
Justin DesRochers
Legal Assistant
Before his entry into the legal field, Justin was an educator and international development worker serving in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Malawi, a small country in sub-Saharan Africa.

Meredith Abato
Legal Assistant
During the spring of 2019, Meredith studied abroad at the University of Amsterdam where she studied the sex work industry and its socio-political context in the Netherlands.

Isabelle Gonzalez Roy
Senior Legal Assistant
In the fall semester of her junior year, Isabelle lived in Jordan and focused on the studies of refugees, health, and humanitarian action.

Fernando Salazar
Senior Legal Assistant
Fernando investigated the effects of global climate change and progressive environmental degradation on the regional stability of Southeast Asia while in school.

Cara Van Dorn
Associate
As an associate attorney at Motley Rice, Ms. Van Dorn researched legal issues that are critical in securities fraud, defective medical devices, and asbestos litigation.

Charles Field
San Diego Partner
As Co-Chair of the Firm’s Financial Services Litigation Practice Group, Mr. Field leverages his decades of practice focused on commercial transactions and regulation to recover investments that have been mishandled or lost.

Ed Chapin
San Diego Managing Partner
Mr. Chapin is a veteran trial lawyer whose individual and class action practice includes unfair business practices, professional negligence, insurance coverage, toxic torts, serious personal injury and wrongful death matters.

David Sanford
Chairman
Mr. Sanford is the Chairman and co-founder of Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP. Since 2004, Mr. Sanford has recovered more than $1 billion for individual clients and the United States government.