Scott Righthand
Admitted the same day as Timothy Hamilton. His register email and his website are on two different domains — righthandlaw.net and righthandfirm.com. His firm's rideshare page is the only one in this batch to raise assault claims in the lawyer's own voice, and to say plainly that a passenger may not be driving because they are impaired.
The bar record
We read Scott Righthand 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 register gives his email as scott@righthandlaw.net and his website as righthandfirm.com — two domains for one solo practice. Both are printed here; the register carries both as he filed them.Verified
The rideshare page states that the firm is beginning to see a number of sexual assaults arising out of rideshare activities, and adds: we expect our rideshare drivers to respect the fact that we may be impaired. That could be why we are not driving. Several pages in this batch mention assault; this is the only one that frames the passenger’s impairment as the reason for taking the ride rather than as a fault to be argued about.Verified
It also names Sidecar as a current service, as Walker Hamilton & Kearns does. Sidecar shut down in 2015.Verified
He names four published appellate decisions from his own office, including Randi W. v. Muroc Joint Unified School District (1997) 14 Cal.4th 1066. Those are public record; we have not read them.Verified
What the firm says
He says he began in plaintiffs’ practice in 1982, partnered with James Bostwick, and founded his own office in 1992.Reported
He says he was selected for Northern California Super Lawyers 2007–2026, chosen for The Best Lawyers in America 2009–2020, named Lawyer of the Year 2020 for San Francisco medical malpractice, and is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.Reported
He says he took his J.D. at Hastings in 1979, where he was Research Editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. The register carries no law school for him.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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