Gerald Singleton Email & Phone Number

Gerald Singleton began his legal career as a trial attorney with Federal Defenders of San Diego, where he represented indigent 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 firm, 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. 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.Gerald has tried over 20 cases and settled thousands more, including over 200 cases for $1 million or more and dozens of cases for $10 million or more.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 currently is licensed to practice before all state and federal district courts of California, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Missouri and Minnesota, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.