Thomas A. Trapani specializes in professional liability, construction defect, commercial, product liability, and toxic tort litigation. He also has experience in mechanics lien, breach of contract, torts, employment, insurance, premises liability and business litigation. He has successfully tried cases involving asbestos exposure, premises liability, surety bad faith, product liability, medical, legal and financial planner malpractice, defamation, and police excessive force. Mr. Trapani has also served as an arbitrator and mediator in several Bay Area courts.

Mr. Trapani has practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1981. He has arbitrated and/or tried numerous civil cases throughout the Bay Area and in Sacramento. He has spoken at seminars concerning construction-related litigation and medical malpractice. He is the author of "State of the Art Requires Historical Perspective" and other articles for Occupational Safety and Health Magazine.

Mr. Trapani received his B.A. degree in History and Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1978 and his J.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1981.

He is admitted to practice in all California state courts, in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California. He is a member of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada and the Alameda County Bar Association.