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  • The gifts of neighbors and friends

    Samantha Berryessa, Special to Village News|Updated Mar 27, 2020

    Cheyanne, an amazing manager of many, boxed and mailed my Fallbrook avocados to friends who helped me last year through a difficult loss. One friend sent cookies, one came by with Thai Food, one drove me to the crematorium and walked me in. One stayed here and coordinated my law practice and helped cook. One, wrote me of his trials taking care of a sick friend who died. One sang a song of mourning on YouTube in his language and custom. The avocado ‘thank you’ boxes are a sur...

  • Why lawsuits are about the money

    Samantha Berryessa|Updated May 15, 2019

    A criticism that I repeatedly hear directed at plaintiff lawyers and their clients is that “it’s just about the money.” As a result when I receive calls from potential clients who have lost a husband, a wife or a child or sustained a serious life-changing injury, they will tell me “it’s not about the money, it’s the way they treated my dad before he died or they killed my child and aren’t even sorry.” I explain to them that it is about the money, and that’s OK. It’s OK becau...

  • Day of the Dead, and practicing law

    Samantha Berryessa, Attorney at Law|Updated Mar 4, 2019

    “What area of law do you practice” many people ask me. “Wrongful Death and Trademark Law” I respond, knowing there will be inquires if a fellow attorney is asking. “Don’t you mean Personal Injury and Intellectual Property they ask”? Trying to place me into a category, they understand. At that point I do agree that the death cases I prosecute civilly result from negligent injury. Then of course there comes the question of why I also do Trademark Law. I reply “because I en...

  • How Careful is Careful Enough?

    Samantha Berryessa|Updated Mar 4, 2019

    If you stop in at Hazel’s Café any morning before the workday begins, the first thing you smell is the wonderful aroma of strong piping hot coffee. Hazel has the best in town. Local plumbers, contractors, businesspeople, along with two or three retired good old boys who just like to talk, fill up the long weathered oak table at the back wall that everyone refers to as the BS table. At one time or another, just about any topic you can think of discussed. And if there ha...

  • Samantha Berryessa

    Attorney Samantha Berryessa|Updated Oct 29, 2018

    My name is Samantha Berryessa. I am a sixth generation Californian. My paternal family history hails from northern California where we ranched raising horses and cattle, on a 36,000 acre land grant home. My maternal family farmed sugar beets in Montana and before that, in the south. Dax Cowart, my husband, is a Texas trial lawyer and former Air Force pilot who served in the war in Vietnam. His paternal side of the family were cattle ranchers and his mother’s family were f...