Meet Ted Pelletier: Over 25 Years of Experience and Success
Ted W. Pelletier has spent over 25 years working with California trial attorneys to represent injured individuals, companies, and consumers.
Ted’s drive to help the little guy was instilled by his parents and solidified by his college studies (U.C. Santa Barbara B.A. 1990). At Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 1994, top 6%), Ted developed his passion for persuasive legal writing and advocacy.
Ted then pursued compassionate representation and top-class advocacy, working with Bay Area plaintiffs’ attorneys to write their motions and briefs. He was quickly introduced to a top plaintiffs’ appellate attorney (Daniel U. Smith), who mentored Ted’s development as an appellate advocate. Seven invaluable years later, Ted opened his own office, representing the injured in the appellate and trial courts for over a decade.
In these early years, Ted was lead appellate counsel in dozens of matters, including the appeals successfully defending the first two California judgments for injured smokers against the cigarette industry [Whiteley v. Philip Morris; Henley v. Philip Morris]. Ted also handled numerous appeals in cases involving plaintiffs dying from cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
This experience led Ted to be recruited in 2013 to lead the appellate and motion department at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood (Oakland, CA). In seven-plus years at Kazan, Ted expanded and fine-tuned his expertise, defeating innumerable summary-judgment motions, handling legal arguments at trial, and winning numerous appeals – including several important, precedent-setting decisions in the California Supreme Court.
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These successes have culminated in Ted being nominated and chosen by his peers as both a Top Rated Attorney by Super Lawyers (2019-2023) and one of the Best Lawyers in America for Product Liability (2020-2023), and named a Finalist for the 2023 Consumer Attorney of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of California.
Now, Ted brings his expertise and experience to his own office, working with trial attorneys throughout California to represent those injured by corporate misconduct with first-class legal writing and oral advocacy.
Ted also shares his passion for writing and advocating through seminars for attorneys and his ongoing work at Berkeley Law School, where he heads the Moot Court Competition department, coaches competition teams, and lectures students on effective appellate advocacy.
When he is not crafting legal briefs, Ted enjoys cooking, playing the piano, seeing live music, hiking and running, and spending time with his wife of 30 years and their two daughters.