About John Feder

John M. Feder has practiced personal injury and wrongful death law for more than 40 years. He develops close relationships with the clients and families he represents and has obtained substantial results across a wide range of cases. He and partner Ronald Rouda obtained an $18,026,000 jury verdict in a complex dangerous roadway case. He and June Bashant recovered $20 million for the wrongful death of a young professional exposed to a dangerous condition at a hotel. Feder has resolved many cases involving product liability, medical malpractice, elder abuse, public-entity liability, and trucking and taxi cab accidents.

He was president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association in 2007 and state president of Consumer Attorneys of California in 2014. He is a finalist multiple times for the Consumer Attorneys of California Attorney of the Year Award and received the CAOC Presidential Award of Merit eight times. He has been included in California Super Lawyers every year since 2006 and The Best Lawyers in America since 2013. Feder clerked with Judge Donald B. Constine of the Superior Court of California from 1977 to 1978.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn

These results are credited to Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$47.5 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2018 · #16

A 12-year-old's catastrophic injuries from a rotten campground tree produced a $47.5 million pretrial settlement against San Mateo County, PG&E, and their contractors, reportedly the largest single-plaintiff personal injury settlement in California history.

San Mateo County, CA · 2018Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$24 millionSettlement

A 27-year-old Bay Area woman suffered permanent paralysis after an Acura dealership employee, acting as a self-appointed Good Samaritan, forced her vehicle off I-680 and into a catastrophic rollover; the case settled for $24 million, the largest personal-injury settlement in Northern California for 2016.

Walnut Creek / Contra Costa County, CA · 2016Car AccidentsRead the full story →

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

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