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Christopher Dolan is featured on the front cover of Top 100 Registry's quarterly Top 100 Lawyers
publication. Christopher is the Founder and Chief Legal Counsel of the Dolan Law Firm, in San
Francisco, California. Mr. Dolan has spearheaded significant and challenging lawsuits filed in
California state and federal courts against insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies, cities,
other public agencies, and product manufacturers.
San Francisco, CA, April 14, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Christopher B. Dolan, M.S.M., J.D., is the founder and
Chief Legal Counsel of the Dolan Law Firm, San Francisco, California. Recognized as one of the top
plaintiff’s lawyers in California, he spearheaded significant and challenging lawsuits filed in California
state and federal courts against insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies, cities, other public
agencies, and product manufacturers.
Chris received his B.S., magna cum laude, from Boston University, Boston, Mass., his Masters in
Management, First Scholar, from Boston University, London, England, and his J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center, magna cum laude, Washington, D.C. He founded what is now the Dolan Law
Firm P.C. in 1995 in San Francisco, California, when he was just two years out of Law School and has
managed its growth to one of the most highly regarded. and successful, plaintiff’s boutiques with 17
attorneys in offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. The Dolan Law Firm handles cases
involving catastrophic personal injury, elder abuse, employment law and civil rights. Chris says that his
firm slogan should be “Torts R Us.”
Chris has received numerous awards from his peers including the Trial Lawyer of the Year for the State
of California, from the Consumer Attorneys of California, Trial Lawyer of the Year, twice, from the San
Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Trial Lawyer of the Year from the Marin Trial Lawyers
Association, Trial of the Year from the Alameda County Bar Association and has been a Finalist for the
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. He has been awarded
the prestigious California Lawyer of the Year award (CLAY), from the California Reporter, has been
repeatedly selected as one of the top 25 Plaintiff’s Lawyers, and as one of the Top 100 Lawyers, in
California, by the Daily Journal. The Consumer Attorneys of California have given Chris the Edward I.
Pollock Award for dedication to the ideals of the Plaintiff’s Bar and the Marvin E. Lewis Award for
guidance, loyalty, and dedication to the profession. The Dolan Law Firm has been repeatedly selected as
the Best Personal Injury Law Firm in San Francisco by the S.F. Examiner and S.F. weekly publications.
Chris has served as President of the Consumer Attorneys of California and the San Francisco Trial
Lawyers Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the American Association of
Justice.
Chris has tried over 50 cases to Judgement or verdict. His results include the largest recorded verdict for
national origin harassment in the workplace ($61,000,000.00) and multiple seven and eight figure
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verdicts. The Dolan Law Firm has recovered over $700,000,000.00 in verdicts and settlements for clients
since it was founded 25 years ago.
Chris attributes his success to his being a “highly educated juvenile delinquent” who has railed against
injustice since he was a young child growing up in a dysfunctional, frequently violent, home. He states, “I
turned survival skills crafted from my own experience with injustice into forceful and empowering tools
which have made me stronger and a better advocate for others who have suffered from the abuse of power
and circumstances beyond their control. I found the one thing that my bitter upbringing uniquely
programed me for is being a trial lawyer who gets to fight with the facts, in front of a jury, in a courtroom
where I can’t get punched in the face for insisting on truth.”
Chris, with CAOC, has helped pass numerous laws relating to consumer protection including the first of
its kind law requiring Uber, Lyft and other TNC’s to provide insurance for the injuries caused by their
drivers as well as a requiring creating closed medical records systems to prevent alteration and/or deletion
of critical data regarding care and medical negligence. He is currently working on legislation, and is
advancing an appeal, designed to hold Amazon strictly liable for the sale of dangerous products.
Chris has developed an interest in end-of-life issues exemplified by pro-bono case involving Jahi
McMath, a 13-year-old African American Girl, who was diagnosed as “brain dead” following medical
malpractice. Dolan filed for an injunction against the doctors who, despite Jahi’s mother’s objection,
sought to terminate her life by removing her from life support and received a precedent setting ruling
declaring that relatives have rights to object to a brain death determination and obtain an independent
medical evaluation. Dolan fought to keep Jahi alive until she was moved to New Jersey, where there is a
religious exemption to brain death. Despite doctors declaring under oath that Jahi would be dead in a
matter of days, she lived for over four years with the proper care and is the only known person to have
two different death certificates, with different dates, and causes of death. Dolan said, “Fighting for Jahi
and her mother was the ultimate 'underdog fight.' Jahi and her mother were no match for the medical
establishment, transplant community and insurance companies, all who wanted her dead to serve their
purposes. It was a brutal battle that called my own religious and spiritual values into question. It was
around Christmas, and I was going to church to thank God for the miraculous birth of his only son, who
could raise people from the dead, and I had to ask myself; ‘do I have and practice a faith, or is it just a
nice seasonal fairytale?’ I decided I was going all in.” The case subjected Dolan and his clients to death
threats. Chris said, “If you are riling up people that much you know you are close to the nerve of change.”
Dolan’s work on brain death continues and he serves as an invited Observer on the current Uniform Law
Revision Commission on the review of the Uniform Determination of Death Act.
He spends his time between his homes in Marin County, California, Bend, Oregon, and Martha’s
Vineyard, Massachusetts, with his wife Julie and their two children, Audrey and Jack.
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Contact Information:
Top 100 Registry Inc.
David Lerner
855-785-2514
Contact via Email
www.top100registry.com
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