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Robert Clayton has successfully represented clients in catastrophic personal injury actions in both state and federal court. His practice areas include serious personal injury, wrongful death, sexual abuse, products liability, motor vehicle accidents, motorcycle accidents, assault and battery of customers by security guards, and premises liability actions involving dangerous conditions on public or private property. Robert is particularly adept at handling cases arising from construction site accidents.

Some of the settlements and verdicts that Robert has obtained include: $3.5 million settlement arising from death of motorcyclist against trucking company and the State of California; $1.5 million for the wrongful death of a single, undocumented adult male who fell to his death and whose parents lived in Mexico; $1 million for the wrongful death of a single, adult male assaulted by a security guard and who was only survived by his elderly mother; $870,000 for an undocumented construction worker who sustained serious injures when he fell from a defective ladder; and $750,000 for a 13-year old boy who was sexually assaulted by a priest.

For three consecutive years (2006-2008), Robert was recognized as one of the top lawyers under the age of forty in Southern California by Los Angeles Magazine's "Rising Stars" publication.

Robert is a graduate of California State University, Northridge and Loyola Law School, where he served as the managing editor of the Loyola Entertainment Law Journal.

Robert spent the first six years of his legal career working for insurance defense firms. This experience has proven invaluable to his clients because Robert effectively uses his in-depth, behind-the-scenes understanding of how insurance companies evaluate and ultimately settle personal injury claims to the great benefit of his injured clients.

Robert is a member of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), Consumer Attorneys Organization of California (CAOC), the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.

Read Rob Clayton's "Ask A Rising Star" article from Los Angeles
Magazine.