On June 28, 2025, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP founding partner Brian Panish was honored as the recipient of Consumer Watchdog’s Lifetime Legal Achievement Award at the Rage for Justice Awards in Beverly Hills, California. The event raised over $2 million and was well-attended by hundreds of lawyers and advocates who came out to celebrate the honorees including California State Senator Lena Gonzalez who received the Public Servant Award, Consumer Watchdog Hall of Fame recipient Michael Finney, and Lifetime Legal Achievement award recipient, Mr. Panish.
Firm partner Rahul Ravipudi presented Mr. Panish with the Lifetime Legal Achievement award in recognition of his relentless pursuit of justice on behalf of injury victims and California consumers.
“Reveberating impact. Those are the words I think about when I think about how Brian Panish has lived his life,” said Mr. Ravipudi. “He doesn’t want to just make a mark. He wants to make a permanent mark.”
For more than four decades, Brian Panish has served as an advocate for change, pursuing justice for his clients and working with legislators to make the world a safer place for consumers.
Since his legal career began in 1984, Mr. Panish has obtained over 100 verdicts and settlements in excess of $10 million, seven verdicts in excess of $50 million, and more than 500 verdicts and settlements over one million dollars in personal injury cases including a $4.9 billion verdict in the landmark products liability case Anderson v. General Motors and a $1.8 billion settlement from Southern California Gas Company and Sempra Energy following the largest natural gas well blowout in U.S. history.
At the Rage for Justice Awards event, Mr. Panish took that stage and thanked Consumer Watchdog for this recognition. In his closing remarks, he shared two life lessons he learned from sports that have guided him throughout his legal career — doing hard better, and grit.
“Grit is perserverance and passion coming together to reach longtime goals, and that what they do here at Consumer Watchdog. They do hard better with grit,” said Mr. Panish. “In our society today, Consumer Watchdog is more important than ever. They are the guardians at the gate, protecting Californians from corporate and government power. The battles they are fighting are fierce, they are very important, and you can all be a part of it.”
Consumer Watchdog | Brian Panish Tribute Video
Read the Daily Journal’s coverage of the Rage for Justice Awards here.