Teresa Johnson

Teresa Johnson is a trial lawyer and partner at Kramer Trial Lawyers in Los Angeles, California. She represents plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death and employment cases and carries matters from intake through trial.

Johnson has been part of the trial teams behind several of the firm’s largest results, including a $12.6 million verdict in 2021 for an injured electrician and an $11 million verdict in 2022 in a pedestrian case in Santa Monica, both tried alongside Daniel Kramer. She received the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Rising Star Award in 2024 and was a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California Street Fighter of the Year Award in 2021.

A native of Bloomington, Minnesota, she earned a bachelor’s degree in French and linguistics, cum laude, from Scripps College in 2011 and her law degree from Loyola Law School in 2015. At Loyola she externed for U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, led the Consumer Law Society and served as chief research editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review. She completed an ABOTA-sponsored fellowship after graduation and the CAALA Plaintiff Trial Academy in 2018. She serves on the CAALA Board of Governors, the Consumer Attorneys of California Board of Directors and the board of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities, and speaks regularly at CAALA and CAOC programs.