John J. Roach
Registered at the same suite as Wesley Wakeford. His page is the only one in this batch written around a change in the law that took effect this year — SB 371, which he says cut the uninsured-motorist cover rideshare companies must carry from $1 million to $60,000 per person on 1 January 2026. He publishes in both English and Spanish.
The bar record
We read John J. Roach 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
His page is built around Senate Bill 371, which he says took effect on 1 January 2026 and reduced the uninsured and underinsured motorist cover rideshare companies must carry from $1 million per incident to $60,000 per person and $300,000 per accident, while leaving the $1 million liability cover untouched. Two other pages in this batch state the old figures without qualification. We have not read the bill and reprint no limits from any of them.Verified
The distinction he draws — between liability cover when the rideshare driver is at fault and uninsured-motorist cover when a third driver is — is one no other page in this batch makes at all.Verified
His address of record is identical to Wesley Wakeford’s, down to the suite: 1388 Sutter St, Ste 810. Two separate solo practices at one address.Verified
He says he serves on the board of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and co-chairs its Education Committee, and provides representation directly in Spanish rather than through an interpreter.Verified
What the firm says
He says he has represented injury victims since 2009, founded his firm in 2015, and has recovered over a stated eight-figure total in settlements, verdicts and arbitration awards. We print no recovery figures.Reported
He says he has been selected to Super Lawyers 2021–2026, holds a 10.0 Avvo rating, and describes a nine-for-nine verdict record.Reported
He says he has published in The Trial Lawyer, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association magazine, organised the SFTLA Mental Health & Wellness CLE in February 2026, and maintains a YouTube channel of deposition examples for other attorneys.Reported
He says his immigration-status assurance to clients is that California civil courts decide injury cases on the facts, not on status.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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