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Construction Accident and Injury Experts
J. DEAN RICE
Mr. Rice was admitted to the Bar in 1977. He has spent his entire 30 year career as a trial attorney. Mr. Rice began his career trying lawsuits as a Deputy City Attorney and subsequently as an Assistant City Attorney.
After leaving the public sector in 1986, Mr. Rice began defending personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits including construction site accidents. Mr. Rice's clients included Quest Construction, Roel Construction, Peterbuilt Construction, Team General Contractors, Lusardi Construction, Struab Construction, Steven Worley Construction, Mur-Vic Construction, Pacific Bell, Richwell Steel, Ryerson Concrete, Klein Products, Desert Underground, McKinley Equipment and Iron Horse Equipment. In 2000, Mr. Rice became of counsel to the firm of Maxie Rheinheimer Stephens & Vrevich, LLP and made a career decision to specialize in the representation of injured individuals including construction workers and their families. Mr. Rice has tried over 60 Superior Court jury trials and since 2000 has recovered over 12 million dollars for injured individuals including construction workers and their families. Mr. Rice is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an organization whose members are recognized successful trial lawyers, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Consumer Attorneys of California and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Mr. Rice has been featured in U.S.News & World Report, The San Diego Union Tribune and N.P.R. (National Public Radio).
GRANT B. LUNA
Mr. Luna is an experienced trial lawyer with a background in the construction industry. Mr. Luna is the first son of a Construction Superintendent. He began working in the construction field at the age of 15 in the labor union installing fences along a newly constructed railroad bed in Montana. He worked as a flagman and on a pipe crew in Oregon. He also worked as a nozzleman on a gunnite crew in Idaho. Mr. Luna was in the International Union of Operating Engineers for 10 years working summers in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington as an operator on scrapers and dozers,to put himself through college. Mr. Luna enlisted in the Navy Sea Bees during the Vietnam War and was an equipment operator. Mr. Luna graduated Cum Laude from the University of San Diego Law School and worked for construction firms in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. He then returned to San Diego to work for local construction companies in his own firm. Mr. Luna became a Senior Vice President of an insurance company in the claims department insuring major construction companies in Southern California in construction site injury and death cases.
He was also head of a 50 lawyer firm representing construction companies in civil and Workers' Compensation litigation. In 2000, Mr. Luna retired from defense litigation and founded the firm of Luna & Luna. Mr. Luna's firm specializes in representing workers injured in construction site accidents. Mr. Luna has tried over 50 jury trials to verdict and is a member of the California, Arizona, and Nevada Bars.
Construction Accident Investigator
Bill Garcia
Bill Garcia is a licensed private investigator with over 14 years experience in the field of construction site accidents. Prior to becoming a private investigator, Mr. Garcia worked as a firefighter and an EMT. His timely access to job sites, co-workers, documentation and bilingual skills are important to preserve evidence, protect injured workers and their families. Mr. Garcia has been featured on CNN News, Fox News and many newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the San Diego Union-Tribune.