Founding and managing partner Mike Arias was installed as Chair of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Council of Presidents and was elected to serve on both the AAJ Executive Committee and the AAJ Organizational Review Committee during the AAJ Convention this past week. Mr. Arias assumes these roles in addition to chairing the AAJ… Read more
Los Angeles, Ca. (July 26, 2019)– ASWT founding partner Elise Sanguinetti has been named one of this year’s Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers. The 500 lawyers selected bring their cases as individual matters as well as in class actions that are increasingly going global. As AAJ president, Ms. Sanguinetti has advocated for passage of… Read more
Los Angeles, Ca. (June 26, 2019)– ASWT founding partners Mike Arias and Elise Sanguinetti have been named one of this year’s California Trailblazers by The Recorder. Mr. Arias was also recognized as one of the Daily Journal’s 2019 Top Plaintiff Lawyers. As a California Trailblazer, Mr. Arias has represented those who have suffered catastrophic injuries,… Read more
June 25, 2019 – Oakland, CA – A lawsuit filed in Alameda Superior Court claims a series of defects in the 2015 Tesla Model S led to a fiery crash and the death of a beloved husband and father. On November 3, 2016, Kevin McCarthy was the passenger in his Model S driving in downtown… Read more
CAOC President and CAALA Immediate Past-President Mike Arias was quoted in the Los Angeles Times in an article analyzing the sex abuse allegations against the leader of a network of churches known as La Luz del Mundo. In June 2019, church leader Naasón Joaquín García was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and charged with… Read more
Family of Autistic Boy Abused at Clark County School Files Lawsuit Las Vegas, NV –May 3, 2019 – The family of a severely autistic boy who was abused at a Clark County school has filed a lawsuit against the school district and the instructor, Melody Carter, who physically hit the boy on multiple occasions in… Read more
The behavior of Dr. George Tyndall, the disgraced University of Southern California gynecologist, impacted women in every area of campus life – including sports. Nicole Haynes was a world-class track athlete both while attending USC and afterward as she competed in international competitions as a professional. However, she fell victim to Tyndall’s predatory nature and… Read more
ABC Los Angeles interviewed attorney Mike Arias and Nicole Haynes, a survivor of sexual assault at the hands of disgraced USC gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. Ms. Haynes was a track star at USC who went in to see Tyndall for a stomach illness only to be sexually assaulted by the doctor. Haynes is one of… Read more
Las Vegas Review Journal Story On Tuesday, April 9, a two-day hearing began to determine whether to allow a student to attend school wearing an “AngelSense” device in a case involving a severely autistic boy who was physically abused by a special education teacher who later pled guilty to a crime for the abuse. Joshua… Read more
To read news coverage of this case: Law360 February 26, 2019 – San Francisco, CA – A class action lawsuit was filed in San Mateo Superior Court today accusing biotechnology giant Genentech of exploiting cancer patients by packaging cancer medications in vials that are too large for most patients. Because the unused portion of the… Read more