Redding, CA

Larry S. Buckley

Larry Buckley is the owner and founder of the firm. His expertise encompasses matters involving personal injury and wrongful death, products liability, insurance bad faith, and medical malpractice. Mr. Buckley graduated from California State University Chico, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Science with an emphasis in chemistry, physics, and mathematics. He then earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Gonzaga Law School, a top tier law school located in the Pacific Northwest. While in law school, Mr. Buckley was on the Deans List and received an American Jurisprudence Award for academic excellence in legal research and writing. He was also selected for the coveted position of judicial law clerk (extern) for the Honorable Robert L. Whaley. After graduating from law school, Mr. Buckley worked as a defense attorney in a medical malpractice firm before founding his own personal injury law firm. His legal career spans more than fifteen years, handling over a thousand personal injury cases, including catastrophic injury cases resulting in multi-million dollar recoveries. He is a member of The Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forum.

Frank D. Penney

Frank D. Penney is a well-regarded personal injury attorney with over 25 years of experience. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Brigham Young University and attended Gonzaga University School of Law. He has successfully represented clients in over 6,000 personal injury cases, recovering approximately $500 million in settlements and verdicts. In 2023, he was awarded the Consumer Attorney of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of California for his work on the Michaud et al v. United States of America case, which resulted in a $10.5 million verdict and led to new safety measures in U.S. national parks. He is licensed in California, Nevada, and Federal Courts, and is a member of ATLA, CAOC, the State Bar of California, and the State Bar of Nevada. He has received numerous accolades including being named to the National Trial Lawyers Association’s “Top 100” and Super Lawyers’ “Top 25 Attorneys in Sacramento.” He also serves as a Placer County Pro Tem Judge and Judicial Arbitrator.

Wayne H. Maire

Wayne H. Maire is the founding principal of Maire & Deedon, established in 1983. His practice emphasizes civil defense litigation, focusing on complex commercial litigation, public entity litigation, personal injury litigation, casualty and surety law. He was recognized by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel as being in the Nation’s top 1% of litigation counsel in 2017 and selected by Best Lawyers as the 2020 Lawyer of the Year for attorneys representing defendants in the Sacramento region. He has been recognized as one of Northern California’s 'Super Lawyers' since 2005 and in Best Lawyers in America since 2010. He also received the 'AV' designation by his peers in 1989 for being 'Very High to Preeminent' in his field.

Michael L. Pickering

Michael Pickering is a seasoned attorney with over 30 years of experience practicing law in California. He specializes in Worker’s Compensation, personal injury, wills, probate, healthcare directives, conservatorship, and guardianship. Michael is committed to advocating for the rights of injured workers and securing compensation for his clients' injuries and damages. He also assists clients with estate planning to protect assets for future generations.

Damian M. Idiart

Damian is a personal injury lawyer at Idiart Law Group. Damian started the group in 2001 and is licensed to practice in California and Oregon. Damian handles all types of personal injury cases from car accidents to dog bites, slip & falls and more throughout Oregon and California. Damian loves what he does because he gets to help people who have been through some of the worst experiences get back to as close to a normal life they can. He understands how to listen to his clients and make sure that he is giving the best possible. Damian grew up in the Bay Area (San Bruno, CA) and now lives in Southern Oregon with his family. He loves to spend time with them and loves sports. He is bilingual in English and Spanish. Damian lives by his montra, Family, Faith, Career. He truly finds his peace and happiness in helping others. Damian serves as a pro tem judge and a Court Appointed Special Advocate in Jackson County. Damian has been appointed as Jackson County Justice of Peace.

Russ Reiner is considered by many to be one of the best personal injury lawyers in California. His distinguished career in product liability law in areas of rollover accidents, vehicle crashworthiness and safety, and with defective medical devices have gained him national recognition. He is certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate. Russ has successfully represented clients against many of the nation’s leading insurance companies, including State Farm, Allstate, Farmers, Geico, CSAA, Hartford USAA, and against powerful corporations, including Ford, GMC, Chrysler, Nissan and Volkswagen, and Tenet Healthcare. He has lectured throughout the country, teaching other lawyers how to successfully try cases, and has published “Jeep CJ-5 Roll-Over” in the Million Dollar Arguments series. Russ was recently honored as a Candidate for Consumer Attorney of the Year for California. Rated an “A” lawyer (the highest ranking an attorney can obtain) by Martindale Hubbell. Russ is recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers, an honor given only to the top 5 percent of personal injury attorneys.

Richard Frankel is a third generation Texan who for over three decades has represented individuals, mom and pop businesses and some of the world’s largest corporations in cases all over the country. He has been “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell and named a Texas Super Lawyer multiple times. Like his partners, Richard has the highest peer rating for professional excellence. Richard’s interest in the law began when he was in high school, when he learned the thrill of researching, writing, and presenting oral arguments. After graduating from the University of Texas with departmental honors in 1980 and University of Texas Law School in 1983, Richard began his legal career at a boutique business litigation law firm. For the past two decades, Richard has won multimillion-dollar recoveries for individuals and small businesses who have been victims of fraud, medical negligence and other types of corporate misconduct. Richard represented hundreds of people who were unnecessarily admitted and locked up in a chain of psychiatric hospitals to capture their insurance money. More recently, he represented over two thousand underprivileged children in New York, Colorado, South Carolina and Ohio, who underwent unnecessary dental procedures such as root canals and crowns on baby teeth. Richard was also part of the team representing more than 300 California patients who received unnecessary heart surgeries at Redding Medical Center. The case was featured on 60 Minutes. In addition to representing victims of healthcare fraud, Richard has successfully represented clients who lost large sums of money due to the unlawful business practices of insurance companies, hotel chains, financial institutions, and media companies. Of more than a dozen appeals in the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court, Richard has won all but one of them. After practicing for almost 40 years, Richard is proud to be part of a system that can help clients not only by providing long-term security in their personal lives, but also by fighting evil and injustice on a larger, industrial scale.