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Publications by Greene Broillet & Wheeler
Alan Van Gelder:
- Accountability for Distracted Driving; Daily Journal
- Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation
- Defense Medical Exams In Brain-Injury Cases
- Potential Liability For Recommending Rejection of Policy Limits Demands
- Marijuana Use and the Civil Jury Trial
- Surviving the Nightmare Scenario of the Lying Client
- Distracted Drivers: Seeking Punitive Damages
- The Actual-Injury Provision and the Statute of Limitations
- Pedestrians: Walking the Line of Dangerous Condition Claims
- Marijuana Use and the Civil Jury Trial
- Combatting the “Anything Is Possible” Expert
Aaron Osten:
- Offsetting The Delays Faced By Victims of Workplace Retaliation
- Private Doctrine Ruling Has No Business Being Published
- The Importance of Protective Orders in Product Liability Cases
- The Power of “Me-Too” Evidence in California Employment Cases
Browne Greene:
Ivan Puchalt:
- Trees: A primer on how to beat the "Act of God" Defense
- Out on a Limb: How to Litigate Against Dangerous Trees
- Whistleblower Protections May Help to Improve Patient Safety
- Standing of Parents to Sue for the Wrongful Death of Their Married Child
- Back to Nature: Beware of Immunity Traps
Christian Nickerson:
- Accepted practices for heart resuscitation; Daily Journal
- The Actual-Injury Provision and the Statute of Limitations
- The Party-Bus Industry
- Whistleblower Protections May Help to Improve Patient Safety
Molly McKibben:
- Neuroendocrine dysfunction: a path to demonstrating traumatic, Los Angeles Daily Journal
- How to secure approval of a minor’s compromise petition on your first try
- Ruling Says Exclusion of ‘#MeToo’ Evidence Is Reversible Error
- California Doctors Can No Longer Hide Accusations of Sexual Misconduct from Their Patients' Thanks to a New Law
- Governmental Immunities that Preclude Bicyclists from Prevailing in Their Actions
- Don’t Trip on the Immunity “Trail”
Christine Spagnoli:
- Daily Journal: Top Women Lawyers, 2023
- General Motors Bankruptcy 2.0: Lessons Learned
- A Cite for Sore Eyes: Buell-Wilson
- Punitive Damages Evidence: The Scope of the Auto Manufacturer
Mark Quigley:
- Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in 2023
- Standing of Parents to Sue for the Wrongful Death of Their Married Child
Scott H. Carr:
- The “Reality” of Idea Theft
- Measure of Damages for Interference with a Shareholder’s Ability to Sell Stock
- Establishing Causation and Damages in Transactional Malpractice Cases After Viner V. Sweet
Bruce Broillet:
- Accountability for Distracted Driving; Daily Journal
- Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers
- The Evolving Law of COVID-19 Business Interruption Cases
- Accepted practices for heart resuscitation; Daily Journal
- Quiet Reflections on Profound Loss—Helping the Jury Do Justice for the Wrongful Death of a Child
- Skylight Falls at Epidemic Levels: Turning Point for Consumer Safety
Geoffrey S. Wells:
- Arguing General Damages at Trial
- Get the Most Out of Your Experts While Maintaining Cost Control
- Back to Nature: Beware of Immunity Traps
Robert Jarchi:
- Unwinding the statute-of-limitations clock
- Powerful ways to prove your client’s brain injury objectively
- Daily Journal: California Legal Community Steps Up To Aid Maui Relief
Jenna Edzant:
Legal Issues in the News
- Braking System Problems and Fire Hazards
This article examines the Chrysler recall that affects "well over half a million Jeep Cherokee, Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country vehicles." - California Rental Car Safety Bill Progresses Through Legislature
A discussion of the Houck Rental Care Safety Act (California Assembly Bill 753) that is "intended to prevent rental car companies from renting or selling defective automobiles that are subject to a federal safety recall notice." - California Supreme Court Issues Major Decision on Medical Expenses
This article reviews changes to the "collateral source" rule that the California Supreme Court implemented in Howell v. Hamilton Meats. - Protecting California Bicyclists
An examination of the rights granted to bicyclists by the California Vehicle Code and other laws, as well as a discussion of bicycle safety tips. - Recall of Flammable Blair Robes Re-announced
Following nine deaths caused by robes catching fire, The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the maker of Blair chenille robes "re-announced their April 2009 ‘urgent recall’ of the full-length robes and similar products." - Recent California Train Accidents: LA Metro Passenger Critically Injured
A recap of a series of train accidents that all took place during the final two weeks of October 2010. - Study Reveals Extensive Online Sales of Recalled Vehicles
A study by vehicle information system Carfax shows that "more that 2.7 million used cars were listed for sale in 2011 that had not been brought in for free repairs mandated by an auto recall." - California Tour Bus Accident Brings Sorrow, Questions
A discussion of federal bus safety regulations in the wake of the fatal February 2013 Scapada Magicas bus accident on Route 38 near Yucaipa, California. - Toyota Sudden Acceleration Defect Case: $1.1 Billion Settlement
This article examines the resolution of the lawsuit where plaintiffs "claimed that Toyota's failure to disclose the defects reduced the value of the vehicles, causing Toyota owners to lose money." - Unsafe Toy Sales Continue
An examination of the Trouble in Toyland list of unsafe toys and W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc.) 10 Worst Toys list for 2009. - Vehicle Black Boxes: Attempts to Improve Motor Vehicle Accident Data
Examination and follow up to a L.A. Times article about "ongoing efforts to make automobile event data recorders (EDRs or "black boxes") mandatory on all vehicles sold in the U.S." - California Limo Fire: Spotlight on The Causes of Car Fires
This article looks at vehicle fires and auto defects in the wake of a limo fire that killed five people and injured five others on the San Mateo Bridge.
Legal Practice
- A Giant Among Our Great Plaintiff Firms
Jeffrey Rudman, Advocate Magazine, November 2020
AWARDS & ASSOCIATIONS
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Named in U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms,” Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP ranks as Tier 1 Personal Injury firm in Los Angeles.
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Founding partners Browne Greene and Bruce A. Broillet are both members of the exclusive invite-only Inner Circle of Advocates, as two of the top 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in America.
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All of our attorneys are proud to be active members of the Los Angeles County Bar Association or LACBA.
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Many firm members have been honored by the Consumer Attorneys of California, including Browne Greene, Christine Spagnoli, and Bruce Broillet, recipients of the Marvin E. Lewis Award. In addition, attorneys Bruce Broillet, Scott Carr, Molly McKibben, and Tobin Lanzetta has been honored with the Consumer Attorney of the Year Award.
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All 15 of our attorneys have been selected to Best Lawyers® after an extensive peer review process.
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Our attorneys were featured in TopVerdict for having one of the Top 10 Wrongful Death Verdicts in California in 2019, with $15 million won for the plaintiff in Keck v. Bel-Air Bay Club.
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Our firm has more attorneys on the Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars lists than any other law firm in Southern California, with 15 members selected.
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Several partners are active members in the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, with attorneys Browne Greene, Bruce Broillet, and Christine Spagnoli named “Trial Lawyer of the Year."

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