Rachel Gezerseh
Rachel Gezerseh is a trial attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP, representing individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death , and products liability cases. She is also part of the litigation team representing plaintiffs in the Social Media Cases which involves children and young adults harmed by social media algorithms, as well as a member of the JUUL Labs Product Cases litigation team, representing school districts and other public entities against the electronic cigarette manufacturer.
Additionally, Ms. Gezerseh has substantial mass tort experience representing plaintiffs in the Southern California Fire Cases litigation arising from the 2017 Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and the subsequent debris flows in Montecito, California.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Gezerseh was an attorney at international law firm Jones Day where she litigated large-scale product liability and aviation disaster cases. She regularly obtained outstanding results for her clients, which included consumer product and aircraft manufacturers and healthcare companies. Ms. Gezerseh has now taken the skills she gained at Jones Day and dedicated her practice to vigorously seeking justice for individuals who have been wrongfully harmed.
Ms. Gezerseh is dedicated to pro bono work and community involvement. She serves on the Associate Leadership Board for Public Counsel and is President-Elect of the Alumni Association Board of Directors at Southwestern Law. Recognized among The Best Lawyers in America® (2025), she has also been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers list since 2020, after earlier recognition on the Super Lawyers “Rising Star” list beginning in 2013. She is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law.
A member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Nevada, Ms. Gezerseh received her Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School, where she was an Associate Editor of the Southwestern Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honors Program. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a documentary filmmaker and received her B.A. in Film and Television from the University of California, Los Angeles.