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Brendan Gilbert is a Partner at Taylor & Ring who handles cases involving the sexual abuse of minors, sexual assault and harassment, products liability, and complex personal injury actions with catastrophic injuries. Brendan has been the handling attorney on numerous cases that have resulted in eight-figure and seven-figure settlements as a result of his aggressive and persistent style of litigating cases. He has also second chaired multiple personal injury trials to verdict and was lead ...
Natalie Weatherford is a senior partner and trial attorney at Taylor & Ring in Los Angeles, California. She focuses her practice on representing both children and adults in sexual harassment, assault, abuse and misconduct cases as well as civil rights litigation throughout the state. Natalie is a relentless advocate for survivors and her work has led to numerous record-breaking verdicts and settlements against individuals, large corporations, and school districts and administrators. Repre...
John C. Taylor is a nationally recognized trial lawyer in California. The broad variety of cases he has tried during his career is matched by few attorneys, trying more than 135 cases to verdict, including: police shootings and civil rights, sexual abuse, serious personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, insurance bad faith, and employment. Among his record-setting outcomes are: $57.5 million verdict in an insurance bad faith action arising from an aviation accident resulting in th...
Peter Reagan is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Peter, who practices law in Manhattan Beach, California, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Peter is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Sonya Ostovar is the Managing Partner at Taylor & Ring. Her practice focuses on representing both children and adults in sexual abuse and sexual assault/misconduct cases. She has obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts for clients – most notably a $100 million judgment on behalf of a young girl who was sexually abused by her Jiu Jitsu coach; a $97.5 million settlement where Sonya represented over 30 plaintiffs in the Santa Monica PAL/Eric Uller abuse cases; and a $45.4 million verdict...
Sean D. Muntz serves as Managing Partner of RMO LLP. Sean is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, with litigation experience spanning a broad range of subject matters, including banking, general commercial, employment, probate, real estate, securities, intellectual property, maritime and environmental disputes. Sean has litigated matters in state and federal courts throughout California, and in alternative dispute resolution forums, including AAA and JAMS, and before the NASD/FINRA and ...
Terri Keville advises health care clients on credentialing, peer review and other medical staff issues, consent (including end-of-life issues), confidentiality, clinical research, emergency care requirements (EMTALA), and other operational matters. Her litigation practice emphasizes case-dispositive motions and appeals involving hospitals, physician groups and other health care clients. Terri has made new law for California health care organizations in cases involving physician peer review, M...
Clarissa A. Kang represents employee benefit plans, plan administrators, plan sponsors, and fiduciaries in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Litigation - ERISA matters before federal and state courts and government regulatory agencies. Based in San Francisco, California, she advises clients on a broad range of ERISA litigation and compliance issues affecting retirement, health, and welfare benefit plans. As a director at Trucker Huss APC , Clarissa handles complex litigation involving benefit...
Scott Tillett is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Appellate Practice. Scott, who practices law in Sherman Oaks, California, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Scott is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Christopher Adamson is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Christopher, who practices law in Los Angeles, California, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Christopher is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Keith Jacoby represents employers in all types of employment litigation, acting as trial counsel and obtaining defense verdicts in both class action and single defendant cases. He has prosecuted and defended theft of trade secret claims in state and federal court and has extensive experience representing employers and insurers in welfare benefit matters governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Among his notable successes, Keith obtained defense verdicts in a whistleblower/frau...
Siamak Vaziri is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Siamak, who practices law in Los Angeles, California, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Siamak is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Mr. Saunders is an accomplished bankruptcy and transactional attorney with broad national practice experience. His range and depth of expertise includes chapter 11 reorganizations and sales, out-of-court workouts, debt/equity financings, corporate and real estate transactions, entity structure and governance strategies, employee and union matters, and litigation. He represents debtors, committees, creditors, acquirers, trustees, and examiners in bankruptcy cases. He counsels lenders and borro...