Andrew Klimenko, Attorney

Andrew Klimenko has over twenty years experience litigating a broad spectrum of matters involving catastrophic personal injury/wrongful death, residential tenants rights and discrimination, medical malpractice, business tort/intellectual property, insurance coverage and general civil litigation issues. He has extensive trial experience with a better than 90% success rate in over thirty jury trials throughout the greater Bay Area. In addition, he has served as a settlement panelist for the San Francisco Bar Association Early Settlement Program. Mr. Klimenko was named a Northern California Super Lawyer (top 5%), Law & Politics and San Francisco Magazine, 2005 and is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale Hubbell.

AREAS OF PRACTICE
     - Catastrophic Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
     - Residential Tenants’ Rights/Housing Discrimination
     - Toxic Tort
     - Intellectual Property/Business/Real Estate
     - Insurance Bad Faith
     - General Litigation

OTHER MATTERS
     - Successfully litigated trademark infringement/Lanham Act claim involving well known Bay Area trademark in the U.S. District Court, Northern California
     - Published opinion Union Pacific v. Wengert 79 Cal.App.4th 1444 (2000)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
     - Panelist, Beyond Boilerplate: Raising the Bar on Motions in Limine (SFTLA., December 2008)
     - Speaker, Litigating Landlord-Tenant Disputes, Assoc. of Defense Counsel, June 2007
     - Speaker at various seminars for major insurers including Fireman’s Fund and Famers’ Insurance on a variety of topics including housing and insurance coverage

MEMBERSHIPS
     - Elected, American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate)
     - Consumer Attorneys of California
     - San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.
     - Los Angeles Bar Association.

EDUCATION
     - California Western School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1985
     - University of California, Santa Barbara, Bachelor of Arts, 1981