About Lisa Damiani

Lisa J. Damiani, named as a San Diego Super Lawyer since 2010, received her B.A. degree in 1983 from New York University and her J.D. degree in 1988 from California Western School of Law in San Diego, where she made Law Review. Her Comment was published in the California Western School of Law International Law Journal and she won the Richard D. Westbrook Trial Advocacy Award for her trial skills in 1988. She became a practicing member of the California Bar in 1988 and started her own law practice, focusing on criminal cases.

In 1993, McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP), a national law firm, recruited her to join its white-collar crime practice group. There, she continued to represent people and entities in state and federal court, charged with a variety of crimes ranging from fraud and money laundering to homicide and assault and battery. She also became increasingly involved in civil defense work, handling employment, business, government contract and product liability class action litigation cases. Some of her corporate clients included SAIC, Kaiser Electronics, and Eon Laboratories. Her background in these areas enabled her to take on parallel civil proceedings for her clients accused of fraud and other causes of action that were linked to criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Ms. Damiani is a Master in the American Inn of Court, William B. Enright Chapter (formerly on the Board). She is the Past Chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). She has lectured on various topics for the California State Bar, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO), Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) and Federal Defender’s Inc. She has facilitated in the ABA sponsored program “Core Skills of Creative Problem Solving.”