Willie Stein is a partner at Janssen Malloy. He is a civil trial lawyer and litigator with a focus on personal injury and wrongful death cases. He also handles business disputes, employment matters, judgment enforcement and elder abuse cases.

He has a passion for representing individuals harmed by the wrongdoing of others and focuses much of his practice on representing individual plaintiffs. Mr. Stein has been successful in obtaining favorable results at trial and settlement in personal injury, wrongful death, elder abuse, and business cases.

In 2019 and 2020, Mr. Stein was a law clerk for Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller, the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California. He assisted the Judge in resolving civil motions, managing chambers workflow, and on complex criminal matters. He is admitted to practice in the state courts of California and the Northern and Eastern Districts of California.

He enjoys cycling, hiking, and the outdoor lifestyle of the North Coast with his wife and children. He volunteers with the Trinidad Museum Society at the Trinidad Head Lighthouse. He is proud to have obtained the largest trial award of frozen huckleberries in Janssen Malloy history, and, he thinks, in the history of Humboldt County.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• $5.6 Million: Doe v. Doe Contractor: Mr. Stein represented the surviving wife and daughter of a motorcyclist killed in a wreck by the employee of a contractor, securing a substantial settlement for the motorcyclist’s family.
• $1.6 Million- Humboldt Pacific, LLC v. Schipper et al..: Breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and embezzlement case arbitration award of over $1.6 million against a company’s former president who embezzled more than $1M over several years. The arbitrator awarded a multiplier on the attorney fee award to Mr. Stein’s clients, “based on the quality of the representation provided and the skill that HP’s counsel displayed in overcoming extraordinarily aggressive defense tactics[.]”
• Return of Client’s Home- Neubecker v. Trew: In an elder abuse action, Mr. Stein secured the return of title to his client’s home, who had been ejected and subjected to homelessness by a fraudster.
• $1.5 Million: Massey v. Winco Foods, LLC: Mr. Stein recovered a settlement of $1.5 million for the children of an unhoused bicyclist who was killed by a tractor-trailer owned and operated by Winco Foods on Broadway Street at night in Eureka.
• $575,000: Saelim v. Wininger: Mr. Stein, with co-counsel Patrik Griego, recovered $575,000 for a woman who hit a loose steer in the dark on Highway 101 near Loleta.

EDUCATION

Mr. Stein attended University of California, Davis King Hall School of Law, graduating in the top 15% of his class in 2018. While in law school, he received awards for the highest grade in Constitutional Law I and Bioethics. He was a research assistant for Professor Lisa Ikemoto.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND BAR ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of California
• Northern District of California
• Eastern District of California
• Consumer Attorneys of California
• American Association for Justice
• Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2023-2024