Wesley Wakeford

Of Counsel

Wesley Wakeford is a San Francisco personal injury attorney. For more than 20 years he has represented people who were injured or whose rights were violated. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2003. He has settled or litigated hundreds of cases against individuals, insurance companies, businesses and government agencies. He is an experienced trial lawyer. In 2010 he argued a constitutional civil rights case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Wesley represents clients in car, motorcycle, bicycle and pedestrian accidents, premises liability, dog bite and wrongful death cases. He earned his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2002 and his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. He also studied French at Université Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is admitted to practice in the California state courts, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and the National Trial Lawyers. He has also volunteered as a panelist with the AIDS Legal Referral Panel and with the Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services Program.

 Wesley holds a 10.0 "Superb" rating on Avvo and received the AIDS Legal Referral Panel's Hero Award. The National Trial Lawyers has named him to its Top 40 Under 40 and Top 100 Trial Lawyers lists. After being named a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2011 through 2014, he has been selected to Super Lawyers every year from 2023 through 2026.