Brian Panish

Brian J.
Panish is a partner in the Law Firm of Panish, Shea & Boyle, LLP, and considered one of the top trial attorneys in America.
Panish, Shea & Boyle was named one of the top ten firms in America by the National Law Journal.
In 2010 Brian was named CAL-ABOTA Trial Lawyer of the Year and he also received the Champions of Justice Award from Loyola Law School.
In 2008 he was named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most Influential Attorneys in America.
Previously, he was named one of the Nation’s Top Ten Litigators by the National Law Journal and to the National Law Journal’s Hall of Fame.
He has been named by Daily Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in the State of California and was also named Lawyer of the Year by O’Brien’s Verdictum Juris and O’Brien’s Evaluator.
He is also listed in Best Lawyers in America and named Personal Injury Attorney of the Year in 2009.
He has been named by Law Dragon as one of the top 500 lawyers in America.
In 1999, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
Mr. Panish has obtained more than 200 multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements including nineteen (19) jury verdicts in excess of Ten Million Dollars (10,000,000).
In Anderson v.
General Motors, he obtained a jury verdict of $4,907,321, at that time the largest personal injury and product liability verdict in history.
He served as one of the lawyers for the County of Los Angeles in the 3.3 Billion Dollars settlement with Big Tobacco.
He received his B.S.
from California State University, Fresno, where he was named Scholar Athlete and was the recipient of Athletic Directors Award.
He recently received the Top Dog Award as an outstanding alumnus during Fresno State’s Centennial (100) Year Anniversary.
Mr. Panish received his J.D.
with honors from Southwestern Law School.