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From 2001 until 2012 Sean Laird was a Deputy District Attorney in Sacramento County, last assigned to the Major Crimes Unit as a homicide prosecutor. Having learned from the best litigators in the state, Mr. Laird formed his own law firm to handle plaintiff’s litigation and act as a civil prosecutor for those victimized by individuals and corporations.
"Mr. Laird is the finest litigator I've encountered in my 38 years of practice."
Mr. Laird received his Bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California in 1998, graduating magna cum laude. There he started four years as quarterback on the St. Mary’s Football team and was a finalist for the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy (the “Academic Heisman Award”) in 1997. He was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010. Mr. Laird attended the University of California Davis School of Law, focusing his studies on constitutional law, evidence, and trial practice. As a law student, he clerked at Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, a litigation law firm in Seattle, Washington and spent time interning at the District Attorney’s Office in Sacramento. He took and passed the bar in 2001.
Thereafter, Mr. Laird was sworn-in as a Deputy District Attorney and began his career as a prosecutor. He handled multiple special circumstance murders, child homicides, gang murders, and career criminal cases, among many others. He gained a reputation as an ethical, refined, and hard-nosed prosecutor and developed an expertise in courtroom trial presentation that remains unmatched. In 2007, the California District Attorney’s Association (CDAA) asked him to teach PowerPoint For Trial to all DDA’s in the state. In addition to courtroom PowerPoint, Mr. Laird also taught “The Law of Homicide” and “Case Presentation and Trial Testimony” for the Robert Presley Institute (POST), as well as a variety of MCLE courses to fellow attorneys throughout the state of California. Mr. Laird has been named a Martindale-Hubbell “Super Lawyer,” based upon his peer reviews and track record.
Working on behalf of victims as a Sacramento neglect and elder abuse attorney, Mr. Laird obtained a $12 million dollar verdict against California’s largest provider of mental and behavioral health services, FamiliesFirst, Inc.* The verdict was the largest sexual assault verdict in California in 2017 and the second largest negligent supervision verdict. In addition, Mr. Laird has obtained many multiple-million dollar settlements* for a number of his clients, with whom he develops a close working relationship. Mr. Laird has also handled numerous appeals and has had multiple published cases in the Third District Court of Appeal (Sandoval-Ryan v. Oleander Holdings, LLC and Rogers v. Roseville SH, LLC.)
Recently, Mr. Laird proved that managing agents of Enloe Medical Center (a fully-staffed, acute care hospital) “recklessly neglected” an 81-year old patient, who was awarded pain and suffering, past and future medical expenses, and attorney’s fees and costs, as well costs and fees on appeal when Enloe brought an unsuccessful appeal to challenge the jury’s verdict. Enloe was forced to pay $2.15 million dollars in total damages.
With more than 73 trials over the past 25 years, including some of the most complex cases in Sacramento County, Mr. Laird’s experience before juries will help you get to the truth in the courtroom and will bring justice to you and your family. Read what previous clients have to say.
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All of our cases our important, even the ones that don’t end up in the newspapers. We treat all of our clients with the same dignity and pursue all of our claims with unwavering tenacity.
*Any verdicts, settlements, or case results described on this website are intended to provide information about the experience and capabilities of the firm. These results were achieved based on the specific facts and legal circumstances of each case. Because each case is different, prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case. No representation is made that any result described herein is typical
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