Attorney Profiles

Rick Simons has been named one of "California's Top 100 Attorneys" by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He is considered one of the best East Bay lawyers in America*. Personal Injury Attorney, Rick Simons, has been a Northern California Super Lawyers (**) in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He was recognized by Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 attorneys in Northern California in 2008 and 2009. Rick was also named 2006 Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine. He was elected 1998 President of The Consumer Attorneys of California by his fellow trial attorneys, and was the host of the nationally broadcast radio show "The Consumer Rights Network".

In 2004, Mr. Simons was appointed "Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel" in the Coordination Proceedings involving Northern California cases arising from sexual abuse of children by priests of the Roman Catholic Church and other clergy. Mr. Simons was co-counsel for more than 125 of those victims, and the work he did alongside other members of the legal team representing these abuse survivors has resulted in over $150 million dollars in settlements and awards. Mr. Simons has obtained large jury verdicts, arbitration awards, and settlements for dozens of clients in cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, injuries from defective products, and many other fields. He has worked as Attorney for Plaintiffs in cases decided by both the California Supreme Court and California Courts of Appeal, as well as being lead Counsel in trials in the United States District Court and the Superior Courts of many California counties. Mr. Simons is a graduate of the University of California and its nationally ranked law school, Boalt Hall (1976).

* Published since 1983, Best Lawyers lists attorneys in 77 specialties, representing all 50 states, who have been chosen through an exhaustive survey in which thousands of the nation's top lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The 2007 edition of Best Lawyers, which was published in September 2006, is based on more than 1.7 million evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

** Super Lawyers magazine names attorneys in each state who received the highest point totals, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. Only 5% of the total lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.