Position: Member

TEL: (510) 451-6732

FAX: (510) 465-7023

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Admitted: California, 1980

Law School: University of San Francisco Law School

College: University of California, Berkeley

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Practice Areas: Plaintiff Personal Injury, Products Liability, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination, Bad Faith Insurance Practice, Car Wrecks, FELA Claims

Additional Information: See: Emily Torjusen v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al.

Anthony Petru was born in Bilericay, Essex, England on April 23, 1954 to Czech emigrees. His family settled in Southern California in 1960. He moved to Northern California in 1972 to attend UC Berkeley. Anthony graduated from Berkeley in 1976 with Honors in American Studies. He graduated from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1979. While in law school, he was honored to extern with the late California Supreme Court Justice Frank Newman. Additionally, he interned with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, Consumer Fraud Unit and the U.S. Attorney's Office, White Collar Crime Division. Anthony's first, and only legal job after graduation has been with Hildebrand, McLeod & Nelson, Inc. Since 1980, Anthony has represented men and women of virtually every craft from every railroad in the western United States. Anthony has procured numerous million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. In addition to railroad work, Anthony has represented consumers in a wide variety of cases including product liability, medical malpractice, wrongful termination, discrimination, bad faith insurance practice, and automobile cases. In those cases, he has also earned million-dollar recoveries. Anthony has been dedicated to advancing the ethical and professional practice of representing consumers, workers, and other individuals. He has been a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California (formerly the California Trial Lawyers Association), the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association (for which he has served on their Executive Board since 1987 and was president in 1994), the Alameda County Bar Association, the Alameda Democratic Lawyers Club, and has been found to possess the requisite skill, integrity and experience in the special art of advocacy by his peers to have been elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates. He also has been a speaker and presenter at a variety of legal education seminars. Anthony has been elected as a life member into the National Registry of Who's Who. Since 1990, Anthony has been asked by the Presiding Judges in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to sit as a Pro-Tem Judge. He has served as an Arbitrator, Mediator and Settlement Commissioner in numerous cases in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Anthony has served as a Board member of the PTA at his children's school and has coached soccer for over a decade. He is currently a referee. Anthony's hobbies include photography, tennis, camping, reading, and gardening. Attorneys Investigators

Firm Members: Scott Levy