«Nobody is resting on 50 years of achievements. It’s, ‘What is coming up next? What are the new frontiers that we are headed to?'» said Bruce Broillet, who has been with the El Seguno plaintiffs’ firm since 1977.
Recent scandals in the Southern California legal community cast a pall over what was otherwise an occasion for celebration.
Recent scandals in the Southern California legal community cast a pall over what was otherwise an occasion for celebration.
Geoffrey Wells, incumbent president of the Consumer Attorneys of California says the civil justice system is the only way to hold corporations accountable for things like defective products and toxins, and for the way they handle their employees.
California lawmakers, local officials and labor leaders are demanding an audit of Los Angeles County’s historic $4-billion sex abuse settlement as well as a State Bar investigation into a law firm that represents thousands of alleged victims.
At their annual meeting in San Francisco, consumer attorneys urged colleagues to push back against misleading or gaudy legal advertising, warning that jurors now see trial lawyers through the lens of billboards, private jets and boastful posts.
CAOC is urging an urgent State Bar probe into DTLA Law Group over allegations of paying people to file false sex abuse claims, amid broader concerns about unethical attorney solicitation practices.
‘This was a preventable tragedy. None of this had to happen,’ said a lawyer for the family of Zhi Feng Zhao, 84, who died in his Altadena home
When wildfires reached Altadena, evacuation alerts came hours too late for some people who lived on the west side of the community
On Jan. 7, the day that the Eaton fire sparked in the San Gabriel mountains, Xiaoyong “Shaw” Zhao got a call from his father in Altadena around 12:30 p.m., asking him what kind of food he should prepare for his upcoming visit.
Bruin Woods, UCLA’s summer camp under litigation for alleged hazing and sexual assault, will close this year’s operations, preventing alumni and their families from attending.
A freshman quarterback at the University of San Diego has filed a lawsuit claiming sexual hazing by football players inside on-campus locker rooms.
Kollen Murphy, a freshman receiver from Wildomar, filed his suit in San Diego Superior Court on Thursday
A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame.
The late actor’s family notified the Los Angeles County Superior Court of the settlement on Friday, close to a month before the trial was set to start.
The family of an attorney who was struck and killed on a bicycle by a sheriff’s deputy who was distracted by a digital device will receive an $11.75 million settlement from Los Angeles County.
L.A. Unified has reached a $9.5-million settlement with the parents of a 12-year-old boy who died after running laps at Dodson Middle School in Rancho Palos Verdes, the attorneys representing the family said Wednesday.
A jury reached a $5 million verdict Tuesday against San Diego County and the San Diego Sheriff’s Office involving the allegations of excessive force and negligent supervision within the organization.
The city of San Diego has agreed to a $5.9 million settlement with a woman who was sexually assaulted by a police officer after a traffic stop, officials announced Thursday.
A community is mourning the loss of three teens killed on Friday when their church van blew a tire and rolled over in Polk County.
GBW attorneys are currently representing former UTLA political organizer Astine Suleimanyan in a groundbreaking sexual harassment and wrongful termination case against the union.
Attorneys from Greene Broillet & Wheeler obtained a $33 million jury verdict on behalf of a Miami surgeon who was handcuffed so tightly by arresting officers that his ability to perform surgery was permanently damaged.
Attorneys from Greene Broillet & Wheeler secured a $46.5 million verdict against the law firm of Jones, Day, Revis & Pogue in what was at the time the second-largest legal malpractice verdict in history.
Greene Broillet & Wheeler obtained a $4.5 million jury verdict on behalf of a woman who was hit by a school bus while crossing at a pedestrian crossing lane on Ventura Boulevard.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $8.15 million to the family of a pre-school teacher killed while saving a three-year-old from a runaway bus.
Greene Broillet & Wheeler obtained a major victory on behalf of a woman who claimed her boss stole her winning $8 million SuperLotto ticket.
Greene Broillet & Wheeler obtained a $21 million jury verdict on behalf of a man who had to have his arms amputated after his aluminum avocado-picking pole touched a 12,000-volt power line.
Attorneys from Greene Broillet & Wheeler represented Targus in several malpractice cases against accounting giant KPMG, accusing it of failing to discover a three-year embezzlement scheme by the company’s CFO that caused $50 million in losses.
After an 8-week trial, GBW’s Mark Quigley won a $10 million settlement in a whistleblower-retaliation lawsuit involving a contentious battle between the chairman of UCLA’s orthopedic surgery department and one of the state’s most powerful organizations, The Regents of The University of California.
Lead attorney Robert Jarchi, along with associates Molly McKibben and Christian Nickerson, obtained a $4.7 million verdict in Riverside Superior Court against Southern California Edison (SCE) for the wrongful death of a farm worker electrocuted while picking fruit in a grapefruit orchard, in a strongly disputed liability case.
Lead counsel Browne Greene transformed the trajectory of a contentious civil rights case against the City of San Diego that involved sexual misconduct by a San Diego Police officer. Within a matter of months, Mr. Greene negotiated a $5.9 million settlement for the plaintiff. Through litigation, Mr. Greene exposed cover-ups and corruption within the police department and instituted positive change in the way the department handles police misconduct.
Partner Browne Greene is co-lead counsel in a high-profile dispute involving ownership of the woartnerrld’s largest emerald. After more than six years of litigation which involved two trials and multiple parties, including the country of Brazil, Browne Greene helped secure ownership of the world’s largest emerald for his clients.
Partner Geoff Wells testified at legislative hearings in support of SB 274, also known as “The Passenger Charter-Party Carriers’ Act,” which is now a law aimed at improving the safety and operating requirements on charter buses.
As co-lead counsel, GBW partner Mark Quigley was instrumental in obtaining a $7.3 million jury verdict in a sexual harassment/retaliation and wrongful termination case involving a whistleblower that sued celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury.
GBW’s Christine Spagnoli represents the family members of two Los Angeles men killed in a fiery explosion of a gas tank in a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee who are suing the auto giant, Fiat Chrysler, for wrongful death.
Attorneys at GBW filed a civil lawsuit against Bank of Hope (formally known as Wilshire Bank), which is one of the largest and most respected financial institutions in the Los Angeles Korean community. The firm currently represents nearly two-dozen plaintiffs who accuse the bank of concealing and assisting a convicted embezzler who stole their life savings in a massive Ponzi scheme that involved $47 million.
GBW’s trial team, led by partners Bruce Broillet and Scott Carr, represented FOX Sports reporter and TV personality, Erin Andrews, in her case against a hotel for its misconduct, which led to a stalker secretly shooting video of Andrews in her hotel room in the nude.
GBW attorneys Bruce Broillet and Alan Van Gelder secured a $15 million verdict against a property management company for the acts of an employee who drove intoxicated, resulting in a serious car accident.
GBW attorneys Geoff Wells, Ivan Puchalt and Christian Nickerson secured a $36 million award for a young girl who was hit by a car while crossing the street at her bus stop. The jury found that the school bus driver and company knew the intersection was dangerous and failed to take corrective measures.
A Sacramento jury found Ford Motor Company responsible to the victims of a rollover crash involving a Ford E350 15 passenger van that experienced a tread separation. The jury found that the 15 passenger vans were dangerously defective and susceptible to loss of control from a tread separation.
The family of a cyclist struck and killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy patrol car will be paid nearly $12 million by the county in a legal settlement announced this week.
The family of a cyclist struck and killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy patrol car will be paid nearly $12 million by the county in a legal settlement announced this week.
As co-lead trial counsel, Christine Spagnoli obtained a $25.9 million jury verdict against Ford Motor Company and the First Baptist Church of New Port Richey for the wrongful death of a 44-year-old wife and mother of four.
Attorneys Geoff Wells and Christian Nickerson reached a $3.5 million settlement on behalf of a 61-year-old woman who suffered debilitating injuries after being struck by a school bus in a marked crosswalk.
An Orange County jury found The UC Regents and the former Dean of the School of Medicine responsible for violating whistleblower protection laws against a neurosurgeon who filed a grievance through the UC Irvine Academic Senate against his supervisors.
GBW’s Alan Van Gelder and Molly McKibben secured a $1.15 million verdict involving a limousine crash.
Attorneys Bruce Broillet and Alan Van Gelder secured a $10 million settlement on behalf of young man who suffered life-changing injuries after his vehicle collided with a tractor trailer.
The GBW trial team secured a $12 million verdict for the wrongful death of a son at Bel-Air Bay Club.
The Los Angeles Times reported on a major appellate court victory for GBW’s Bruce Broillet and Scott Carr who secured the right to a new trial against the NCAA for their client, Todd McNair.
The GBW trial team secured a $12.2 million verdict for for a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury after slipping and falling in her office.
There are new developments in a civil lawsuit GBW attorneys filed on behalf of two UCLA students who sued the UC Regents over allegations of sexual abuse, forced nudity, and coercive alcohol consumption at Bruin Woods Summer Camp.
A Los Angeles jury has awarded $6.8 million in damages to a volunteer at the City of Los Angeles’ North Central Animal Shelter, who suffered extensive injuries from a vicious attack by an owner-surrendered German Shepherd. The verdict holds the City of Los Angeles and LA Animal Services responsible for their failure to protect the plaintiff, Kelly Kaneko, and adequately communicate the history of the aggressive canine.
A civil trial in San Diego Superior Court exposes a disturbing pattern of deceptive behavior of misusing donor funds at UC San Diego. The case involves a $10 million gift to a former UCSD radiation oncologist, Dr. Kevin Murphy, M.D., who claims the gift was supposed to go to his research but instead was converted to the Moores Cancer Center. When he blew the whistle on this misconduct, he faced retaliation and eventual termination. “Because of Dr. Murphy challenging them, he angered some very powerful people at the university, and they turned this all around on him. Now you have the money, but now we’re going to make sure you can’t use it, and we’re going to fire you and take the money back,” Trial Attorney Mark Quigley told ABC10.
A San Diego jury today awarded more than $39 million to a doctor turned whistleblower who was fired by UCSD. The jury sided with Dr. Kevin Murphy in his civil wrongful termination and retaliation civil trial against the UC Regents and UC San Diego in San Diego Superior Court.
Two former UC Riverside lawsuit professors were awarded more than $6 million in a whistleblower lawsuit against against the UC Regents and their former department chair.
As reported through the Orange County Register, trial lawyers Mark Quigley and Ivan Puchalt secured a significant win in a high-stakes whistleblower retaliation trial against UC Irvine. An Orange County jury has ordered UC Irvine to pay 5.8 million to Dr. Mark E. Linskey for a whistleblower complaint against the university’s medical school.
An Orange County jury has awarded $5.8 million in damages to a UC Irvine neurosurgeon who claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit university officials retaliated against him for filing a grievance regarding risks to patient safety, abuse of power and economic waste. Trial lawyers Mark Quigley and Ivan Puchalt helped secure this significant win.
An Orange County jury awarded $5.8 million in damages to a Newport Beach based board-certified neurosurgeon who is also a tenured professor at the University of California (UC) Irvine. Trial lawyers Mark Quigley and Ivan Puchalt secured a significant win in a high-stakes whistleblower retaliation trial. It was the second lawsuit Dr. Mark Linskey filed against the University of California Regents.
As reported in profiled in Inland Empire Law Weekly, a jury unanimously awarded a man $5 million in damages, after finding that the commercial operators of the truck did not maintain the tire or properly check tire pressure as required by law. This exposed serious safety lapses by the defendant company and highlighted the team’s relentless pursuit of justice. We’re proud of our trial team for achieving a measure of justice for this family.
The Daily Journal profiled GBW attorneys Molly McKibben, Christine Spagnoli, and Omar Dardon for obtaining a $5 million jury verdict against a trucking company in Riverside County. The case involved the wrongful death of 22-year-old Hector Serrano and serious injuries to his father, Leo Serrano, following a catastrophic crash on I-215. Representing Hector’s parents, the GBW team proved that the company and driver’s lack of proper inspections led to the tire being underinflated, blowing out, and causing the fatal collision.
GBW partners Alan Van Gelder and Christian Nickerson secured a nearly $4.2 million jury verdict holding Home Depot accountable after a 65-year-old television production designer was seriously injured when nearly 200 pounds of MDF boards fell on him, causing significant cognitive and emotional injuries. (PDF)
The Los Angeles Times spotlighted GBW’s $3.25 million settlement in a rescue dog attack case, sharing the powerful story of the victims and the lasting impact of the incident. The feature also includes insight from GBW’s attorneys Ivan Puchalt and Jenna Edzant, who discuss the case and the importance of accountability and public safety.
The San Diego Union-Tribune highlighted the conclusion of a 12-year federal civil rights case that ended with a $6.5 million settlement with the County of San Diego. GBW partner Browne Greene, who served as co-lead attorney, helped bring the long-running litigation to a close after a trial that exposed systemic failures within the Sheriff’s Department. The lawsuit revealed a pattern of unjustified force against minorities and a culture of silence that shielded misconduct from accountability.
For the third time, GBW attorneys Ivan Puchalt and Jenna Edzant have achieved a successful outcome in a shelter dog attack case against the City of Los Angeles — this time securing a $5.4 million jury verdict for an animal transport driver.
A jury found the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department discriminated against a police psychologist and retaliated against her after she complained about being passed over for promotion
Reconocida por Best Lawyers® como “Best Law Firms”, Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP figura en el Nivel 1 en Litigios por Lesiones Personales – Demandantes en Los Ángeles.
Varios miembros del despacho han sido distinguidos por la Consumer Attorneys of California, entre ellos Browne Greene, Christine Spagnoli y Bruce Broillet, quienes recibieron el premio Marvin E. Lewis. Además, los abogados Bruce Broillet, Scott Carr, Molly McKibben y Tobin Lanzetta han sido galardonados con el premio Consumer Attorney of the Year.
Todos nuestros abogados se enorgullecen de ser miembros activos de la Asociación de Abogados del Condado de Los Ángeles (LACBA).
Nuestros abogados fueron incluidos en TopVerdict por haber obtenido uno de los 10 principales veredictos por muerte injusta en California en 2019, con $15 millones a favor del demandante en Keck v. Bel-Air Bay Club.
Los socios Geoff Wells e Iván Puchalt fueron nombrados “2025 Consumer Attorney Visionaries” por LA Times Studios.
Varios socios son miembros activos de la Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, y los abogados Browne Greene, Bruce Broillet y Christine Spagnoli han sido nombrados “Trial Lawyer of the Year”.
Las socias Christine D. Spagnoli y Molly McKibben han sido distinguidas por la Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles y son miembros activas.
Tras obtener $2.6 millones para el lado del demandante en un caso de choque frontal, nuestra victoria fue incluida entre los 50 principales veredictos por lesiones personales en California en 2019 por TopVerdict.
Varios de nuestros socios son miembros de la American Board of Trial Advocates, una asociación nacional por invitación compuesta por los abogados litigantes más experimentados.
Nuestro equipo incluye varios Fellows y Associates en la prestigiosa International Society of Barristers —solo por invitación— en reconocimiento a su excelencia en litigación.
Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP fue destacado por TopVerdict entre los 100 principales acuerdos en todas las áreas de práctica en California en 2019.
Los 15 abogados del despacho han sido seleccionados a Best Lawyers® tras un riguroso proceso de revisión por pares.
Bruce A. Broillet y Christine D. Spagnoli son Fellows de la exclusiva International Academy of Trial Lawyers, conformada por abogados litigantes de élite de más de 30 países.
Los destinatarios de este reconocimiento están sujetos a los mismos estándares de The Best Lawyers in America, pero solo califican profesionales del derecho dentro de los primeros diez años de su carrera. Cuatro abogados de GBW fueron reconocidos con este premio en 2021.
Los socios fundadores Browne Greene y Bruce A. Broillet son miembros del exclusivo Inner Circle of Advocates, como dos de los 100 mejores abogados litigantes de demandantes en Estados Unidos.
Nuestro despacho cuenta con más abogados en las listas Super Lawyers® y Rising Stars que cualquier otro bufete en el sur de California, con 15 miembros seleccionados.
