Ricardo Echeverria

Personal Injury

About Ricardo Echeverria

Shernoff Bidart Echeverria

600 S. Indian Hill Blvd Claremont, California 91711

recheverria@shernoff.com

(909) 621-4935

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Ricardo Echeverria is a trial attorney at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, specializing in insurance bad faith and catastrophic personal injury cases. He has an impressive track record, having achieved notable victories in various high-profile trials. Mr. Echeverria served as the president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys in the country. He has received multiple accolades for his legal prowess, including being recognized as one of the Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California from 2018 to 2021 and being named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in California in 2017 and 2018 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

In 2021, Mr. Echeverria was honored as the Top Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Additionally, in 2019, he received the Lifetime Legal Achievement Award from Consumer Watchdog.

Among his notable trial victories, Mr. Echeverria secured a $68 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in Fresno, CA, which was recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the Elite Trial Lawyer Top 50 Verdicts in 2018. He also obtained substantial jury verdicts, including $25.7 million, $17 million, $15 million, $13.2 million, and $10.5 million, in various catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases.

Mr. Echeverria’s exceptional legal abilities have garnered recognition from multiple professional organizations. He was named the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of Inland Empire in 2019 and by CAALA in 2010. He has been a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California’s Consumer Attorney of the Year award in 2007, 2009, and 2018. Moreover, he was a finalist for the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s Trial Lawyer of the Year award in 2019. Throughout his career, Mr. Echeverria has received several prestigious awards, including the Jennifer Brooks Lawyer of the Year Award in 2011-2012 from the Western San Bernardino County Bar Association and the Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award in 2012 from the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego. He has been consistently recognized as a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine since 2005 and listed as a “Best Lawyer” by the Best Lawyers in America publication since 2014.

Mr. Echeverria is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and has been acknowledged as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in the State of California by The National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), an honor bestowed upon the top one percent of trial attorneys nationwide.

In addition to his courtroom achievements, Mr. Echeverria is a sought-after speaker on topics such as insurance bad faith and managed care liability. He has delivered lectures at numerous prestigious organizations and institutions, including the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, and various law schools.

Mr. Echeverria holds a B.S. degree, magna cum laude, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, earned in 1990. He obtained his J.D. from Santa Clara University in 1993.

Topics Addressed by This Lawyer

Catastrophic Loss

Insurance & Personal Injury

Medical Malpractice

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