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Hawkins High School parents, players and supporters gathered outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s athletics office on Tuesday in protest of a hearing that threatened the football team’s participation in the City Section Division II playoffs. The City Section’s Board of Managers called the hearing to review possible sanctions against the high school following… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys and staff are among the featured speakers and award finalists at The 55th Annual Consumer Attorneys of California Convention held in San Francisco this upcoming weekend. The distinguished event begins Thursday, November 10 with the New Lawyers Division and Women’s Caucus Community Service at the San Francisco Food… read more

PSBR attorneys Kevin Boyle and Andrew Owen secured a $10,000,000 settlement for a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury after her disabled vehicle was rear-ended by a tractor trailer driven by a Western Express employee during the course and scope of his work. On June 22, 2012, Plaintiff Maria Shay was traveling on Interstate 10… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP has been ranked in the 2017 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as a Metropolitan Tier 1 Firm in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs and Product Liability – Plaintiffs in Los Angeles, California. This is the seventh consecutive year the firm has been… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP founding partners Brian Panish and Kevin Boyle have been named to the Irish Legal 100 for 2016. Founded in 2008, Irish Legal 100 is an annual compilation of some of the most accomplished and distinguished lawyers of Irish descent, chosen from law firms, law schools, the judiciary and industry from… read more

On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded $13,935,550 to a man who was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while walking on a sidewalk in Norwalk, California. The plaintiff was represented at trial by Rahul Ravipudi, Thomas Schultz and Erika Contreras of Panish | Shea |… read more

In the early hours of Sunday morning, tragedy struck just outside Palm Springs.  At 5:17 a.m., a tour bus shuttling riders back from a Casino collided with a tractor-trailer on I-10 West, leaving 13 people dead and another 31 injured. According to California Highway Patrol Division Chief Jim Abele, the bus was traveling at a… read more

The National Law Journal has once again recognized Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP as one of America’s Elite Trial Lawyers. The publication has included the firm among 50 law firms from across the country that are on the cutting edge of plaintiff-side work and have achieved the largest awards for their clients over a… read more

On September 27, 2016, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1072 into law, helping to ensure that no child will ever again be left behind on a school bus in California. The bill requires all school buses in the state to be equipped with a child safety alarm system that must be deactivated by the… read more

Brian Panish has again been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. The September 21, 2016 Daily Journal profile on Mr. Panish highlights his recent victories including Agu v. The Regents of the University of California. Mr. Panish obtained a $4.75 million settlement in April 2016 for the parents… read more

The parents of Alex Pierce have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Murrieta Valley Unified School District after their son drowned in a swimming pool on school property while in the care of their staff and personnel. The Plaintiffs, Sabrina and Rodriquez Pierce, are represented by Brian Panish, Rahul Ravipudi and Robert Glassman of… read more

As part of a $4 million settlement with Los Angeles County prosecutors, Southern California Gas Company pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of failing to immediately report the October 23, 2015 gas well blowout at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. The utility company waited three days before notifying the state Office of Emergency… read more