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Accolades

  • The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™, Martindale Hubbell®

  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, Lawyers.com / Martindale Hubbell®

  • Avvo.com Superb Score of 10

  • Plaintiff Vice Chair to the Aviation and Space Law General Committee of the American Bar Association, 2019-Present

  • Editor, American Bar Association Aviation and Space Law Committee Newsletter, 2020-present

  • Editor, The Brief Editorial Board Standing Committee, American Bar Association, 2021-2022

  • Member, Plaintiffs Practice Standing Committee, American Bar Association, 2021-2022

  • Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America®, Consumer Protection Guide, 2021

  • Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers®, 2019 -2021

  • Lawyer of the Year, Southern California, Wall Street Journal, 2020, 2021

  • Top 100 Attorneys (Civil Plaintiff), The National Trial Lawyers®, 2016-2022

  • Top 100 Attorneys in Southern California, Los Angeles Magazine, 2016-2022

  • Best Lawyers in America®, Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation, 2016-Present

  • Elite Trial Lawyer Finalist, Consumer Protection Category, The National Law Journal and ALM Media for Germanwings opinion, 2018

  • Nations Top One Percent, National Association of Distinguished Council, 2017-Present

  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honor Society, 2016-Present

  • California Board Certified Attorneys, 2019-present

  • Aviation Trial Lawyers Association: Top 10, 2016-Present

  • National Brain Injury Trial Lawyers Association – Top 25

  • Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars, Up and Coming 100, 2016

  • Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars, Top List, 2015

  • Southern California Super Lawyers® – Aviation & Aerospace, 2007-Present

  • Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars, 2007-2016

  • American Association for Justice

  • Leader’s Forum

  • Aviation Law Section

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Section

  • Trucking Section

  • Products Liability Section

  • Railroad/Highway Crossing & Derailment Litigation Group

  • American Bar Association

  • Aviation and Space Law Committee

  • Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section

  • Litigation Section

  • Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)

  • Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)

  • Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association

  • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)

  • Biomedical Engineering Society

  • North American Brain Injury Society

  • Brain Injury Association of America

  • California Brain Injury Association

  • Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, Ad hoc, MDL-2497, In Re: Air Crash at San Francisco on July 6, 2013

  • Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee, MDL-2085, In Re: Air Crash Near Clarence Center, New York, on February 12, 2009 (Colgan Air dba Continental Connection)

  • Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, MDL-1967, In Re: Bisphenol-A (BPA) Polycarbonate Plastic Products Liability Litigation, 2009

  • Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, MDL-1953, In Re: Heparin Product Liability Litigation, 2009

  • Leadership Group, East Coast Jets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31, 2008

  • President, Student Bar Association, Southwestern University School of Law, 2002

  • Founding Vice-President, International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, University of California at San Diego

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