Thomas D'Amato

D'Amato Law Corporation
Village Court Orinda
61D Avenida de Orinda
Orinda, CA 94563
(925) 317-1300

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Areas of Practice:
Professional Liability and Ethics
​Business Litigation

Overview

D’Amato Law represents licensed professionals and their organizations throughout California in claims such as professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraud, and elder abuse. 
D’Amato Law has extensive experience representing lawyers, law firms, real estate brokers and agents, non-profit officers and directors, architects, engineers and design professionals, insurance brokers and agents, accountants, and other professionals. 
D’Amato Law skillfully and sensitively defends license holders facing investigation and disciplinary action from California regulatory agencies. As license holders themselves, the lawyers at D’Amato Law stand ready to defend what matters most to you, your ability to pursue your chosen profession.

Background

Tom is a Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law and the lead trial lawyer at D'Amato Law Corporation, a litigation firm based in his hometown of Orinda, California. Chief among his areas of practice are legal malpractice, ethics and fee disputes, and commercial litigation. In addition to his work in the trial courts, Tom advises lawyers, law firms and legal departments on the law of lawyering and ethics, and represents lawyers before The State Bar of California in disciplinary matters.
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2019 - 2021
Selected to Rising Stars: 2011 - 2016
Professional and Community Contributions
Tom is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and the Bar Associations of San Francisco and Contra Costa County. 
As an active member of DRI, the leading organization of defense attorneys and in-house counsel, Tom served the 22,000 member organization for three years as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Pacific Region. Tom's held leadership and steering committee positions on the Professional Liability, Lawyers Professionalism and Ethics, Public Service, Membership and Young Lawyers committees. He chaired the State and Local Defense Organization Relationship Committee. He frequently speaks and writes on topics relating to professional services, law practice management and ethics.
Tom is a past-President and current Secretary of the Orinda Chamber of Commerce. He formerly served as the President of the Board of Directors for Diablo Valley Montessori School, was a Member of the Board of Directors of the California Institute for Rural Studies and is an inactive Member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, San Francisco Lodge No. 3.
Prior to forming D'Amato Law Corporation, Tom was a Shareholder at a prominent San Francisco law firm where he practiced for 15 years. 
T.J., as he is known to his family and friends, is most proud of his role as husband, father and friend in his hometown of Orinda, California. 
Admissions

• State Bar of California
  
• Certified Specialist, Legal Malpractice Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization
  
• Federal District Court for the State of California, Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts
  
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
  

Education

• J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law
  
• B.A., University of California, San Diego
  

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