California's Premier Litigation Firm: An Overview
Callahan & Blaine is California's Premier Litigation Firm. Founded in 1984, Callahan & Blaine has been achieving record-breaking verdicts and settlements for over 25 years in all areas of complex litigation. For example, Callahan & Blaine has the highest jury verdict in Orange County history, a $934 million jury verdict achieved after a three-month trial in Beckman Coulter v. Flextronics, a complex business litigation case. Likewise, in a complex municipal liability case, Callahan & Blaine obtained a $50 million settlement that has been certified by West Trial Digest as the largest personal injury settlement in the history of the United States.
Callahan & Blaine is led by its managing partner Daniel J. Callahan. Dan Callahan is known and respected as one of the top trial lawyers in the United States. Dan's honors and accomplishments include the following:
- Dan has been named one of the Top 10 Attorneys in the United States by the National Law Journal.
- Dan has been named a California Lawyer of The Year by California Lawyer magazine.
- Dan has been featured in Best Lawyers of America from 2005 to 2010.
- Dan has been honored as one of the Top 500 Attorneys in the United States by the prestigious Law Dragon 500 publication.
- Dan is featured in Super Lawyers, Outstanding Lawyers of America, Pre-Eminent Lawyers of America and many other publications as one of the premier trial attorneys in the United States. Dan has been named as one of the Top 50 Super Lawyers in Orange County each year from 2006 to 2010.
A Law Firm With Success, Experience and Excellence in Civil Trial Practice
Each of the 25 senior attorneys at Callahan & Blaine is an experienced and accomplished litigator. Many of them have experience and expertise in the substantive legal issues that can lie at the heart of a complicated litigation problem: intellectual property, trade secrets, employment law, real estate, insurance law, business torts or corporate governance.
For example, Edward Susolik is the head of Callahan & Blaine's Insurance Department. Ed has been responsible for many multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements over the years, including recent settlements in the amount of $50 million, $28 million and $10 million. He has recovered over $750 million on behalf of his clients over the last 15 years. Ed was recently named one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Southern California for 2010.
To learn how you stand to benefit from working with a law firm specifically built to excel in civil trial practice, contact our office in Santa Ana.
Experience Counts When You're Facing a Dispute
Every one of our 25 lawyers is an experienced and accomplished litigator. All of our lawyers have at least seven years experience, so we have no young lawyers who are learning to practice law on the client's nickel.
As a result, most of our lawyers have 15 to 25 years of experience, and even our least experienced attorneys have been practicing long enough to make partner at established law firms. We therefore bring more than 500 years of aggregated legal experience to bear on litigation problems in business and commercial law, corporate disputes, insurance coverage questions, and personal injury claims in Southern California or around the United States.
Our trial lawyers and litigators are more experienced, more effective and more efficient. We get better results at greater value. High quality. Lower price. Our corporate clients love the Callahan & Blaine paradigm.
Find Out How You Can Benefit From the Counsel of World-Class Litigators
Our approach to client service in civil litigation is aggressive, sophisticated, efficient and confident. We not only work toward achieving the best possible result for our plaintiff or defendant clients on their immediate problems, we identify and pursue counterclaims and cross-claims that might be anything but obvious at the outset of a case.
We know how to get the maximum mileage out of any available insurance coverage to support litigation expenses, expand indemnification rights, or recover losses suffered through negligence, fraud or business torts.
Callahan & Blaine works with corporate and professional clients of all sizes while at the same time serving the needs of accident victims throughout Orange County and Southern California. For more information about our distinctive approach to client service in complex civil litigation, contact us in Santa Ana.
