About Emile Davis

Emile A. Davis is the Managing Attorney of the Dolan Law Firm, PC, based in the firm's Oakland office. His practice focuses on employment law, personal injury, and discrimination and civil rights cases.

  • In employment matters, Davis handles cases involving age, disability, gender, race, and sexual orientation discrimination
  • FMLA violations
  • retaliation
  • wrongful termination
  • sexual harassment
  • wage and hour claims
  • and whistleblower matters. On the personal injury side, he represents clients in motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, products liability, aviation accidents, elder abuse, and wrongful death cases. He has managed litigation across diverse sectors, including airlines, banking, construction, healthcare, hotels, universities, and public agencies

Davis is a member of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association. He has been recognized by U.S. News, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Martindale-Hubbell. He authors workplace-rights articles and serves as a legal expert source for media commentary.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$36 millionSettlement

Chris Dolan represented the surviving Tran family and reached a $36 million settlement with Alameda County after an off-duty deputy who had failed his psychological exam shot Maria and Benison Tran in their Dublin home.

Alameda County, CA · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.5 millionVerdict

An Alameda County jury awarded $18,574,222 to Juanita Cerrato, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after she swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer left blocking her lane on a Fresno highway near midnight.

Alameda County Superior Court, CA (Fresno crash) · 2025Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$17.2 millionVerdict

A Sacramento County jury awarded $17,220,807 to Lethesia Guzman, whose car stalled on the Yolo Causeway before a Morning Star tomato truck set off the chain-reaction crash that killed her fiance and left her with catastrophic injuries.

Sacramento County Superior Court, CA · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$3.26 millionVerdict

A federal jury found that a City of Roy, Washington police officer used excessive force when he shot two unarmed men riding an off-road vehicle during a 2019 snowstorm, awarding $3.26 million.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Tacoma) · 2021Civil RightsRead the full story →
Settlement

Christopher Dolan secured a confidential settlement from Uber in what is widely described as the first wrongful-death suit filed against the company over a driver's conduct, after a New Year's Eve 2013 crosswalk collision in San Francisco killed a 6-year-old girl.

San Francisco Superior Court, CA · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
Consumer Attorneys of California
Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

U.S. News - Best Lawyers
Super Lawyers
Martindale-Hubbell

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