Meet Mark Venardi and Martin Zurada
When you choose Venardi Zurada, you are putting your future in the hands of distinguished advocates who treat every client like family. Our founding partners, Mark Venardi and Martin Zurada, bring decades of experience and a relentless drive for justice to every case.
Together, Mark and Martin lead a team that believes in Doing The Right Things For The Right Reasons. They live and work in the Bay Area, and they consider it their mission to stand up for their neighbors. At Venardi Zurada, winning is personal.
Trusted Advocacy for the Fairfield Community
Fairfield is a community defined by its diversity and hardworking spirit, and you deserve legal representation that reflects those values. For the families and professionals in Solano County, finding a firm that balances established authority with genuine compassion is essential. We live here, we love it here, and we want to help our community by providing excellent, dedicated, and personalized service that lifts the burden of a legal battle off your shoulders, ensuring your story is told with the credibility you expect from hometown attorneys you can trust.
Comprehensive Legal Support in Solano County
We understand the specific pain points of Fairfield residents, from financial stress to the fear of being overlooked by powerful entities.
Personal Injury Cases
From vehicle accidents to life-changing injuries, we offer holistic support that goes beyond the courtroom. With on-staff medical consultants, we help you manage your health while we hold insurers accountable. Don’t deal with your insurance matter alone; we fight to secure the resources you need for a full recovery.
Our firm helps with a variety of case types, including:
Settlement
$3 Million
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Our client was riding his motorcycle going straight down the street. Defendant driver employed by a construction company turned left, across our client’s lane, and hit our client. Our client suffered a fractured hip and fractured forearm requiring several surgeries. The case settled on the eve of trial for $3,000,000.
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Settlement
$1.1 Million
Motor Vehicle Accidents
While being transported by ambulance for other health care needs, our client suffered life altering injuries when a careless and distracted driver rear ended the ambulance at a high rate of speed.
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Full Policy Limits Settlement
$1 Million
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Our clients brought a wrongful death claim after their father was tragically killed when the driver of a big rig fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into his vehicle. The case was settled for the full policy limits.
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Settlement
$800 Thousand
Motor Vehicle AccidentsWrongful Death
Our clients brought a wrongful death claim after their father was killed in a motorcycle versus car accident in a very challenging damages case.
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Settlement
$625 Thousand
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Motorcycle accident. Total settlement value $625,000.
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Employment Law Cases
If you have experienced retaliation, harassment, or discrimination, we provide the assertive advocacy needed to stand up to your employer. We empower workers to fight for fairness and accountability, ensuring your career and financial security are protected.
We help with all forms of workplace case types, such as:
- Employment Claims
- Employee Discrimination
- Workplace Harassment
- LGBTQ Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Retaliation / Wrongful Termination
- Disability Discrimination
- Religious Harassment
Settlement
$1.5 Million
Discrimination ClaimsEmploymentRetaliation ClaimsWrongful Termination
Judgment in excess of $1.5 million (with attorneys’ fees). Employees v. Indian Restaurant: Four employees of a restaurant were wrongfully terminated and threatened with deportation after they complained about repeated wage and hour violations by the employer. The employees worked more than 60 hours per week and were frequently shorted on their already meager “salaries”. The employer repeatedly promised to make up the backpay in the future and, after employees became persistent in their complaints about the unpaid wages and long hours, the owners of the restaurant threatened to call immigration authorities and have the employees deported. We prevailed at trial, persisted through six bankruptcies, multiple fraudulent liens on assets, and eventually seized three investment properties belonging to the employers.
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Settlement
$500 Thousand
EmploymentWrongful Termination
Two female workers were sexually harassed at a restaurant by their chef who tried to sleep with them and touched them inappropriately. When the two females complained, they were ignored. One client quit and the other was terminated in retaliation.
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Settlement
$3 Million
Employment
Truck Drivers v. Agricultural Company. $3,000,000 class action settlement agreement that included payments to truck drivers and forgiveness of their debt. Our firm was lead co-counsel in a class action and PAGA claim for truck drivers of an agricultural company engaging in wage theft. The drivers did not receive pay as they waited substantial amounts of time to load and unload their trucks. Truck drivers who left the company were unlawfully charged for training expenses to discourage them from leaving. The settlement resulted in hundreds of hard-working truck drivers being better compensated for their work going back over five years, and forgiveness of the unlawful training charges.
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Settlement
$600 Thousand
Employment
Our clients were pharmacist who were misclassified as salaried employees and not paid their overtime and were not provided their meal or rest breaks. This type of case requires significant document analysis, and we reviewed a voluminous number of documents to confirm what was happening to our clients.
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Combined Settlement
$1.1 Million
Employment
Defendant sexually harassed our clients.
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Tenant Cases
You have the right to a safe home. If you have been injured due to a landlord’s negligence or unsafe property conditions, we are here to right those wrongs. We are your faithful injury lawyers, winning battles for those who have been taken advantage of. Count on our team to represent you with your tenant injury claim.
A Legacy of Authority and Results
Our firm’s reputation is built on a foundation of trial-tested success and community trust:
- Over $100 Million Recovered
- Northern California Super Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Attorneys
- AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell (Mark Venardi and Martin Zurada)
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- 2026 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
- Official Sponsor of the San Francisco 49ers
Committed to the Fabric of Northern California
As The Bay Area’s Personal Injury Lawyers, we are invested in the well-being of families across the region. We care, and we show it by supporting local initiatives such as the Northern California Special Olympics, the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano County, and our annual Back to School supply giveaways. We are committed, connected, and available to help our Fairfield neighbors move forward with confidence.
"They helped me out when I got into an accident"
VZ are the best in the bay! They helped me out when I got into an accident, I can’t say anything bad about them.
Robert-Christopher G.
"Felt comfortable around the people here"
Friendly and clean environment. Felt comfortable around the people here.
Katarina B.
"They were very understanding"
I really appreciated Venardi Zurada LLP, they were great help and were very understanding of my predicament. Communication was always available and consistent and amicable. I would absolutely recommend them to anyone who has issues at work or otherwise and is seeking legal action or justice for any wrongdoing.
Ava B.
"Call Venardi Zurada for any of your PI needs"
The VZ team are such a great help. Call Venardi Zurada for any of your PI needs they are the best!
Nohra R.
"Overall Great Firm"
Everyone is professional, overall great firm!
Fabian P.
Risk-Free Advocacy: No Recovery, No Fee
Financial stress should not prevent you from seeking justice. We offer free, confidential consultations and work on a no recovery, no fee basis, meaning you owe us nothing unless we secure a recovery for you. Contact Venardi Zurada today by calling us at 833-893-6763 or fill out our online form to set up your free consultation.
