Timothy M. Hamilton
Admitted the same day as Scott Righthand — 29 November 1979 — one of two same-day pairs among these twelve. His firm's rideshare page is the oldest-feeling in the batch: it still names Sidecar as a current competitor and describes the employee-status question as currently being litigated, which California settled by ballot in 2020.
The bar record
We read Timothy M. Hamilton 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
He and Scott Righthand were both admitted on 29 November 1979. Omar Habbas and Steven Bell were both admitted on 11 December 1986. Two same-day pairs in a batch of twelve.Verified
The firm’s rideshare page names Sidecar alongside Uber and Lyft as a current service. Sidecar ceased operations at the end of 2015. The page also says the question of whether rideshare drivers are employees is currently being litigated — California voters answered that with Proposition 22 in November 2020, upheld by the state Supreme Court in 2024.Verified
That does not make the legal explanation on the page wrong about insurance gaps, which is its main point. It does mean the page has not been revised in roughly a decade, and we are not going to present decade-old marketing as current.Verified
Forty-six years at the bar, and his record shows no discipline and no administrative action on the status timeline.Verified
What the firm says
He says he has practised more than 40 years, tried well over 20 jury trials and handled dozens of arbitrations, and names three eight- and seven-figure results. We print no verdict or settlement figures.Reported
He says he is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, has held the AV rating since 1990, and has acted as Judge Pro Tem and court-appointed arbitrator in the San Francisco, Marin and Los Angeles Superior Courts.Reported
He says he took his J.D. at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1979 with Dean’s Honors and a B.S. at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1976. California’s register carries no law school for him — he left that field blank.Reported
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