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Monday, December 21, 2009

San Diego's Oldest Plaintiffs' Law Firm Expands Partnership

Casey Gerry — San Diego's oldest plaintiff's law close — has afresh animated longtime chief accessory Thomas Luneau to partner.

Luneau joins adept ally Gayle Blatt, David S. Casey Jr., Robert Francavilla, Thomas Penfield and Frederick Schenk.

“We are appreciative to aggrandize our affiliation with such an admirable advocate -- Tom's advance is a acceptance of his outstanding accomplishments and adherence to our close and the community,” said David S. Casey Jr., a chief accomplice with the firm. “His across of expertise, acquaintance and adherence to the profession will abide to serve Casey Gerry well.”

Earning abundant multi-million verdicts and settlements for his clients, Luneau focuses his convenance primarily on claimed injury, articles accountability and noncombatant rights, and has all-encompassing acquaintance with a abounding area of cases, including trucking cases and Rhino ATV roll-overs. In addition, he has auspiciously represented cadre from law administration agencies that include: the San Diego Police Department, San Diego County Sheriffs Department, the California Highway Patrol, the Riverside County Sheriffs Department, as able-bodied as aggressive cadre including U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy admiral and enlisted servicemen.

He began his acknowledged career at Casey Gerry in 1982 as a clandestine investigator, and began alive for the close as an advocate afterwards accepting his J.D. from Western State University of Law in 1989. A citizen of San Diego's San Carlos neighborhood, he becoming his bachelor's amount in history from San Diego State University, and is affiliated with the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and the American Association for Justice.

In addition, he is secretary of the East County Posse, a non-profit alignment whose mission is to advance the lives of adolescent East County association in charge of help.

About Casey Gerry
Celebrating added than 60 years in San Diego, Casey Gerry was accustomed in 1947, and is the oldest plaintiffs' law close in San Diego. The firm's 12 attorneys convenance in abundant areas, including asbestos, claimed injury, artefact accountability and biologic litigation. Located at 110 Laurel St. in the Banker's Hill adjacency of San Diego, the close aswell has a digital appointment in Carlsbad, Calif. For added information, alarm (619) 238-1811 or appointment the website at www.caseygerry.com.

Participating Sponsors of 18th Annual AIDS Walk San Diego

Along with hundreds of volunteers, Debt Free League and added accumulated sponsors abutting added than 30 HIV/AIDS account and apprenticeship providers to account the 18th Annual AIDS Walk San Diego. AIDS Walk San Diego is the better HIV/AIDS fundraiser and non-governmental provider of funds for San Diego County HIV/AIDS account organizations. Due to growing HIV and AIDS acquaintance in the San Diego Press Release, the accommodating accident has developed added anniversary year. In 2006, it aloft over $400,000. But in 2007, over $620,000 in donations were raised!

First started in 1987 as the Walk of Life, AIDS Walk San Diego was accustomed in 1989 through a different allotment affiliation with the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative, accumulated with donations from added philanthropists and foundations that accord analogous funds. The accident has now aloft added than $6.5 million.

First started in 1987 as the Walk of Life, AIDS Walk San Diego was accustomed in 1989 through a different allotment affiliation with the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative, accumulated with donations from added philanthropists and foundations that accord analogous funds. The accident has now aloft added than $6.5 million.

As a absolute sponsor of Team Reuben, Debt Free League assembly abutting ranks with Team Reuben leader, Vivian Eldridge and family. Ms. Eldridge started adopting funds for AIDS acquaintance and analysis on account of Team Reuben in account of her brother Reuben Ramirez who anesthetized abroad from AIDS in 1994.

“I was actual affected by how my brother suffered from this abhorrent ache and anniversary year, with abutment of ancestors and friends, I advice accession funds so we can acquisition a cure to advice humans that are absolutely ailing and can’t do for themselves”, foolishly states Ms. Eldridge. In absolute abutment of “Team Reuben”, Eric Santa Cruz, Vice President of Debt Free League states, this was a actual allusive acquaintance to advice stop the advance of AIDS.” Some of the added accident sponsors included Nordstroms, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Sempra, Wells Fargo, and Starbucks.

Casey Gerry's David S. Casey, Jr. Honored With ABA’s Pursuit Of Justice Award

Continuing to accept civic recognition, San Diego balloon advocate David S. Casey, Jr. will accept the “Pursuit of Justice" accolade -- the latest in a alternation of top contour ceremoniousness -- from the American Bar Association (ABA), 6:30 p.m., Thursday, October 8, the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.

The ABA's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice (TIPS) Section is anniversary Casey -- a chief accomplice with Casey Gerry and contempo almsman of Consumer Watchdog's Lifetime Legal Achievement accolade -- with the award, which recognizes attorneys and board who accept apparent outstanding arete and who excel in accouterment acceptance to amends for all.

This latest account will be presented to Casey at the TIPS section's abatement administration meeting.

According to TIPS armchair John Tarpley, “Casey has incomparable accreditation and is the apotheosis of what this accolade represents. His adherence to the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and the Exxon Valdez oil discharge action are prime examples of his charge to accouterment acceptance to amends for all and we are accustomed to present him with this award.”

Casey, who has accomplished for added than 30 years in the across of austere claimed abrasion and blameworthy afterlife litigation, was afresh accustomed in Los Angeles, alternating with abecedarian Dennis Quaid, at Consumer Watchdog's anniversary Rage for Justice Awards. He was aswell acclaimed endure anniversary by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of California's “Top 100 Attorneys.”

Over the years, Casey has been accustomed for abundant top contour issues and cases, including his plan in acclimation the 9/11Victims Compensation Fund and for his pro bono captivation in acceptable victims of 9/11. Additionally, he represented above California Governor Gray Davis in acknowledged tobacco litigation, allowance to accomplish a accretion of $25 billion for the state, and is ambagious up 21 years of captivation in action consistent from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He aswell played a advance role in apery American prisoners of war in action adjoin Japanese companies answerable with abusing World War II bondservant laborers.

For the accomplished 10 years he has served on the San Diego County Federal Judicial Selection Committee beneath Senator Dianne Feinstein and was afresh appointed by the agent to armchair the statewide accomplishment for administrative alternative of Federal Court Judges, U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals.

He is the son of the aboriginal almsman of the Pursuit of Justice award, David S. Casey, Sr. In accession to his contempo kudos, Casey has accustomed a aggregation of ceremoniousness and awards, including acceptance as Lawyer of the Year by the San Diego County Bar Association, as Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the San Diego Trial Lawyer Association; the Peacemaker Award from the San Diego Mediation Center; the Harry M. Philo Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; and the Daniel T. Broderick Memorial Award, which recognizes top standards of civility, candor and professionalism. In addition, The Consumer Attorneys of San Diego annually presents the Perpetual Consumer Advocate Award in Casey's name.

He becoming his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Trinity College and his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law, which awarded him the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award in 2003.

About ABA/TIPS Section
With added than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the better autonomous able associates alignment in the world. As the civic articulation of the acknowledged profession, the ABA works to advance the administering of justice, promotes programs that abetment attorneys and board in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing acknowledged education, and works to body accessible compassionate about the apple of the accent of the aphorism of law. The ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice (TIPS) Section unites plaintiff, defense, allowance and accumulated admonition to advanced the noncombatant amends system. TIPS is a civic antecedent of ability in tort, balloon and allowance convenance and brings attorneys calm to allotment advice and allege out on issues of importance. For added advice about the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section appointment the TIPS Web site, www.abanet.org/tips.

About Casey Gerry
Celebrating added than 60 years in San Diego, Casey Gerry was accustomed in 1947, and is the oldest plaintiffs' law close in San Diego. The firm's 12 attorneys convenance in abundant areas, including asbestos, claimed injury, artefact accountability and biologic litigation. Located in the Banker's Hill adjacency of San Diego, the close aswell has a digital appointment in Carlsbad, Calif. For added information, alarm (619) 238-1811 or appointment www.caseygerry.com.

California College San Diego Offers Financial Aid Counseling Services to Its Students

California College San Diego (CCSD) now offers Financial Aid Counseling Services to its acceptance as a footfall to abolish the banking barriers to their education. Thanks to their counseling account offered, acceptance will now accept a individual point of acquaintance for all their queries and guidelines apropos banking aid.

California College San Diego understands that with the amount of academy apprenticeship ascent every year, acceptance and families are generally larboard floundering about area to attending for aid, what the accommodation belief are and how to apply. The Financial Aid attorneys at CCSD advice you actuate your accommodation for assorted aid options appropriately authoritative the absolute action as simple and pain-free as possible.

California College San Diego’s banking aid attorneys are committed to authoritative it accessible for ALL acceptance to go to academy – even those who don’t accept the all-important banking assets at their disposal. The academy will accommodate you with a claimed banking plan assuming you what grants and loans you are able to receive.

Major lenders with whom the academy deals with cover Direct Loans, CollegeInvest, Compass Bank, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, ASAP/Union Bank & Trust, Sallie Mae Ed Trust, Nellie Mae, and Sun Trust. California College aswell offers abetment with commendations to advice and applications for the Pell Grant and the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) Grant, Federal Loans such as the Subsidized Stafford Loan, Unsubsidized Stafford Loan and the Parents Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) Loan.

For data alarm 1-800-622-3188 or appointment http://www.cc-sd.edu to appeal for added information.

About California College San Diego (CCSD)
Offering Associate, Bachelor and Graduate amount programs in Business, Computers, and Healthcare, California College San Diego (CCSD) has accomplished graduates for new careers in top appeal jobs back 1978. The amount programs at the CCSD are accepted assorted accreditation anatomy like ACCSCT and CAAHEP. This assures the top standards of above of the academy as able-bodied as the programs offered.

Casey Gerry's Thomas Luneau Lauded By Consumer Attorneys Of San Diego

Thomas Luneau -- a accomplice at San Diego-based Casey Gerry -- has been accustomed as an "Outstanding Trial Lawyer" by the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (CASD), a bounded alignment of balloon attorneys committed to attention and attention the acknowledged rights of consumers.

According to close chief accomplice David S. Casey, Jr., whose ancestor David Casey, Sr. founded CASD in 1960, Luneau was accustomed during a appropriate "Evening with the Trial Stars" banquet afresh hosted by CASD at the U.S. Grant Hotel in city San Diego.

Casey said that the accolade was presented to Luneau based on his outstanding plan on a noncombatant rights case adjoin two bastille guards active at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa. The case was approved in the United States District Court, Southern District of California. Luneau represented the victim's mother, Gretchan Young -- alternating with attorneys Robert Hamparyan and John Gomez -- in a case in which the victim, Johnny Young, died afterwards accepting afraid by the bastille guards. A schizophrenic, Young suffered a certifiable episode, was forcibly bedfast by the guards, and died anon afterward the adventure as a aftereffect of a carotid chokehold.

Luneau helped access a $1.3 actor board adjudication for his client. A Federal board begin that the defendants were accusable of negligence, and that they abandoned the inmate's Eighth Amendment Right adjoin atrocious and abnormal punishment.

This case is just one archetype of the circuitous action that Luneau has cautiously handled. Earning abundant multi-million verdicts and settlements for his clients, Luneau focuses his convenance primarily on claimed injury, articles accountability and noncombatant rights, and has all-encompassing acquaintance with a abounding area of cases, including abnormal products, packaging and automobiles. In addition, he has appropriate ability in law administration and aggressive issues, and has auspiciously represented cadre from agencies that include: the San Diego Police Department, San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the California Highway Patrol and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. He began his acknowledged career at Casey Gerry in 1982 as a clandestine investigator, and began alive for the close as an advocate afterwards earning his J.D. from Western State University of Law in 1989. A citizen of San Diego's San Carlos neighborhood, he becoming his bachelor's amount in history from San Diego State University, and is affiliated with the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and the American Association for Justice. In addition, he is secretary of the East County Posse, a non-profit alignment whose mission is to advance the lives of adolescent East County association in charge of help.

About Casey Gerry
Celebrating added than 60 years in San Diego, Casey Gerry was accustomed in 1947, and is the oldest plaintiffs' law close in San Diego. The firm's 12 attorneys convenance in abundant areas, including asbestos, claimed injury, artefact accountability and biologic litigation. Located in the Banker's Hill adjacency of San Diego, the close aswell has a digital appointment in Carlsbad, Calif. For added information, alarm (619) 238-1811 or appointment www.caseygerry.com.

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