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Bonnie Margaret Ross

Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation, Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation, Professional Liability

Areas of Focus:
Medical Malpractice
Legal Malpractice
Personal Injury

Office: San Jose

 


Bonnie Ross represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of civil litigation. She most frequently represents litigants in disputes involving business relationships, insurance coverage, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, employment and elder financial abuse.

Ms. Ross was born in Georgia, was raised in the Midwest, and has lived in Belgium. She attended UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. Between college and law school, she worked in publishing and as a paralegal for a large San Francisco law firm.

Ms. Ross attended Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. She became a criminal defense attorney after graduating from Boalt Hall in 1995 and began practiced in Shasta, Trinity, Lassen, Butte and Tehama Counties. Her representative cases included a trial of a lengthy fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion case. She also successfully presented one of the first medical marijuana defenses in California under Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. Ms. Ross served on a panel of lawyers appointed by the Central California Appellate project to prepare and argue appeals for indigent criminal defendants. After joining Robinson & Wood, Inc, Ms. Ross shifted her focus from criminal to civil litigation.

At Robinson & Wood, Inc., Ms. Ross's current practice includes representing manufacturers against allegations of breach of contract and unfair competition, representing physicians in medical malpractice actions, representing injured patients in medical malpractice actions, and defense of coverage actions arising from asbestos claims.

Ms. Ross is admitted to the California State Bar, as well as each of the United States District Courts in California. She is a member of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the Association of Defense Counsel and the California Native Plant Society. She is the Chief Gardener for the Northside Volunteer Garden, an urban restoration project. She was recognized as Outstanding Attorney Volunteer in 1999 by Volunteers in Parole, Inc. She frequently contributes her time to the Lawyers in the Library clinic established by the Pro Bono Project.

 




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