawyers as the Consumer Attorney of the Year for California and has been honored by the California Lawyer as a recipient of the prestigious Clay award selecting him as the preeminent lawyer in the field of employment related matters from over 100,000 other attorneys. Additionally, Chris has been repeatedly nominated as trial lawyer of the year for San Francisco, designated as a California Super Lawyer, and listed as among the top lawyers in Northern California. Mr. Dolan has been given the highest rating for ability and ethics (AV rated) by the legal rating service of Martindale-Hubbell. He has been named one of California's Super Lawyers and has been featured as a guest on The O'Reilly Factor, Dateline NBC, KRON 4 News, and CBS News. His cases have been reported in The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Independent, Marin Independent Journal, The Recorder, The Daily Journal and the Pulitzer Prize Winning Point Reyes Light. Mr. Dolan founded The Dolan Law firm in 1995 and has managed its growth from a sole proprietorship to a group of eight attorneys and 16 staff members now located in The Dolan Building in downtown San Francisco. He is widely recognized as a skilled, aggressive, effective advocate for the rights of injured people and people those who have been treated unlawfully in the workplace. Mr. Dolan serves as a Board Member of the Consumer Attorneys of California, The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, and the San Francisco Motorcycle and Scooter Coalition. He is a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum a nationwide group of trial lawyers whose advocacy has resulted in settlements and/or verdicts in one or more cases with an individual value in excess of $1,000,000.00. He is a frequent lecturer on legal issues such as governmental liability, dangerous conditions of public property, jury selection, the use of experts, employment law, and municipal transit system litigation. He is often recruited by other attorneys to handle difficult and challenging cases. Mr. Dolan has tried lawsuits against some of the largest governmental entities such as the State of California, The City and County of San Francisco; the largest Insurance companies such as Allstate, Farmers Insurance, AAA, State Farm, and Mercury; as well as Fortune 500 Companies such as United Airlines therein obtaining significant results for his clients. Mr. Dolan has authored numerous scholarly legal articles that have been published in FORUM magazine and TRIAL Magazine. He has had his writings included in academic texts used by legal practitioners in the field. He has participated in drafting laws to protect consumers' rights to a fair trial and regularly appears as a witness before the California State Legislature. Mr. Dolan is an avid motorcyclist having ridden over 250,000 miles throughout five countries. He is a photographer as well as an author.
Personal Injury or Serious Injury
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Our firm and lawyers handle cases throughout Northern California including, but not limited to the areas, counties or cities of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Eureka, San Rafael, San Jose, Santa Rosa, San Mateo, Oakland, Fremont, East Bay, Piedmont, Alameda, Marin, Contra Costa, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Gilroy, Richmond, Hayward, Stockton, Modesto, Highway 101, Highway 1, Highway 580, Highway 880, Highway 24, Highway 137, Highway 4, Highway 280, Highway 17, Highway 157 and more.