Penelope Bergman is a founding member of Bergman APC. Her practice focuses on helping young and established families achieve peace of mind by developing and implementing plans that are tailored to best protect the people, property and businesses in their nests. Her passion in this area comes from her extensive experience in helping clients deal with fallout from a lack of planning. Ms. Bergman draws upon her extensive experience in all aspects of complex multi-party litigation wherein she successfully obtained multi-million dollar settlements and judgments on behalf of her clients. Prior to forming Bergman APC, she founded and managed a successful lender liability and employment litigation practice, where she successfully sued big banks, employers and other business entities for their unlawful and deceptive practices, obtaining significant monetary damages for her clients. Prior to that, she served as national coordinating defense counsel for insurance underwriters, and her practice focused on insurance coverage litigation and business disputes. Such matters involved contract disputes, employment issues, "bad faith" claims, workers compensation issues, insurance agent and broker errors and omissions, products liability, aviation matters, airport liability, environmental disputes and toxic tort matters. Ms. Bergman has also provided several years of "pro bono" service as general counsel to Homeowners' Associations and has served as a board member. Ms. Bergman received her Undergraduate degree from University of California, San Diego and her law degree from University of Richmond, Virginia. She also attended business school, was awarded a Master's degree in Business Administration and is licensed to practice law in California and Minnesota.