Bruce Nye
Bruce Nye is a trial lawyer with three decades of courtroom experience. He is also Adams Nye's managing partner.
He specializes in the management and trial of all kinds of complex civil litigation, and has successfully tried cases involving, among many other subjects, civil rights, wrongful termination, racial discrimination and sexual harassment.
Mr. Nye has practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1977, and has tried cases in all nine Bay Area counties. He has tried more than twenty-five cases to verdict. In 2003, he successfully tried a multi-million dollar gender discrimination and sexual harassment case, and has been co-counsel on many other employment law cases.
Mr. Nye received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1973) and his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, University of California (1977), where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and The Thurston Society.
He is admitted to practice in all California state courts, in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Bruce lives in Oakland, California, with his wife.
Year Joined Firm
- 1993
Areas of Practice
- Complex Civil Litigation
- Chemical Exposure
- Product Liability
- Machine Design
- Civil Rights
- Wrongful Termination
- Sexual Harassment
- Breach of Contract
- Government Liability
- Premises Liability
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
Education
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California
- J.D. - 1977
- Honors: Member, Order of the Coif
- Honors: Member, The Thurston Society
- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
- B.A. - 1973
- Major: Political Science
Published Works
- Proposition 65: Defending Against the Tort With No Injury in Defense Comment, Summer/Fall, 2000
- Doing What is Best for the Client: An Outsider’s Perspective on the 'Realities' of Prop. 65 Defense, Proposition 65 News, May 1, 2000
- Who is 'Any Other Person' – Cost Recovery v. Contribution Under CERCLA, For the Defense, Vol. 40, No. 3, March, 1998
- MTBE: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back In The Well Water, Defense Research Institute, Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Newsletter, Fall, 1997
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Bar Association of San Francisco, Member
- The State Bar of California, Member
- Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, Member
- Defense Research Institute , Member, Environmental and Toxic Tort Committee
