Frank Pitre

Frank M. Pitre is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, based in the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office in Burlingame, California. He represents victims in personal injury and wrongful death cases, mass torts, consumer fraud and commercial tort litigation, and he has held leadership roles in many of the largest wildfire, aviation and product cases in the country.

Since 2018 he has served as co-lead counsel for victims of the North Bay and Camp fires against PG&E, and he was retained by the trustee of the Fire Victim Trust as lead counsel in a derivative case that recovered $117 million from former PG&E officers and directors. He serves on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the Maui wildfire cases and on the plaintiffs’ executive committee in litigation over the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash. Earlier, he was co-lead counsel for economic loss plaintiffs in the Toyota unintended acceleration cases, which settled for $1.5 billion, and co-lead trial counsel in the Bextra and Celebrex litigation.

A San Francisco native, Pitre earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration, cum laude, and his law degree from the University of San Francisco. He is a past president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, the San Francisco chapter of ABOTA and Cal-ABOTA, and a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. The Consumer Attorneys of California named him Consumer Attorney of the Year in 2013. Since 1998 he has authored California Personal Injury Proof for California Continuing Education of the Bar.