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JOSEPH BREALL

Mr. Breall has over 20 years of specialization in construction defect, employment and complex civil litigation.  As a former senior attorney at Bronson, Bronson, & McKinnon, and currently at his own firm of Breall & Breall LLP, Mr. Breall has been in charge of overseeing both complex commercial and real estate and construction litigation, in addition to major employment discrimination disputes.

 

Mr. Breall has represented many regional and national companies, including Varian Associates, American Restaurant Group, Whitney Cressman, Ltd.  Yellow Freight, Cushman & Wakefield, Armax International, Inc., Fremont Insurance Company, and Industrial Indemnity Insurance Company, Everest National Insurance Company, Berkshire Hathaway,  and Acacia Pacific Holdings, Inc .

 

Representative Engagements include:

 

t                   Representing National Insurance Companies regarding allegations of Age Discrimination and sexual harassment. 

 

t                   Representing Major Developer in front of State Labor Board and State Agencies dealing with wage and labor claims.

 

t                   Representing and counseling National Association of Emergency Room doctors regarding covenants not to compete and labor issues.

 

t                   Representing major transportation companies regarding both commercial litigation and discrimination claims.       

 

t                   Prosecuting multi million dollar construction defects and breach of contract claims against contractors on large scale construction projects.

 

Mr. Breall has tried to juries, over a hundred complex litigation matters through the State of California in both State and Federal Courts.  He has written articles for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Business Times and the San Francisco Recorder Newspaper regarding a wide range of subjects dealing with trial work and liabilities issues including, the changing aspects of litigation and trial tactics in the age of technology.  In addition, Mr. Breall has lectured at Golden Gate University Law School on handling complex litigation.  Mr. Breall is a graduate of University of California Hastings College of the Law.

SOPHIE BREALL

Sophie Breall graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1989 and was admitted to the Bar in 1990.  She has over 17 years of specialization in Workers’ Compensation Defense and Employment Law.  She has successfully litigated cases through Reconsideration and up to the California Court of Appeals.  Ms Breall has been a supervising attorney for the City Attorney’s office in San Francisco as well as a supervising attorney for the Worker’s Compensation Department at CAN Insurance.

Ms. Breall has and continues to provide seminars on various changes to the laws in worker’s compensation as well as seminars to human resource departments on discrimination in the workplace.

ROBERT B. LEE

Robert Lee specializes in employment law and civil litigation.  Prior to attending law school, Mr. Lee worked in Human Resources at an international technology corporation.  This experience gives him valuable insight into the needs of businesses juxtaposed against current laws.

 

In his legal career, Mr. Lee has worked at both Federal and State government organizations, including the Untied States Department of Labor and the Fair Employment & Housing Commission.  Mr. Lee has provided compliance assistance to firms of all sizes as employment and employee benefit laws change.  Mr. Lee also drafted the first version of AB 1825, California’s Mandatory Harassment Training Law.

 

Mr. Lee speaks Mandarin Chinese and is thus able to help Chinese clients in their native language.  As an associate at Breall & Breall, Mr. Lee has handled litigation involving employment discrimination, libel and slander, personal injury, and contract disputes.

BILL PARRISH
            Bill Parrish is ‘of counsel’ to Breall & Breall LLP specializing in Worker's Compensation as well as Longshore and Harborworkers' Union law, with particular emphasis on asbestos related cases. He graduated from Hastings College of the Law in 1965. From 1965 to 1974 he practiced with Wausau Insurance Co. as a Trial Attorney. Following this until 1978 he practiced as a Partner at Mullen and Fillipi Law Offices. Beginning in 1978 Bill entered private practice.

 

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