Michael R. Bracamontes
Attorney
Location: Oakland and San Francisco, California
Phone: 415-835-6777
Email: Email me
Mr. Bracamontes has spent his career advocating for people and families against large corporations, landlords, and insurance companies. Mr. Bracamontes is a leading tenant’s rights attorney in the state and sought after speaker. Aside from handling housing cases involving serious injury, Mr. Bracamontes also teaches Housing Litigation at UC Berkeley Law.
Many of Mr. Bracamontes’ housing cases focus on representing multiple tenants in the same building who have experienced unsafe or unsanitary living conditions. Mr. Bracamontes represents folks injured due to mold, fire, carbon monoxide, and lead poisoning. Tenants enduring severe harassment, wrongful evictions, and fraudulent owner move-in (OMI) evictions have successfully sought out Mr. Bracamontes’ assistance.
With respect to employment cases, Mr. Bracamontes represents employees who have been unlawfully discriminated against due to race, ethnicity, pregnancy, and gender. Mr. Bracamontes also litigates sexual harassment matters where supervisors have abused their position of authority.
As to personal injury matters, Mr. Bracamontes deals with a wide range of injuries from serious car accidents, head injuries, traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, and police brutality/misconduct.
Mr. Bracamontes earned his Juris Doctor degree from UC Berkeley Law where he volunteered at the Worker’s Rights Clinic and was a member of the La Raza Law Journal and officer of the Native American Law Students Association.
Areas of Practice
- Catastrophic Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Police Misconduct
- Civil Rights
- Personal Injury
- Employee Rights – Wrongful Termination
- Discrimination
- Hostile Work Environment
- Habitability – Wrongful Eviction
- Tenant Injuries
- Tenant Rights
Litigation Percentage
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- California, 2006
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2006
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 2009
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2006
Education
University Of California, Berkeley, School Of Law
- J.D. – 2005
University of California, Irvine, California
- B.A. – 2001
Published Works
- “California Eviction Defense Manual”, CEB – Continuing Education of the Bar, California, Contributing Author Chapter 15, 2020
- “Ethics Commentary: Should non-lawyers be allowed to hold ownership interests in law firms?” – CAOC Forum, Volume 49, Number 1
- “Understanding the Foreclosure Trend on the West Coast”, Thomas Reuters/Aspatore, 2009
Classes/Seminars
- Depositions – Dealing with Difficult Opposing Counsel – 2024 Sonoma Seminar – CAOC
- Ethics – Rule 1.4 – Communication with Clients – 2023 Annual Convention – CAOC
- Trial Skills – Opening Statements and Closing Arguments – 2023 Sonoma Seminar – CAOC
- Retaliation – Third Parties Reporting Harassment – 2022 Sonoma Seminar – CAOC
- Navigating Equity and Employment for Startups and Small Businesses – Bar Association of San Francisco – December 2020
- The Client Intake: Screening, Signing, Rejecting – Bar Association of San Francisco – June 2019
- Consulate General of Mexico – Labor Rights Week; Racial Discrimination and Sexual Harassment – August 2016
- UC Hastings Women Law Journal, Employment Discrimination of H.I.V.-Positive Persons – February 2016
- Volkswagen Class Action & Multi-District Litigation Conference, Bridgeport Legal Conferences – Program Chair – San Francisco – November 2015
- California Rural Legal Assistance Fair Housing Training – Wrongful Police Evictions, Code Enforcement & Civil Rights – July 2015
- California Rural Legal Assistance Annual Housing Seminar – Affirmative Habitability, Code Enforcement, and Discrimination – July 2014
- Workshop for SF Tenants and Landlords – Sponsored by SF Supervisor Katy Tang – January 2014
- Landlord Tenant Law Overview – City College, San Francisco – January 2014
- Tenants – Rights – Twitter, Inc., San Francisco – September, 2013
- Tenants – Rights – Advent, Inc., San Francisco – 2013
Published Opinions
Honors and Awards
- Super Lawyer, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Outstanding Volunteer 2018 – San Francisco Bar Association
- Super Lawyers – Rising Star – 2016
- 2010 Attorney of the Year, ALRP
- Member, Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Consumer Attorneys of California, Board Member 2020 – present
- California Rural Legal Assistance, Board Member 2020 – 2023
- CAOC Leadership Academy 2019
- San Francisco Bar Association, Member
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel, San Francisco, Panel Attorney
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Member
- Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association, Member
- National Police Accountability Project, Member, 2009
