Chapin Wheeler LLP was formed in 2005 by San Diego trial lawyers Ed Chapin and Jay Wheeler. The firm's mission is to represent businesses and individuals as plaintiffs in complex and high-stakes matters that cannot be handled efficiently by larger firms with higher fees and more rigid hourly billing rates.

Chapin Wheeler offers its clients high-quality legal services provided by seasoned San Diego lawyers with extensive trial experience. These services are delivered from a smaller, more streamlined legal operation. Efficiency and low overhead allow Chapin Wheeler to offer financially attractive and result-oriented billing and fee arrangements tailored to each particular engagement.

Ed Chapin is an accomplished San Diego trial lawyer with extensive experience trying a broad variety of cases. Jill Sullivan has tried several cases to verdict and has favorably resolved numerous cases through summary judgment and mediation. Both have extensive experience in large, prestigious law firms handling highly significant, complex legal matters.

Chapin was most recently a partner at Gordon & Rees, where he was a principal trial lawyer for Southern California. Before joining Chapin Wheeler, Sullivan was an attorney at Latham and Watkins and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Kansas City, where she received significant litigation experience.

Chapin Wheeler's departed partner Jay Wheeler spent more than 20 years in the litigation department of Latham & Watkins as one of its most active trial lawyers. He was the chairman of the San Diego Litigation Department of Latham & Watkins from 1996 to 2000. Wheeler trained and mentored Sullivan and set the standard for excellence in Chapin Wheeler's practice of law.

Chapin Wheeler employs other top-notch associates and paralegals with similar big-firm experience in complex litigation.