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Practice Areas: Insurance Defense, Professional Negligence Defense, Public Entity Defense, Products Liability Claim Defense, Workers Compensation, Civil Litigation

Additional Information: Howard Rome Martin & Ridley is an AV-rated firm whose principals have been in active practice in San Mateo County for over 30 years. We are centrally located on the San Francisco Peninsula halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. We are located approximately 30 minutes away from the courthouses in those cities, and serve the greater Bay Area, including Monterey, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and San Francisco Counties.

The firm has extensive litigation experience in matters of insurance defense, professional negligence, public entity defense, product liability claims, workers' compensation subrogation, landslide and subsidence claims, construction defect claims, defense of §1983 civil rights and police excessive force cases, wrongful termination, workplace harassment and other employment claims, and experience in a wide range of environmental litigation, including asbestos, chemicals associated with the electronics and dry-cleaning industries, as well as petroleum contamination.