Brian Panish
One of the country’s leading trial attorneys, Brian Panish has obtained some of the most significant jury verdicts in United States history on behalf of plaintiffs. His courtroom victories include a $4.9 billion record verdict in the landmark products liability case Anderson v. General Motors, six verdicts in excess of $50 million, 32 verdicts, and over 75 settlements in excess of $10 million in personal injury, wrongful death, and business litigation cases.
Since 2011, as a Las Vegas car accident attorney, Mr. Panish has obtained more than $500 million in verdicts including a $54 million jury verdict for two adult brothers severely injured in a head-on collision with a CRST semi-truck, 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 jet 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 a 84-year old man hit by a bus resulting in a leg amputation, 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.
Because of his expertise as a Las Vegas personal injury attorney working on cases related to wrongful death, mass tort, and product liability, Mr. Panish has been appointed to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Steering and Executive committees in numerous 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 Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes), pharmaceuticals (Vioxx and diet drugs), and defective product cases (Welding Rods, DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation, and Toyota Unintended Acceleration cases.) He is currently serving as the plaintiff’s Co-Lead Counsel in both the Southern California Fire Litigation and Porter Ranch/Aliso Canyon Gas Leak Litigation as well as on the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee in the North Bay Fires litigation in Northern California.
Mr. Panish is a member of the State Bar of California as well as the Washington State Bar and the State Bar of Texas. He received his law degree, with honors, from Southwestern Law School and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Southwestern in 2011.
