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Extra Phones: Phone: (510) 843-4021
Neighborhood: South Berkeley
Other Link: http://www.jimchanin.com
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Phone: (510) 848-4752

Address: 3050 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705

Website: http://www.jimchanin.com

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Wrongful Death
Mr. Chanin filed his first wrongful death case against the City of Oakland in 1979 following the shooting death of a union member in East Oakland. That case was followed by a wrongful death case in 1985 and numerous other excessive force cases resulting from shootings, beatings, and police dog bite attacks.
Traffic Violations
In 2005, Jim Chanin, Julie Houk, and John Burris obtained a settlement in excess of 2.2 million dollars on behalf of Asian. women who were victimized by an on-dury Oakland Police Officer who committed acts of sexual misconduct after stopping the women for minor or invented traffic violations.
Homicide
Mr. Amaro’s mother became aware of the true facts concerning the homicide only after someone within the OPD with specific knowledge of the misconduct and subsequent cover-up leaked information concerning the case to the press in 2009. Even after the lawsuit was filed, the City of Oakland and Oakland Police Department continued to conceal of the full truth about what happened to Mr. Amaro. In fact, a high ranking member of the Oakland Police Department asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege and refused to testify about what happened to Mr. Amaro at a deposition. The Defendants further claimed that Mr. Amaro’s mother should have filed suit nine years earlier, even though their affirmative misrepresentations and concealment prevented her from knowing the true facts of what happened to her son. However, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for Ninth circuit both agreed that the statute of limitations could be tolled due to the OPD’s active concealment the true facts surrounding Mr. Amaro’s homicide.
Kidnapping
Allen v. City of Oakland federal civil lawsuit was commenced in December 2000 by Jim Chanin, Julie Houk and John Burris in response to a pattern and practice of civil rights abuses by members of the OPD who became known as the “Riders.” Eventually, one hundred nineteen (119) individual Plaintiffs, almost all of whom were African Americans, joined the litigation. The Plaintiffs’ claims involved a litany of constitutional violations, including, false arrests, unreasonable seizures, false imprisonments, the planting of evidence, excessive use of force, falsification of police reports, racially biased policing and kidnapping.

Wrongful Termination
Mr. Chanin and his associate, Julie Houk, also represented a woman police reserve officer who received a substantial settlement as a result of sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
Severance Agreement
Mr. Chanin prides himself on giving practical advice to businesses as to how to resolve disputes so that costly and protracted litigation can be avoided if feasible. He has also counseled dozens of employees as to how to get the most out of their severance package when they lose their job or want to change their employer.
Sexual Harassment

Personal Injury
Mr. Chanin does not run a “personal injury mill,” but rather he insists on giving individual treatment to every client he represents. His expertise includes assessing permanent injuries, lost wages and future wage loss and the medical and psychological needs of his clients. He is not afraid to try a case but is also aware that adequate settlements sometimes provide more for his clients than the risks of a jury trial.

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