Our Practice Areas

Administrative Law Alcoholic Beverage Control Hearings State, Community, and City Government Civil Litigation and Trial Personal Injury Business Disputes Employment Law - Employee and Employer Government Relations Land Use Planning Constitutional Law Indian Gaming Appellate Law Indian Gaming/Sovereignty and ABC Law The firm has represented numerous tribes in California

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Civil Litigation and Trial

Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson practices in state and federal trial courts. Unlike many other firms, Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson not only litigates but tries cases it takes on. Among the four partners, there is a vast amount of experience aggregating close to 100 years.

Cases accepted range from serious personal injury matters with bodily injury including paralysis, amputation or brain injury, to corporate and business litigation such as shareholder derivative actions, fraudulent real estate actions, and partnership disputes.

Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson has been successful in settlement and trial verdicts that range from several hundred thousand dollars to 35 million dollars. STEPHEN JAMIESON and STEPHEN SOLOMON have settled or tried cases for an aggregate amount of over 50 million dollars for their plaintiff clients. Where Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson defends cases, the results are similarly impressive. Whether on Plaintiff's side or Defendant's side, our hard work, strategic planning and innovative thinking make our clients successful.

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Alcoholic Beverage Control Hearings

For nearly thirty years STEPHEN WARREN SOLOMON and RALPH BARAT SALTSMAN have been the recognized standard bearers in Alcoholic Beverage Control defense. The firm is devoted to defending licenses in enforcement procedures brought by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson has litigated Alcoholic Beverage Control cases at all administrative and judicial levels. Our clients include multi-national corporations as well as statewide businesses and individually held stores and restaurants.

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State and Local Land Use

The firm represents permit applicants before planning commissions and city councils throughout the state of California. Our emphasis includes representation in all state and local administrative processes in both obtaining and retaining permits, licenses, and discretionary entitlements.

Helping People with Traumatically Induced Spinal Injuries and Traumatic Brain Injuries in California

Every 27 seconds an American suffers a lifelong traumatic brain injury “TBI”-related or traumatically caused spinal injury-related disability from falls, car crashes, assaults, medical malpractice, sports accidents, and other means.

If this is you or a loved one what do you do? Where do you go for help? What services are available to you and your friends and family who, along with you, have their lives changed forever by trauma induced disabilities? Changes you never thought possible, much less planned for, now require decisions, and now you need guidance in many areas of expertise.

But where do you find these services? How do you know which services will help. How do you know what you need? The cost of rehabilitation, life care for every day needs, identifying those needs, and how to make every day life easier. How to make every day life livable?

And, who or what will pay for all of these expensive necessities?

There are government services available, and in some cases health or long term care insurance as well, to help you and/or your family if you are afflicted or close to someone who has sustained such damage. Necessary life care and rehabilitation services to children, seniors, victims of domestic violence, racial or ethnic minorities, women, and others are available. It is necessary to transition people from hospital to home;find trained families, teachers and communities that know how to care for people with TBI or spinal related injuries; what rights protect TBI or spinal cord injury (CSI) victims nationwide.

In addition to the medical and rehabilitation experts that can provide much of this help you and/or your loved ones need financial help to cope with these changes.

Again, who will pay for all of these expensive necessities? What happens where there are not government services for particular needs you have, or there is no insurance or the insurance runs out?

How do you make your new life, and/or your loved one’s new life, as a person with disabilities productive, rewarding, and satisfying? How do you make that new life easier?

The answers to all of these questions can be found in a lawyer who is experienced in the legal aspects of trauma induced brain and spinal cord injury, post concussive syndrome, brain stem injury, head injuries or concussion. Attorney Stephen Jamieson, as well as his partners in the Los Angeles based firm of Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson, are experienced in these matters.

THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF BRAIN DAMAGE Slip and fall accidents Car accidents Motorcycle accidents Inherited genetic defects Viral infections Trauma or drug use of the mother Delivery medical malpractice	SYMPTOMS OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Short loss of consciousness Headache Confusion Dizziness Blurred Vision Bad taste in the mouth Attention/thinking deficit
SYMTOMS OF MODERATE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Double vision Balance problems Inability to focus and concentrate Nausea/Vomiting Inability to multi-task Vertigo Memory Loss	SYMPTOMS OF SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Impaired speech Impaired cognitive processes Memory loss Loss of Vision Loss of hearing Loss of taste and/or smell Seizures Change in personality or behavior

For over 23 years Mr. Jamieson, and his partners, have litigated and taken to trial numerous trauma induced brain and spinal injury matters. They have been fortunate to become trusted advisors to the injured and their families; and to provide guidance and direction to achieve the most legal satisfaction. It takes a depth of knowledge to put together a team of professionals that can ascertain the economic impact these severe injuries cause to the injured person, as well as their families, and then to present that information in a simple and direct manner to a judge and jury. The knowledgeable, yet simple, direct, and efficient manner, has resulted in verdicts, awards, and settlements exceeding $70,000,000. The every day life needs, as well as rehabilitation and medical care, are expensive and it was not your fault. Let the perpetrator of the injury, and his or her insurance carrier and/or employer, compensate you and your family to a level you deserve.

Previous cases examples include a young man who suffered a cerebrovascular accident when he was struck repeatedly during a sporting event, another young man who was working as a pavement contractor when a community bus collided with the machine he was driving, and yet another when a heavy piece of concrete fell on the head of an unsuspecting male requiring 32 metal plates in the skull. Each of these were either settled or tried to verdict. Verdict and settlements for this type of case range from close to $1,000,000 to $35,000,000. Mr. Jamieson, and his partners, can help you fully ascertain and understand your unique needs, calculate the economic cost of those needs, present that to the trier of fact, and obtain for you fair compensation. No more and no less.

Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson are AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating in competency and ethics that this trusted evaluator provides. Mr. Jamieson is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates, as well as local and national Bar Associations. Mr. Jamieson is active in non-profit and charity work for people with disabilities. He is presently Vice President of EmpowerTech, (formerly Computer Access Center) and on its Board of Directors. EmpowerTech is a non-profit group that provides computer based solutions to people with disabilities of all kinds, including those that arose from brain and spinal injuries. He appears often on television and radio and is quoted in the media.

For more information, please contact us at http://www.ssjlaw.com.

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"2008 Super Lawyers" Spanish Version Now Available

"2008 Super Lawyers" newsletter (PDF) in Spanish is now available on our website. Please check it out at http://www.ssjlaw.com/awards_sp.html. Please download a copy and forward to your friends.

The MTA Found Liable For a Total Judgement in Excess of $3,560,000

The MTA (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority), Otherwise Known As The LACMTA, Operator Of Buses And Trains, Found Liable For Over $1,300,000 In Attorneys Fees In Addition To Compensatory Damages Of $2,247,000 For A Total Judgment In Excess Of $3,560,000

Plays Del Rey, CA. - November 10, 2008 - SOLOMON, SALTSMAN & JAMIESON - In a case where the Plaintiff is represented by Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("MTA") was recently held liable for over $1,300,000 in attorneys fees to be added to the jury verdict rendered by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury for damages in the amount of $2,247,000.

The MTA, therefore, was found liable in this disability discrimination wrongful termination case for a total sum of $3,567,000.

Stephen Allen Jamieson, a partner in the Los Angeles Law Firm of Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson together with his associate Ryan Kroll, convinced the Court that the competence and skill of these lawyers was sufficiently high, and the result achieved for their Client so successful, that they merited an increase of their presently standard hourly rate by a multiplier of 2.335 for their services on this case. Multiplication factors like these are, by statute and case law, awarded to give excellent lawyers an incentive to represent disabled and other injured people on a contingency fee basis instead of an hourly basis. That is, the lawyers do not get paid unless they prevail for the client.

The jury determined that a 53-year old driver for the MTA was terminated because of minor disabilities (which he contends were caused by many years of driving for the MTA), and that the MTA did not engage in an interactive process to find a reasonable accommodation so that the driver could continue to work.

Lead trial attorney Stephen Allen Jamieson, and his lawyer partners in the Law Firm of Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson, Stephen Warren Solomon, Ralph B. Saltsman, Bruce Evans, and their lawyer associates Michael Akopyan, Julia Sullivan, and Ryan Kroll are pleased to achieve a great result for their deserving client.

This was an exceptional result for the client. This Attorneys Fees award will help to defray the overall fees and costs of this lawsuit.

With over 100 years of combined experience among the lawyers of the Law Firm of Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson they have also achieved many other exceptional results in many areas of the law including, but not limited to, obtaining compensation for people suffering with serious personal injuries, brain injuries, spinal injuries, broken bones, emotional distress, and loss of earnings, resulting from different types of motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, and all types of negligence and intentional actions and omissions, caused by transportation agencies and companies, and others.

Links to Related Documents (PDF):

NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AMENDED JUDGMENT FOLLOWING RULING ON ATTORNEYS' FEES

MOTION OF PLAINTIFF SALDADOR H. MORALES FOR REASONABLE ATTORNEYS FEES AND COSTS

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December 3, 2008 ABC Seminar

SSJ Law Conducts Periodic Seminars on topics of interest to Alcohol Beverage Control Licensees and Discretionary Permit Holders at the State and Local levels. Clients and the general public are always welcome.

San Bernardino, California - December 3, 2008

2008 ABC Seminar Details
Topics: Removing ABC Conditions, New ABC Rules
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
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285 East Hospitality Lane; San Bernardino, CA 92408
(909) 889-0133 (hotel information)
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