Anthony E. Vieira

Caring for People

Anthony ("Tony") Vieira was raised in the small town of Jacksonville, Illinois, just down the road from Abraham Lincoln's New Salem Village. His "Grandma Vieira" was a Christian woman with extraordinary faith in God, living a life of integrity and selflessness in the midst of great poverty. She had 13 children, and she loved and gave of herself until the day she died. She is a special reminder to Tony of someone who understood what is important in life.

Tony's mother raised five children of her own and also adopted one, and for over 40 years she taught and cared for many handicapped children through her work at the Illinois School for the Blind. His father, now deceased, was a respected, hardworking laborer who worked as a plumber and later as a successful industrial plumbing, heating, and air conditioning contractor. During Tony's teenage years, when he wasn't playing basketball, he remembers working alongside his father, helping him do everything a plumbing, heating, and air conditioning man does - from running water and sewer mains and tearing out heating and air conditioning systems to pouring and breaking out concrete. In later years, because of his life's work in the trades and exposure to asbestos containing products, Tony's father developed asbestosis.

Anthony Vieira has a heart for the hurting. These are among the many experiences that have shaped his passion for protecting the rights of injured people and their loved ones.

Diligently Pursuing Truth and Justice

Anthony Vieira received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended on an academic scholarship. He served in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate General. He spent three-and-a-half-years on active duty trying cases as a prosecutor and also as defense counsel. His experience includes working as the Officer-in-Charge of a Navy Legal Assistance office, where he helped sailors, marines, soldiers, and their families with civil legal problems. While in the Navy, Mr. Vieira received various awards for his trial representation, including an award from the U.S. Department of Justice for his outstanding work in a series of rape cases.

After he left the U.S. Navy, Mr. Vieira worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy District Attorney. His experience included cases that received national media attention, including the prosecution of the retrial of the Erik and Lyle Menendez case, the "Wrong Way Murder Case," and the "P9 Witness Murders." He spent four years as a member of the elite Hard-Core Gang Unit, where he concentrated on conspiracy prosecutions involving murder, attempted murder, and robbery. Mr. Vieira was recognized through numerous awards for his work, including commendations from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the City of Pasadena.

Mr. Vieira's trial law experience includes several years working for some of the largest personal injury, toxic tort plaintiff's firms in the nation, where he led multiple jury trials and helped many individuals and their loved ones recover for damages and losses caused by exposure to asbestos containing products or other toxic products.

With Integrity, Confidence, and Excellence

As lead counsel and founder of The Law Offices of Anthony E. Vieira, Anthony Vieira works with qualified teams of staff and attorneys experienced and skilled in helping people obtain justice in their situations.

Mr. Vieira is recognized as one of the most highly respected Personal Injury Trial Attorneys in the country. He has worked as Lead Trial Attorney and Of Counsel for some of the largest plaintiff personal injury / toxic tort law firms in the United States. He continues to work of counsel for other law firms and provides extensive experience and specialized knowledge in Trial Advocacy. He is considered, by far, one of the most respected personal injury trial attorneys in the area of Mesothelioma / Asbestos related injuries and lung cancers.

As an experienced trial attorney, Mr. Vieira continues to work "of counsel " for other law firms helping clients who have been seriously injured and/or who have lost a loved one in a wrongful death situation, including serious personal injury from toxic exposures, including mesothelioma, asbestosis and asbestos related lung cancer cases.

Mr. Vieira has tried hundreds of cases to verdict. He has obtained for deserving families many millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements to help with the losses associated with injuries or loved one's death. He prepares and conducts trials in California, Oregon, Washington, and all over this great nation (pro hac vice) on behalf of injured workers and their loved ones.

Anthony Vieira also enjoys mentoring and instructing other attorneys in trial advocacy skills. He is a certified instructor with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has served as faculty member, trial advocacy skills instructor, at the University of California, Hastings Law School, and College of Advocacy. Mr. Vieira is also a degree candidate in the California Western LLM program in Trial Advocacy.

Mr. Vieira is currently admitted to the California and Illinois State Bars. He is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Christian Legal Society, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Anthony Vieira currently lives in Southern California with his wife Amy, his son Lucas, and his daughter Tania.

If you are looking for an experienced, qualified personal injury or wrongful death trial attorney in California, Los Angeles County, San Francisco, Ventura County, or need an experienced trial lawyer for other states, please contact the Law Offices of Anthony Vieira today.