On February 19, 2015, Daniel J. Callahan, founding partner of Callahan & Blaine, received an overwhelmingly positive response on his presentation on starting your own law firm, which was held in Newport Beach and attended by lawyers and court personnel.
Mr. Callahan was a featured speaker at the seminar put on by the Orange County Bar Association entitled “Homegrown Success Stories: Thriving Firms in Orange County and How They Got There.”
Mr. Callahan spoke on numerous topics, including how Callahan & Blaine got started more than 30 years ago, the history and success of the firm, early challenges, managing people, marketing and advertising, ethical issues and best practices for boutique litigation firms. Mr. Callahan also provided lessons and tips on how to develop the skills to manage a medium-sized firm that provides high quality legal services to clients.
Callahan & Blaine is one of the leading catastrophic Orange County personal injury law firms. In fact, in the last five years alone our lawyers have obtained over $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including a record breaking $50 Million settlement against the City of Dana Point, which has been certified as the largest personal injury settlement in the history of the United States.
Callahan & Blaine also has numerous other record-breaking verdicts and settlement in Orange County, including the largest jury verdict in the history of Orange County ($934 Million), the largest class action settlement ($38 Million), the largest insurance bad faith judgment ($58 Million) and the largest employment law settlement ($38 Million). Callahan & Blaine also has recent personal injury settlements of $28 Million for a driver who was hit by a runaway truck wheel on the freeway, $17 Million for a bicycle accident on Pacific Coast Highway, $7.25 Million for a bus accident, $7 Million for a bicyclist who was struck by a delivery truck, and $6 Million for a bicyclist struck by an airport shuttle bus.
If you or someone you know has suffered a catastrophic injury or died as the result of an accident, please contact our Orange County law firm for expert legal counsel.