Thomas Brandi
Founding Partner | The Brandi Law Firm
Thomas Brandi is a personal injury, wrongful death and product liability trial lawyer and founding partner at The Brandi Law Firm in San Francisco, California. J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law.
Meet Thomas
Thomas J. Brandi is the founding partner of The Brandi Law Firm in San Francisco, California, which he started in 1992. For more than four decades he has represented injured people and families in personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, consumer protection and mass tort cases in California and nationally.
A San Francisco native, Brandi graduated from Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, attended San Jose State University and earned his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law while working full time. He worked for the State of California and then Abramson & Smith before forming a partnership that preceded his own firm. He has tried cases to verdict in 18 California counties and two federal courts.
His verdicts include a $1.382 billion class action verdict in San Francisco and verdicts of $29.3 million in Solano County, $26.6 million in Santa Clara County and $15.3 million in San Luis Obispo County. He has held court-appointed leadership roles in litigation including the California Fen-Phen, Alaska Airlines crash, Fosamax, ACTOS and Ghost Ship fire cases. He is a past president of Consumer Attorneys of California (2000) and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and has taught trial practice at his law school since 2003. He also serves as Honorary Consul for Slovenia.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- California Bar, 1972
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Central Districts of California, 1972
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1982
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Supreme Court
- J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys of California (President, 2000)
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1998)
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Bar Association of San Francisco (Director, 2002-2003)
- American Association for Justice
- Italian American Bar Association
- Attorneys Information Exchange Group
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
- Litigation Counsel of America
- Judicial Council Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee
- Trial Lawyer of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2004
- Robert E. Cartwright Award, Consumer Attorneys of California
- Best Lawyers, San Francisco Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year, 2013
- State Bar of California Litigation Section Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, 2016
- Lawdragon Plaintiff Consumer Attorney Hall of Fame, 2020
- CLAY Award, 2021
- Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
- The Best Lawyers in America, 1995-2027
- Distinguished Alumni of the Year, University of San Francisco
- $1.382 Billion Verdict: Class action jury verdict in San Francisco.
- $29.3 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in Solano County.
- $26.6 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in Santa Clara County.
- $15.3 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in San Luis Obispo County.
- $15 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in San Francisco.
- $14 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in San Mateo County.
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