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For the second consecutive year, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorney Deborah S. Chang has been named to the Daily Journal’s list of Top Women Lawyers in California. The coveted West Coast ranking recognizes women lawyers who have made a difference to their clients, their firms, and their profession.          … read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Brian Panish, Kevin Boyle and David Rudorfer obtained a $3,000,000 settlement for the family of a teenage boy who drowned while swimming in a Los Angeles County public pool. The family was also represented in the case by Bradley Yourist and Daniel Yourist of Yourist Law Corporation. In June… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Deborah Chang, Brian Panish, Tom Schultz and Austin Ward obtained a landmark $32,500,000 settlement on behalf of two clients who were catastrophically injured and two clients whose father was killed in two collisions on Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills, California. On May 2, 2014, plaintiff Eric Johnson… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Dan Dunbar, Alex Behar and Candice Klein secured a $6,000,000 settlement for a man and woman who were injured during an apartment fire. Darrel Nation and Anhthu Nguyen, both nurses, were tenants of an apartment building in Long Beach, California. During a power outage, the Plaintiffs lit candles… read more

PSR attorneys Rahul Ravipudi, Tom Schultz, and Brian Panish obtained a $160,500,000 jury verdict for a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a vicious beating by security personnel for a nightclub. Plaintiff, a business professional, spent several hours at a nightclub entertaining and socializing with friends. After paying his bill and… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorney Deborah S. Chang will serve as co-chair for the Daily Journal “Women Leadership in Law” event to be held at The Montage Beverly Hills on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. The inaugural conference and interactive forum will bring together some of the greatest law firm and in-house practitioners to participate… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP founding partner Brian Panish will participate in the upcoming American Bar Association Section of Litigation Roadshow 2.0 – Precision Advocacy: Reinventing Motion Practice to Win – Los Angeles. Moderated by Honorable Jeremy Fogel, “Roadshow 2.0” will tackle the challenge of making motions better with discussions lead by local judges… read more

Armando Abel Ramirez, the bus driver convicted of dependent adult abuse resulting in the death of Hun Joon “Paul” Lee, was distracted by an affair with a fellow bus company employee when he failed to ensure the 19-year-old autistic student had exited the bus for school. Sexually explicit text messages documented in a Whittier Police… read more

PSBR attorneys Pete Kaufman, Brian Panish and Jake Douglass obtained settlements totaling $6,020,647 for the parents of a man who was tragically killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in a Palm Springs hotel room in November 2013. An investigation revealed that a pool heater, located in a mechanical room directly below the Plaintiff’s hotel room, was… read more

Commemorating the one year anniversary of Senate Bill 1072’s inception, Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Cerritos) welcomed the parents of Hun Joon “Paul” Lee to his Cerritos office on Thursday and presented them with a replica of the bill signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Eun Ha Lee and Sang Sik Lee worked closely with Senator Mendoza in creating… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Spencer Lucas, Brian Panish, Tom Schultz and Jake Douglass obtained a confidential $30,000,000 settlement for a 31-year-old man who was catastrophically injured in a freeway crash. On October 14, 2014, a tractor-trailer driver employed by a staffing agency lost control of his vehicle while speeding onto a freeway… read more

In a case assigned through pro bono law firm Public Counsel, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorney Austin Ward and Shannon Pagel Ward of The Aarons Law Firm obtained asylum for a young Guatemalan woman who fled her country after suffering brutal violence at the hand of her brother-in-law for more than a decade. Her abuser,… read more