Nicholas Hornberger is a trial attorney and a founding partner of the firm. He has tried over 150 jury trials and 75 court trials to verdict. His practice encompasses eminent domain, business litigation, tort, personal injury, intellectual property, environmental/toxic tort, products liability, employment/labor and insurance bad faith litigation. His clients are principally landowners, business owners, chemical and insurance companies, retailers and product manufacturers. He has received seven verdicts above one million dollars (two in excess of ten million dollars since 2002). He has settled ten cases in excess of $1 million. A member of the State Bar of California (1972), Mr. Hornberger is admitted to the California Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Hornberger received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California Berkeley in 1967, and J.D. with honors in 1972 from the University of San Francisco Law School, where he was on the Law Review and a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society. Between his undergraduate and law school studies, he served as an air and water pollution process chemist for Sequoia Refining Corporation (1968-70). After graduation from law school, he was an associate of the firm of Shield & Smith until 1977 when he became an equity partner. He was a managing partner of this firm from 1984 until 1991 when he and his partners founded the firm of Hornberger & Brewer.
He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Federation Insurance and Corporate Counsel, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association and the Orange County Bar Association. He has spoken to the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association on The Use of Depositions in Trial and Comparative Fault Updated. He served for eight years on the Board of Directors of the Rolling Hills Community Association. Mr. Hornberger was born in Berkeley, California.
