Sabba Salebaigi-Tse
Associate
“Compassion, empathy, and understanding shape how I serve my clients. Combined with a disciplined, fact-focused litigation strategy, I bring a unique and effective perspective to every case.”
About Sabba
Sabba is an associate attorney at Peacock Piper Tong + Voss, LLP, where she focuses her practice on maritime and employment law matters, as well as personal injury defense. She is admitted to practice in California state court and in both the state and federal district courts of Massachusetts.
Sabba earned her J.D. from Thompson Rivers University in 2022 and completed her LL.M. at the University of Connecticut in 2023, specializing in Human Rights and Social Justice. During her academic career, she engaged extensively in legal research and writing, publishing articles in the Health and Human Rights Journal and the International Criminal Law Journal. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Alberta, where she also completed double minors in Sociology and History. Sabba is an active member of the Iranian American Bar Association.
Originally from Canada, Sabba recently relocated to the Bay Area and is excited to call California her new home. Outside of the office, she can often be found exploring local grocery stores in search of ingredients for her next culinary adventure.
Office
100 Larkspur Landing Circle
Suite 212
Larkspur, CA 94939
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Contact
Email: [email protected]
Direct: +1 (415) 993-6574
Main: +1 (562) 320-8880
Fax: +1 (562) 735-3950
Education
University of Alberta, B.A.
Thompson Rivers University, J.D.
University of Connecticut, L.L.M.
Admissions
Massachusetts
California
Affiliations
Iranian American Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
Hampden County Bar Association
Practice Areas.
Maritime, Marine Terminals + Transportation.
Al has over 31 years of experience representing vessel owners, charterers and P&I Clubs along the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii. He has extensive experience responding to major and minor marine casualties including groundings, allisions, fires, heavy weather incidents, oil spills, and personal injuries and deaths. He has investigated casualties and defended vessel interests in Coast Guard, National Transportation Safety Board and Flag State investigations. In addition, he has been involved in subsequent civil penalty actions and limitation of liability proceedings before the National Pollution Fund Center. Al has also tried to verdict in both state and federal courts over a dozen maritime personal injury and death cases involving Jones Act seamen, longshoremen and harbor workers.
Construction and Engineering.
Al has handled complex construction and engineering cases throughout the United States involving the design and construction of light rails, refineries, breweries, aircraft hangars, jails, courthouses and multi-use developments. This includes claims for breach of contract, professional negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, products liability and licensing violations. He has tried to verdict six of these cases in the last 10 years involving claims for hundreds of millions of dollars. As a result, Al knows what to look for in evaluating these cases, how to conduct cost effective discovery and most important of all, how to simplify these complex cases for judges and juries.
Energy.
Al has been involved with environmental law claims for over 30 years both maritime and land based. He has been involved in major marine oil spills including the OMI DYNACHEM, EASTERN LION, KUROSHIMA and COSCO BUSAN spills. In addition, Al also has experience dealing with land-based spills involving underground tanks and pipelines.
Product Design, Manufacturing + Retail.
Al has over 35 years of experience defending product manufacturers and distributors in products liability and toxic tort cases including individual personal injury and mass actions. Al has defended manufacturers of commercial and industrial equipment including industrial saws, conveyor belts, presses and process heaters as well as consumer products such as home heaters, car windshields, weapons, tools and ladders. Al has also defended design professionals, component part suppliers and manufacturers in cases involving refineries, powerplants and commercial aircraft. This included involvement in the 2009 Paramount Refinery explosion, the 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash and the 1985 Mojave Power Plant explosion. Al has also been involved in mass actions and multi-district toxic tort claims for petroleum, MTBE and asbestos exposure and the silicon breast implant litigation.