Sonya Ostovar
Managing Partner | Taylor & Ring
Sonya Ostovar is a sexual abuse, personal injury and civil rights trial lawyer and managing partner at Taylor & Ring in Los Angeles, California. J.D., Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Meet Sonya
Sonya Ostovar is the managing partner of Taylor & Ring in Los Angeles, California. She represents children and adults who were sexually abused or assaulted, bringing claims against the schools, churches, public agencies and other institutions that failed to protect them.
Her results listed by the firm include a $100 million judgment for a girl abused by her jiu-jitsu coach and a $97.5 million settlement for more than 30 survivors in the Santa Monica Police Activities League cases. She was on the trial team that won a $45.4 million verdict against Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, and she obtained a $20 million settlement for relatives of 4-year-old Noah Cuatro. An $8 million settlement she secured for a student abused by a teacher at San Gabriel Mission High School was the largest individual sexual abuse settlement the Archdiocese of Los Angeles had agreed to.
Ostovar earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from UCLA and her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was a senior editor of the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal and earned a certificate from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and has written on sexual abuse litigation for the Daily Journal and The Advocate.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
- Certificate, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
- B.A., Philosophy, magna cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (Board of Governors)
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- American Association for Justice
- National Crime Victim Bar Association
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers, 2024-2026
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2022-2026
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Southern California, 2021-2026
- $100 Million Judgment: On behalf of a young girl sexually abused by her jiu-jitsu coach.
- $97.5 Million Settlement: Represented more than 30 plaintiffs in the Santa Monica PAL/Eric Uller sexual abuse cases.
- $45.4 Million Verdict: Member of the trial team for a young girl repeatedly abused while Los Angeles County DCFS knew she lived with a convicted child molester; the No. 8 verdict in California in 2018.
- $20 Million Settlement: For the great-grandmother and siblings of 4-year-old Noah Cuatro against LA County DCFS for failing to remove him from his home.
- $14 Million Settlement: Against a California School for the Deaf on behalf of a deaf student molested by a staff member with prior complaints.
- $8 Million Settlement: For a 15-year-old abused by her teacher at San Gabriel Mission High School; the largest individual sexual abuse settlement the Archdiocese of Los Angeles had agreed to.
- $6 Million Settlement: For a woman sexually abused by a coach at LAUSD's Locke High School in the 1990s.
- $4.3 Million Settlement: For a woman sexually abused by her coach at a Calvary Chapel high school.
- $3.5 Million Settlement: For a girl sexually abused by her assistant coach at Tulare Western High School.
- $3 Million Settlement: For a woman sexually assaulted by a religious leader.
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