The Leading Ladies at DarrasLaw

DarrasLaw is the nation’s largest and most decorated disability and long-term care litigation practice in America. At the firm’s headquarters in Ontario, California, founding partner, Frank Darras, has surrounded himself with a stellar staff of top female legal talent.

DarrasLaw’s diverse group of insurance experts help insurance policyholders from all walks of life—from professional athletes, doctors, lawyers and business owners, to blue and white collar workers. The firm provides the same free policy analysis, free claim help, and expert individual and long-term disability advice to truckers, dock workers, and CEOs.

Darras handpicked his firm’s talented group of legal, vocational, nursing, paralegal, secretarial, and call center staff. “They are brilliant and intuitive. They bring out the very best in all of us, prioritizing and balancing work and family in ways we guys just can’t fathom,” Darras says.

DarrasLaw’s female professionals work tirelessly to right big insurance wrongdoing. They review 2,500 new nationwide referrals a month, coordinate policyholder interviews, deliver on-site nursing analysis, and set up claim conference appointments. The firm’s female litigators and paralegals provide litigation counseling, policy interpretation, claim file reviews, and resolution advice, while managing a heavy nationwide litigation case load.

Long tenure and loyalty run deep at this premiere firm. Darras’s personal secretary, Jo-Ann Shimizu Eto, and his senior paralegal, Virginia Violette, have been working alongside him for more than 24 years. Attorney Lissa Martinez—summa cum laude graduate and valedictorian of Western State College of Law—heads the firm’s law and motion department and has worked with Darras since 1998. Her recent landmark California Supreme Court victory in Cabral v. Ralphs Grocery created new opportunities for the catastrophically injured. Martinez is a stand-out writer, eloquent oral advocate, and mediates at the state and federal level. Attorney Susan Grabarsky, also a graduate with honors from Darras’s alma mater, Western State, has been a tremendous asset to Darras since 2003. Grabarsky manages DarrasLaw’s long-term disability cases and provides national training to DarrasLaw referral sources. Heather Conner Gardner—another seasoned DarrasLaw litigator—manages the attorney driven long-term disability appeals and coordinates out-of-state, high stakes disability cases.

Having recovered more than three-quarters of a billion dollars in wrongfully denied insurance benefits, DarrasLaw is in a disability league of its own. Darras says, “Holding big insurance companies accountable on a national basis is the richness of our practice. Working with the top female legal talent in the business . . . priceless.”

DarrasLaw
3257 E. Guasti Road, Suite 300
Ontario, CA 91761
Phone: 909.390.3770 FAX: 909.974.2121
www.darraslaw.com