About Nolan Kane
Nolan C. Kane was born and raised in Clovis, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 2007 (completing undergraduate study in three years) and was a member of the Notre Dame Men's Club Volleyball Team. After graduation, he worked as a litigation case assistant for Snyder Miller & Orton LLP in San Francisco for two years. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2012. While at Hastings, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill of the Eastern District of California, worked in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office where he tried his first jury trial, and externed for California Supreme Court Justice Marvin R. Baxter. He was admitted to the California Bar in December 2012. He began his career as a deputy district attorney in the Fresno County District Attorney's Office in 2013, gaining extensive trial experience before joining Paboojian & Bell, Inc. in December 2016. Mr. Kane primarily practices personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, UM/UIM, and wrongful termination. He has been selected for the Northern California Rising Stars list annually since 2019. He is past president of the Kings County Bar Association and the Fresno County Young Lawyers Association, and holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Notable case results
A Fresno County jury returned an $800,000 verdict for Veronica Ordaz Gonzalez and her boyfriend after sheriff's deputies entered their home without a warrant and shot and killed their dog, Scooby; the Fifth District Court of Appeal later upheld the award.
The City of Fresno paid $500,000 to resolve a civil rights lawsuit after bodycam footage and an independent police auditor confirmed that an officer's repeated punches to a 17-year-old bystander exceeded department policy.
John Doe v. Jane Doe Corporation, motor vehicle accident
Soto v. Garcia's Supermarket, slip and fall
Ordaz v. County of Fresno, civil rights/excessive force, Number 1 Excessive Force Verdict in Fresno County in 2023
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
