Brigitta Cymerint
Brigitta Cymerint is a trial attorney at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses her practice on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases in California. A true advocate for her clients, Ms. Cymerint has recovered tens of millions of dollars including many seven-figure and eight-figure results.
Most recently, Ms. Cymerint and firm attorney Jon Davidi obtained a $1,400,000 jury verdict against defendant American Golf Corporation for a man who suffered injury after a golf ball propelled by a mower at Heartwell Golf Course caused permanent damage to his left eye. The defendant company admitted liability prior to trial, leaving the jury to determine damages.
Additional results obtained by Ms. Cymerint include:
- $10,000,000 settlement in San Bernardino County for a warehouse worker who suffered a below-the-knee amputation following a forklift collision caused by unsafe workplace conditions.
- $8,500,000 settlement in Los Angeles County for a tenant who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling down a poorly maintained stairwell with defective lighting and railing.
- $6,000,000 confidential settlement for wrongful death arising from a hotel’s negligent security failure that allowed a non-guest access to a room, resulting in a double homicide
- $4,900,000 settlement in Los Angeles County for a motorcyclist who suffered severe injuries after a vehicle failed to yield and crashed into his right of way.
- $4,750,000 settlement in Los Angeles County for a motorcyclist who suffered devastating leg injuries after a company vehicle made an unsafe left turn across traffic.
- $4,000,000 settlement in San Diego County for a man who suffered catastrophic bilateral knee injuries after stepping into a concealed hazard on public property.
- $3,000,000 policy limits recovery in a negligence case, with full policy limits obtained one week before trial.
- $1,000,000 policy limits recovery in San Diego County for a pedestrian struck in a marked crosswalk, with full policy limits obtained within one month of demand.
Ms. Cymerint received her J.D. degree from Southwestern Law School, with a concentration in Civil Litigation. While there, she was the President of the Consumer Law Society, and it was through this club that she discovered her passion for consumer law. Ms. Cymerint was a teaching assistant for Professor Kutty for the 1L legal writing course, and a research assistant for Professor Michael Dorff for his book Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation: Express Your Values, Energize Stakeholders, Make The World A Better Place. In addition, she participated in the Street Law Clinic where she taught law at Magnolia Park High School for students with impaired social-emotional functioning and severe emotional disturbance. Ms. Cymerint was awarded the Wildman/Schumacher Scholarship and was awarded the JVS Scholarship due to her family being immigrants that were Holocaust survivors.
Her legal experience began here at PSR where she clerked during her 1L summer and continued throughout law school. Before pursing law, Ms. Cymerint had a career in the wine industry where she worked for wineries and distributors. She obtained an accredited MBA with a concentration in Wine Strategies from Sonoma State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Wine Strategies also from Sonoma State University.
Ms. Cymerint is a Southern California native and an active member of the State Bar of California, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), and the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC).