Rahul Ravipudi

Rahul Ravipudi is a partner at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP in Los Angeles. He handles catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases involving commercial vehicles, pedestrians, industrial and construction accidents, utility negligence, dangerous property conditions and sexual abuse, and he is active in wildfire litigation and class actions.

Ravipudi serves as plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel in the Social Media Cases litigation and public entity plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel in the JUUL Labs Product Cases. He is liaison counsel in the Eaton Fire litigation and co-lead counsel in the Southern California Fire Cases arising from the 2017 Thomas Fire. His firm biography lists a $160.5 million verdict for a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a nightclub beating, a $48.8 million verdict for a pedestrian struck by a sanitation truck and a $23.5 million settlement in the Paul Lee school bus case.

The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles named him Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2017. Ravipudi is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, and an active member of the Inner Circle of Advocates. He serves on the CAALA Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, with a minor in chemistry, from the University of California, Riverside and his law degree from Loyola Law School, where he has been an adjunct professor since 2008.