Blog: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

For the fifth time, James R. Lewis was named as a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers. Mr. Lewis joins an exclusive list of the top 5% of attorneys in Northern California for 2017. Since 2012, Mr. Lewis has been recognized by his peers and the community as one of the best lawyers in Northern California. …

For the fourth time, James R. Lewis was named as a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers. Mr. Lewis joins an exclusive list of the top 5% of attorneys in Northern California for 2016. Since 2012, Mr. Lewis has been recognized by his peers and the community as one of the best lawyers in Northern California. …

James R. Lewis was named today as the newest member of the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association (CCTLA) Board of Directors. CCTLA is the voice of and for Sacramento Trial Attorneys. Founded in the early 1950s to create a meaningful source of information about Sacramento juries, CCTLA has grown into an effective guild of trial…

James R. Lewis was named to Sacramento Magazine’s 2015 Top Lawyers list in the category of Personal Injury General, which appears in the August 2015 issue.

James R. Lewis received the 2014 Top Attorneys – Northern California’s Outstanding Young Lawyers recognition as published in San Francisco Magazine.

For the third consecutive year, James R. Lewis was named as a Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers. Mr. Lewis joins an exclusive list of the top up-and-coming attorneys in Northern California for 2014. Attorneys selected for inclusion in the list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are nominated by their peers before undergoing “rigorous”…

California’s Second District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court’s denial of an employer’s petition to compel arbitration of a sexual harassment claim, based on….the fact that the employee never signed the new employee handbook which contained a mandatory arbitration clause for all employment matters.  The employer argued that the employee knew the clause existed,…

My clients were the wife and three adult daughters of husband “Joe”.  Joe died in the hospital from injuries he sustained two weeks prior  in a two-vehicle car accident on the interstate.  Joe was a passenger in his drunk friend’s car when his friend rear-ended a legally stopped vehicle.  The driver’s insurance company (another large…

My client, a passenger in a vehicle driven by her cousin, was ejected when the vehicle hydroplanes on a wet highway. She was taken by ambulance to the ER with severe injuries including a traumatic brain injury. The cousin was driving her uncle’s vehicle. The uncle only has $50,000 in coverage, which is quickly tendered…

James R. Lewis was named as a Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers.  Mr. Lewis joins an exclusive list of the top up-and-coming attorneys in Northern California for 2012.  Attorneys selected for inclusion in the list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are nominated by their peers before undergoing “rigorous” evaluations in a number…