Ms. Bernhardt has focused her practice since 1991 in the litigation field. She has a solid background in defense litigation of actions involving personal injury, product liability, slip and fall, premises liability, automobile accidents, trucking accidents, property damage, construction defect, wrongful death, brain injury, dog bite cases, uninsured and under-insured motorist cases, public entity cases, and crop damage cases, as well as contract disputes, indemnity, subrogation cases, and special investigation unit cases. She has taken and defended hundreds of depositions of every type of witness, from plaintiffs and defendants to expert doctors, economists, engineers and accident reconstructionists. Ms. Bernhardt has been successful in numerous civil jury trials in California’s Superior and Municipal Courts.
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Litigation Attorney | Jan 13
Relationship: Opposing Counsel on matter
"I wholeheartedly endorse this Lawyer. Ms. Bernhardt and I have opposed each other several times over the past 15 years. Victoria is one of the most thorough Litigation Attorney's I've ever met. She literally writes a book on the Plaintiffs and usually knows more about the Plaintiff, than the Plaintiff does. Her preparation in combination with her tenacity make her a very lethal adversary. I count her a friend, but I know when we oppose each other, I'm in for a real fight."