About John Hillsman

A graduate of U.C. Berkeley and U.C.’s Hastings College of the Law, John Hillsman has been a member of the California Bar since 1976. He has tried more than 100 cases to verdict or judgment and is perennially listed in such publications as The Best Lawyers in America, Northern California Super Lawyers, and the San Francisco Business Times’ Best Lawyers in Northern California under the dual specialties of “personal injury law” and “maritime law.”

Mr. Hillsman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an Associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a “Proctor” member of the Maritime Law Association. He is active in the Admiralty Section of the American Association for Justice (AJA), and belongs to the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Hillsman is a sought-after speaker and is heavily involved in continuing legal education, addressing seminars and conventions  up and down the West Coast, and as far afield as Hawaii, Louisiana, and New England on subjects relating to maritime tort law and insurance bad faith for organizations such as the Rutter Group, CEB, the Pacific Admiralty Seminar, the MLA, and the National Business Institute.