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Managing Partner, Senior Trial Lawyer
Firm/Company:
Bisnar | Chase Personal Injury Attorneys
Biography:
Bisnar | Chase is an AV-rated national law firm founded in 1977 in Newport Beach, California. Brian Chase is managing partner and senior trial attorney at the firm. The firm specializes in automotive defect cases, catastrophic personal injury cases, mass torts, employment and consumer class actions. Mr. Chase was the 2015 President of CAOC and the 2007 President of OCTLA. He is a member of ABOTA. In 2014 and 2004 he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by OCTLA. In 2012, Chase was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by CAOC and a Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominee by CAALA. In 2020, 2021 & 2023 he was listed in the Daily Journal’s Top Plaintiff Lawyers. He’s been listed as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by ATLA since 2007. In 2009, Mr. Chase published a book "Still Unsafe at Any Speed" dealing with litigating automotive defects. In 2019 he published his follow up book dealing with auto defect cases called “The Second Collision”. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, including appearances on the CBS Morning Show, Good Morning America, CBS Special Reports, CNN, World News Tonight, and Fox 11 News. He was lead attorney on four important, precedent-setting appellate opinions: Martinez-Mazon v. Ford Motor Company (forum non-conveniens); Romine v. Johnson Controls (using the consumer expectations test exclusively to prove an auto defect); Schreiber v. Estate of Kiser (dealing with the scope of non-retained expert testimony); and Hernandez v. State of California (design immunity).
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