Brian Panish
Partner | Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP
Brian Panish is a personal injury, product liability and wrongful death trial lawyer and partner at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP in Los Angeles, California. Admitted in California, Nevada and Texas; J.D., Southwestern Law School (2011).
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Los Angeles, California 90025
Brian Panish is a partner at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP in Los Angeles. He represents plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, product liability and mass tort cases in California and nationally.
His firm biography lists a $4.9 billion verdict in Anderson v. General Motors, more than 100 verdicts and settlements above $10 million and eight verdicts above $50 million. He served as lead trial counsel in the Southern California Gas Leak Cases, which produced a $1.8 billion settlement, and as plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel in the Woolsey Fire litigation. Since 2011, the biography states, he has obtained nearly $800 million in verdicts, including $198.17 million for the Iskander family and $135 million in a school district sexual abuse case.
Panish is a past president of the Inner Circle of Advocates and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. He was 2011 president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. The Consumer Attorneys of California named him Consumer Attorney of the Year in 2014, and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles named him Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1999.
Panish received his law degree, with honors, from Southwestern Law School and his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno. He is licensed to practice in California, Nevada and Texas.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- California State University, Fresno, B.S.
- Southwestern Law School, J.D., with honors
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, Southwestern Law School (2011)
- Licensed to practice in California, Nevada and Texas
Practice Areas
- Inner Circle of Advocates (Past President)
- American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow; State Selection Committee)
- International Society of Barristers (Fellow)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Fellow; 2011 President, Los Angeles Chapter)
- American Bar Association
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (Board of Governors, former)
- Consumer Attorneys of California (Board of Governors, former)
- Best Lawyers Board of Advisors
- 2026 Lee B. Wenzel Civility Award, ABOTA Los Angeles Chapter
- 2026 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, Southwestern Law School
- 2025 Lifetime Legal Achievement Award, Consumer Watchdog
- 2025 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year, Daily Journal
- 2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
- 2015 Elite Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame, The National Law Journal
- 2014 Consumer Attorney of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California
- 2010 Trial Lawyer of the Year, American Board of Trial Advocates, California chapter
- 1999 Trial Lawyer of the Year, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
- Top 10 Southern California Super Lawyers (various years, 2009-2026)
- $4.9 Billion Verdict: Anderson v. General Motors Corp., a record verdict in a landmark products liability case.
- $1.8 Billion Settlement: Southern California Gas Leak Cases, in which Panish was lead trial counsel, settled with Southern California Gas Co. and Sempra Energy.
- $198.17 Million Verdict: Iskander v. Grossman, for the family of two boys killed while crossing a street in a marked crosswalk.
- $135 Million Verdict: Blair v. Moreno Valley Unified School District, for two men sexually abused by a teacher.
- $52.7 Million Verdict: Lennig v. CRST, for two brothers severely injured in a head-on collision with a big rig.
- $41.9 Million Verdict and $46 Million Settlement: Lo v. Southern California Gas Co., for a U.S. Air Force captain struck and dragged by a company truck while on his motorcycle.
- $36.5 Million Verdict: Sheth v. Schneider National, for a woman with severe spinal cord injuries from a big-rig crash.
- $34.5 Million Verdict: Casillas v. Landstar Ranger Inc., for a man who suffered a below-the-knee amputation after being hit by a tractor-trailer.
- $27.7 Million Verdict: Verdict of $27,727,630 for a motorcyclist who suffered a below-the-knee amputation after a collision with a construction laborer's vehicle.
- $17.8 Million Award: Yoon v. United States, a wrongful death case involving four family members killed when a Marine jet crashed into their home.
- $17 Million Verdict: Cuthberton v. LACMTA, in the wrongful death of a visually impaired passenger.
- $15.3 Million Verdict: Francisco v. AC Transit, for a woman and her daughter after the woman was severely injured on a bus.
- $10.45 Million Verdict: Villamariona v. CBS, for the family of a security guard killed on the CBS studio lot.
- $8.3 Million Verdict: Kransky v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., the first DePuy ASR hip implant case to go to trial.
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