Attorney Biographies

JOHN D. WINER      

John D. Winer is recognized State-wide by his colleagues as an outstanding litigation and trial attorney. He has obtained record setting verdicts and settlements totaling well over $90,000,000 over the last 25 years. Mr. Winer is frequently asked to lecture to other attorneys in his areas of specialty which includes all types of personal injury cases, defective products, settlement of significant cases and litigation techniques. In 1994, he spoke on a program with Johnnie Cochran on "Protecting the Young and Oppressed, the Mentally Ill and Incapacitated".

He has received many awards for his contribution to the trial bar including four California Trial Lawyer Association Presidential Awards of Merit and one California Trial Lawyer Association Outstanding Achievement Award.

Mr. Winer has received the Martindale-Hubbell AV rating which "is a public confirmation of the status [he] has achieved as a highly respected, ethical member of the bar. It signifies that [his] legal abilities are of the very highest standard and that [his] professional ethics and conduct are above question," John Agel, Vice President, Ratings, Martindale-Hubbell.

He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and a number of his cases have received wide media attention.

Mr. Winer has been recognized as a leader in the San Francisco and State-wide trial bar. He was a Vice President of the Consumer Attorneys of California, the largest plaintiffs' attorney State-wide organization in the country, for six years and he was recently the President of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, a leading plaintiff attorney organization in San Francisco.

John D. Winer understands drug litigation. In his work as Vice President of The Consumer Attorneys of California and California Trial Lawyer's Association for 6 years and as an executive board member and board member for another ten years, Mr. Winer has had to frequently review legislation proposed to protect drug manufacturers from legal liability. In the course of that work he has become familiar with the way that these manufacturers attempt to influence legislators to take away the rights of people injured by their unsafe and dangerous products. Along with the leadership of CAOC and CTLA Mr. Winer has helped prevent any significant pro-drug company legislation from passing in California.

Mr. Winer in his role as convention chairman for a number of Trial Lawyer and Consumer Attorney Conventions has helped organize seminars aimed at educating plaintiff attorneys on strategies to take on the Big Drug Companies in defective drug cases.

Mr. Winer has extensive trial experience. He has tried over a dozen civil cases with significant drug issues and has settled hundreds of others.

Many of the clients of the Law Offices of John D. Winer are involved in lawsuits in which the prescription drug medication they are taking is a significant issue in the case. Because of that, Mr. Winer and members of his firm have developed special knowledge in the area of pharmacology and psychopharmacology. In fact, as part of his training once Mr. Winer became a lawyer in 1979, he enrolled in a anatomy class for pharmacy students in which he not only learned about the chemical make up of drugs and drug interactions, but actually performed a 12 week autopsy on a human corpse with other pharmacy students.

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