Taylor & Ring is an award-winning Los Angeles-based trial law firm representing plaintiffs across California in high-profile civil rights, personal injury, wrongful death, and sexual assault, abuse and harassment matters. Our firm has a reputation for tackling the hard cases – cases other personal injury lawyers are reluctant to take. With more than 200 jury trials and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, Taylor & Ring knows what it takes to successfully represent victims.
Our attorneys bring a strategic and aggressive approach to the courtroom, while maintaining the highest professional standards of ethics and reliability in the representation of clients. Many of the firm's cases make local and national headlines for consistently achieving precedent-setting verdicts, settlements and published decisions that have a lasting impact and bring about critical institutional change.
Below is a short list of some of our successes in a range of matters:
- $102.5 Million Verdict: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a former student who was sexually abused while attending Dartmouth Middle School in San Jose.
- $100 Million Judgment: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a young girl who was sexually abused by her jiu-jitsu coach.
- $97.5 Million Settlement: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented multiple plaintiffs in the Santa Monica PAL/Eric Uller abuse cases.
- $61.7 Million Verdict: Car Accident - Two civilians engaged in a car chase in Torrance. Jesse Esphorst Sr. was seriously injured, and his 16 y.o. son, Jesse Esphorst Jr, died as a result of his injuries.
- $57.5 Million Verdict: Wrongful Death - Represented the families of three men who died in an aviation accident that resulted in insurance bad faith.
- $40 Million Settlement: Sexual Assault - Represented a group of women who were sexually abused by a school employee.
- $27 Million Settlement: Bullying Leading to Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a young boy who was bullied and killed at his school. This is the largest settlement in a bullying case in the United States.
- $20.2 Million Settlement: Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a 7-year-old child who drowned due to negligence.
- $18.6 Million Verdict: Auto v. Motorcycle Accident - Represented an individual involving the negligent entrustment of an automobile where a company president allowed his wife to drive a company-owned vehicle four days after she failed the DMV road exam and caused serious injury to a motorcyclist.
- $13 Million Verdict: Product Liability - Represented a 42-year-old truck driver who was rendered paraplegic after a defective forklift toppled over on top of him while he was making a delivery.
- $10 Million Judgment: Police Misconduct - Represented a family in a wrongful death case against the LAPD, 30 years in the making. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus for the murder of Sherri Rasmussen more than 30 years ago.
Taylor & Ring attorneys have received numerous prestigious honors and recognition for their work, including:
CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year and Rising Star
Daily Journal Top 100, Top 40 Under 40, Top Plaintiffs Lawyers, Top Women Lawyers and Top Boutiques
LA Times B2B Consumer Attorneys of SoCal
Law360 Rising Stars
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America; 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
Los Angeles Business Journal Leader of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers; Women of Influence: Attorneys
National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers; Top Verdicts
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers; Top 40 Under 40
Southern California Super Lawyers; Top 10; Top 100; Rising Stars
