Profile - Paul Caleo

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Company

Burnham Brown
1901 Harrison St 14th Fl
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone

(510) 835-6809

Member Bio

Practice Experience

• One of the firm's premier trial lawyers who has extensive experience in complex tort, personal injury and large loss cases involving claims of products liability, premises liability, government and public entity defense, construction site accidents and trucking/motor carrier accidents

• Routinely represents retail corporations of all sizes in a wide variety of cases including wrongful death, serious personal injuries, loss prevention and retail theft cases, and injuries caused by the criminal acts of third parties, in addition to prosecuting and defending contractual indemnity claims and breach of retail lease contract claims

• Practiced law in his native Australia for four and one half years as a criminal defense attorney with one of the country's leading trial lawyers, Frank Galbally, and had the opportunity to defend clients charged with offenses ranging from murder and other serious felonies to misdemeanor battery and miscellaneous drug charges

Litigation

• Substantial trial experience including approximately 38 jury trials overall, and 14 jury trials and two binding arbitrations over the past nine years involving cases ranging from a wrongful death product liability suit; multiple retail store negligence cases; a retail theft battery and false imprisonment case; design defect and failure to warn; and six cases involving traumatic brain injuries, PTSD and related cognitive deficits. His jury trial experience includes defending a tortious business interference case, as well as defending injury claims at trial involving a permanent vegetative state, fibromyalgia and TMJ syndrome. In the bifurcated phase of the wrongful death product liability trial, he successfully defensed the claim again his client of successor liability

• Defends manufacturers, retailers and distributors of commercial and consumer products in cases involving claims of design defect, manufacturing defect, failure to warn and breach of warranty

• Continues to represent trucking companies and motor carriers in catastrophic accidents and regulatory compliance matters. Is a member of Burnham Brown's 24-Hour Client Response Team

• Represents restaurants and hospitality industry clients in a wide variety of litigation matters

• Experience in defending toxic exposure cases

Advice and Counsel

• Provides risk management and strategic advice and counsel to clients on litigation avoidance and Medicare Reimbursement Claims

Professional Associations

• Has the highest available rating in Legal Ability and Ethics from Martindale-Hubbell

• Member of the State Bar of California, the Law Institute of Victoria, Australia, the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the National Retail Federation (NRF), the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), Advance Australia, the Melbourne Cricket Club, The Harmonie Group, the National Retail & Restaurant Defense Association (NRRDA) and the Council of Litigation Management (CLM).

Firm Information

Burnham Brown is one of Northern California's pre-eminent business counseling and litigation firms, offering clients leading-edge expertise and strategic guidance. Our services and expertise are aligned with our clients' personal, commercial, and corporate goals. With every matter, we successfully combine the expertise and personal attention of a small practice with the resources of a large, full-service law firm, thus enabling our firm to incorporate our Mission Statement. "To provide our clients with excellent legal services that meet their objectives."

Located in Oakland, California, we serve our clients' needs across the nation. Our extensive experience enables us to offer quality legal representation with the benefit of local knowledge. Our philosophy is to provide a high level of service in an efficient and result oriented manner.

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Products Liability
Transportation/Trucking

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