Hunter Norton
Hunter Norton is a trial attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP, specializing in representing individuals who have been victims of serious wrongdoing. His practice includes litigating catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, aviation, mass tort, and products liability cases throughout California and Nevada.
In the past five years, Mr. Norton has recovered in excess of $500 million in verdicts, settlements, and awards for injured clients. He routinely litigates complex, high-profile, and high-stakes litigation matters, with recent representation including family members of victims of the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes (In re: Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 Crash), family members of victims of a mass shooting at a music festival in Washington, and other survivors of catastrophic injury events.
Most recently, he and firm partners Jesse Creed and Spencer Lucas obtained a landmark $59,250,000 jury verdict for plaintiff Donna Motsinger in her civil action against William “Bill” Cosby, Jr., finding the former comedian and actor liable for sexually assaulting her in 1972.
Mr. Norton also recently obtained a $31 million settlement for a former high school football player who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a negligently maintained field by the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. As a result of his work on this matter, Mr. Norton was recognized with the 2025 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award.
Some of Mr. Norton’s notable results include:
- $62 million wrongful death settlement for a mother who survived her adult son who perished in a charter plane crash;
- $25 million settlement against a national trucking company for catastrophic injuries caused to a pedestrian ran over by a truck;
- $23 million settlement against a national company for catastrophic injuries caused to a pedestrian hit by a vehicle;
- $23 million settlement against the City of Newport Beach for inverse condemnation and nuisance claims brought by a couple whose home was repeatedly flooded;
- Settlement over $19 million for an employee following 17 days of binding arbitration in which the arbitrator found fraud and punitive damages against the former employer;
- Combined settlement in excess of $19 million for firm clients involved in a mass transportation disaster;
- $17.5 million settlement against a national trucking company for wrongful death.
In addition to being a recipient of the distinguished California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award, Mr. Norton has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for his work in both product liability and personal injury litigation, and has been selected for inclusion as a Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2025.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Norton was an attorney at top international law firm Kirkland & Ellis where he focused his practice on litigating large scale product liability cases. He was among the first attorneys to participate in groundbreaking bellwether trials in the largest multi-district litigation in history and fought to, and successfully did, secure favorable verdicts for his clients, some of which were recognized by The American Lawyer. Mr. Norton has now taken the same skills, passion, and experience he used to defend Fortune 500 clients to the other side of the bar and dedicated his practice to fight for consumers and individuals who have been wrongfully harmed.
Mr. Norton received his J.D. and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law. Prior to that, Mr. Norton graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri. During college, he also served as a congressional intern to a U.S. Senator and was a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge Roseann Ketchmark in the Western District of Missouri.
Originally a native of Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Norton now resides in Los Angeles and is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Nevada. Some of Mr. Norton’s professional activities include serving as the Fundraising Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), and as the Event Chair of the New Lawyers Division of the Consumers Attorneys of California (CAOC). Mr. Norton is also an active member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and the American Association of Justice (AAJ). In his free time, he enjoys live music, exploring new places, reading spy novels, and rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs.