Christopher A. Tanimasa

Overview

Christopher A. Tanimasa is an associate in Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead’s San Francisco office. His practice focuses primarily on tort liability, professional liability, and employer-related cases.

Before joining LBBK, Mr. Tanimasa gained extensive litigation experience as an attorney practicing complex medical malpractice defense, focused primarily on professional malpractice defense of physicians, hospitals and health care facilities, dentists, nurses, and other licensed professionals. Mr. Tanimasa has also defended complex legal malpractice matters.

As part of his practice, Mr. Tanimasa has successfully defended positive case outcomes for his clients brought on appeal before the California Courts of Appeal and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Before beginning his practice, Mr. Tanimasa clerked for the Hon. Peter A. Krauthamer of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. During his time as a judicial law clerk, Mr. Tanimasa authored bench memoranda, draft orders, and draft judgments for the Court, and advised His Honor on all matters coming before the bench.

Mr. Tanimasa received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2014 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in March 2015. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2009.

Mr. Tanimasa is licensed to practice before all courts of the State of California as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and various U.S. District Courts in California.