Torts/Personal Injury
May 18, 2026
Chris Dolan got pissed, and it resulted in a historic verdict
Fresh off a record-setting Alameda County settlement, plaintiffs' lawyer Chris Dolan discusses suing police agencies, exposing misconduct through video evidence, and why cases against authority still drive his practice.
A case must meet one of three requirements for San Francisco powerhouse trial lawyer Christopher Dolan to consider taking it on.
"It has to either make me a profit, change a policy or piss me off," Dolan said.
He was speaking by phone Thursday from Cabo San Lucas, where he was teaching at the annual trial college of another powerhouse in the plaintiffs' bar, Gary Dordick.
Cases against law enforcement agencies, Dolan said, rarely make money, but the...
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