Stewart P. Galbraith, Esq.
Born March 25, 1964; admitted to the bar: California (1990). Mr. Galbraith was born at Rideout Hospital in Yuba City, CA, and raised on a small ranch in Glenn County. After graduating from Willows High School in 1982, he left for the "big city" to pursue an education. In 1987, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from California State University at Sacramento. He then traveled to San Diego to attend California Western School of Law, where he served as an editor and staff writer for the California Western Law Review. He also received the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Writing and interned at the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District. Mr. Galbraith graduated Cum Laude from California Western School of Law in 1990.

Following law school, Mr. Galbraith landed a job with a large insurance defense law firm in downtown Sacramento. For the next eight years, he worked as an insurance defense lawyer in the Sacramento area, defending personal injury cases.

In 1998, he was successfully recruited to begin his employment with Penney & Associates in Roseville, specializing in personal injury law. In 1999, fulfilling a dream to return to his roots, Mr. Galbraith opened and began managing the Penney & Associates satellite office in Chico, California, limiting his practice to personal injury cases on behalf of the injured party. Mr. Galbraith lives with his wife and three children in Durham, California.

E-mail Mr. Galbraith at Sgalbraith@penneylawyer.com

 

James E. Gingrich, Esq.
Born October 4, 1960; admitted to the bar: California (1989). Mr. Gingrich was raised in Yuba City, CA. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Davis in 1984. He graduated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1989, qualifying for the Dean's List. His course of study emphasized civil and criminal litigation, including courses in Trial Advocacy, Moot Court, Bankruptcy, Advanced Civil Procedure, Advanced Criminal Law, and Family Law.
He also interned with the Sutter County District Attorney's Office. Following his admittance to the State Bar in 1989, Mr. Gingrich worked for eight years with Sacramento insurance defense law firms, defending personal injury cases, including complex products liability cases, as well as the defense of consumer warranty cases.
In 1997, he expanded his practice to include prosecution of personal injury cases on behalf of the injured party, and became a trial attorney with the Sacramento County Indigent Defense Panel. In 2001, he began his employment with Penney & Associates, specializing in personal injury law, and now limits his practice to personal injury cases on behalf of the injured party. Mr. Gingrich works out of the Chico office and makes his home in Chico.

E-mail Mr. Gingrich at Jgingrich@penneylawyer.com