About Cody Christiansen

Cody Christiansen is a Senior Trial Attorney at The Barnes Firm in Oakland, serving clients throughout Oakland, San Francisco, and the Bay Area. With over a decade of litigation experience, he focuses exclusively on personal injury matters, representing victims of auto and trucking collisions, catastrophic brain and spinal injuries, premises liability, defective products, and wrongful death. Before joining The Barnes Firm, Cody handled more than 1,500 criminal cases throughout Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Francisco counties, ranging from misdemeanors to violent felonies. Originally from Utah and raised on California's central coast, he was inspired to become a lawyer after spending two years in Brazil, where he witnessed people struggling to navigate complex legal systems including immigration matters.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys

These results are credited to The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$19.45 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2000 · #6

Ross Cellino and Stephen Barnes won a $47.4 million Erie County jury verdict for a 22-year-old law student who suffered a catastrophic brain injury when two drivers played high-speed road tag on the New York State Thruway.

Erie County Supreme Court (Justice Christopher J. Burns); affirmed as modified, NY App. Div. 4th Dep't, Dec. 21, 2001 · 2000Car AccidentsRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Santa Barbara College of Law
J.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
State Bar of U.S. Federal Court

Awards & recognition

The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2013, 2014, 2015)
American Institute of DUI/DWI Attorneys 10 Best Under 40 (2015)

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