Innovative & Successful Trial Attorneys
At Matheny Sears Linkert & Jaime, LLP we take pride in our reputation as innovative and successful trial attorneys with decades of litigation experience. We are trial attorneys who actually try cases. The two named partners have been elected as members of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and many of our other attorneys have first-chaired their own trials. We have earned a statewide reputation for
effective defense strategies that produce favorable resolutions, including dispositive motion and favorable settlements. If a case has to be tried, we are fully prepared to take the case to a jury-even on short notice and are proud of our track record.
Defending Catastrophic Exposure Cases Throughout California
We take pride in being a boutique trial firm capable of defending catastrophic exposure cases in a variety of scenarios that include personal injuries, products liability, transportation and trucking, premises liability, wildfire litigation, public entity (dangerous condition and sexual abuse), major construction defect cases, and employment litigation. Our ability to hold down damages using innovative litigation resolution strategies, effective dispositive motions, and trial spans the last 40 years. We are also proud of our record of defense verdicts in difficult cases.
Cases of Interest
J.N. et al., v. Jeffrey GOLDBERG (2026) No. B345334 Court of Appeal, Second District, California
Section 128.7 sanctions motion was defective for failing to specify a hearing date due to CRS limitations on reserving dates within the 21-day safe harbor period.
READ MOREChang v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1, California.
The trial court ruled that there was no dispute that Dr. Doremus was commuting to work when she turned into a parking lot for a personal errand and therefore the going and coming rule clearly applied and no exception was met.
READ MORELAOSD Asbestos Cases (Chapman v. Avon Products, Inc.) 118 Cal.App.5th 1041 (Cal. Ct. App. 2d Dist. 2026)
The Court of Appeal held that Avon waived its Kelly/Frye challenge entirely and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting Dr. Longo's testimony under the Sargon reliability standard.
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