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Proving Mental & Emotional Injuries

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John D. Winer is a partner in the law firm of Winer, McKenna, and Davis, with offices in San Francisco and Oakland. The firm litigates cases nationally, focusing on California cases.

Mr. Winer is recognized in California and nationally by his colleagues as an outstanding litigator and trial attorney. He is often called upon to lecture to other attorneys in his areas of specialty, including workplace sexual harassment/discrimination, wrongful death, elder abuse, psychotherapist sexual abuse, nursing home negligence, and serious personal and psychological injury cases.

Mr. Winer has a specialty in psychological injury cases, having litigated over 1000 cases involving psychological injuries. He has published over 100 articles on various aspects of litigation techniques and personal/psychological injury law, and has been asked to lecture on these subjects more than 60 times.

Mr. Winer has tried over 20 cases involving primarily psychological injuries and has received seven-figure verdicts in five purely psychological injury cases, and similar settlements in dozens of cases.

He has been recognized by his colleagues with numerous awards memorializing his contributions to the trial bar. On four different occasions he has been presented with the California Trial Lawyers Association Presidential Award of Merit. He has also received the California Trial Lawyers Association Outstanding Achievement Award. Mr. Winer has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Winer has been elected by his peers and invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), whose membership is comprised of highly experienced and professionally recognized trial attorneys. He has appeared on many television and radio programs and a number of his cases have received wide media attention. Mr. Winer recently was invited to become a member of The College of Master Advocates & Barristers, an international organization formed to recognize experienced Advocates, while promoting the ideal that trial advocacy is an art.

Mr. Winer is recognized as a leader in the San Francisco and state-wide trial bar. For six years he was a Vice-President of Consumer Attorneys of California, the largest plaintiffs’ attorney state-wide organization in the country. He is a past president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Winer received his B.A. from the University of Florida in 1976 and his J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1979. He has been a faculty member at the ATLA National College of Advocacy, Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course and Hastings College of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Winer is a member of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, California Employment Lawyers Association, and American Trial Lawyers Association. He is a co-founder of the National Advocacy Network for Abused Patients.

Richard Bernard Pesikoff, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Baylor College of Medicine. He graduated from New York University College of Arts and Sciences (Heights), received his Doctor of Medicine from New York University School of Medicine, and did his internship in straight medicine at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. He completed his residencies in adult and child psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and then entered military service where he served as a major in the United States Army, assigned to William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso, Texas. He received an Honorable Discharge from the military in 1971 and then joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine where he has taught classes in a number of areas of psychiatry including human development, child and adolescent psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. He is a graduate of the Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, a branch of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Pesikoff has received a number of awards for teaching, including the American Psychiatric Association’s Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, Certificate of Excellence in Recognition of Outstanding and Sustained Contributions to Medical Education. He has written articles in the areas of child development, substance abuse, and psychiatry and the law. He is active in a number of public service organizations and has appeared on many television programs, including CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

Dr. Pesikoff is certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association in Psychoanalysis and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the American Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, a life member of the Texas Society for Child Psychiatry, and a member of the Harris Country Medical Society.

Dr. Pesikoff is on the staff of a number of hospitals in Houston including Methodist, Texas Children’s and West Oaks Hospital. Dr. Pesikoff maintains a private practice of adult and child psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

Richard T. Goldberg, Ed.D. is a clinical psychologist, teacher, and researcher in rehabilitation and psychology. Educated at Harvard University, A.B., and Boston University, Ed.D., he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and senior clinical psychologist in Behavioral and Mental Health at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. He has published over 66 scientific papers, reviews, chapters, and books. He was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 1992 he was given the Founders Award at Boston University for the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling.

In 1997 he was recognized for his work on the impact of poliomyelitis on Franklin D. Roosevelt by an invitation to the White House. His book, The Making of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Triumph Over Disability, is recognized by historians as being authoritative. The breadth and variety of his writing on psychiatric conditions, medical ethics, physical and mental disabilities, and history of rehabilitation are enormous.

Since 1986 he has been involved in numerous clinical positions in Harvard affiliated teaching institutions. Most recently he has been treating patients with complex medical disorders including end stage renal disease, respiratory insufficiency, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and terminally ill patients. In 2004 he was nominated for the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award. He is currently treating patients on the stroke and general rehabilitation programs at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.