Thomas E. Drendel Attorney at Law in Reno Nevada

Thomas E. Drendel
Senior Partner
tdrendel@bdjlaw.com
775-335-9999
775-335-9993 

Born:
Reno, Nevada, March 4, 1956

Education:
University of Nevada-Reno, B.A., 1979, McGeorge Pacific School of Law, J.D., 1983

Practice Areas:
Wrongful Death; Spinal Injury; Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries; Product Defects; Birth Trauma; Brain Injury; Personal Injury; Automotive Products Liability; Medical Malpractice; Boating Accidents; Catastrophic Injury; Electrical Injury; Motorcycle Accidents; Severe Burns

Membership:
State Bar of Nevada; Washoe County Bar Association; Nevada Trial Lawyers Association (Board Member, 1985-1990; Chairman, Amicus Curiae Committee, 1991-2006); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Consumer Attorneys of California; American Association For Justice.

Admissions:
1983, Nevada and U.S. District Court, Federal District of Nevada, 1983, Nevada; 1983, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court; 2002, U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Biography:

Thomas E. Drendel has successfully tried to jury verdicts, cases involving professional malpractice, medical malpractice, automobile injury, premises liability and wrongful termination. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2008 and 2009 editions of Best Lawyers in America and the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Drendel has successfully achieved million dollar settlements in cases as diverse as traumatic brain injury cases, trucking collisions, automobile collisions, toxic environmental contamination, forest fires, product liability, medical malpractice, will contests, worker’s rights, and sexual abuse by psychologists, psychiatrists, and members of the religious clergy.

Mr. Drendel has also been extremely active during his career as an advocate on behalf of injured individuals at the Nevada Supreme Court as the Chairman of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, where he served from 1990 until 2006. For 15 years he coordinated strategy for over 25 precedent setting cases at the Nevada Supreme Court on behalf of injured victims in a variety of cases involving insurance, medical malpractice, products liability, construction defects, admissibility of evidence, and other diverse matters in landmark cases. Mr. Drendel also served on the Board of Governors of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association for several years, and for five years was the editor of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association magazine, THE ADVOCATE. During his tenure he wrote over 20 articles on various legal topics. Throughout his career he has written and served as a lecturer and moderator at seminars on a variety of legal topics concerning personal injury matters for the State Bar of Nevada, the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, the Professional Education Society of America, the Nevada Orthopedic Society, the Peoples Law School, and other local business organizations and schools. He has also lobbied on several bills at the Nevada State Legislature regarding rights of Nevada consumers. Mr. Drendel is currently an active member of the State Bar of Nevada, American Bar Association, Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, and Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Mr. Drendel is a Nevada native, and after graduation from the University of Nevada-Reno and McGeorge Pacific School of Law, was admitted to the Nevada bar in 1983, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in 1992, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1998.