Robert E. Cartwright Jr.

Robert E. Cartwright, Jr. is a partner in The Cartwright Law Firm, a San Francisco legal practice which represents victims of spinal cord injuries in personal injury lawsuits nationwide.

Mr. Cartwright has extensive experience in personal injury and products liability actions, and has successfully tried dozens of such cases over the past several decades.  While in law school, he served as the Research Coordinating Editor for the California Tort Reporter for two years.  He is a past president of the Barristers Club of San Francisco and has served on the faculty at the University of San Francisco School of Law in the Intensive Advocacy Workshop Program.  In addition, Mr. Cartwright has been featured as a legal commentator for FOX National News.

Mr. Cartwright's many honors and recognitions include being selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2005 and as a Finalist for National Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2002, for California Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2003, and for San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2003, 2004, and 2005.  He is the recipient of the 2002 ORT Jurisprudence Award and the 2004 National Joe Tonahill Award.  Since 1996, Mr. Cartwright has served as Honorary Consul of Iceland, and most recently, was honored with the Robert E. Cartwright Sr. Award for excellence in trial advocacy and teaching trial advocacy to fellow lawyers.

Mr. Cartwright was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and began his legal career as a trial lawyer at his father's law firm of Cartwright, Slobodin, Bokelman, Borowsky, Wartnick, Moore & Harris, Inc.  He founded his own practice in 1996, and The Cartwright Law Firm, Inc., as it currently exists, has been together since 2001.  Throughout Mr. Cartwright's life he has been extremely athletic and adventurous.  He is a former marathoner and accomplished tri-athlete that completed the Alcatraz Triathlon and ran his best marathon in 2hrs 53min.  He also was a Formula Ford and Formula Mazda race car driver, and set the track and qualifying record at Thunder Hill Race Track in Northern California (these records were never broken until the track was recently reconfigured).  Additionally, Mr. Cartwright finished 2nd and 3rd in the SCCA Regional Championships in 1995 and 1996, respectively.  He is also a motorcycle enthusiast and owns three Triumphs.  Mr. Cartwright enjoys water recreational sports, is an avid boater and jet skier, and is an experienced mountaineer, having trekked extensively throughout the Himalayas, including Mt. Everest.

Education:

• J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law (1982)
• B.A., Psychology, University of Puget Sound (1979)

Admissions:

• California State Courts
• United States District Court, Northern District of California

Professional Associations/Memberships:

• California Bar Association
• San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors)
• Consumer Attorneys of California (Past President; Member, Board of Governors)
• American Association for Justice (Member, Board of Governors)
• Western Trial Lawyers Association (Past President)
• American Board of Trial Advocates (Member)