Overview
Gerald Singleton began his legal career as a trial attorney at Federal Defenders of San Diego in 2000, where he represented federal criminal defendants in the Southern District of California and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He left Federal Defenders in 2003 to start his own practice, which has grown from a sole proprietorship into the national firm of Singleton Schreiber, LLP, with over 80 attorneys and 400 employees and over a dozen offices throughout the United States.
Mr. Singleton is one of the nation’s leading experts in fire litigation. Over the past two decades, he and his team have represented over 20,000 fire victims in more than 30 wildfires in California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado and Texas, and have recovered over $3 billion on their behalf. Mr. Singleton has served as liaison counsel and in other positions of leadership in complex civil cases in multiple states. He currently serves as court-appointed liaison counsel in the Eaton Fire case in Los Angeles and the Dixie Fire case in San Francisco. In 2020, Mr. Singleton was appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to serve on the Oversight Committee of the $13.5 billion Fire Victim Trust. He is the chair of the American Association of Justice’s national wildfire litigation group and has lectured on fire litigation across the country.
Over the past several years, Mr. Singleton has expanded the firm’s practice to include representing public entities and individuals in environmental and toxic tort litigation across the country. In 2023, he and his team brought the first medical-monitoring claim to address carcinogens and other dangerous toxins in wildfire smoke. In 2024, Singleton Schreiber partnered with the NAACP to bring litigation on behalf of thousands of women who developed cancer and/or uterine fibroids from exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in over-the-counter hair relaxer products. The firm’s Environmental practice group is working with state and local agencies and non-profit advocacy groups to bring pollution claims on behalf of frontline communities exposed to toxins from the oil and gas industry.
Mr. Singleton graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he earned high honors and the departmental prize in Government for his senior honors thesis. He received his juris doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2000, and is licensed to practice in the state courts of California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota and the District of Columbia, multiple federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
An active member of the American Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys of California, and numerous other state bar associations, Mr. Singleton is also a contributor and fundraiser for Democratic candidates and progressive causes.
Honors & Awards
2025 The Best Lawyers in America
2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers
- Location: San Diego
- Practice Areas: Wildfire Litigation, Personal Injury, Civil Rights
Professional Affiliations
Affiliations
Mr. Singleton is also a contributor and fundraiser for Democratic candidates and progressive causes.
Membership
Member, Consumer Attorneys of California
Member, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
Member, American Association for Justice
Member, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Member, San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
Member, New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association
Member, Washington State Association for Justice
News & Publications
News
Speaking Engagements
Press Releases
Blog Posts
Practice Areas
Education
Dartmouth College, B.A. in Government, cum laude, 1996
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 2000
Admissions
- State of California
- District of Columbia
- State of Minnesota
- State of Missouri
- State of New Mexico
- State of Ohio
- State of Oregon
- State of Texas
- State of Washington
- Multiple Federal District Courts
- United States District Courts for the Southern District of California
- United States District Courts for the Northern District of California
- United States District Courts for the Central District of California
- United States District Courts for the Eastern District of California
- United States District Courts for the Western District of Texas
- United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri
- United States District Courts for the Western District of Missouri
- United States District Courts of New Mexico
- United States District Courts of Oregon
- United States District Courts for the Western District of Washington
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States Supreme Court
Languages
- English