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    Aimee Kirby

    Managing Attorney | Dolan Law Firm

    Aimee Kirby is a personal injury, wrongful death and car accidents trial lawyer and managing attorney at Dolan Law Firm in San Francisco, California. Admitted in California, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Texas.

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    Meet Aimee

    Contact

    (415) 421-2800
    1438 Market St
    San Francisco, California 94102

    Aimee Kirby is the managing attorney of the torts practice group and a senior trial attorney at the Dolan Law Firm in California. She oversees serious injury and wrongful death cases, and her work has included claims involving child abuse and police brutality. She has more than 15 years of courtroom experience and is also admitted in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Texas.

    Kirby has tried 20 cases and resolved hundreds more, recovering more than $50 million for clients, according to the firm. Her verdicts include $11.9 million for a motorcyclist paralyzed in a crash with a truck, $4.35 million against the State of California over a missing curve-warning sign on a mountain highway, and $4 million in a case over a restaurant’s parking-lot traffic design. She has handled vehicle crashes, dangerous products, dog bites, elder neglect, public-transit injuries, premises liability and student abuse cases.

    She serves on the boards of governors of the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, was 2015 president of Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities, and has twice been a CAALA Trial Attorney of the Year finalist. Kirby mentors young women and minority lawyers, speaks on forensic evidence and damages, and volunteers in the Los Angeles Superior Court system and with animal rescue groups.

    Experience and Expertise

    Qualifications

    Timeline

    • Admitted to practice in California
    • Admitted to practice in Arizona
    • Admitted to practice in Nevada
    • Admitted to practice in Georgia
    • Admitted to practice in Texas

    Practice Areas

    Personal Injury
    40%
    Wrongful Death
    20%
    Car Accidents
    15%
    Premises Liability
    10%
    Product Liability
    10%
    Nursing Home Abuse
    5%
    • $11.9 Million Jury Verdict: Choy v. Hatishu: for a motorcycle rider who suffered paralysis and needed facial reconstruction after a collision with a negligent truck driver.
    • $4.35 Million Jury Verdict: Savage v. State of California: Caltrans failed to replace a downed curve-warning sign on a mountain highway, and the plaintiffs drove off the mountainside and were catastrophically injured.
    • $4 Million Jury Verdict: Codner v. Wills: faulty parking-control design at a fast-food restaurant contributed to a crash that injured a father and son on a motorcycle.

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