John Feder
Partner | Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn
John Feder is a wrongful death, product liability and medical malpractice trial lawyer and partner at Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn in San Francisco, California. J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
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San Francisco, California 94104
"You can't look at this as a job; you have to look at it as a calling."
John M. Feder is a San Francisco, California, personal injury and wrongful death trial attorney and partner at Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn. He has practiced for more than 40 years and represents injured people and their families in cases involving wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice, elder abuse, public entity liability, trucking accidents and bicycle and pedestrian collisions.
Feder began his career in defense litigation and moved to plaintiffs’ work after Ron Rouda recruited him. According to his firm biography, his results include a $20 million recovery in a wrongful death case involving a hotel’s dangerous condition, tried with June Bashant, and an $18,026,000 jury verdict in a dangerous roadway case, tried with Ronald H. Rouda. The firm also lists the highest motorcycle wrongful death settlement on record, reached on the eve of trial.
Feder served as president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association in 2007 and as state president of Consumer Attorneys of California in 2014. He has been listed in California Super Lawyers every year since 2006 and in Best Lawyers in America since 2013, and he has taught at UC Hastings College of Advocacy.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A. (1975)
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (Hastings), J.D.
- Law clerk to Judge Donald B. Constine, Superior Court of California (1977-1978)
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys of California (State President, 2014; Executive Committee and Board of Directors)
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (President, 2007)
- American Association for Justice
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- California Super Lawyers (every year since 2006)
- Best Lawyers in America (since 2013)
- Consumer Attorneys of California Presidential Award of Merit (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)
- Consumer Attorneys of California Attorney of the Year finalist (2006, 2010)
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Trial Lawyer of the Year finalist (2007)
- Nation's Top One Percent (2023)
- $20 Million Wrongful Death Recovery: Recovery in a wrongful death case involving a hotel's dangerous condition, handled with June Bashant.
- $18,026,000 Jury Verdict: Jury verdict in a dangerous roadway case, handled with Ronald H. Rouda.
- Motorcycle Wrongful Death Settlement: Settlement the firm describes as the highest motorcycle wrongful death settlement on record, reached on the eve of trial.
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