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Aggressive excellence in contiengency fee representation of plaintiffs who have sustained serious personal and/or financial injuries.
Verdicts & Settlements

With more than 30 years of experience representing plaintiffs who have sustained serious personal injuries or financial losses, the trial lawyers of BIREN/KATZMAN have successfully handled hundreds of cases, collecting more than $150 million for our clients. The following case is just one example:

BROWNSTEIN V. SEACREST

Boating Accident Recovery $1 million +

Richard Brownstein, a young lawyer, was riding his new Wet Bike (a motorcycle for water) for the first time at Lake Castaic. After he was able to teach himself how to stay on the Wet Bike, he unintentionally veered in front of an oncoming speedboat and was run over.

The boat's unguarded propeller cut into Mr. Brownstein's 's head, causing him to be rendered a hemiplegic.

BIREN/KATZMAN developed evidence establishing comparative fault of each of the defendants: that the boat's owner was negligently driving, trying to get dangerously close to the Wet Bike in order to see what it was; that the boat was dangerously designed because it did not include a propeller guard; that the Wet Bike was defectively unstable, making riding of it difficult for novices; and that the State was negligent for failing to segregate boats from Jet Skis and Wet Bikes.

The case settled before trial with some of the defendants for an aggregate amount in excess of $1 million, despite very difficult liability.

Contact BIREN/KATZMAN for a free consultation about cases in any of our practice areas; your recovery could begin today.


We serve communities throughout Sourthern California, including Los Angeles County, Orange County, Ventura, County and Santa Barbara Counties, as well as the Inland Empire (San Bernardino County and Riverside County). Cities our clients come from include Los Angeles, West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Malibu, the San Fernando Valley, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, Long Beach, Santa Clarita, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga and Riverside

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