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Taylor & Ring is an award-winning Los Angeles-based trial law firm representing plaintiffs across California in high-profile civil rights, personal injury, wrongful death, and sexual assault, abuse and harassment matters. Our firm has a reputation for tackling the hard cases – cases other personal injury lawyers are reluctant to take. With more than 200 jury trials and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, Taylor & Ring knows what it takes to successfully represent victims.
Our attorneys bring a strategic and aggressive approach to the courtroom, while maintaining the highest professional standards of ethics and reliability in the representation of clients. Many of the firm's cases make local and national headlines for consistently achieving precedent-setting verdicts, settlements and published decisions that have a lasting impact and bring about critical institutional change.
Below is a short list of some of our successes in a range of matters:
- $102.5 Million Verdict: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a former student who was sexually abused while attending Dartmouth Middle School in San Jose.
- $100 Million Judgment: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a young girl who was sexually abused by her jiu-jitsu coach.
- $97.5 Million Settlement: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented multiple plaintiffs in the Santa Monica PAL/Eric Uller abuse cases.
- $61.7 Million Verdict: Car Accident - Two civilians engaged in a car chase in Torrance. Jesse Esphorst Sr. was seriously injured, and his 16 y.o. son, Jesse Esphorst Jr, died as a result of his injuries.
- $57.5 Million Verdict: Wrongful Death - Represented the families of three men who died in an aviation accident that resulted in insurance bad faith.
- $40 Million Settlement: Sexual Assault - Represented a group of women who were sexually abused by a school employee.
- $27 Million Settlement: Bullying Leading to Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a young boy who was bullied and killed at his school. This is the largest settlement in a bullying case in the United States.
- $20.2 Million Settlement: Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a 7-year-old child who drowned due to negligence.
- $18.6 Million Verdict: Auto v. Motorcycle Accident - Represented an individual involving the negligent entrustment of an automobile where a company president allowed his wife to drive a company-owned vehicle four days after she failed the DMV road exam and caused serious injury to a motorcyclist.
- $13 Million Verdict: Product Liability - Represented a 42-year-old truck driver who was rendered paraplegic after a defective forklift toppled over on top of him while he was making a delivery.
- $10 Million Judgment: Police Misconduct - Represented a family in a wrongful death case against the LAPD, 30 years in the making. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus for the murder of Sherri Rasmussen more than 30 years ago.
Taylor & Ring attorneys have received numerous prestigious honors and recognition for their work, including:
CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year and Rising Star
Daily Journal Top 100, Top 40 Under 40, Top Plaintiffs Lawyers, Top Women Lawyers and Top Boutiques
LA Times B2B Consumer Attorneys of SoCal
Law360 Rising Stars
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America; 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
Los Angeles Business Journal Leader of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers; Women of Influence: Attorneys
National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers; Top Verdicts
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers; Top 40 Under 40
Southern California Super Lawyers; Top 10; Top 100; Rising Stars
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About Our Clients
- Those injured in car, motorcycle or truck accidents.
- Children who were sexually abused or people who were sexually assaulted.
- Those who were hurt while working at a construction site, in an industrial setting, or while walking on someone's property that had a hidden, dangerous condition that caused a fall.
- Elderly people who suffer bed sores in nursing homes due to nursing home neglect.
- Families with a family member who was somehow tragically killed.
- Employees who have been targeted for discrimination, sexual harassment or an unfair firing from their job.
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Significant Matters
$102.5 million verdict - Taylor & Ring represented a former student who was sexually abused while attending Dartmouth Middle School in San Jose. Taylor & Ring’s Natalie Weatherford represented one of the plaintiffs, known to the court as Jane Doe 2.
$100 million judgment - Taylor & Ring represented a young girl who was sexually abused by her jiu-jitsu coach.
$97.5 million settlement - The Santa Monica City Council agreed to settle with the victims of the late Eric Uller, a former volunteer with the city’s Police Activities League (PAL) and a Principal Technology Analyst with the Santa Monica’s Information Systems Department. Santa Monica paid $97.5 million to Uller’s victims. Partner Dave Ring served as counsel to six of the victims.
$61.7 million verdict - Two civilians engaged in a car chase in Torrance. Jesse Esphorst Sr. was seriously injured, and his 16 y.o. son, Jesse Esphorst Jr, died as a result of his injuries.
$57.5 million verdict - Taylor & Ring represented the families of three men who died in an aviation accident that resulted in insurance bad faith.
$45.4 million jury award - A minor was repeatedly assaulted by as many as 15 different men between 2010 and 2012. The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of Los Angeles County was aware of the evidence that F.M. was living with a convicted child molester, yet did nothing. This was the #8 award in the State of California for the year.
$40 million settlement - Taylor & Ring represented a group of women who were sexually abused by a school employee.
$35 million verdict - Taylor & Ring represented a woman who was raped by her adult, male track coach when she was a minor high school student at Pomona High School in the 1990s.
$27 million settlement - Taylor & Ring represented the family of a young boy who was bullied and killed at his school. This is the largest settlement in a bullying case in the United States.
$25.3 million verdict - A 13-year-old boy was abused almost daily by a supervisor at the Westerly School in Long Beach, California. Despite suspicions of abuse by one former employee, and incidents involving other teachers, none of this behavior is ever reported to the police.
$18.6 million verdict - A company president allowed his wife to drive the company-owned vehicle four days after the wife failed DMV road exam; wife then caused serious accident injuring a motorcyclist. Mallabo vs. Wan Hai Lines (America)
$15 million settlement - Taylor & Ring represented a client in a wrongful death case against a prominent ride-sharing company.
$14 million settlement - Two adult women were sexually abused by their middle school teacher recovered the largest "per victim" settlement in the nation: $7 million each. Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. Moraga School District
$14.4 million verdict - Improperly serviced asphalt truck caused chain collision on freeway; two died and a surviving passenger suffered brain damage.
$13 million verdict - 42-year-old truck driver rendered paraplegic after a defective forklift toppled over on top of him while he was making a delivery.
$10.8 million verdict - A boy sexually abused by teacher off school premises. School district previously received anonymous letter warning that teacher was acting improperly with boys. William S. vs. Bonita Unified School District
$9.5 million settlement - Taylor & Ring represented the family of a Trader Joe’s manager who was killed by a LAPD officer inside the store.
$8.75 million verdict - An unarmed 29-year-old man shot to death by Los Angeles County Sheriffs. Montalvo vs. Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept.
$8 million settlement - A 15-year-old girl was sexually abused and kidnapped by her teacher at San Gabriel Mission High School. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay $8 million in a settlement award. This is the largest individual settlement agreement for a sexual abuse case in the Archdiocese’s history.
$5.4 million verdict - Female raped at a West Hollywood nightclub by one of the club's employees; Club held liable for negligent supervision and negligent security practices.