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Airline Accidents & Injuries
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Auto Accident Injury
Bicycle Accidents
Boating Accidents
Brain Injury
Burn Injury
Catastrophic Injury
Child Molestation & Sexual Abuse
Construction Accident
Dog Bite Injury
Head Injuries
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$17.5 million products liability case
$14 million brain injury case
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$8 million refinery accident case
$5 million brain injury and wrongful death case
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$3.2 million bus accident case
$2.9 million brain injury case
$2.6 million spinal cord injury case
Meet The Attorneys
All initial consultations are provided at no charge. There are never any legal fees or costs for our services unless we recover money on your behalf. If your injuries prevent you from traveling, the Sacramento injury attorneys at Estey & Bomberger, LLP are available for home and hospital visits and can be reached by telephone 24/7 at (916) 903-5217 or contact us via e-mail at info@estey bomberger.com. You may also request a consultation online.
Estey & Bomberger founding partner Stephen J. Estey is one of Sacramento’s most successful personal injury attorneys. He considers personal injury law to be his true calling and is always enthusiastic when it comes to helping his clients obtain justice. Stephen’s practice is exclusively focused on serious and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death law; he personally has had remarkable success for his clients, having recovered countless multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts. Stephen has extensive legal experience in the negotiation, settlements and litigation of various types of catastrophic injury matters, including car accident claims, tractor-trailer accident claims, motorcycle accident claims, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, as well as insurance contract disputes and insurance bad faith claims.
Stephen enjoys the challenges of complex cases and the satisfaction of helping victims recover the compensation they deserve. An advocate of consumers’ rights, Stephen has been involved in several published appellate opinions, Morris v. DeLaTorre (2005) 36 Cal 4th 260 and Cervantes v. United States of America (9th Cir. 2003) 330 F. 3d 1186, both of which have changed laws in favor of consumers. Prior to founding Estey & Bomberger with partner Mike Bomberger, Stephen worked in the insurance industry – an invaluable experience that differentiates him from many other personal injury lawyers and gives him a unique understanding in litigating serious injury claims.
Over the years, Stephen has frequently been called upon to speak to the media on various complex litigation issues. He has been awarded numerous professional designations including an AV® Rating by Martindale Hubbell. Stephen is also an MCLE lecturer for California Consumer Attorneys.
Education:
Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice, San Diego State University, 1989
Juris Doctor California Western School of Law, 1992
Admitted to Practice:
United States Supreme Court
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
11th Circuit Court of Appeals
State of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
Other:
MCLE Lecturer for California Consumer Attorneys
AV-Rated Martindale-Hubbell
Selected for inclusion in 2008 San Diego Super Lawyers
Personal:
Married with two children.
Mike Bomberger is a seasoned litigation and trial attorney with a relentless passion for ensuring justice is served for the injured and bereaved. Mike has been involved in numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for his clients, including seven and eight figure settlements for brain injury and wrongful death cases. A founding partner of Estey & Bomberger, Mike has built his practice to be one of the premier personal injury law firms in California. From years of experience, he knows that success is about preparation, knowledge, and hard work.
Mike has orchestrated numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for his clients, including more than $25 million recovered in the past year. Widely regarded by his peers and the media, Mike’s cases have received both statewide and national media attention. Mike has frequently been asked to appear on local news programs both as an expert in wrongful death cases and to discuss high profile cases that he has handled. Focusing exclusively on high value complex and catastrophic personal injury cases, Mike’s genuine concern for the well being of those that have suffered a serious injury is a reflection of the impressive results he is able to achieve for his clients.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts English and Economics
Bucknell University, 1988
Juris Doctor California Western School of Law, 1992
(American Juris Prudence Award for Legal Skills)
Admitted to Practice:
State of California
State of Pennsylvania
United States District Court Southern District of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego County Bar Association
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
The Verdict Club
Personal:
Married with four children.
Lawrence R. Booth graduated first among day students from the University of Southern California in 1959. He worked with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office for two years which gave him substantial trial experience. He then went on to concentrate in the field of personal injury and wrongful death with the law firm of Silver & McWilliams (which eventually became Silver, McWilliams & Booth).
During his 20 years with Silver, McWilliams & Booth, Lawrence Booth was the lead trial lawyer in hundreds of personal injury cases, with major concentration in the field of construction accidents and products liability. In 1972, he became the fourth attorney in California, and among a select few in the country, to obtain a million dollar verdict in a personal injury case. In 1973, he was elected to the Inner Circle of Advocates. This national organization is limited to 100 of the finest trial lawyers in the United States, only a handful of whom are in California.
In 1974, Lawrence Booth became the first permanent Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association publication, The Advocate. After four years, he relinquished that post to become the president of the organization. The Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association (now known as the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles) includes over 2,000 attorneys practicing in the personal injury field in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1997, the organization nominated Mr. Booth (along with colleague Richard Koskoff) as "Trial Lawyer of the Year."
During his four decades of practice, Lawrence Booth has been a prolific author. His articles on personal injury practice regularly appear in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the primary legal newspaper in the State of California. For fifteen years, he has published a monthly column entitled "Tort Tactics" in the Barristers Bulletin of the South Bay Bar Association. Mr. Booth has appeared as a guest lecturer at dozens of personal injury seminars throughout California and for civic and professional organizations.
Richard B. Koskoff (Of Counsel)
Richard B. Koskoff graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Dean's Honor Student in 1968. He attended law school at the University of California at Davis from 1969 to 1972, representing UC Davis at the renowned California State Moot Court Finals in 1972. Shortly after graduation, Richard Koskoff embarked on his litigation-oriented career and became one of the head trial attorneys for the City of Los Angeles in prosecuting drunk driving cases.
During the 1970's, Richard Koskoff was an avant-garde litigator, representing the City in cases against environmental offenders. He was ahead of his time in protecting consumer rights and prosecuted numerous cases involving consumer rights violations and false advertising. After leaving the City Attorney's Office, Richard Koskoff opened his own criminal defense practice. As a criminal defense lawyer, he had a very successful trial record, including successfully defending a number of high profile cases.
In the mid-1980's, Richard Koskoff joined Lawrence Booth and has since concentrated on representing clients who have suffered serious and lifelong personal injuries, including the wrongful death of loved ones. He has obtained numerous million dollar and multi-million dollar results, including an astounding $16.5 million verdict in 1997, in an extremely difficult trial where the defendant had not offered any money to settle the case prior to trial. In a 1998 trial in which he handled the damages issues, Mr. Richard Koskoff obtained a $1.6 million verdict, setting a record for the highest hand injury verdict in Orange County history. Also in 1998, he settled an injury case for $9 million, which tied the record for the highest settlement ever paid by the City of L.A. In two of his recent cases, where the verdicts were in excess of a million dollars, the jury took the almost unheard of action of rendering monetary awards, which were higher than the amounts the plaintiffs demanded in trial.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was one of 11 attorneys to be nominated by the Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles as "Trial Lawyer of the Year." He is a repeated guest speaker and lecturer for various organizations and participates in the continuing legal education of lawyers as an invited speaker for the State Bar of California. Mr. Richard Koskoff has published numerous articles on the subjects of trial tactics and personal injury practice.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was the subject of a "Litigator Profile" in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger E. Booth (Of Counsel)
Since graduating from one of the top law schools in the country in 1991, Roger E. Booth has handled numerous large, complex cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants, and both individuals and corporations, throughout California. He has extensive jury trial experience and has developed particular expertise in products liability, construction accidents and insurance bad faith.
In 1987, Roger Booth graduated with honors from Pomona College (one of the top handful of liberal arts colleges in the U.S.) with a degree in English Literature. During his senior year, he spent a semester studying at Oxford University in England. He went on to attend Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, which is ranked consistently among the top seven lawschools in the country. At Boalt, in addition to excelling in his academic courses, Mr. Booth gained practical legal experience representing numerous low-income clients in both civil and criminal matters.
After graduating from Boalt in 1991, Mr. Roger Booth became an associate with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, the largest law firm in California. At Pillsbury, he represented large corporations in a wide range of substantial litigation matters, specializing in insurance coverage and bad faith cases, and obtained extensive trial experience. Among the cases he handled was an insurance bad faith case against three of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., which resulted in settlements and a verdict for his client totaling over $11 million. In 1996, Roger Booth took a leave of absence from Pillsbury to work as a deputy public defender in San Francisco, gaining valuable jury trial experience handling criminal matters.
Mr. Roger Booth joined Booth & Koskoff in 1997 and, since then, has handled a variety of personal injury, wrongful death and insurance bad faith cases. In September 1998, in just his second personal injury trial, he (along with Richard Koskoff) obtained a $1.6 million verdict, establishing a new record for a hand injury case in Orange County. As a result of that verdict, Roger Booth was featured in a profile in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger Booth has published articles on the subjects of construction accident law, defective air bags and insurance bad faith.
For the better part of a decade, Ljubisa "LJ" Kostic represented big businesses, private and government institutions, and their insurance companies. But he never forgot to wear his grandfather's watch, the one his grandfather (also named Ljubisa Kostic) was wearing the day he was killed by a bus because the bus driver was drunk. Now, Mr. Kostic represents ordinary people facing the extraordinary challenges that, unfortunately, so often follow when someone else's carelessness, broken promise or intentional conduct results in injury or loss. Mr. Kostic has extensive experience in cases involving wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, premises liability, dangerous conditions on public property, defective products, fraud, wrongful termination and employment discrimination, civil rights violations, sexual assault, assault and battery, disability discrimination and ADA violations, partnership disputes, and many others. He has successfully handled every aspect of litigation from inception to jury trial. He has also handled numerous appeals, including a published decision, O’Toole v. San Diego Community College District (2005) 140 Cal.App.4th 488. Mr. Kostic is licensed to practice law in California and Nevada, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in both states, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, the Southern and Central Districts of California and the District of Nevada.
Mr. Kostic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia). He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he received degrees in economics and psychology. Mr. Kostic received his law degree from California Western School of Law, where he was one of the top 10 students in his class, and received numerous awards. Mr. Kostic began his career with the Las Vegas law firm of Lionel, Sawyer & Collins, one of Las Vegas' oldest, largest and most prestigious corporate firms. Next, Mr. Kostic joined the well known San Diego based defense firm of Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz, where he was a partner until 2009. In 2007, Mr. Kostic was named one of the top ten young attorneys who have practiced for 5-7 years, as published in the annual Young Attorneys issue of the San Diego Daily Transcript, one of the most widely read business and legal journals in Southern California. Mr. Kostic is also an avid surfer, slightly less avid but enthusiastic snowboarder, animal lover, devoted husband and soon to be father to a baby boy.
Mr. Kostic is the principal of the Kostic Law Firm, and is of counsel to Estey & Bomberger.
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