O’Connor and Associates

Specialties

O’Connor and Associates provides both litigation and expert consultancy services in a broad range of attorneys fee issues, including disputes over appropriate billing rates, litigation efficiency, task assignment and staffing, litigation success and prevailing party determination, and litigation skill. Our work in this regard has been widely lauded by clients, lawyers, courts and arbitrators.

O’Connor and Associates lawyers are strongly competent across a wide spectrum of matters involving commercial and business tort litigation. We analyze the unique circumstances of each case, developing a litigation plan that best serves that particular client. We structure litigation strategies, counsel assignment and task selection to achieve the goals upon which the firm and client jointly agree.

History

Established in 2006.

From 1972 through early 1974, John D. O’Connor was the personal trial associate of Melvin M. Belli of Belli, Ashe & Choulos, a San Francisco trial firm. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California from 1974 through 1980, and from 1981 through 2000, was a founding partner of Tarkington, O’Connor and O’Neill, where he successfully represented the FDIC, the FSLIC, RTC and NCUA in a variety of matters involving failed and failing financial institutions. From 2001 through June, 2006, O’Connor was a litigator with the San Francisco firm of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. Since July of 2006, O’Connor has been principal in O’Connor and Associates, a litigation boutique emphasizing O’Connor’s trial skills.

O’Connor and Associates provides a tailored approach to commercial and business litigation and offers expert witness and representation in attorney fee dispute matters.

Meet the Business Owner

John O.

Business Owner

John D. O’Connor has tried over 70 cases in federal and state venues throughout the country, with highly enviable success in complex, contentious disputes. Retained by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company as trial counsel in key cases, he has achieved a pretrial dismissal in each concluded action. A former Federal Prosecutor, Mr. O’Connor was chosen lead outside counsel in certain S&L crisis litigation, defended a California Attorney General in campaign-​related litigation, and successfully represented Golden State Warriors basketball Coach Don Nelson in significant contract claims. His greatest successes have been in the satisfactory resolution of closely-​held business disputes. He welcomes collegial association with regularly retained counsel.

Mr. O’Connor has held the highest Martindale-​Hubbell «AV» rating for over 25 years, and has consistently been named a «SuperLawyer» by his Northern California peers. He has tried cases at the highest levels of practice since 1972.