{"id":23228,"date":"2019-02-20T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psbr.law\/nevada-personal-injury-lawyer\/?page_id=23228"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T18:37:04","slug":"ian-samson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.panish.law\/nevada\/our-team\/ian-samson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Samson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Samson is an attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on complex, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout California and Nevada.\u00a0 A tireless advocate for his clients, Mr. Samson has recovered millions of dollars to compensate for death and injuries throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Mr. Samson and firm partner Rahul Ravipudi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panish.law\/nevada\/psbr-obtains-8-million-verdict-for-man-served-chemical-cleaning-solution-instead-of-honey-blonde-ale\/\">obtained an $8,000,000 jury verdict in Clark County<\/a> District Court for a Nevada man who suffered significant internal injuries after he was served and ingested what he believed was a Honey Blonde Ale but was actually a chemical cleaning compound left in the tap lines.<\/p>\n<p>Also included among his many results is a <a href=\"\/2019\/11\/05\/psb-obtains-28-5-million-settlement-for-special-needs-student-struck-by-vehicle\/\">$28.5+ million settlement<\/a> in the case of <em>Sanchez v. Victor Elementary School District<\/em>, a case involving a young boy who was catastrophically injured after he was struck by a car while walking home from school.\u00a0 Working alongside Rahul Ravipudi and firm attorney Paul Traina, the settlement came on the heels of a trial victory in the liability phase of the case, where Mr. Samson and the trial team successfully argued that the boy\u2019s school district was solely liable for failing to supervise him and provide him with the curb-to-curb transportation called for in his individualized education program.\u00a0 Days before a jury trial was set to begin on damages, the parties settled.\u00a0 In addition to the monetary recovery, which will provide the child with the best possible care for the rest of his life, the school district also agreed to review its practices and publish its findings to prevent future, similar tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Samson\u2019s career began in San Francisco, California where he represented investors in securities and consumer finance products at a nationally-regarded plaintiff\u2019s class action firm.\u00a0 Among other matters, Mr. Samson was part of the team representing purchasers of \u201c100% principal protected\u201d investments which turned out to be unsecured Lehman Brothers debt, causing millions of dollars in losses when Lehman went bankrupt in 2008.\u00a0 After years of litigation, the matter settled on a class-wide basis for $120 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Mr. Samson moved to Los Angeles and joined a nationally-recognized complex litigation firm where his practice was balanced between complex and class action litigation and personal injury litigation.\u00a0 During that time, Mr. Samson represented a class of gym members whose contracts violated California law, a photographer who claimed a nationally-known company violated his copyrights, a mechanic who suffered catastrophic burns from a faulty fuel injector, and several residents of a Sylmar, California community who lost their homes to a utility fire.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, Mr. Samson has focused most of his practice on representing people who have been catastrophically injured or have lost loved ones, and has used his experience litigating complex actions to maximize his clients\u2019 results.\u00a0 In 2017, in <em>Rodriguez v. County of Riverside, et al.<\/em>, Mr. Samson represented a family whose father was shot and injured by sheriff\u2019s deputies responding to the wrong home in a federal civil rights action.\u00a0 After hard-fought litigation, Mr. Samson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/news\/crime_courts\/2017\/11\/26\/cops-thought-they-had-cornered-gunman-but-theyn-strange-case-mistaken-identity-now-he-get-1-7-millio\/886919001\/\">negotiated a $1.7 million settlement for the family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of his work, Mr. Samson has been named a \u201cRising Star\u201d by the Super Lawyers publication.<\/p>\n<p>Admitted to the State Bar of Nevada, the State Bar of California, and several federal district courts, Mr. Samson graduated cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. While in law school, he worked for a nationally-recognized plaintiffs\u2019 complex litigation firm in Seattle and a renowned public interest law firm in Oakland, California.\u00a0 Mr. Samson also externed for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Samson also graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Samson is an attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on complex, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout California and Nevada.\u00a0 A tireless advocate for his clients, Mr. Samson has recovered millions of dollars to compensate for death and injuries throughout his career. Most recently, Mr. Samson and firm partner Rahul Ravipudi obtained an $8,000,000 jury verdict in Clark County District Court for a Nevada man who suffered significant internal injuries after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":482,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-attorney.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_content_optimizer_report_url":"","_content_optimizer_report_added":"","_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_above_average":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_above_average":false,"_content_optimizer_headings_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_questions_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_tab_active":"","_content_optimizer_report_url_ce":"","_content_optimizer_report_added_ce":"","_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_above_average_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_above_average_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_headings_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_questions_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_tab_active_ce":""},"class_list":["post-23228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"translate_parts":"0"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ian Samson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psbr.law\/ian-samson.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ian Samson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ian Samson is an attorney with Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on complex, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout California and Nevada.\u00a0 A tireless advocate for his clients, Mr. Samson has recovered millions of dollars to compensate for death and injuries throughout his career. 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