Casey Johnson
Partner | Aitken Aitken Cohn
Casey Johnson is a insurance bad faith, wrongful death and premises liability trial lawyer and partner at Aitken Aitken Cohn in Santa Ana, California. J.D., USC Gould School of Law (2002).
Meet Casey
Casey Johnson is a partner at Aitken Aitken Cohn in Santa Ana, California, where he represents injured people and families in wrongful death, insurance bad faith, premises liability, government tort liability, elder abuse and traumatic brain injury cases.
Johnson graduated summa cum laude from San Diego State University in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned his law degree from USC Law School in 2002. He joined Aitken Aitken Cohn as a law clerk in June 2001, became an associate in July 2002 and was promoted to partner in 2012.
The firm credits him with numerous seven- and eight-figure recoveries, including post-trial work on Feitler v. E.A. Pedersen Power Products, which produced a $23,500,000 trial verdict, and a $5,000,000 wrongful death settlement in Huie v. Southland Sod. He was named a finalist for Consumer Attorneys of California’s 2024 Consumer Attorney of the Year award for insurance bad faith work.
Johnson is president-elect of Consumer Attorneys of California for 2026 and a longtime member of its board of directors. He is a past president of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and the Western Trial Lawyers Association, and he has been a member of the Governor’s Orange County Judicial Selection Advisory Committee since 2019.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- San Diego State University, B.A. in Psychology, summa cum laude (1997)
- USC Law School, J.D. (2002)
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys of California (President-Elect, 2026; Executive Committee; Board of Directors)
- Governor Newsom's Orange County Judicial Selection Advisory Committee (2019 to present)
- Orange County Bar Association (Board of Directors)
- Orange County Public Law Center (Board of Directors)
- Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (Past President, 2014)
- Robert A. Banyard American Inn of Court (Past President, 2021-2022)
- Orange County Lavender Bar Association (Board of Directors)
- Western Trial Lawyers Association (Past President, 2022-2023; Board of Directors)
- American Association for Justice (Board of Directors)
- Operation Helping Hands (Board of Directors)
- Howard Twiggs Award, American Association for Justice (2025)
- Best Lawyers in America (2016-2025)
- Southern California Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers (2013-2025)
- Top 50 Orange County Super Lawyers (2016, 2018-2024)
- Presidential Award of Merit, Consumer Attorneys of California (2014-2024)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating (2016-2025)
- Wiedemann & Wysocki Award, American Association for Justice (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)
- Finalist, Consumer Attorney of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California (2024)
- Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers (2013)
- Board Member of the Year, Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (2009)
- $23,500,000 Trial Verdict: Feitler v. E.A. Pedersen Power Products. Johnson did extensive pre- and post-trial work on the case, according to the firm.
- $19,500,000 Settlement: Settlement for a 20-year-old woman who suffered orthopedic injuries in an automobile collision.
- $12,000,000 Settlement: Insurance bad faith settlement representing sixteen times the $750,000 policy limits.
- $11,000,000 Settlement: Settlement for a client who suffered a spinal injury diving into an unsafe pool.
- $5,000,000 Wrongful Death Settlement: Huie v. Southland Sod, settled following appeal of a trial verdict.
- $1.9 Million Settlement: Settlement for a client who fell down an improperly lit stairwell.
- $1 Million Settlement: Settlement for a client who fell down an uncapped well.
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