California Legal Counsel and Trial Advocacy.
When your law practice faces ethics questions, or your business requires complex litigation, you need clear actionable guidance.
When leading California lawyers and businesses must protect their livelihood, navigate complex ethical challenges, or need a California litigator, they turn to Tom D'Amato.
Commercial litigation demands more than just legal expertise—it requires an advocate who's both formidable in court and approachable in consultation. Tom delivers both.
Why Top Attorneys Trust D’Amato Law
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For nearly a quarter century, Tom has successfully guided clients through State Bar proceedings and served as trusted ethics counsel to California's premier firms.
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Tom’s litigation practice extends throughout California's courts, bringing strategic insight and unwavering determination to commercial disputes, including complex contract matters.
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Tom’s extensive network across California's legal community—encompassing relationships with practitioners, and knowledge of courts across the state—enhances his ability to serve your ethical and professional interests efficiently and effectively.
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As your California ethics attorney, Tom helps you navigate emerging challenges in legal practice, such as providing practical guidance on integrating new technologies like AI while maintaining ethical compliance.
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Through Tom’s carefully curated network of professional counsel, Tom will deliver sophisticated legal services while ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability.
20+ Years of Experience
Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law
Selected to Super Lawyers 2019 - 2025
Selected to Rising Stars 2011 - 2016
Our Areas of Practice
when you need a professional
Professional Liability and Ethics
D’Amato Law represents licensed professionals and their organizations throughout California in claims such as professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraud, and elder abuse.
D’Amato Law has extensive experience representing lawyers, law firms, real estate brokers and agents, non-profit officers and directors, architects, engineers and design professionals, insurance brokers and agents, accountants, and other professionals.
D’Amato Law skillfully and sensitively defends license holders facing investigation and disciplinary action from California regulatory agencies. As license holders themselves, the lawyers at D’Amato Law stand ready to defend what matters most to you, your ability to pursue your chosen profession.
When your business is on the line
Business Litigation
D’Amato Law handles disputes arising from contracts and business arrangements in and out of the courtroom. D’Amato Law’s business litigation experience encompasses a wide range of commercial disputes, including business and shareholder disputes, insurance claims and coverage, employment practices, premises liability, consumer protection and unfair competition as well as related class actions.
D’Amato Law represents manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products and services available to the public when consumers and others seek to hold their businesses responsible for injuries allegedly caused by those products and services.
Why Clients Love Working With Tom
“After three and half decades of trial practice in courts all around the country, I know literally thousands of lawyers – and of all those I choose Tom D’Amato to serve as my firm’s ethics and conflicts outside counsel, and as my personal consigliere.”