About Clay Arnold

Clay Arnold founded the Arnold Law Firm in Sacramento in 1975 and has spent more than four decades representing Californians injured by negligent drivers, defective products, and other third-party wrongdoing. Born in Sacramento on February 13, 1947, he attended Christian Brothers High School before joining the U.S. Army, where he served in Vietnam in 1967-68 with the 589th Combat Engineers and received the Army Commendation Medal. After being discharged as a sergeant in January 1969, he returned home and attended college and law school on the G.I. Bill while working full time. He received his law degree from Lincoln University in 1975 and was admitted to the bar that same year.

Today his practice is limited to personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, professional liability, and uninsured/underinsured motorist cases. He is a past president of the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the National Brain Institute. He has served as Judge Pro Tem for Sacramento and Placer Superior Courts and co-founded the Roseville Community School in 1992. In 2009, CCTLA awarded him the Friedman Humanitarian Award for exceptional public service.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$3.96 million

Scott Ryan Eisenbrandt Jr. was killed in a collision involving a hauling company's truck shortly after its owner bought a commercial policy in 2006. His widow and parents won a California Superior Court wrongful-death judgment of $3,964,030.77 against the truck's owner, entered January 21, 2011. They then defeated the owner's insurer in federal court, which had tried to rescind the commercial policy, and the court ordered the insurer to pay the policy's face amount with interest.

California Superior Court; collection action in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento · 2011Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Lincoln University School of Law, Sacramento
J.D., 1975

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1975

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$1.85 Million Verdict After Dump Truck Veers Into Sacramento Driver, L5-S1 Fusion Surgery Required

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.