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Defending employers, insurance carriers and third party administrators since 1962
JONATHAN LUNDGRIN
EDUCATION
Jonathan Lundgrin received his Bachelor’s Degree in History from Walla Walla University in Washington and his Masters of Business Administration from La Sierra University. He obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego Law. Mr. Lundgrin was a McLennon Moot Court Honor participant and wrote for the San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law.
BACKGROUND
While in Law school Mr. Lundgrin worked as a law clerk at the San Diego County Office of the Public Defender. He also was a Legal Intern at the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office where he acted as a trial attorney and prosecuted a DUI trial with a guilty verdict.
Since passing the California State Bar, Mr. Lundgrin has gained experience handling workers’ compensation and personal injury cases. Mr. Lundgrin’s strategic negotiation skills have led him to many successful and cost-effective settlements for his clients. Mr. Lundgrin has appeared at and gained useful working knowledge of all the Southern California Workers Compensation Appeals Boards as well as a vast majority of the Workers Compensations Judges. Mr. Lundgrin’s criminal and civil trial experience provides him with an effective and assertive deposition technique that he has utilized when deposing many AME/QME physicians and hundreds of applicants.
Mr. Lundgrin has obtained multiple “take nothing” decisions at
AOE/COE Trials and Lien Trials.
Jonathan Lundgrin is an associate in our Newport Beach office.
DELINI M. SAMARASINGHE
EDUCATION
Delini M. Samarasinghe attended University of California, Los Angeles where she received a Bachelor’s of Art in History. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Chapman University School of Law where she received the CALI Award while working in the Elder Law Clinic.
BACKGROUND
As a pre-med student interested in the possibility of practicing medicine, Ms. Samarasinghe explored her options and worked as a medical assistant. It was there she realized that she was fascinated with science and medicine in theory and application, but not within a medical setting. Ms. Samarasinghe decided to pursue a legal degree so she could practice law and apply the medical knowledge that she had gained as a pre-medical student as well as a medical assistant.
During law school, she interned at Chapman’s Family Violence Center, in association with the Anaheim Justice Center, where she represented victims of domestic violence. As an intern, she independently developed a recurring (and still ongoing) workshop for the Anaheim Justice Center, which was open to anyone who has filed a restraining order.
Following her graduation from Chapman, Ms. Samarasinghe began her career as an associate attorney representing mainly peace officers and firefighters. Accordingly, she gained experience with both Police and Fire claims, including cases where presumptive industrial injuries and LC 4850 benefits.
From her experience as an associate attorney, Ms. Samarasinghe has become well versed in reviewing medical reports and performing depositions. She has a broad knowledge of the terms and information in medical labs and doctor’s reports as well, having a thorough understanding of how they are interpreted in a legal perspective. Ms. Samarasinghe also has experience conducting hearings, negotiations, mediations and motions.
Ms. Samarasinghe is an attorney in our Corona office.
RICHARD F. FLOOD
EDUCATION
Richard Flood graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bacher of Science in
Management in 2006. He received his Juris Doctor from University of California,
Davis in 2012.
BACKGROUND
While in law school, Mr. Flood earned Dean’s List in his first year of law school and
finished in the top 10% of his 1L class. Mr. Flood worked as a judicial extern for the
Honorable Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and
then for the Honorable Richard Clark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of
Administrative Law Judges. He also co-authored a law article with Professor Edward J.
Imwinkelried entitled “Inferring Race by Using Ancestry Informative Markers: (AIMs)
as a Forensic Technique in the Courtroom,” which was published in the Criminal Law
Bulletin in 2012.
After law school, Mr. Flood worked as an associate attorney in the Chicago office of a
national law firm, handling Longshore/Defense Base Act cases. He then worked as an
associate attorney for Samuelsen Gonzalez, Valenzuela and Brown, handling California
workers’ compensation defense, from 2013 to 2019.
Mr. Flood worked for various law firms in the San Francisco, Phoenix, and Boise
Metropolitan Areas and gained experience in employment, real estate, construction,
eviction, malpractice, contract dispute, business dispute, insurance coverage, personal
injury, wills and trusts, probate, immigration, Social Security disability, and workers’
compensation cases. He drafted pleadings, discovery, and motions, including motions
for summary judgment and post-trial motions. He participated in mediations. He even
first-chaired a six-day bench trial involving a real estate dispute.
Mr. Flood has returned to Samuelsen Gonzalez, Valenzuela and Brown, to bring his
diverse skill set to handle complex workers’ compensation cases. He is an aggressive
litigator, an effective negotiator, and a strong advocate.
Mr. Flood is fluent in Spanish. He has provided client consultations, reviewed foreign
documents, and drafted legal documents in Spanish. He also has advanced proficiency
in French and basic proficiency in Portuguese.
Mr. Flood is licensed to practice law in California and Idaho. He is admitted to the U.S.
District Court in the Northern District of California, District of Idaho, and Northern
District of Illinois