Top Medical Malpractice Lawyers Near Me in Woodland Hills Area

Robert J. Mandell is a partner in the The Mandell Law Firm, a tort litigation firm that has served Southern California for more than 30 years.. Mr. Mandell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southwestern UniversitySchool of Law (first in his class in the rigorous SCALE program). He isan experienced trial lawyer,with several million-dollar plus awards to his credit. He has arguedand won several cases before the California Court of Appeal, includinga recent victory in the toxic tort arena, Environmental World Watch v.Cummins Engine, et al.. In 1999, Mr. Mandell won a formidable malpractice case against aworld renowned neurosurgeon whose trial expert literally wrote the bookon the procedure at issue in the case (Echecceria v. Regents ofUniversity of California - $1.8 million gross award). He is a member ofConsumer Attorneys of California, the Association of Trial Lawyers ofAmerica, the L.A. County and San Fernando Valley Bar Associations, aswell as a volunteer for Trial Lawyers Care, which provides freeassistance to the victims of September 11th.. Recently, Mr. Mandell and his team prevailed in two difficultproduct liability actions against General Motors, garnering substantialsettlements for victims of catastrophic injury. (Woodman v. GM -defective seatbelt in Chevrolet Corvette and Martinez v. GM - defectivebrake-shift interlock in GMC Suburban.). Mr. Mandell limits his practice to personal and catastrophic injurycases, including auto and other accidents, defective products, medicalmalpractice, dog bites,environmental/toxic torts, and some business litigation. He maintains alimited caseload which he personally manages. Mr. Mandell handles casesthroughout Southern California and the western United States. Heaccepts case inquiries at his personal email:

Lauren Wood is a partner at the Law Offices of Schurmer and Wood. She is a civil litigation attorney specializing in all types of plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death matters. Ms. Wood has both trial and arbitration experience, as well as extensive experience settling cases through mediation and other methods of alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Wood has significant experience in trial with automobile cases.  Her specialties include truck, automobile, motorcycle and bicycle accidents, wrongful death, insurance bad faith, premises liability, and construction accidents. Ms. Wood has negotiated numerous six and seven figure settlements for her clients.. Ms. Wood is an active member of the State Bar of California and is licensed to practice law in California state courts as well as the United States District Court, Central District of California.. Ms. Wood is actively involved in many local and statewide attorney organizations. Ms. Wood currently serves on the State Bar’s California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA) Board of Directors and will retain her seat on the board until 2018. She is the Secretary of the Ventura County Barristers and is a board member as well. In addition to board memberships, Ms. Wood is also a member of numerous professional organizations, such as the Ventura County Bar Association, the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, the Santa Barbara County Barristers, Santa Barbara Young Professionals, Santa Barbara Women Lawyers, Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), American Association for Justice (AAJ) and both the Ventura and Santa Barbara County chapters of the American Inns of Court.. Lauren Wood is a Board of Director of Los Angles Trial Lawyers Charities (LATLC). She serves as a co-chair on both the Golf Committee and the Website Committee and is a committee member of the Casino Night Committee as well as the Public Relations and Social Media Committee. LATLC is an entirely volunteer run 501c3 nonprofit organization whose officers and directors donate their time and resources to help make a positive difference in the quality of life for people within the greater Los Angeles Area, focusing on issues related to education, children, battered women, persons with disabilities, and the homeless. Ms. Wood is also an honorary board member of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charities (LATLC) as a result of her participation and her charitable contributions.. In addition to her success both in and out of the courtroom, Lauren Wood has received numerous professional accolades. Ms. Wood has been named a 2016 Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star. Ms. Wood was also nominated by the Santa Barbara Young Professionals for the 2015 Santa Barbara Young Professional of the Year, an award that recognizes professional achievements as well as community involvement and volunteer work.. Prior to practicing at Schurmer & Wood, Ms. Wood worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity office in San Francisco. While in law school, Ms. Wood also clerked at Cooley Manion Jones Hake Kurowski, a former San Francisco toxic tort firm that specialized in asbestos defense. Ms. Wood began her personal injury career when she interned for plaintiff's personal injury litigation firm, Rahman Law, which specializes in automobile accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents and dog bites.. Lauren Wood received her law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California. While in law school, Ms. Wood also studied at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in Paris, France.. Ms. Wood received her undergraduate degree from the University of California Santa Barbara and earned her Bachelor of Arts with a major in Political Science and a minor in Global Peace and Security.  Office:

I have always felt that it is MY job to worry the claim or lawsuit from start to finish.  My clients can be concerned about, and interested in their claim or lawsuit, but the worry is MY job.  This makes for the best partnership between lawyer and client, and is one of the most important things a lawyer can give to a client.. Over the course of almost 30 years as a lawyer, I have become not just an advocate, but also a counselor and friend to many of my clients.  Our firm not only gives our clients the best, experienced representation, but also,a chance to recover what "the system" has taken away.

Gary N. Stern is known as a lawyer’s lawyer, passionate about his clients and equally passionate about bringing honor, dignity and respect to the legal profession. For 38 years, he has been a trial and consumer attorney; primarily representing injured folks, particularly those victimized by health care negligence and elder abuse.  He has gained the respect not only of his colleagues on the plaintiff side of the legal profession but also on the defense side.  As a result, his career has included personal representation of doctors alongside the insurance company lawyers who are called on to defend health care practitioners sued for malpractice. Gary Stern has been committed to professionalism at every stage of a proceeding, earning the respect and admiration of opposing counsel, judges, mediators, arbitrators and his fellow trial lawyers.. Effective January 1, 2019, Mr. Stern will open "SternLaw", based in Woodland Hills.  He will turn his attention to a consulting and freelance practice; accepting a limited number of significant cases in the fields of health care negligence and elder abuse.  He is available to consult and work with lawyers who wish to outsource special projects and he will be available as a mediator and arbitrator.  Mr. Stern is also available for case evaluation and to serve as lead or co-counsel with colleagues Mr. Stern knows are just right for the particular client.. He has tried and settled hundreds of cases resulting in six and seven figure recoveries. In a recent case Mr. Stern obtained over $7 million in long term annuities that will pay out over $40 million for a 20 year old student left a quadriplegic when emergency room doctors failed to recognize and treat a subdural hematoma. He obtained $5 million for two mine workers severely injured when a coupling failed on a construction boom. He obtained a successful result while on appeal in 1992 in a case that marked the first trial of a nursing home abuse case following the expansion of the law governing available damages for nursing home residents. In the mid 1990’s, Mr. Stern fashioned a settlement of a road design case in Moreno Valley that not only saw a wrongful death recovery for the parents of a 16 year old student killed while riding his bicycle to school, but resulted in a 10 year acceleration of the then new city’s general plan for installation of bicycle lanes that have undoubtedly saved many lives since those lanes were constructed.. Mr. Stern’s 38 years of legal experience began while he was earning a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA. He served as a Field Representative and Legislative Aide for Congressman Henry A. Waxman and Assemblyman Herschel Rosenthal, where his work was instrumental in passing legislation that protects renters from security deposit abuses and legislation that provides senior citizens with preference in civil trial date calendaring.. Mr. Stern is widely published in the areas of elder abuse and nursing home reform, disability discrimination, medical malpractice and the judicial arbitration system. In addition, he is a well-respected speaker on elder abuse law.. He is also a member of the American Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles where he has served on that organization’s Government Affairs Committee. In addition, Mr. Stern has served as Judge Pro Tem and Settlement Officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court.. A community activist, Mr. Stern has volunteered his time for a wide variety of organizations, including Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles, the State of California Respiratory Care Board and the Glendale Crescenta Volunteers Organized in Conserving the Environment.. Mr. Stern is married to Sandy. His son Daniel is a special education teacher working with autistic children. His daughter Laura was a competitive figure skater and recently completed a 7 year career as a cast member with Disney on Ice as well as a public relations and media mentor for the Disney on Ice owners, Feld Entertainment.  She now works for a West Los Angeles entertainment public relations agency.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.

Experienced Medical Malpractice attorney serving clients in Woodland Hills and surrounding areas.