VAN BLOIS LAW - Key Persons


Alameda-Contra Costa

Job Titles:
  • Trial Lawyers Association, Member, Board of Governors

Darren J. Van Blois

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Lew Van Blois

Job Titles:
  • Attorney

R. Lewis Van Blois

For the seventh consecutive year, R. Lewis Van Blois has been selected by his peers as a top rated lawyer in San Francisco and Northern California. Mr. Van Blois has been selected by Super Lawyers in Northern California for 10 consecutive years, is selected again by Best Lawyers in America for legal work in plaintiffs personal injury, and product liability litigation and is included in the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the U.S. by the National Trial Lawyers. Best Lawyers Peer Reviewed awarded R. Lewis Van Blois the Lawyers of the Year in Northern California for 3 years. Mr. Van Blois has also been awarded the Product Liability Litigation Lawyer of the Year for 2018 and 2021 and Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year for 2020.

Thomas C. Knowles

Job Titles:
  • Attorney

Tim Knowles

Tim Knowles is an experienced trial lawyer in cases involving mechanical engineering, construction and medicine. He was a defense lawyer that represented Ford Motor Company early in his career. He has the knowledge and experience to represent persons injured by auto defects including crushed roofs, defective tires, seat belts and airbags. As a lifelong sailor, sailing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the San Francisco Bay, the Delta waterways and Lake Tahoe he is experienced in boat accident cases. Education University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), San Francisco, California J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence Williams College A.B.