Anthony Ellis
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Anthony Ellis is an experienced trial attorney that represents clients all over California in the areas of wrongful death, premises liability, products liability and motor vehicle collisions, with over $35,000,000.00 in represented verdicts and settlements. Anthony won his first trial just 2 months after getting licensed to practice law. After that, Anthony litigated and tried every case he could take to trial, no matter how complicated or how big the opposition was and has won them all. Anthony’s work as a trial attorney takes him all over California representing clients in the areas of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability and motor vehicle collisions. Anthony believes that trial lawyers have a duty to protect the public by taking difficult cases to trial and winning to force industries and companies to make their services and products safer for the public.
The National Trial Lawyers named him "Top 40 Under 40" and "Top 100" Civil Plaintiff's Attorney for 2019. He has also been awarded the prestigious Super Lawyer Southern California Rising Star Award. When he is not in the courtroom, he is out providing community service by mentoring at-risk youth, detained minors, high school students, law students and young attorneys. He is a member of multiple bar associations and on the Inclusion and Diversity Committee of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, which offers education and mentoring programs that encourage students of diverse backgrounds to consider a career in law. He is also Chairman of the litigation section of San Fernando Valley Bar Association. Anthony is a published legal education writer. His educational articles about the legal field, the discovery process and claims against a Government entity have been published in some of the top educational publications in the legal field, the Forum (Consumer Attorneys of California) and The Valley Lawyer Magazine. His passions are spending time with his family, seeking justice for those who have been wronged and giving back to the community by helping and mentoring our youth.
Publications
Seven Ways to Quash a Subpoena,
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles: The Advocate (2017),
Discovery: Start Early with a Plan,
San Fernando Bar Association: Valley Lawyer, (2019)
REPRESENTATIVE VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS:
Clients names removed for confidentiality reasons
$6,829,318.00 | Truck v. Auto
$6,500,000.00 | Auto v. Pedestrian (Wrongful dead)
$4,113,830.00 | Auto v. Auto (TBI)
$3,644,000.00 | Truck v. R.V
$2,000,000.00 | Premises Liability (Ladder fall)
$1,829,551.00 | Truck v. Auto
$1,575,000.00Auto v. Auto
$1,500,000.00 | Bus v. Bicyclist (TBI)
$1,132,336.00 | Auto v. Auto
$1,050,00.00 | Truck v. Auto
$765,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$912,500.00 | Auto v. Auto
$800,000.00 | Auto V. Auto
$700,000.00 | Premises Liability (slip & Fall)
$765,00.00 | Auto V. Auto
$750,00.00 | Auto V. Auto
$625,000.00 | Premises Liability (Slip & Fall)
$615,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$600,000.00 | Truck v. Pedestrian
$550,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$600,000.00 | Auto v. Pedestrian (TBI)
$500,000.00 | Truck v. Auto
$391,000.00 | Auto v. Bicycle
$333,693.00 | Auto v. Auto
$300,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$295,000.00 | Auto v. Pedestrian
$280,00.00 | Truck v. Auto
$270,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$256,236.00 | Auto v. Auto
$250,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$250,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$185,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$185,000.00 | Sidewalk trip & Fall
$167,000.00 | Auto v. Auto
$125,000.00 | Premises Liability (Slip & Fall)
*These are just some of Anthony Ellis' representative verdicts and settlements
speaking engagements
Southern California Trial Lawyers Conference: Starting a Trial Law Firm; Malibu, CA; 2020
Consumer Attorneys of California, New Lawyers Division: Trial Skills & Being a Trial Lawyer; Malibu, CA; 2017
Recoverwell: Personal Injury Cases & The Opioid Crisis; Los Angeles, CA; 2019
From Injury to Addiction: Plaintiff’s Suffering from Addiction; Los Angeles, CA; 2018