Jeremy Cloyd
His firm makes the most specific legal claim in this batch: that it obtained a California Court of Appeal ruling establishing that rideshare drivers owe a duty of care when offloading passengers, and that it handled the first wrongful death case against Lyft in California. The second claim is also made by another firm on this page.
The bar record
We read Jeremy Cloyd in the State Bar of California’s licensee search. California publishes more history than most registers: a bar number, a dated status timeline, and administrative as well as disciplinary actions.
California is the one register that tells you it removes its own history. Above the status table, every record carries this: some administrative suspensions are subject to automatic removal from the attorney profile page pursuant to the State Bar’s policy on removal of administrative actions ... administrative suspensions that meet the criteria in that policy would not be displayed below.
Administrative suspensions are not discipline — they follow from things like unpaid fees or missed continuing education. But the sentence still means what it says. A timeline showing nothing is a timeline showing nothing that the State Bar currently displays, and we are not going to write “never suspended” when the register reserves the right to have taken an entry down. No other register on this site says this about itself.
And it does not check what the lawyer tells it. Where a record carries practice areas, the State Bar prints a warning next to them: it does not verify the accuracy of this content and makes no warranties regarding experience or competence in practice areas. Eleven of the twelve lawyers on our San Francisco page left that block empty altogether, so for most of them the register holds a name, a number, an address and a status — and nothing about what they actually do.
What the record shows
The firm states it obtained a precedent-setting ruling in the California Court of Appeals establishing that rideshare drivers owe a duty of care when offloading passengers, and separately that it defeated a rideshare company to confirm a duty to members of the public injured by unsafe unloading. If accurate that is a published decision, and more concrete than anything else claimed on these twelve pages. We have not located or read it, so it stays here as the firm’s claim.Verified
The firm also says it handled the first wrongful death case against Lyft in California. Steven Bell’s firm says the same thing about itself. Both pages are written as though the claim is theirs alone; co-counsel is the obvious explanation, and neither page says so.Verified
The State Bar extract we were given for him carries the licence record and address but no name line. His number, 239991, comes from the record’s own URL. We print no registered full name because we were not given one.Verified
Twenty years at the bar, with no discipline and no administrative action on the status timeline.Verified
What the firm says
He says he was named a finalist for Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association in 2011 for the case of Travis v. Bison Builders, Inc., and again in 2015 for Le Moullac v. Daylight Foods, Inc.Reported
He says he has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers every year since 2009, listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers 2022–2026 and Best Lawyers in America 2020–2026.Reported
He says he studied at UC Hastings and UCLA and interned with the California Department of Insurance during law school, and is admitted in the Northern and Eastern Districts of California.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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