A. Ilyas Akbari
Ilyas Akbari
Los Angeles
California (CA)
Aviation
Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products
Class Action/Mass Torts
Profile
Ilyas Akbari is an associate attorney at Baum Hedlund where he focuses his practice on the firm's commercial transportation wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, pharmaceutical product liability cases and class action cases.
He was part of the team of Baum Hedlund lawyers who obtained one of the largest verdicts in Ohio’s state’s history for the death of an unmarried person in a truck accident case, Brumfield vs. Tyson Foods.
Mr. Akbari was also an integral part of the firm’s trial team which tried an aviation accident product liability case, representing three paramedics killed at Griffith Park in Los Angeles in the case of Butler vs. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
He has ensured the success of many of the firm’s cases through his bioengineering expertise, research and skillful legal brief writing.
Mr. Akrbari earned a B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, where he was founding Vice President of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, and his law degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, where he served as President of the Student Bar Association. Mr. Akbari was also a Certified Law Clerk at the District Attorneys Office in East Los Angeles, where he conducted preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials. He is admitted in California state and federal courts.
Selected To
Southern California Rising Stars 2011
Southern California Rising Stars 2010
Southern California Rising Stars 2009
Southern California Rising Stars 2008
Southern California Rising Stars 2007
Articles about Ilyas Akbari appearing in Super Lawyers
First a Personal Disaster, Then Mass Disasters
Ilyas Akbari
About Ilyas Akbari
Admitted: 2003, California
Professional Webpage: www.baumhedlundlaw.com/lawyers/akbari.php
Honors and Awards:
- The Bar Register includes only those select law practices that have earned the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory and have been designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field. , Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Martindale Hubbell
Bar/Professional Activity:
- American Association for Justice, Aviation Law Section, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2003
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
- Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- Member, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2003
- California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2006
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2006
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 2008
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2008
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2008
- Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, MDL-1967 In Re: Bisphenol-A (BPA) Polycarbonate Plastic Products Liability Litigation, 2009
- U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2009
- Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee, MDL-2085, In Re: Air Crash near Clarence Center, New York, on February 12, 2009, 2009
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Educational Background:
- University of California, San Diego (B.S. Bioengineering), 2000
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