Jessica R. Barsotti
Jessica has been a trial lawyer for 24 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. A graduate of Hastings College of Law, where her grandfather and long-time judge in Berkeley, California also attended.
Jessica has extensive experience in the courts battling corporations, landlords, police, cities, counties and school districts to find justice for her clients. Jessica has extensive trial experience and has mastered litigation skills including motion practice, jury trials, bench trials, depositions, drafting complaints and formulating litigation strategies. Jessica has tried and won cases in state courts, federal courts and the courts of appeal and has a deep understanding of all aspects of litigation. Jessica’s experience and knowledge brings invaluable insight to litigants needing assistance with litigation strategy and advice. Jessica excels in being able to identify potential litigations pitfalls, nuanced strategy approaches, and how to achieve the results desired by the litigation overall.
After running a successful solo practice for 15 years, Jessica joined Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense California to assist in legally challenging the massive overreach of the government during COVID and, as a partner in the law firm Facts Law Truth Justice, she crafted the winning writ strategy that brought favorable rulings in Piedmont and Orange County that pushed back harmful illegal policies during the COVID era.
Jessica was also hired as a trial expert in Lewis Williams v. BART in October 2024 to assist with the trial strategy, jury selection and trial process, including direct exam of some plaintiffs, cross examining experts and doing closing argument. This San Francisco Federal Case achieved the highest jury award for religious discrimination related to the COVID era to date.
In addition to her legal work, Jessica is currently developing educational materials to assist those who wish to understand important legal concepts. The law should not be a secret language among lawyers and judges, but an accessible body of understanding for all people who are subject to those laws. Visit her website www.lifelaws.info for more information and resources.
Rita Barnett-Rose
Rita has been practicing or teaching law and legal writing for over two decades, after receiving her JD from the University of Texas, graduating with honors, and her B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University, graduating cum laude.
Prior to forming Barsotti Rose with Jessica, Rita maintained the dual role of Legal Director at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s organization Children’s Health Defense, California Chapter, and as a partner at Facts Law Truth Justice, a law firm that represented CHD and other non-profits and individuals fighting the unlawful and unethical mandates in California during the Covid era. She resigned from her position as a Legal Writing & Analysis Professor at Chapman University’s School of Law after being put on unpaid leave due to her refusal to comply with its coercive COVID policies. She then became an outspoken legal advocate for bodily autonomy and the safeguarding of children’s health.
Prior to her teaching career, Rita was an associate at Latham & Watkins, practicing largely in the area of intellectual property. While at the University of Texas School of Law, Rita was an extern for Justice Greg Abbott of the Supreme Court of Texas – now Governor of Texas.
As a scholar and educator, Rita’s interests in bodily autonomy, clean food and water, and her concern over the overmedicating of our children led her to delve into the significant regulatory capture issues within agencies such as the CDC, FDA, and EPA. Her published law review articles focus on these vitally important issues.
Rita’s excellent legal writing and analysis skills have been demonstrated through her considerable experience over the last 4 years in California courts fighting for personal freedoms and parental rights. As a partner in the law firm Facts Law Truth Justice, she drafted many of the winning writs that brought favorable rulings in both Piedmont and Orange County that pushed back against harmful illegal policies during the COVID era. At BarsottiRose Consulting, Rita is now offering legal consulting and editing/drafting assistance with complaints, motions, appeal briefs and other litigation and transactional documents.