Jim Quadra concentrates on civil litigation. Prior to joining Calvo Fisher & Jacob, Mr. Quadra was a name partner in the San Francisco law firm of Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra for 12 years. Before founding Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra, he was a deputy city attorney with the San Francisco City Attorney's Office for over 8 years. Mr. Quadra was the Chief of General Litigation, supervising approximately 30 deputy city attorneys involved in a range of litigation on behalf of San Francisco. Before becoming a deputy city attorney, Mr. Quadra was an associate at the law firms of Severson & Werson and Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, where he specialized in commercial and securities litigation and bankruptcy law.
Mr. Quadra is a trial attorney with extensive litigation experience in class actions and cases involving employment issues, unfair business practices, business disputes, civil rights, police misconduct, municipal law, catastrophic injuries and wrongful death. He has tried cases in state and federal courts.
Mr. Quadra is a skilled negotiator with significant alternative dispute resolution experience. He serves as a mediator for the San Francisco Bar Association Early Settlement Program and the San Francisco Superior Court Pre-Arbitration Settlement Program.
Mr. Quadra has presented continuing legal education lectures for CEB, the Consumer Attorneys of California, the San Francisco City Attorney's Office and the San Mateo County Bar Association.
Martindale-Hubbell recognizes Mr. Quadra as an AV-rated attorney. An AV rating identifies Mr. Quadra as an attorney with very high to preeminent legal ability and the highest ethical standards. Mr. Quadra was named a Northern California Super Lawyer as published in San Francisco Magazine and Northern California Super Lawyer Magazine in 2005-2010. Super Lawyers is a listing of the top 5% of attorneys in Northern California as chosen by their peers.
Mr. Quadra is fluent in Spanish and handles cases involving coordination with counsel in Spanish-speaking countries.
Mr. Quadra has handled cases that have drawn national attention. He has been interviewed by and quoted in the National Law Journal, the Recorder, the SF Chronicle, the Washington Post and the New York Post, among other publications. He has appeared on Larry King Live, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, The Glen Beck Program, KGO-7 (ABC) and KDTV-14 (Univision).
Mr. Quadra is a member of the At Large Board of Directors for the Consumer Attorneys of California, a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, the Chairperson of the San Francisco Unified School District's Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee and the President of the Board of Directors of the Buen Dia Family School.
Mr. Quadra received his law degree from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was an Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholar, and a B.S. in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley.