Brendan Gilbert
LOCATION: Los Angeles, California
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Brendan Gilbert is a Partner at Taylor & Ring who handles cases involving the sexual abuse of minors, sexual assault and harassment, products liability, and complex personal injury actions with catastrophic injuries. Mr. Gilbert has been the handling attorney on numerous cases that have resulted in eight-figure and seven-figure settlements as a result of his aggressive and persistent style of litigating cases. He has also second chaired multiple personal injury trials to verdict and was lead counsel on an arbitration that resulted in a seven-figure award.
Mr. Gilbert obtained his Juris Doctorate and a Certificate in the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he received the CALI Award for Excellence in the course Remedies. Prior to law school, he graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with his Bachelor of Arts in Criminology: Law and Society.
Notable Verdicts & Settlements
- $10 million. Jane Doe v. Lucia Mar Unified School District, et al. Sexual abuse case brought on behalf of a minor with special needs who was sexually abused by her bus driver.
- $7.9 million. Jane Doe v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al. Sexual abuse case brought by a minor who was sexually abused by two of her high school teachers.
- $7.4 million. Samuel Chang v. Carpenter, et al. Personal injury case brought on behalf of individual who was attacked on Halloween night by two off duty firefighters and three other individuals and suffered a traumatic brain injury and PTSD as a result.
- $5 million. Jane Doe v. Big Oak Unified School District, et al.Sexual abuse case brought on behalf of a minor who was sexually abused by her teacher who had abused other students at the prior school that he taught at. Prior school gave the teacher glowing, but false, recommendations and “passed the trash” to get rid of him.
- $3.5 million. John Doe v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al. Sexual abuse case brought on behalf of minor with special needs who was sexually abused by his special education aide.
- $3 million. Adrienne McColl v. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, et al. Sexual abuse case brought on behalf of an individual who was sexually abused while she was a minor by her mentor at an aquarium operated by the City of Los Angeles.
Education
- J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California, 2010
- Honors: Certificate in the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
- Honors: CALI Award for Excellence in the course Remedies
- B.A., cum laude, University of California at Irvine, 2007
Professional Associations and Memberships
- State Bar of California, Member
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), Member
- Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), Member
- American Association for Justice (AAJ), Member
- Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charities (LATLC), Member
Honors and Awards