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At the law offices of Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones and Schneider, L.L.P. we serve clients in California and Nevada.

Our office locations are: Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Valencia, Reno, and Las Vegas. Our legal services help businesses and individuals throughout the tri-counties, including San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, and Ventura County, and the cities of Santa Maria, Camarillo, Oxnard, Ventura, Ojai, Thousand Oaks – Los Angeles County and in the Southern California communities of the Santa Clarita Valley and San Fernando Valley - and the greater metro areas of Nevada: Reno and Las Vegas.

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Jill L. Friedman

Jill L. Friedman graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and was a Chancellor's Scholar. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1987.

Ms. Friedman was recently named to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).  Recognized for her proficiency as a trial lawyer, personal character and honorable reputation, Ms. Friedman is among a limited number of attorneys chosen for this invitation-only organization Attorneys must have tried a minimum of ten civil jury trials to be considered for membership. She is the fifth female attorney to join the California Coast Chapter of ABOTA, which includes Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

Ms. Friedman is currently serving her second term as President of Women Lawyers of Ventura County.  In 2012, she returned for a second term as a director of the Ventura County Bar Association after a 21 year hiatus.  She is a Past President of Ventura County Barristers and Santa Barbara Women Lawyers. At the State level, she served as Vice President of the California Young Lawyers Association and Sergeant-at-Arms at the Conference of Delegates. Additionally, she has served on the boards of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, Santa Barbara County Bar Foundation, Santa Barbara Women Lawyers Foundation and the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association. She was the editor-in-chief of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association newsletter, as well as assistant editor of the Ventura County Bar Association newsletter. She has been both a Barrister and a Master in the William L. Gordon Inns of Court and is currently a Master in the Jerome H. Berenson Inns of Court. She has served as a judge pro tem in both the Santa Barbara and Ventura County courts.

With more than twenty years of litigation experience, Ms. Friedman has been very successful in trying civil cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. At the beginning of her career, she cut her teeth as a visiting attorney with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. She worked as an insurance defense attorney in Ventura before returning to her hometown of Santa Barbara, where she continued practicing in the field of insurance defense and medical malpractice defense. For eight years she was a sole practitioner representing injured plaintiffs. She practiced for nine years with Henderson & Borgeson in Santa Barbara before returning to Ventura. In 2004, she co-chaired a trial that led to the California Supreme Court decision in Ramirez v. Nelson (2008) 44 Cal.4th 908 regarding homeowners' liability for the wrongful death of an unlicensed, uninsured tree trimmer.