Roger E. Booth is a trial lawyer at Booth Law in Torrance, California, where he has represented people with catastrophic injuries and families who have lost a loved one since 1997. The firm handles serious injury and sexual abuse cases throughout California, including vehicle crashes, dangerous roads and premises, defective products, insurance disputes and child protective services liability.
Booth graduated with honors from Pomona College in 1987 and from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. He began his career at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco handling complex business and insurance bad faith litigation, with a leave to try cases at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office. He joined his father, Larry Booth, at Booth & Koskoff in 1997.
In 1998, he and Richard Koskoff won a $1.6 million verdict in Orange County that set a record for a hand injury case in that courthouse, and in 2012 he obtained a $4 million wrongful death verdict against the County of San Diego, which had offered $100,000 before trial. He has handled more than 20 cases resolved for over $1 million, has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2009 and is an active member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.