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Principal of Philip Michels A.P.L.C. specializes in medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury and sexual abuse of children.

Being a medical doctor and a lawyer, I am able to fully understand the medical aspects of a case and to maximize medical care damages. I believe this combined medical and legal background has been instrumental in my being able to attain record-setting medical malpractice verdicts and settlements for our clients. I am proud that we are able to assist people who have been injured by wrongdoers. Though nothing can make up for the injuries they suffered, the damages awarded can allow them to lead the most productive and independent lives possible.. My firm is deeply committed to helping the profoundly injured and disabled.  This committment does not stop at the courthouse steps.  It extends to our personal lives, where we have developed life-long relationships with many of our clients, and where we have become involved with a variety of organizations working to improve the lives of persons like our clients.  I invite you to visit our website to learn more about the organizations closest to our hearts that support disabled persons and the disadvantaged.

A leading Southern California trial lawyer, Bill Newkirk seeks justice for people who are victims of medical malpractice, serious personal injuries, brain injuries, drug errors, nursing home abuse, and catastrophic motor vehicle accidents. Mr. Newkirk often earns clients significant verdicts and settlements, such as a recent $3.7 million settlement for a pedestrian struck by a trash truck who now is confined to a wheelchair. Mr. Newkirk is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell; listed on Southern California Super Lawyers; and is a 2010 National Finalist on Lawdragon's Top 500 Lawyers in America.

Linda is a Partner in Daehnke Stevens LLP and works in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas offices.  In her current practice, Linda specializes in medical malpractice and dental malpractice cases, as well as healthcare related litigation in California and Nevada.  Her litigation practice consists of defending physicians, dentists, hospitals and healthcare professionals against professional liability actions.. Linda has second-chaired several medical malpractice jury trials to verdict.. Linda also defends dentists before the dental board and consults with clients with regard to HIPAA compliance and reporting of suspected HIPAA violations.. Linda graduated from Creighton University in 1997 with a degree in Chemistry.  She then attended St. Louis University School of Public Health and in 2000 obtained a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology. Thereafter, she attended University of Minnesota School of Law, graduating cum laude in May 2003 with a Juris Doctor.. Linda became a member of the State Bar of California in December 2003, and a member of the State Bar of Nevada in 2004.  She is also a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (“LACBA”) and the Litigation Section of LACBA.  She is licensed to practice before all courts of the states of Nevada and California, as well as the United States District Court, Central and Southern District of California.  She is also a member of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, DRI and Las Vegas HEALS.. Linda has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in the years 2007, 2009 – 2011 and 2013 – 2015.

Ms. Cinquemani's five year practice has focused on medical malpractice defense, including wrongful death and birth injury cases.   Prior to LaFollette Johnson, Ms. Cinquemani defended healthcare professionals of all specialties in complex medical malpractice matters at the Law Offices of David J. Weiss, an aggressive and niche Los Angeles law firm. Previously, following law school, she began her career at Adler Cohen Harvey Wakeman Guekguezian, LLP, a trial law firm in Boston, MA, where she focused on medical malpractice defense, as well as mass tort litigation defense involving claims of injury due to asbestos exposure.. Ms. Cinquemani is licensed to practice in California, New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Irvine in 2006, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Thereafter, Mrs. Cinquemani received her Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law in 2010, with a Certificate in Litigation and Dispute Resolution.

I grew up in the former USSR where he graduated from High School and received training as a Physician Assistant. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1989. Vadim received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a double major in Biology and Russian Studies, from the University of Rochester in 1993, where he graduated cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest, “by invitation only” honor society founded in 1776. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1997 where he served as an associate editor of the High Technology Law Journal. Vadim began his legal career at a multinational law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in the firm’s Palo Alto office where he represented established and start-up technology companies in a variety of transactional and litigation matters, including private and public financing, securities and IP litigation.. In 1998, I relocated to Los Angeles where he worked at a number of Hollywood agencies developing and guiding careers of up-and-coming actors, writers and directors. I returned to the practice of law in 2003 and has developed an expertise in representing individual and institutional health care providers in a variety of litigation, transactional and regulatory matters, including medical malpractice, labor and employment, general business and commercial litigation, class actions, state and federal managed care regulations (HIPAA, Knox-Keene Act, Medicare certification and reimbursement), fraud and elder abuse, payee/payor contractual disputes, and unfair competition. I also have an extensive knowledge of the regulatory framework regarding pharmaceuticals and vaccines and has represented a major vaccine manufacturer in products liability actions in both State and Federal Courts. My formal training as a Physician Assistant (in the former USSR), coupled with his undergraduate degree in Biology and continuing interest in the biomedical sciences, has made him a particularly effective advocate on behalf of clients in the health care and related industries.. I am admitted to practice before all state courts in California, as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel.. When not busy feeding my ever expanding hunger for anything related to technology, internet, medicine/biology, history, politics and music, I enjoy startling people with sarcastic remarks delivered in a nice, non-threatening Russian accent.