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
POPA V. SIMPSON (2026) No. DJDAR 5141 Court of Appeal, Fourth District, California
Counsel has no ethical obligation to refrain from using inadvertently produced discovery if it is not clearly privileged, and disqualification is unwarranted if the produced discovery does not give counsel an unfair advantage in litigation.
READ MOREPITT v. SHEFLER (2026) DJDAR 5211 Court of Appeal, Second District, California
Courts can have specific personal jurisdiction over foreign litigants if there is sufficient contact with the forum, even if negotiations occur abroad.
READ MOREDivision of Occupational Safety and Health v. Uber Technologies Inc. (2026) DJDAR 4970 Court of Appeal, Second District, California
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health may subpoena records to determine whether Uber driver was an employee and investigate fatal workplace accident without first proving jurisdiction.
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