California Product Liability Lawyers - Product Defect Attorneys in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In Southern California product liability lawyers in San Diego Riverside San Bernardino Orange County Los Angeles Ventura and Santa Barbara. In Northern California Product Liability Lawyers in San Francisco the Bay Area Berkeley Oakland Santa Clara County San Jose and Sacramento.

The attorneys of the Henke Law Group have extensive experience in the most complex of product liability cases, from pharmaceutical product liability litigation and product fraud cases to machine defects, failures in safety design, chemical explosion cases and helmet defects. Our California attorneys serve as your product liability lawyers of choice in Northern and Southern California from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, from San Diego and Orange County to Fresno San Jose and Sacramento. Please consider our credentials as trial attorneys and product liability lawyers summarized in part in the column to the right of this page and more fully below where we provide you the product liability attorney qualification questions you should ask any lawyer whom you would consider to represent you in your product liability case. We also provide our answers to the questions without your having first to ask. After considering our credentials, submit the e-mail form Case Evaluation Request for a free product liability lawyer consultation.

For any serious injury product liability case arising in any county in California, attorney Henke has the highest product liability trial lawyer credentials. He and his firm are "AV" rated by Martindale and Hubbell. The "AV" rating is the highest lawyer and law firm rankings awarded by this most highly respected lawyer rating directory in the United States. "A" means high to preeminent in "legal ability"; "V" means "very high" in general ethical standards. These ratings are based on interviews conducted by Martindale & Hubbell with other highly respected attorneys in the community in which the lawyer practices as well as interviews with judges inquiring about the attorney's legal ability and ethical standards. Henke is a former Governor of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, the 5th largest trial lawyer association in the United States, elected to the position of Governor by the several thousand members. He was also nominated by the Board of the same Association for the coveted "Trial Lawyer of the Year Award" specifically for his work in a drug product liability case. Henke is listed as one of the "Top Lawyers in America," a member of the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum," commonly referred to as the most selective and prestigious trial lawyer organization in the United States. As a trial lawyer, Henke has a track record of multimillion dollar jury verdicts and multimillion dollar settlements, including specifically in California product liability cases. Please consider our additional qualifications in the right column and below. And then call attorney Henke toll free from anywhere in California, or submit the form e-mail "Product Liability Lawyer Case Evaluation Request" if you have been injured anywhere in California as the result of a defective product. Attorney Henke and his law office are your California product liability lawyers of choice, serving all of California. We serve those seriously injured in a product liability in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In Southern California, product liability attorney Henke will consider serious injury product liability cases from San Diego to Santa Barbara, and all locations in between Riverside San Bernardino Orange County Los Angeles or Ventura. In Northern California product liability lawyer Ray Henke will consider product liability cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Berkeley Oakland Santa Clara County and San Jose, up to Sacramento. If you were seriously injured in California as the result of a defective product, Call now, toll free, and speak personally to California product liability attorney Ray Henke, or submit the e-mail "California Product Liability Lawyers Case Evaluation Request Form" and attorney Henke will personally contact you within 24 hours.

What Should The Seriously Injured Product Defect Victim Look for In a California Product Liability Lawyer?

You Have the Right to Ask About the Qualifications of Any California Product liability Attorney who You Would Consider to Represent you, And Should Do So.

Every good California product liability lawyer should see the sense of your wanting to assure that you will receive the best possible representation in your product liability case, and should be pleased to answer any questions you have about his or her qualifications.

Below we have provided a number of questions you may want to ask any California product liability lawyer who you would consider to represent you.

California product liability attorney Henke will also provide his straightforward answers each of the same questions, describing his qualifications as a California product liability lawyer as well as his standing in the California trial lawyer community; he will describe some of his accomplishments specifically as a California product liability lawyer, his national recognition specifically as a product liability lawyer, and his trial lawyer track record specifically in product liability litigation.

The Qualification Questions You Should Ask Any California Product Liability Lawyers Whom You Would Consider To Represent You, And Product Liability Attorney Ray Henke's Answers.

QUESTION:
Is the California product liability lawyer rated by Martindale and Hubble? If so, what is his "Legal Ability" rating and "General Ethical Standards" rating?

ANSWER:
California product liability attorney Henke's answer is that he has the very highest Martindale & Hubbell rating, "AV." "A" the "legal ability"[from Very High to Preeminent]; and "V" [Very High], the very highest "General Ethical Standards" rating. It is a rating that Henke has received for all of the past decade of his career. According to Martindale & Hubbell: "AV Peer Review Rating shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity."


QUESTION:
Have the California product liability attorneys served as prosecuting counsel specifically in California product liability litigation involving substantial injuries, and then obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts?

ANSWER:
Attorney Henke has served as lead counsel in many serious injury product liability cases and has obtained numerous substantial settlements and jury verdicts, including multimillion dollar settlements and multimillion dollar jury verdicts specifically in California product liability cases. Indeed, attorney Henke has served as lead counsel in some of the most complex product liability litigation, including pharmaceutical product liability cases, obtaining multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements. In one trial he represented 5 plaintiffs at the same time, trying their cases together because they were each close to dying. The complex multi-plaintiff and multi-defendant AIDS drug product fraud case required more than 4 months to present in court, resulting in a multimillion dollar jury verdict after nearly a month of jury deliberations. This was the first AIDS drug fraud case in the United States. As a California product liability lawyer, attorney Ray Henke has prosecuted other landmark product liability cases, including the first case ever alleging a product defect in a Polo helmet. It involved the wrongful death of a highly ranked international Polo player who was killed falling off his horse in a Chicago polo match. As a California product liability lawyer he has participated in a wide variety of product cases as lead counsel, from a case involving a mechanic who severely injured his hand when a freon can exploded while he was recharging a car's radiator, to machine defect cases through birth defect cases involving the drug Thalidomide and asbestos product liability cases.

Attorney Henke is listed in "Top Lawyers in America" and is a member of the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum" commonly referred to as the most selective and prestigious trial lawyer organization in the United States. Required Disclaimer. The results obtained in the cases discussed above were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts.

QUESTION:
Have the California product liability lawyers been recognized by their peers as established, superior trial attorneys?

ANSWER:
Attorney Henke is a former Governor of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, later renamed the "Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles," the fifth largest trial lawyers association in the United States. He was elected to the office by the large membership of the Association.

Attorney Henke was also nominated by the LATLA Board for the most highly coveted "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award, specifically for his prosecution to trial and multi-million dollar jury verdict in a complex drug product liability case involving AIDS drug Viroxan.

Attorney Henke served for years in the prestigious position of the Editor-in-Chief of LATLA's legal journal, "THE ADVOCATE."

QUESTION:
Have the California product liability lawyers obtained positive recognition in and outside the legal profession?

ANSWER:
Attorney Henke has a national reputation as an effective, successful and determined California trial attorney as reflected in scores of legal journal articles and newspaper articles about his legal work. California product liability attorney, Ray Henke's trials have been chronicled in the legitimate lay press from the front page of the New York Times to the front page of the Los Angeles Times, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco/Chronicle/Examiner, in legitimate California and national legal periodicals, such as California Lawyer, the National Law Journal, feature articles in magazines, and national and international news television, Tom Brokaw's NBC Evening News, CNN. Attorney Henke also testified before Congress at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives on his California legal work in several cases, including his use of claims for punitive damages to set examples of product liability defendants who consciously disregarded the safety, health and rights of others.

QUESTION:
Can the California product liability lawyer verify that he is an effective legal advocate, by citation to important published appellate victories he has achieved specifically in product liability cases? The California product liability lawyers appellate success matters because it is a good measure of the product liability attorneys vitally important general ability to argue and persuade on legal issues. It is a qualification that is not just essential on product liability appeals. It is an qualification important also to the California product liability attorneys ability to meet all the small and big legal challenges presented at every stage of product liability litigation. Pre-trial motions, referred to as "in limine" motions can seriously affect settlement posture as much as such motions may determine the respective parties' important advantages or disadvantages at the trial. Your California product liability attorneys ability and willingness to take the initiative to petition the appellate court to intervene to correct a bad pretrial decision that guts the product liability case can be essential to the success of the case, and Mr. Henke has done precisely that, successfully, and specifically in product liability litigation. achieve the quickest and best result. Your California product liability lawyers legal advocacy is also a talent essential during a product liability trial, as the product liability trial lawyers must be able to effectively argue legal issues, e.g., the admissibility of the defendant's whistle blower employee's admission of corporate fault or the inadmissibility of the plaintiff's prejudicial medical or character evidence, and perhaps most critically for the product liability case, the permissibility of product liability expert opinion testimony. Then, if you "hit big" at trial, the defendant is almost certain to appeal your favorable product liability verdict, and you may then require superior legal advocacy to hold on to your victory.

ANSWER:
Attorney Henke has had extraordinary published and verifiable appellate victories, including specifically in product liability litigation.. As one example of a product liability case, on behalf of a single aggrieved client who suffered limb defects as the result of a teratogenic drug, attorney Henke obtained the reversal of a $120,000,000.00 Ohio Federal District Court approved settlement purporting to bind 1000 product liability claimants joined in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and all others injured by the product nationwide. On this petition for writ of mandamus to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, California product liability attorney Henke also obtained the reversal of the Ohio Federal District Court's certification of a national mandatory product liability class action. Attorney Henke's argument, which was accepted by the Court of Appeals as requiring both decisions was that attorney Henke's client was denied his right to the representation by the California product liability attorney of his choice and to control over his individual California product liability litigation. The appellate decision resulted in an important and enduring change in the federal law which now severely restricts the availability of mandatory as opposed to voluntary class actions in mass product liability litigation.

Another example of a product liability case in which attorney Henke's appellate argument was very important to the success of the case involved a drug which the physician manufacturer claimed was a "cure" for AIDS. One of the causes of action which Henke alleged was fraud, which if proven would entitle his clients to recover punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. On the eve of trial the California trial judge applied newly enacted tort reform legislation to deprive Attorney Henke's 5 clients of their punitive damage claims. Attorney Henke obtained a stay of the trial and filed in the California Court of Appeals an "extraordinary writ" seeking an immediate reversal of the California trial court's order. The California Court of Appeals immediately granted the writ of mandamus, ordering the California trial judge to reverse its order and permit attorney Henke's clients to pursue their punitive damage claim. It also rendered an important published appellate opinion reinterpreting the repressive California tort reform legislation to deprive its negative force and effect.

Attorney Henke has also obtained extraordinary unpublished California appellate victories, including in substantial California product liability cases. In one case, attorney Henke obtained the reversal of a California trial judge's summary judgment order which would have denied a California paraplegic accident victim his day in court. In this California product liability case, the young, teenage plaintiff, had been riding home from school in the back of his friend's pick up truck. Suit was originally brought by a very highly qualified New Jersey lawyer, appearing pro hac vice in California, on the product liability theories of negligent and strict product liability "failure to warn"against the foreign truck manufacturer. The manufacturer argued and the Los Angeles County trial court judge agreed that the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck are "open and obvious" as a matter of law, rendering California product liability "failure to warn" theory untenable, and "threw the case out of court." The New Jersey lawyer contacted attorney Henke for help in overturning the Los Angeles trial judge's ruling. Attorney Henke prosecuted the appeal, in which he cited not only to the evidence of the dangers, but to the California legislative history, pointing out that in the year prior to the accident, then Governor Wilson had vetoed legislation which would have made it illegal in California to ride in the back of pick up trucks, and quoted in his appellate brief to the California Governor's remarks. If the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck were not "open and obvious" to California Governor Wilson, Attorney Henke argued, then the Los Angeles trial court was out of line in ruling that the dangers were "open and obvious" as a matter of law. The California Court of Appeals overturned the trial court's summary judgment in this significant California product liability case, and ordered that the young paralyzed plaintiff be allowed his day in court.

The California product liability lawyers recognition by Martindale Hubbell, his recognition by his peers, his local and national reputation, his trial successes and his appellate successes are all matters which you should want to inquire about in selecting the right California product liability lawyer for your serious injury case.

The Law Group Are Product liability Lawyers for all of Southern, Central and Northern California. California Product Liability Lawyers in Los Angeles Orange County San Diego, Product liability Attorneys From Riverside and San Bernardino to Ventura and Santa Barbara. Product Liability Lawyers San Francisco Bay Area Berkeley and Oakland Santa Clara and San Jose up to Sacramento.

For a free California Product liability Lawyer consultation, call Attorney Henke toll free (877) 377-3233 from anywhere in California, and you will speak Mr. Henke directly. It is his private office line. Or, go to the California Product Liability Lawyers Contact page and submit the e-mail contact questionnaire. Attorney Henke will call you within 24 hours. As California product liability lawyers the Henke Law Group serves all of California in every county from Los Angeles County and Orange County to Marin County to San Juaquin, Kern County, Ventura. County, Imperial County, Kings County, and the Inland Empire. As California product liability attorneys we will consider representing seriously injured product liability claimants in Southern California from San Diego to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills as well as in product liability cases arising in Pasadena and Santa Monica, the San Fernando Valley Burbank Van Nuys Encino Sherman Oaks Thousand Oaks Torrence and Woodland Hills, east to Pomona Santa Ana Bakersfield Riverside and San Bernardino, and up to Ventura County and Santa Barbara. The California Product liability Attorneys will also represent the seriously injured in product liability cases in Northern California, all the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose Santa Clara Palo Alto Berkeley and Oakland up to Sacramento and in product liability cases arising in Fresno all of Central California. Henke is licensed to practice in all the Courts of the State of California and will be pleased to consider the product liability case of any motorcyclist seriously injured in any county in the state.

Additional of Mr. Henke's credentials are set forth on the separate page "Mr. Henke, the Trial Lawyer" page.