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, including a seven-figure verdict, and was lead counsel on an arbitration that resulted in a seven-figure award.

Mr. Gilbert was the handling attorney on the Doe v. Lawndale Unified School District case which resulted in a published opinion by the California Court of Appeals in 2021, which greatly impacted sexual abuse cases brought on behalf of minors against school districts. In that opinion, the appellate court held that “[i]n light of the disparity between school administrators and minor students in knowledge and control over the school environment, and the trust parents place in schools to protect their children, school administrators who fail to prevent sexual abuse are not absolved of moral responsibility simply because they did not have ‘actual knowledge’ an employee previously engaged in sexual misconduct. Nor should administrators ignore signs of grooming or misconduct simply because someone untrained in the signs of sexual abuse perceives the conduct as ‘ambiguous.’” (Doe v. Lawndale Unified School District (2021) 72 Cal.App.5th 113, 135.)