William C Jeanney Attorney at Law in Reno Nevada
William C. Jeanney
Senior Partner
wcjeanney@yahoo.com
775-335-9999
775-335-9993
Born:
Winnemucca, Nevada, September 3, 1953
Education:
University of Nevada, B.S., 1975, McGeorge Pacific School of Law, J.D., 1982
Practice Areas:
Personal Injury; Wrongful Termination; Insurance Bad Faith; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Birth Trauma; Brain Injury; Spinal Injury; Catastrophic Injury; Automotive Crashworthiness; Product Defects; Personal Injury; Insurance Bad Faith; Medical Malpractice; Civil Rights Section 1983; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Bicycle Accidents; Boating Accidents; Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries; Power Line Contact Injury; Severe Burns; Sexual Abuse; Slip and Fall; Automotive Design Liability
Membership:
State Bar of Nevada; Nevada Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Bruce R. Thompson American Inns of Court; American Board of Trial Advocates; Washoe County Bar Association.
Admissions:
1982, Nevada; 1985, California
Biography:
Bill Jeanney is recognized as one of the premier personal injury trial lawyers in the western United States. He was honored by his peers as the 2008 Trial Lawyer of the Year in the State of Nevada by the Nevada Justice Association, an organization of approximately 1000 trial attorneys. In 2008 he was also inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor recognizing the highest achievement in legal advocacy. Bill was also recognized as one of the Top 25 Nevada Super Lawyers for 2008 and was named to The Best Lawyers in America for personal injury for 2008 and 2009. In addition, Bill is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
For the last 25 years, Mr. Jeanney has specialized in the jury trial and settlement resolution of complex plaintiff personal injury cases. He has had an outstanding trial record in both state and federal courts in Nevada and California involving products liability, insurance bad faith, governmental negligence, medical malpractice, trucking collisions and catastrophic brain injuries. He is the most active trial lawyer in the firm, having personally tried over 75 jury trials. He has achieved a remarkable string of million dollar jury verdicts and settlements over the past 10 years. This includes the following following successes:
- January 2009: 1.2 Million Dollar settlement of a product liability case involving the loss of an arm in an industrial planer;
- November 2008: 2.3 Million Dollars settlement of a wrongful death claim in a trucking collision;
- June 2006: A trial verdict of 1.2 Million Dollars in U.S. Federal District Court of Nevada arising frmo a rear-end automobile collision;
- January 2006: A 2.2 Million Dollar settlement in a medical negligence claim involving the misuse and failure to monitor a medication;
- March 2005: A jury trial verdict of 3.4 Million Dollars in Redding, California, arising from a premises liability fall (believed to be the largest single verdict in the history of that county);
- December 2005: 1.2 Million Dollar settlement of a brain injury case arising from a medical mistake in monitoring an elderly patient after surgery;
- March 2000: 4.52 Million Dollar jury verdict in Las Vegas, Nevada, arising from a trucking collision in a construction zone;
- June 1999: 4.3 Million Dollar settlement arising from the crash of a helicopter in Carson City, Nevada;
- April 2001: 1.5 Million Dollar settlement arising from a wrongful death trucking collision in Silver Springs, Nevada.
Bill is widely sought after as a lecturer in trial law and has presented lectures in the past year along for several trial lawyer organizations, including the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, the State Bar of Nevada, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the American Inns of Court. He has also lectures throughout the years on the subject of business torts, depositions and trial preparation. He is a past-president of the Washoe County Bar Association. Prior to his focus on personal injury trial law, Bill was a Deputy District Attorney for Humboldt County, Nevada, where he honed his trial skills by successful prosecution of numerous criminal trials in state and federal courts, including serious felony murder trials. Bill is a native Nevada resident, born in Winnemucca, Nevada.
He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1975 from the University of Nevada-Reno and his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1982 from the McGeorge Pacific School of Law.
BACKGROUND
1988 to Present - BRADLEY, DRENDEL & JEANNEY LTD.
Practice limited to products liability, air crash litigation, medical negligence, municipal liability pursuant to Section 1983, insurance bad faith, automobile and trucking collisions, premises liability and all aspects of personal injury cases.
1985 to 1988 – ERICKSON, THORPE & SWAINSTON, LTD.
Insurance Defense. Areas of specialty: employment law, medical law, medical malpractice, representation of most Northern Nevada counties including Humboldt County, Washoe School District, Lyon County School District and Storey County School District.
1982 to 1985 - DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY - HUMBOLDT COUNTY
1975 to 1979 - ALBERT LOWRY HIGH SCHOOL - WINNEMUCCA
Teacher, Secondary School.
PERSONAL
Born in Winnemucca, Nevada, September 3, 1953
Two Daughters
Excellent Health
Avid Skier and Hunter
