“I maintain a steady focus on emerging, game-changing events to infuse a practical context to complex litigation, whether at trial or in settlement negotiations.”

Sharon Collier
Partner

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Sharon Collier, Partner

2033 North Main Street, Suite 800
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

T: 925.930.6600
F: 925.930.6620

Sharon Collier’s practice is focused on trial practice and dispute resolution. She represents insurance companies, financial institutions and a wide variety of businesses and professionals.

Consummate Trial Attorney

Sharon has extensive trial experience, having spent well over 100 days in jury trials. She is a member of the firm’s On Call Trial Counsel team, our incisive trial task force specializing in taking tough cases to trial. Sharon has successfully tried significant cases to verdict, including unfair competition claims, federal regulatory claims, contractual disputes, and personal injury cases.

Defending Business Interests in Litigation Matters

Adept at representing businesses in litigation matters, Sharon handles cases ranging from contractual disputes including breach of contract, to fraud, discrimination, and intellectual property rights, including trade secret misappropriation. She represents a wide range of businesses running the gamut from a local recycler to international corporations. Sharon has also represented local health care districts, giving her a keen understanding of the vital interplay between private and public sectors.

Catastrophic Personal Injury Claims

Sharon frequently represents clients in insurance litigation cases involving catastrophic personal injury claims. She has effectively handled cases concerning motor vehicle and trucking accidents, work-related injuries, construction site injuries, and slip and fall grievances. Sharon’s skilful and thorough trial preparation often develops crucial evidence which leads to early and decisive settlement.

Industry Knowledge a Plus

Having worked for six years as a claims adjuster for a large insurance company, Sharon utilizes her unique understanding of the practical and philosophic considerations her clients face in litigation to strive for creative and satisfactory resolutions.

Sharon Collier’s representative list of matters tried to verdict or binding arbitration include the following:

Personal Injury

  • Personal Injury - Successfully received a defense verdict after a 17-day trial concerning a slip and fall personal injury claim.

Business Litigation

  • Intellectual Property - Successfully obtained a punitive damages award for a client in a year-long, complicated trade secret misappropriation case.
  • Discrimination - Successfully defeated a $5 million breach of contract claim by a government agency against a local recycling company.
  • Fraudulent Inducement - Successfully received defense verdict after a one week bench trial in a case involving claims of fraudulent inducement to enter into a contract.

Binding Arbitrations

  • Contractor Matter - Successfully obtained a defense award for a drainage contractor client.
  • Breach of Contract - Successfully awarded $5.2 million in damages for a breach of contract business dispute involving a national transportation company franchise.
  • Healthcare - Successfully prevailed in a contractual dispute between a local government healthcare district and private healthcare entity.

Education

Education

  • University of Denver Sturm College of Law, J.D., 1999
  • Lewis & Clark College, B.A., 1993


Admission

Admissions

  • State Bar of California, 1999


Memberships

Memberships

  • Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada
  • Contra Costa County Bar Association


Recognition

Recognition

  • Rising Star, Northern California Super Lawyers, two consecutive years, (2010-2011)


Languages

  • French
  • German