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Attorney Profile

Scott P. Nealey
Partner
San Francisco
Practice Areas Include: Consumer Protection
Products Liability
Securities Fraud
E-Mail: snealey@lchb.com
Phone: (415) 956-1000
Fax: (415) 956-1008
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Bar Information
  Admitted to practice in California, 1997; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1998; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1998; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1999; U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2000.
Education
  Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1996); University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1988).
Awards & Honors
  California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Award, 2008; Finalist, San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year, 2008
Litigation Experience
  Mr. Nealey has participated in numerous complex, class action and personal injury trials, including class action trials against State Farm and Allstate, a major securities fraud trial, and most recently he was the co-lead trial attorney in a trial against DaimlerChrysler for the death of a dockworker killed by a park-to-reverse defect in a Dodge Dakota which resulted in a $55.2 million award, including $50 in punitive damages. In addition to the recent judgment in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Mr. Nealey has also participated in major trials resulting in verdicts of $1.18 billion and $169 million. Mr. Nealey also has an active appellate practice, having authored over 30 appellate and Amicus briefs, and has successfully argued cases in appellate courts nationwide. He has an active practice involving consumer protection class actions, product defect cases on both an individual injury and class action basis, defective drug personal injury litigation, and other complex litigation.
Prior Employment
  Law Clerk to Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1996-97.
Publications
  Contributing Author, California Class Actions Practice and Procedures (Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Editor-in-Chief, 2003).
Member
  Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California.
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