Arne Nelson
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Licensed for 30 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Brain injury
Language
English
About
On graduating from UC Berkeley in 1978, I began a PhD program that same year in History at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. After a few months of study and in the midst of a very cold Winter, I returned to California where I began working in law firms. My first law related job was at the downtown Los Angeles firm of Overton, Lyman & Prince. In the type of coincidence that only real life can bring, because I had worked the previous two Summers in a Wyoming uranium mine, this firm hired me to write "fact books" in the federal multi-district class action uranium litigation that was then pending in Chicago. My work entailed flying to various big cities around the U.S. where I was assigned to literally read through and summarize file cabinets full of documents pertaining to uranium sales contracts at the offices of public utilities that had contracted with Westinghouse to build nuclear power plants. After a couple of years and as the uranium lawsuit began to resolve, I began working on the insurance defense side of "DES" cases, all of which involved the same extraordinarily sad fact pattern, where the female offspring of mothers who had taken this synthetic estrogen medication that had been prescribed to them in the 1950's and 1960's by their physicians to treat the side effects of pregnancy, these girls developed typically terminal cancer of the cervix. The DES cases were my first exposure to personal injury litigation, and I found that I loved working in this nexus between medicine and law. I also discovered that I wanted to work for the injured persons and not to advance the interests of insurance companies and large corporations. After law school, I opened my own personal injury practice in 1991, I've now handled nearly 1,500 personal injury cases from inception through insurance claims, litigation (when necessary) and trial. I continue to do this work, because I beleive in the rights of individuals who have been injured by the fault of others, whether in the refined context of a complex products liability setting, from premises liability, or traffic collisions. Regardless how a person has been injured, we are all entitled to fair compensation for injuries caused by another person's or entity's negligence. Unfortunately, the process of obtaining compensation, typically from insurance companies, is fraught with bias, prejudice and greed. And like our current political polarizations, the insurance defense professionals on one side and the plaintiff's bar on the other, each see the other all too often as a bitter adversary. But such is the current state of our society as we wrestle with legal concepts devolved from medieval England. My job is to advocate for each of my clients, applying all the hard won benefits of my experience, to obtain for her or him a fair measure of compensation.
Practices Areas
Litigation
Personal Injury
Brain injury
Motorcycle accident
Language
English
Contact
Law Offices of Arne J. Nelson1970 BroadwaySuite 615Oakland, CA, 94612
Office: (415) 944-4929
Website: N/AReviews
This guy is one of the best Lawyers I have ever met or worked with. There is no BS and he gets in there and gets the job done. Great personality, easy to talk to, if you have Arnie as your lawyer consider yourself lucky!
I cannot say enough about Arne my attorney who literally faught for my wife injury case ,arne the best! Quick response time to getting back with me and went over and beyond for my case. I appreciate everything Arne and team ,have done for me and would most definitely recommend u to other people. Thank u guys for all our help. By (samy ,bharti,sezal baby)
Arne was my personal injury attorney in a case that involved getting rear-ended by a semi-truck. He was able to get me a fair settlement and was professional, caring , and responsive and made the whole process easy and straight-forward. I would recommend him to others and glad he was recommended to me by another friend.
We met Arne around 20 years ago after we were searching for an attorney after a car accident that left our car totaled and both me and my husband in pain. He rushed right over to our home since we were pretty banged up. We immediately felt at ease with Arne and we knew everything would be OK. He referred us to a chiropractor for the whiplash and other injuries. Me and my husband were a little skeptical because our culture does not really believe in chiropractic care. We went and were amazed at the difference the chiropractor made for both of us. Every step of the way Arne kept us informed and we always knew what to expect. Even though the process seemed lengthy and confusing he explained it all to us. Several years later we were in another car accident and Arne represented us again. I know that many people bad mouth attorneys but because of my families experience with Arne we know that many attorneys are there to help and not always out for the almighty buck. What we liked best about Arne was his sense of fairness. We were not out to fleece anyone but only to get compensated for our damages. At one point we were in a third smaller car accident and I called Arne again. Since we had been through the process already twice Arne encouraged me to "do it myself" so that we could keep the whole settlement. He helped me and coaching me throughout the process and I was able to do it all by myself. I am not sure that there are many other attorneys out there that would help a client like that without payment and this is why we hold Arne in very high regard. The other reason we count our blessings to having met Arne is because he introduced us to an alternative way to heal our bodies that does not include drugs that can mask a problem and does not necessarily resolve it. To this day, me and my family go to a chiropractor whenever we get a soft tissue or muscle injury that regular doctors would only "throw" pills at and I believe we are much healthier because of this. We still keep in touch with Arne and call him whenever we have "problems" that come up---like pieces of plate in our food that broke a tooth, and he is always more than happy to give us advice. Our family highly recommends Arne Nelson!
Arne helped me on 2 of my cases over the past 10 years. I found Arne to be very compassionate and always there to take all of my calls and questions. He fought for me in mediation and helped to negotiate a reduction of my some of my medical expenses. Arne cares for his clients and it shows. Talk with him and see for yourself.
He helped me through one of worst times of my life with kindness and compassion. He listened to my concerns and worries and thoroughly explained what was possible and what wasn't. He got me the best settlement possible in a reasonable amount of time.
This guy is one of the best Lawyers I have ever met or worked with. There is no BS and he gets in there and gets the job done. Great personality, easy to talk to, if you have Arnie as your lawyer consider yourself lucky!
I cannot say enough about Arne my attorney who literally faught for my wife injury case ,arne the best! Quick response time to getting back with me and went over and beyond for my case. I appreciate everything Arne and team ,have done for me and would most definitely recommend u to other people. Thank u guys for all our help. By (samy ,bharti,sezal baby)
Arne was my personal injury attorney in a case that involved getting rear-ended by a semi-truck. He was able to get me a fair settlement and was professional, caring , and responsive and made the whole process easy and straight-forward. I would recommend him to others and glad he was recommended to me by another friend.
We met Arne around 20 years ago after we were searching for an attorney after a car accident that left our car totaled and both me and my husband in pain. He rushed right over to our home since we were pretty banged up. We immediately felt at ease with Arne and we knew everything would be OK. He referred us to a chiropractor for the whiplash and other injuries. Me and my husband were a little skeptical because our culture does not really believe in chiropractic care. We went and were amazed at the difference the chiropractor made for both of us. Every step of the way Arne kept us informed and we always knew what to expect. Even though the process seemed lengthy and confusing he explained it all to us. Several years later we were in another car accident and Arne represented us again. I know that many people bad mouth attorneys but because of my families experience with Arne we know that many attorneys are there to help and not always out for the almighty buck. What we liked best about Arne was his sense of fairness. We were not out to fleece anyone but only to get compensated for our damages. At one point we were in a third smaller car accident and I called Arne again. Since we had been through the process already twice Arne encouraged me to "do it myself" so that we could keep the whole settlement. He helped me and coaching me throughout the process and I was able to do it all by myself. I am not sure that there are many other attorneys out there that would help a client like that without payment and this is why we hold Arne in very high regard. The other reason we count our blessings to having met Arne is because he introduced us to an alternative way to heal our bodies that does not include drugs that can mask a problem and does not necessarily resolve it. To this day, me and my family go to a chiropractor whenever we get a soft tissue or muscle injury that regular doctors would only "throw" pills at and I believe we are much healthier because of this. We still keep in touch with Arne and call him whenever we have "problems" that come up---like pieces of plate in our food that broke a tooth, and he is always more than happy to give us advice. Our family highly recommends Arne Nelson!
Arne helped me on 2 of my cases over the past 10 years. I found Arne to be very compassionate and always there to take all of my calls and questions. He fought for me in mediation and helped to negotiate a reduction of my some of my medical expenses. Arne cares for his clients and it shows. Talk with him and see for yourself.
He helped me through one of worst times of my life with kindness and compassion. He listened to my concerns and worries and thoroughly explained what was possible and what wasn't. He got me the best settlement possible in a reasonable amount of time.
This guy is one of the best Lawyers I have ever met or worked with. There is no BS and he gets in there and gets the job done. Great personality, easy to talk to, if you have Arnie as your lawyer consider yourself lucky!
I cannot say enough about Arne my attorney who literally faught for my wife injury case ,arne the best! Quick response time to getting back with me and went over and beyond for my case. I appreciate everything Arne and team ,have done for me and would most definitely recommend u to other people. Thank u guys for all our help. By (samy ,bharti,sezal baby)
Arne was my personal injury attorney in a case that involved getting rear-ended by a semi-truck. He was able to get me a fair settlement and was professional, caring , and responsive and made the whole process easy and straight-forward. I would recommend him to others and glad he was recommended to me by another friend.
We met Arne around 20 years ago after we were searching for an attorney after a car accident that left our car totaled and both me and my husband in pain. He rushed right over to our home since we were pretty banged up. We immediately felt at ease with Arne and we knew everything would be OK. He referred us to a chiropractor for the whiplash and other injuries. Me and my husband were a little skeptical because our culture does not really believe in chiropractic care. We went and were amazed at the difference the chiropractor made for both of us. Every step of the way Arne kept us informed and we always knew what to expect. Even though the process seemed lengthy and confusing he explained it all to us. Several years later we were in another car accident and Arne represented us again. I know that many people bad mouth attorneys but because of my families experience with Arne we know that many attorneys are there to help and not always out for the almighty buck. What we liked best about Arne was his sense of fairness. We were not out to fleece anyone but only to get compensated for our damages. At one point we were in a third smaller car accident and I called Arne again. Since we had been through the process already twice Arne encouraged me to "do it myself" so that we could keep the whole settlement. He helped me and coaching me throughout the process and I was able to do it all by myself. I am not sure that there are many other attorneys out there that would help a client like that without payment and this is why we hold Arne in very high regard. The other reason we count our blessings to having met Arne is because he introduced us to an alternative way to heal our bodies that does not include drugs that can mask a problem and does not necessarily resolve it. To this day, me and my family go to a chiropractor whenever we get a soft tissue or muscle injury that regular doctors would only "throw" pills at and I believe we are much healthier because of this. We still keep in touch with Arne and call him whenever we have "problems" that come up---like pieces of plate in our food that broke a tooth, and he is always more than happy to give us advice. Our family highly recommends Arne Nelson!
Arne helped me on 2 of my cases over the past 10 years. I found Arne to be very compassionate and always there to take all of my calls and questions. He fought for me in mediation and helped to negotiate a reduction of my some of my medical expenses. Arne cares for his clients and it shows. Talk with him and see for yourself.
He helped me through one of worst times of my life with kindness and compassion. He listened to my concerns and worries and thoroughly explained what was possible and what wasn't. He got me the best settlement possible in a reasonable amount of time.
This guy is one of the best Lawyers I have ever met or worked with. There is no BS and he gets in there and gets the job done. Great personality, easy to talk to, if you have Arnie as your lawyer consider yourself lucky!
I cannot say enough about Arne my attorney who literally faught for my wife injury case ,arne the best! Quick response time to getting back with me and went over and beyond for my case. I appreciate everything Arne and team ,have done for me and would most definitely recommend u to other people. Thank u guys for all our help. By (samy ,bharti,sezal baby)
Arne was my personal injury attorney in a case that involved getting rear-ended by a semi-truck. He was able to get me a fair settlement and was professional, caring , and responsive and made the whole process easy and straight-forward. I would recommend him to others and glad he was recommended to me by another friend.
We met Arne around 20 years ago after we were searching for an attorney after a car accident that left our car totaled and both me and my husband in pain. He rushed right over to our home since we were pretty banged up. We immediately felt at ease with Arne and we knew everything would be OK. He referred us to a chiropractor for the whiplash and other injuries. Me and my husband were a little skeptical because our culture does not really believe in chiropractic care. We went and were amazed at the difference the chiropractor made for both of us. Every step of the way Arne kept us informed and we always knew what to expect. Even though the process seemed lengthy and confusing he explained it all to us. Several years later we were in another car accident and Arne represented us again. I know that many people bad mouth attorneys but because of my families experience with Arne we know that many attorneys are there to help and not always out for the almighty buck. What we liked best about Arne was his sense of fairness. We were not out to fleece anyone but only to get compensated for our damages. At one point we were in a third smaller car accident and I called Arne again. Since we had been through the process already twice Arne encouraged me to "do it myself" so that we could keep the whole settlement. He helped me and coaching me throughout the process and I was able to do it all by myself. I am not sure that there are many other attorneys out there that would help a client like that without payment and this is why we hold Arne in very high regard. The other reason we count our blessings to having met Arne is because he introduced us to an alternative way to heal our bodies that does not include drugs that can mask a problem and does not necessarily resolve it. To this day, me and my family go to a chiropractor whenever we get a soft tissue or muscle injury that regular doctors would only "throw" pills at and I believe we are much healthier because of this. We still keep in touch with Arne and call him whenever we have "problems" that come up---like pieces of plate in our food that broke a tooth, and he is always more than happy to give us advice. Our family highly recommends Arne Nelson!
Arne helped me on 2 of my cases over the past 10 years. I found Arne to be very compassionate and always there to take all of my calls and questions. He fought for me in mediation and helped to negotiate a reduction of my some of my medical expenses. Arne cares for his clients and it shows. Talk with him and see for yourself.
He helped me through one of worst times of my life with kindness and compassion. He listened to my concerns and worries and thoroughly explained what was possible and what wasn't. He got me the best settlement possible in a reasonable amount of time.