Who We Are

After representing professionals and businesses for 20 years in various medium and large-sized law firms in Sacramento, attorneys and longtime friends Paul A. Cardinale and Gregory T. Fayard joined forces to form Cardinale Fayard, a Professional Law Corporation. Paul Cardinale has been representing medical professionals, namely physicians, nurses, dentists and health care providers for nearly 20 years. He heads the firm's Medical Defense Law Group and litigates exclusively in the area of medical malpractice defense in both Northern California, the Central Valley and all of Nevada. Of Counsel Melanie B. Chapman also handles medical professional defense matters for the Medical Defense Law Group in Nevada. A former deputy attorney general, Greg Fayard represented all types of professionals at small, medium-sized and large national firms for nearly two decades. He practices exclusively in Northern California and the Central Valley. Believing they could more efficiently and effectively represent their diverse clients by joining together to form a boutique civil litigation law firm, Cardinale Fayard's mission is to provide outstanding legal representation for its clients by putting its combined experience of 60 years to obtain optimal results in both civil and administrative disputes.