Representing the injured since 1951

Our law firm, the biggest and oldest firm in Hayward, has been the home of several prominent attorneys. The ranks of well-known lawyers who have been part of our firm include past Attorney General and current California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the late Hon. Raymond Marsh (Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court), and the late and accomplished trial attorney, Manuel Furtado, have been part of our team. Our firm is now led by Rick Simons and Martin L. Jaspovice, both of whom have been with Furtado Jaspovice & Simons LC, since the early 1970's. We are skilled trial lawyers, advising other attorneys about courtroom strategies and ethics. We use our trial skills and our many years of experience to represent clients who have suffered aninjury through no fault of their own. We have been successful obtaining large verdicts and settlements for clients. To learn more about our skilled injury lawyers, contact our Northern California law firm, or review the attorney profile material below. Our law firm serves people in communities such as Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Santa Cruz/Monterey, and throughout Contra Costa County.

Martin L Jaspovice

Martin Jaspovice is an experienced trial attorney, mediator, and negotiator. He has won substantial verdicts in wrongful death, car accident, and on-the-job injury cases. Martin has a sub-specialty in handling will contests and has developed expertise in the prosecution of injury cases arising from defective roads and highways.

Our firm is proud to have Martin Jaspovice on our team of qualified personal injury attorneys. If you live in San Francisco, Oakland, or another area of California and have a personal injury case, contact our law firm today for legal assistance.

Suizi Ohn Mar Shwe Ma Lin 

Suizi was co-counsel in trials involving auto-bike collisions and sexual abuse.  She has successfully settled cases of auto accidents, medical malpractice, and elder abuse. Suizi successfully arbitrated a case involving premises liability, winning her client six figures.  She represents those injured due to the fault of others, and advocates for the elderly who have been abused or neglected.  Suizi was born in Rangoon, Myanmar and raised in the Bay Area.

Rica Cruz Santo 

Areas of Practice: 

Employment Law

Wage and Hour

Automobile Accidents

Medical Malpractice

Personal Injury

Premises Liability

Slip and Fall

 

Rick Simons 

Rick Simons has been named one of "California's Top 100 Attorneys" by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He is considered one of the bestEast Bay lawyers in America*. Personal Injury Attorney, Rick Simons, has been a Northern California Super Lawyers (**) in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Rick was also named 2006 Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine. He was elected 1998 President of The Consumer Attorneys of California by his fellow trial attorneys, and was the host of the nationally broadcast radio show "The Consumer Rights Network".

In 2004, Mr. Simons was appointed "Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel" in the Coordination Proceedings involving Northern California cases arising from sexual abuse of children by priests of the Roman Catholic Church and other clergy. Mr. Simons was co-counsel for more than 125 of those victims, and the work he did alongside other members of the legal team representing these abuse survivors has resulted in over $150 million dollars in settlements and awards. Mr. Simons has obtained large jury verdicts, arbitration awards, and settlements for dozens of clients in cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, injuries from defective products, and many other fields. He has worked as Attorney for Plaintiffs in cases decided by both the California Supreme Court and California Courts of Appeal, as well as being lead Counsel in trials in the United States District Court and the Superior Courts of many California counties. Mr. Simons is a graduate of the University of California and its nationally ranked law school, Boalt Hall (1976).

* Published since 1983, Best Lawyers lists attorneys in 77 specialties, representing all 50 states, who have been chosen through an exhaustive survey in which thousands of the nation's top lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The 2007 edition of Best Lawyers, which was published in September 2006, is based on more than 1.7 million evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

** Super Lawyers magazine names attorneys in each state who received the highest point totals, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. Only 5% of the total lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.

 

 

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