Omar Habbas

Omar Habbas is a personal injury attorney with Habbas & Associates in San Jose. His cases include serious injuries arising from car and truck crashes, pedestrian accidents, construction incidents and dog attacks. Legal and medical malpractice also fall within his practice. The firm’s account of his work lists defective pharmaceutical drugs, dangerous medical devices and hazardous roadways among the other matters in which he represents individuals.

Habbas studied history at the University of the Pacific, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1982. He completed law school at Santa Clara University in 1985. California admitted him to the bar on December 11, 1986; his license remains active under the name Omar Issa Habbas. At the Law Offices of William McCann, he became a junior partner in 1987. He established his own firm in 1988. The bar lists his office at 1501 The Alameda, San Jose, under Habbas, Nasseri & Associates.

Santa Clara also appears in his biography outside the education section. The firm lists him on the law school’s Board of Visitors and notes that, in November 2016, the school invited him to become a director of the dean’s advisory group. His listed professional memberships include Consumer Attorneys of California, the Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Alameda Trial Lawyers Association. Family Giving Tree and Kick Childhood Cancer are among the charitable organizations his biography says he supports.