The Veen Firm, P.C.

Christopher Viadro

Attorney

Christopher Viadro leads a nine member team that litigates catastrophic personal injury cases primarily arising from industrial accidents, dangerous premises, defective products, maritime accidents, elevator accidents, refinery accidents and auto accidents, as well as professional negligence matters. Mr. Viadro simultaneously litigates workers' compensation cases where present. The majority of his clients are injured union workers, e.g., boilermakers, elevator constructors/mechanics, cement masons, operating engineers, hod carriers, sheet metal workers, carpenters, ironworkers, laborers and electricians, among others.

Mr. Viadro was admitted to the California Bar in 1992, and the United States District Courts in the Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California in the following year. He has been a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association since 2001. He has served as the Chair of the Community Involvement Committee and the Carlene Caldwell Scholarship Committee. Mr. Viadro has been on the board of governors of the Alameda and Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association since 2002. He is also a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California, The American Association for Justice and the San Francisco Bar Association. Mr. Viadro has served as an Early Settlement Conference Panelist for the San Francisco Superior Court since 2003 and a fee dispute arbitrator for the Bar Association of San Francisco since 2007. In 2007, he was nominated for Trial Lawyer of the Year by The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Viadro has authored numerous articles profiling San Francisco and Alameda County superior court judges in The Verdict and The Trial Lawyer magazines. He authored "Minimizing the Workers' Compensation Carrier's Reimbursement Claim" Forum, September 2005 and has also co-authored other articles including "Avoiding Malpractice with C.C.P. 998: A Review of Deocampo v. Ahn," Forum, December 2003, "Reconciling the Rift in American Judicial Treatment of the Qualified Pollution Exclusion," International Insurance Law Review (1994, Vol. 2, Issue 4), and "The 1992 Survey of Non-profit Case Law," U.S.F. Law Review. Mr. Viadro has also lectured on various topics including workers' compensation liens in the third party setting.

Prior to joining The Veen Firm, P.C., Mr. Viadro started his practice as an insurance defense litigator where he learned the “ins and outs” of the defense bar. In 1995, Mr. Viadro began to represent personal injury victims and immediately found it more rewarding to represent the injured and aggrieved rather than defend against their lawsuits. He has since joined The Veen Firm, P.C. in 1996 and continues to pursue the legal remedies for catastrophically injured individuals.

Graduating from the University of San Francisco School of Law cum laude and member of the McAuliffe Honor Society (top 10% of class), he received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1992. Mr. Viadro also received American Jurisprudence Awards in Torts and Constitutional Law and was awarded Best Brief during the School's Moot Court Competition. He was a member of both the U.S.F. Maritime Law Journal and the U.S.F. Law Review. He was also a tutor with the U.S.F. Academic Support Program.

Mr. Viadro was born and raised in San Francisco, California.

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