Biography

Christopher J. Beeman leads the firm’s Personal Injury, Products Liability, and Business Litigation Groups. A Fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, he is also a member of American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and the elite International Society of Barristers. Chris is an AV rated trial attorney who has been with Clapp, Moroney his entire legal career, and was named a partner in 1991. His practice emphasizes the representation of individual and corporate parties in a wide variety of cases ranging from catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims (including complex, multi-party matters arising out of construction site accidents, and defective products) to business litigation and professional liability matters.

Chris is a seasoned trial lawyer who has successfully represented clients before arbitrators, judges, and juries in Northern California State and Federal Courts, resulting in more than thirty five favorable jury verdicts. He has also been lead counsel in hundreds of arbitrations and mediations and is very familiar with and respected by the most widely-utilized public and private arbitrators and mediators in the Greater San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley.

In the personal injury arena, Chris has particular expertise in handling sports and recreational activity lawsuits, as well as the defense of traumatic brain injury cases, including knowledge of the medical nuances and litigation tactics best suited to addressing sensitive damages issues at trial. He has additional experience and skill in the handling of severe orthopedic, internal injury and traumatic amputation claims.

A regularly featured speaker before private and public groups of clients and other attorneys, Chris has recently given presentations on topics including the retention and use of experts at trial, trial techniques, the assumption of risk doctrine, and cost-effective handling and defense of serious injury matters. Among his published opinions is Dilger v Moyles (1997) 54 Cal.App.4th 1452, 63 Cal.Rptr.2d 591, a First District Appellate Court decision which was petitioned to the Supreme Court for review. A sports enthusiast himself, Chris was pleased to handle the Dilger case, which holds that golfers assume the risk of injury when they are on the golf course, and have no legal duty to yell “FORE” after striking an errant shot!

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: CA