ABOUT THE FIRM
Tam B. Nguyen is the Founding and Managing Partner. With more than 20 years of rich and diverse legal experience behind her since 2002, she began her legal career in the insurance industry as Staff Counsel for a leading and prominent Fortune 500 corporate company in the Workers' Compensation Department. Mrs. Nguyen has also worked at various prominent and well-respected national law firms, including as a Partner at a large nationally recognized Workers' Compensation defense law firm, which has been ranked as one of the country's top law firms for percentage of female equity partners and committed to advancing diversity and inclusion. Mrs. Nguyen understands the strength and value of diversity and takes pride in continuing to foster that commitment as a minority and woman-owned law firm. She has represented various entities, including leading Fortune 500 companies, national retailers, insurance companies, third-party administrators and self-insured employers.
Additionally, Mrs. Nguyen's practice experience has been a multi-faceted one, that has given her an unconventional perspective to help solve client problems as well as developing a diverse repertoire of specialties; this includes a legal career in defense of claims involving sophisticated Civil Litigation, Toxic Tort/Environmental, General Liability, Premises Liability, as well as Family Law. She had several articles published in the Daily Journal regarding Family Law related matters. Mrs. Nguyen has represented clients at all phases of litigation, including inception, pre-trial, trial and post-trial practice.
Mrs. Nguyen's litigation experience and client services are widely recognized. In 2014, Mrs. Nguyen was named to the Lawyers of Color annual “Hot List”, which is known for its commitment to diversity in the legal profession and recognizes attorneys for their noteworthy excellence, accomplishments, especially those active in legal pipeline initiatives. She also received additional recognitions in 2014 and 2015 for her excellence in the legal network. She has been a member of Lawyers of Distinction since 2018, known to make selections based upon review and vetting process. She takes pride in her attention to detail and her determination, with a long roster of satisfied clients and favorable settlements, of which the results she achieves speaks to her hard work.
Over the course of Mrs. Nguyen's noteworthy litigation career, this includes her acting as third chair in a jury trial in defense of a multi-million dollar toxic tort case, which secured a defense verdict for the insurance company and insured, on a claim alleging personal injury and property damage from toxic exposure. To date, she has been able to successfully handle a myriad of other cases, several of which are complex matters, generating cost savings for her clients. Mrs. Nguyen approaches each claim with equal parts tenacity and compassion.
Mrs. Nguyen grew up in Southern California and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with an undergraduate degree in Bachelors of Arts in Psychology in 1999. Thereafter, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from Western State University School of Law, where she made the honor roll twice before graduating in 2002. She was admitted to the California Bar in 2002.
Mrs. Nguyen has been a member of various professional organizations, including the American Bar Association and Orange County Asian-American Bar Association. Additionally, she is fluent in Vietnamese and conversational French. She is admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Ninth Circuit, and all California State Courts.