Ringler Kearney Alvarez L.L.P.

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Although formed just 3 years ago, the success of the three name partners in Ringler Kearney Alvarez LLP is anything but recent. For almost 30 years, Jerome Ringler has achieved a record of success in the courtroom that is virtually unrivaled in California—and elsewhere. Consider this: Of the 76 cases Mr. Ringler has tried to verdict, 21 have resulted in jury awards in the seven- and eight-figure range. Recent results include a class action verdict for $160 million, a misappropriation of trade secrets verdict for $16 million and a personal injury verdict for $12 million. But RKA’s success is hardly limited to its first-named partner.

In their more than 20 years together before teaming with Mr. Ringler, Thomas Kearney and Paul Alvarez specialized in complex and sophisticated business tort and class action litigation. In just the three years alone before RKA was formed, Mr. Kearney and Mr. Alvarez achieved settlements totaling more than $60 million. Now, the champion trial lawyer and these hard-nosed class action litigators have joined to create a firm whose blend of talents is virtually unmatched in the state. Indeed, there may be a handful of law firms that can blackboard a list of verdicts comparable to Mr. Ringler’s, and an equally select group of class action firms with success comparable to Mr. Kearney’s and Mr. Alvarez’s. But no firm has the class action capability and trial skills that RKA offers.

Mr. Ringler has long been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been included on the Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers® list from 2004 to 2007 and 2009. He has served as president of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He has been honored as a Master of ABOTA American Inns of Court. Mr. Ringler was named “Trial Lawyer of the Year” on two occasions, first by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association and later by Verdictum Juris. Mr. Kearney and Mr. Alvarez have both been featured in The Best Lawyers in America.

Now, with RKA, there is a firm in town that can as readily whomp a defendant on the way to class certification as close the deal in front of a jury. And so it makes sense that the firm is highly selective in its choice of clientele, representing only plaintiffs in significant, high-stakes cases.