Brian Panish

Los Angeles personal injury lawyer Brian Panish is one of the country's top trial lawyers, having won some of the country's most important jury verdicts on behalf of plaintiffs. He has over thirty verdicts and settlements in excess of $10 million in personal injury, vehicle accident, wrongful death, and business litigation matters, including a $4.9 billion record verdict in the landmark products liability case Anderson v. General Motors. He has also earned more than 250 million-dollar verdicts and settlements. Mr. Panish has won three jury verdicts in personal injury cases totaling more than $50 million, more than any other attorney in California. Brian Panish has more eight-figure verdicts than any other attorney in California.

Since 2011, Brian Panish has obtained more than $250 million in verdicts, including a $36.5 million jury verdict against Schneider National for a big-rig crash that left a woman with severe spinal cord injuries, a $34.5 million verdict for a man who suffered a below the knee amputation after being hit by a tractor trailer, a $17.4 million verdict for a Ph.D. student who suffered brain and jaw injuries during a rear end chain collision accident, a $17 million jury verdict against the Los Angeles MTA in the wrongful death of a visually impaired passenger, a $17.845 million award in a wrongful death case involving four family members killed when a Marine plane crashed into their home, a $20 million jury verdict for a woman who suffered a brain injury in a hit-and-run accident involving a J.B. Hunt tractor trailer, a $17 million jury verdict for an 84-year-old man who had his leg amputated after being hit by a bus, a $15.3 million jury verdict for a woman and her daughter after the woman was severely injured on a negligently driven Alameda Contra-Costa Transit District bus, a $10.45 million jury verdict for the family of a security guard killed on the CBS studio lot, and a $8.3 million jury verdict in the first DePuy ASR Hip Implant case to go to trial.

Mr. Panish has been appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering and Executive committees in a number of high-profile mass torts and major disaster cases, including litigation involving train crashes (co-lead counsel in the Chatsworth Metrolink disaster, the Glendale Metrolink crash, and the Placentia Metrolink collision), airplane disasters (Alaska Airlines Flight 261 ), and other high-profile mass torts and major disaster cases (Welding Rods, DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation, and Toyota Unintended Acceleration cases.) He is now representing nearly 7,000 consumers in the Porter Ranch Gas Leak action, as well as numerous instances surrounding the Asiana Flight 261 plane tragedy.

Mr. Panish has been named one of the best trial lawyers in the country by various magazines and organizations. The following are some of the awards he has received:

• Southwestern Law School – Litigator of the Year 2016
• National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame – 2015
• 2016 Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year – Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Litigation – Los Angeles
• 2015 Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year – Product Liability Litigation – Los Angeles
• 2015 Top 25 Plaintiff’s Lawyers in California – by the Daily Journal
• 2015 Robert E. Cartwright Sr. Award (given by the Consumer Attorneys of California)
• 2014 Consumer Attorney of the Year – awarded by the Consumer Attorneys of California
• 2013 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award in the area of Personal Injury
• The National Law Journal’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers In America
• Daily Journal’s Top 100 Most Influential Attorneys in California
• 2012 Top 20 Lawyers in California by The Recorder
• 2010 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
• 2010 Champions of Justice award from Loyola Law School
• 2010 Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year – Product Liability Litigation – Los Angeles
• 2009 Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year – Personal Injury Litigation – Los Angeles
• 1999 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles (CAALA)
• Top 500 Attorneys and Litigators in the United States by Law Dragon
• Top 10 Southern California Super Lawyers® (various years, including from 2009-2015)

Mr. Panish is a member of the distinguished Inner Circle of Advocates, which is comprised of 100 of the nation's top plaintiffs' lawyers, in addition to his other awards. He is also a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers (where he served on the State Selection Committee), the International Society of Barristers, the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and the Los Angeles Chapter of ABOTA, where he served as President in 2011. He is a member of the American Bar Association (where he previously served on the Litigation Section Board), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (where he previously served on the Board of Governors), and the Consumer Attorneys of California (where he currently serves on the Board of Governors) (formerly on the Board of Governors). He is also a member of the Best Lawyers® Board of Advisors.

Mr. Panish graduated from Southwestern Law School with honors and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Southwestern in 2011. He earned his bachelor's degree from California State University, Fresno, where he was recognized Scholar Athlete, awarded the Athletic Directors Award, and was honored as a distinguished alumnus during the school's Centennial Celebration in 2010. He now serves clients throughout Southern California, including Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles.

Office: Panish Shea & Boyle
Address: 11111 Santa Monica Blvd #700, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
Phone: 310-477-1700
Mail: panish@psblaw.com