Contributors
- Associate
Alexa Adalian is an Associate at Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. Her practices include Consumer Protection Class Actions, Mass Torts, Wrongful Death, False Claims/Whistleblower Law, Privacy & Intellectual Property, and ...
- Partner
Elizabeth Tran Castillo is a partner in the San Francisco Bay Area office of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and a member of the Antitrust & Global Competition practice group. Her work focuses on class actions and other complex ...
- Founding Partner
As stated by the National Law Journal, Joseph W. Cotchett is considered by plaintiffs and defense attorneys alike to be one of the foremost trial lawyers in the country. He has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the ...
- Partner
Brian Danitz is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. Brian has substantial experience representing clients in state and federal litigation, arbitration, internal investigations, and government investigations ...
- Partner
Sarvenaz (Nazy) Fahimi is a partner practicing in several areas of litigation, with a focus on high profile cases of fraud, cases involving qui tam Relators in False Claims Act cases in federal and state courts, and cases ...
- Partner
Julie L. Fieber is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, practicing in a wide range of civil litigation areas including environmental claims with an emphasis on groundwater contamination, complex commercial disputes ...
- Senior Associate
Elle Lewis is a senior associate at Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, where she practices civil litigation focusing on securities and consumer actions.
Before joining CPM, Elle’s practice focused on civil litigation in a wide range ...
- Partner
Donald J. Magilligan is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy based in the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office. Magilligan specializes in complex litigation involving wildfires, wrongful death, and business fraud.
- Partner
Niall P. McCarthy, a Partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and Santa Clara University School of Law. He has practiced with the firm since 1992.
Niall has been named a Top 100 ...
- Partner
Mark C. Molumphy, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, is a native of the Bay Area, born in San Mateo, California.
Mark has served as lead trial counsel in many of America’s most prominent cases and, during his extensive ...
- Partner
Anne Marie Murphy is a Principal at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, where she practices civil litigation focusing on complex commercial litigation, class actions, public nuisance litigation, consumers’ rights and elder ...
- Partner
BACKGROUND & OVERVIEW
Frank M. Pitre, a San Francisco native, earned his B.S., cum laude, in Business Administration and his J.D. from the University of San Francisco. While at USF, Frank served a legal externship with the California ...
- Partner
Gary A. Praglin is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, where he handles complex personal injury cases, including mass tort actions involving environmental contamination of air, water and soil. These cases often involve ...
- Partner
Tyson Redenbarger is a Partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP practicing in a wide range of civil litigation areas including class actions and complex civil litigation. In 2022, Tyson was listed by the Daily Journal as one of the ...
- Partner
John P. Thyken is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. His practice consists of a wide range of areas, including mass tort, consumer fraud, wrongful death, and other complex litigation.
John currently serves on the ...
- Senior Associate
Carlos Urzua is a senior associate at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP's Santa Monica office. His areas of practice include products liability, mass torts, professional negligence, wrongful death, and environmental tort, all on ...
- Senior Associate
Theresa E. Vitale is a senior associate at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. Her areas of practice include catastrophic injury, wrongful death, fraud, environmental, qui tam, elder abuse, and consumer class ...
- Partner
Kelly W. Weil is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP's Santa Monica office, where she litigates on behalf of consumers, businesses, municipalities, whistleblowers, and injured individuals. Kelly handles a wide variety ...
- Partner
Adam J. Zapala is a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, where he focuses on complex litigation, including antitrust, employment & civil rights, privacy & cybersecurity, qui tam/false claims, consumer protection and ...


















