BOND LEGAL PC - Key Persons

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in AR & OK View

As an experienced and effective trial lawyer, Andy routinely handles significant, newsworthy personal injury cases across the country. He has been lead counsel on numerous aviation and product defect cases, commercial vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, and other general personal injury matters. Outside of practicing law, Andy enjoys flying airplanes, riding dirt bikes, traveling and spending time with his wife and daughters.

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• of Counsel, Insurance Claims
• of Counsel, Insurance Claims Licensed in FL & NJ View

Ben has 22 years of experience representing clients in disputed property insurance claims and other civil matters where people have been damaged through various forms of bad behavior. He has also represented several insurance companies in state and federal litigation in Florida. He is admitted to practice in both Florida and New Jersey, where he first began practicing law after attending Rutgers University for both his law and undergraduate degrees. He was an editor of the Rutgers Law Review during law school. Before you choose a personal injury firm to represent you, Set your expectations high Proudly serving injury victims in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Washington

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• Attorney
• Partner
• Attorney / Partner Licensed in CA, FL, MN, ND & DC View

Breanne (Reguly) Jacobs is our youngest partner at Bond Legal and joined our firm as a law clerk shortly after graduating from law school. She is admitted to practice law in California, Florida, Minnesota, North Dakota, and the District of Columbia. Her practice focuses exclusively on catastrophic injury cases, representing injured parties and their families. Breanne. Breanne obtained her Juris Doctor at Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, in 2017. With a passion for many things, she emphasized in Entertainment Law and Business Law. While attending Chapman, she served as a student ambassador, elected student representative for the Student Bar Association, chair member of the Academics Committee, co-founder of the student organization S.L.A.T.E. (Students of Law Against Trafficking and Exploitation), and President of the Public Interest Law Foundation where she raised the most money at their annual Gala to date. Breanne has always had a passion for serving others, low-income individuals, victims of abuse or violence, elderly in need, and of course, injured plaintiffs. While in law school, she clerked for the Orange County District Attorney's Office in both the Sexual Assault Unit and the Human Exploitation & Trafficking Unit (H.E.A.T.) and volunteered at the Alona Cortese Elder Law Center. Before law school and as a San Diego County native, Breanne attended the University of San Diego, where she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus in Marketing and minor in Anthropology. She is a proud Alpha Chi Omega alum! Outside of work, Breanne enjoys traveling, online shopping, and spending time with her family and new hubby Tim.

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• of Counsel, Fire Litigation
• of Counsel, Fire Litigation View

As a young lawyer Brett began to distinguish himself as one of the next generations of legal leaders. In his second year of practice, he tried his first serious injury case to verdict and in only his fourth year of practice earned recognition as one of San Diego's Top Attorneys, perhaps the youngest person to do so. He then proceeded to serve as the youngest President in the history of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (CASD) and continues to serve on the CASD Foundation Board. Brett also sits in leadership on the Board of Governors for Consumer Attorneys of California. Despite having received numerous million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, as well as regularly being honored with awards and accolades, Brett's proudest moments are often found outside of the courtroom or an award ceremony. Whether lecturing student groups on the personal rewards of the legal profession, doing teach-ins in low-income schools, or handling pro bono claims for wrongfully convicted denied compensation after their release from prison, Brett is guided by the Hebrew principle of tikkun olam meaning "to heal the world". Brett moved to San Diego from Florida where he graduated cum laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. While in law school, Brett not only managed to gain invaluable real-world experience, he also found time to be a prominent student leader as well as member and competition on the school's Law Review and moot court teams. Brett's legal background spans the halls of the legislature to the courthouse steps. As a legislative intern in the Florida Senate and later a lobbyist, Brett first learned the ins and outs of the legal process from the legislative perspective. Whether it was monitoring committee meetings, honing his negotiating skills outside the Capitol rotunda, or advising municipal and corporate clients about the impact of pending legislation, Brett put to use every aspect of the legal process, an experience that would prove invaluable to him as a trial lawyer. Brett brings diverse knowledge and experience to his practice. He clerked for several years with a boutique South Florida law firm specializing in criminal defense, civil litigation, and family law. Brett then worked as an intern in the Major Crimes division of the San Diego Public Defenders office in order to gain experience in criminal defense. Brett then clerked with a small appellate practice where he was tasked with filing appeals to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and writs of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. Before founding Singleton Schreiber McKenzie & Scott, Brett spent nearly 15 years working as an associate and later partner for a prominent San Diego plaintiff's firm Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire. Brett feels right at home with a balance of serious injury, medical malpractice, and complex litigation. He is admitted to practice in all California courts, and the Southern and Central Districts of California, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a proud member of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, Consumer Attorneys of California, Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, Attorneys Information Exchange Group, and American Association of Justice. Brett and his wife Shayna, a clinical psychologist, live in Ocean Beach with their four young children. They enjoy surfing, yoga, tennis, family outings that always include their golden retriever, Roshi.

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• Founder / Managing Partner Licensed in CA, IL, TN, TX & WA View

Job Titles:

• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in MO View

Chris was born and raised in Missouri. He grew up here, attended High school locally and played football in college locally as well at Washington University in St. Louis where he graduated from undergrad. He attended law school at St. Louis University law school where he was awarded the David Hensler Award for Excellence in trial advocacy. He obtained trial experience while working as an assistant circuit attorney in the City of St. Louis after passing the bar exam. His practice includes cases ranging from catastrophic trucking cases to premises liability to brain injuries to rear end collision car wrecks. He has tried many cases, achieving multi-million dollar verdicts on offers just a fraction of that. He also has experience handling bad faith claims and collecting extra contractual damages. He has argued before the Missouri Court of Appeals and is equipped to handle cases from initial injury to verdict to appeal. When not practicing, he enjoys time with his wife, Christine and their five kids.

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• of Counsel, Fire Litigation
• of Counsel, Fire Litigation View

Gerald Singleton began his legal career as a trial attorney at Federal Defenders of San Diego, where he represented federal criminal defendants in the Southern District of California and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He left Federal Defenders in 2003 to start his own practice, which has grown from a sole proprietorship to a national firm with over 100 employees. Gerald focuses on complex civil litigation and catastrophic personal injury/wrongful death cases and is a nationally recognized expert in utility-caused fires. Over the past two decades, he and his team have represented more victims of utility-caused fires than any other California firm, and he is one of the state's leading experts on utility-fire litigation. He has represented over 12,000 victims of utility fires in California and Oregon, including the 2007 San Diego Fires, the 2013 Powerhouse Fire, the 2015 Butte Fire, the 2017 North Bay Fires, the 2017 Thomas Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, the 2018 Woolsey Fire, the 2019 Kincade Fire, the 2020 Zogg, Slater, Mountain View, Archie Creek, Holiday Farm and Echo Fires, and the 2021 Dixie Fire. He has served as liaison counsel and in other positions of leadership in complex civil cases all of over the state of California. He currently serves as liaison counsel in the Kincade, Zogg and Bobcat Fire cases, which are being litigated in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Gerald has tried over 20 cases and settled thousands more, including over 250 cases for $1 million or more and dozens of cases for $10 million or more. In the past decade, he and his team have recovered over $1 billion for their clients. Throughout his career, Gerald has maintained a substantial pro bono and civil rights practice and has always championed the cause of the individual against the government and corporate abuses. Gerald graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth College, where he won the departmental prize in Government for his senior honors thesis. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2000 and was admitted to practice law in California that same year. He is licensed to practice in California, Oregon, Texas, Missouri, and Minnesota, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

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• of Counsel, Mass Tort
• of Counsel, Mass Tort View

Jenn Liakos is based in our Los Angeles, California office where she has been practicing law for the past twenty years. Her practice focuses on personal injury and mass tort litigation, including pharmaceutical product liability and medical device litigation. As an experienced litigator, Jenn has predominantly concentrated her practice on injuries affecting women and children. She was at the forefront of the SSRI antidepressant birth defect litigation for more than a decade fighting against big pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Forest Pharmaceuticals. She has also worked on cases involving injuries caused by vaginal mesh and toxic shock syndrome. Jenn was appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee for the Paxil Birth Defect Litigation and the Zoloft Birth Defect Litigation, prosecuting big pharmaceutical companies for failing to warn that SSRI antidepressants caused birth defects when taken during pregnancy. She has testified before the FDA advisory board on amending the regulations concerning generic manufacturer liability. She has also served on the Plaintiff Steering Committee for the Viagra, Abilify, and 3M Litigations. Jenn is a frequent teacher of deposition skills for the American Association of Justice. In her spare time, Jenn enjoys her life in the South Bay with her two teenage daughters and her Aussiedoodle, Mayzie.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in NC View

Joseph P. Tunstall is a trial lawyer through and through, having been successful in numerous personal injury, auto accident, Social Security and workers' comp cases, many of them before a jury. He has handled cases at both the federal and state levels, including the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Joe has tried close to 100 jury trials to verdict always representing the injured and never corporations or insurance companies in Eastern North Carolina. If you ask other lawyers who handle personal injury they know Joe tries his clients' cases to juries. He was on the Board of Governors for the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and was past chair of the Auto Torts section helping North Carolinians injured as a result of automobile crashes. Joe also recently Graduated from the Keenan Trial Institute working to increase his trial skills. Joe speaks throughout the state of North Carolina and nationally to attorneys to increase their trial skills and on trial technology.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in GA, NC & NY View

Justin has garnered a substantial amount of experience working at various law firms. He started off his career in general practice at Manhattan's Lowenberger & Gitter, and then worked as an associate plaintiff's attorney at Julien & Schlesinge. He worked as a staff trial attorney at the Law Offices of Bruce A. Lawrence in Brooklyn, and then as a senior trial attorney at the Law Office of Stephen M. Cohen in Lake Success, New York. Justin became a managing partner at Cruser & Mitchell, LLP in Melville, New York, and then relocated to Charlotte to join Ted A. Greve & Associates, P.A. as a senior litigation attorney. Justin has experience as both a plaintiff's and defense attorney and is familiar with numerous types of legal claims such as auto accidents, truck accidents, labor and construction law, medical malpractice, product liability, public entity, and matters related to discrimination and civil rights. He is a member of the state bars in New York and North Carolina, and the federal bar in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Justin is married and the proud father of two sons. In his spare time, he likes to spend time with his family, play sports, exercise, travel, listen to music, watch movies, and volunteer at local charities.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in NY View

Justin N. Lite was born and raised in West Islip, New York, where he attended public school, graduating from West Islip High School in 1978. Justin was awarded a regents scholarship and was a member of the honor society, the varsity football team, and was also a proud Captain of the varsity lacrosse team. After high school, Justin attended Rensselear Polytechnic Institute on a lacrosse scholarship, where he majored in Engineering. He went on to be the team's Captain, earned the honor of all-ECAC, and was the ECAC rookie of the year. After college, Justin stayed in New York and attended St. John's University School of Law, graduating in 1985. He was on the Dean's List of Distinguished Students and participated in the mock court competition. While in law school, Justin earned the honor of clerking for Supreme Court Justice Daniel Luciano. Justin has made his home in Sayville, New York, where he lives with his wife, Elisa, who is also an attorney. He is the proud father of two daughters: Judy, 26, a graduate of Loyola University-Maryland, who works in public relations and resides in Manhattan; and Jordan, 24, a graduate, summa cum laude, of the University of South Carolina, currently attending the Wake Forest University School of Law.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in GA View

Kyle M. Moore earned his law degree in 2013 at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. While at John Marshall, Kyle was a member of the Moot Court Board, Student Ambassadors, and held an officer position in the student chapter of Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He earned the highest academic marks in many courses including Evidence and Constitutional Law. During law school, Kyle trained under some of Georgia's top trial lawyers. Additionally, Kyle completed an internship at the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, where he represented indigent criminal defendants in felony charges, under the Georgia 3rd Year Practice Act. Prior to law school, Kyle earned his Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude in 2009 from the University of Florida, with a focus on human behavioral and psychological research. Kyle is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and was awarded the American Psychological Association's Psi Beta Award. This behavioral science focus has provided him an extra edge in selecting and preparing for jury trials. One week after graduating high school, Kyle enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served our Nation from 2001 to 2009. Kyle was in the first wave of Marines to invade Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Kyle answered the Nation's call again in 2007 and re-deployed to Iraq. Kyle was honorably discharged in 2009 at the rank of Sergeant. As a decorated Marine, Kyle received many awards during his military career, including Honor Graduate of Platoon 1065 Marine Corp Recruit Training Depot Parris Island, valedictorian of the Navy Petroleum Engineering School Ft. Lee Virginia, Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Commendation medal, Navy Unit Commendation medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary medal with device, Sea Service Deployment medal with device, and Reserve Service medal with Mobilization device. Kyle was born in Atlanta and raised in Tampa, Florida. He spent every break from school and the military in the woods and waterways of Georgia. Kyle currently lives in Gainesville with his wife Danielle, and their sons, Gaines and Baker.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in AL, GA & FL View

Attorney L. Blade Thompson is a passionate and persistent courtroom advocate for his clients and personally invests not only in them, but their outcomes. Blade is a proud Georgia Bulldog with an undergraduate from the University of Georgia and law degree from Mercer Law. Upon graduation, Blade passed the Georgia, Florida and Alabama bar exams within his first year.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in SC View

Mark played a year of college football at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, before transferring to the College of Charleston. He graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor's degree in political science and government. He obtained his law degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar Association, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He also is a member of the South Carolina Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice, two organizations that promote a fair and effective justice system. He serves on the board of directors for the Cougar Club, a nonprofit organization that provides financial support for the athletics program at the College of Charleston. When he is not in court, he enjoys being outdoors and spending time with his wife, Roxy and yellow lab, Scooby. He enjoys fishing and following sports.

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• Attorney
• Partner
• Attorney / Partner Licensed in CA, IA & WA View

Pamela R. Abella is admitted to practice law in California, Washington, and the U.S. Federal Court for the Central District of California. Her practice is focused exclusively on representing injured parties and their families against those responsible for catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Pamela grew up in Orange County, then headed to sunny San Diego for college and law school. She attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a B.A. in Economics and competed on the UCSD Women's Tennis Team. Before law school, she gained valuable work experience in personal injury as a legal assistant/paralegal. Pamela attended Thomas Jefferson School of Law, graduated top 10 with an emphasis in Sports Law & Policy Certificate.

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• Attorney
• Partner
• Attorney / Partner Licensed in CA, CO, MI & WA View

Tess Van Duyne is a plaintiff's attorney whose practice focuses on representing injured victims involved in catastrophic accidents. Originally from Indiana, Tess moved to California to start her legal career at Santa Clara University School of Law. While in law school, Tess worked for several non-profit organizations and clinics, gaining experience in many different areas of law while serving the local community. Tess started her career as a law clerk at Bond Legal, where she gained valuable personal injury experience under the supervision of senior attorneys. She later joined the Bond Legal attorney team and has since handled hundreds of cases fighting for injured victims. In her spare time, Tess enjoys hiking and camping throughout California with her pug, Otis.

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• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC
• Attorney / Bond Legal LLC Licensed in OH & WV View

Originally from South Carolina, Tyler first came to Huntington, WV while in law school and decided to make the area his home. From 2010 until 2014, he represented individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in a variety of legal matters in state and federal courts across West Virginia and Ohio. His practice experience encompasses personal injury, medical malpractice litigation, products liability litigation, legal malpractice claims, insurance defense, railroad defense, and various other related matters.​ In 2014, Tyler took a break from practicing law to serve on active duty as an officer in the United States Army. His assignments were primarily in infantry and special operations units, including service in 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. After leaving active duty in May 2018, Tyler transitioned to serving as a judge advocate with the West Virginia Army National Guard while simultaneously opening Haslam Law Firm LLC. He now focuses his practice on personal injury, civil litigation, OVI/DUI defense, and felony criminal defense. Tyler has been recognized by several organizations for his work as an advocate in the courtroom.​ Tyler and his wife Marla live in Huntington with their three children and dog. In his spare time, he in active in his church and he continues to occasionally fall out of high-performance airplanes in an awkward manner.