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About Vanessa Deniston
Vanessa C. Deniston is the Managing Trial Attorney for the Employment Team at the Dolan Law Firm, PC, based in the firm's Oakland office. She joined the firm in 2017. Her practice covers employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower violations, wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, personal injury, sexual assault, and elder abuse cases.
Deniston earned her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School.
She is active with Consumer Attorneys of California (Executive Committee and Board of Directors; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee; Women's Caucus), the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the California Employment Lawyers Association, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, and the Alameda County Trial Lawyers Association.
Deniston was named the Marin Trial Lawyers Association's 2025 Trial Lawyer of the Year and has been listed on Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2018 to 2025. Notable case work includes a $17.2 million jury verdict in Guzman et al. v. Morning Star Trucking Company, LLC (December 2024). She has handled cases against Uber Technologies, Kaiser Permanente, Chevron, Wyndham Destinations, and the Walt Disney Company.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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