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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2012

Christine D. Spagnoli

Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP Santa Monica Practice Type: Litigation


When Spagnoli won a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. last year for $73 million, she came full circle. Ten years earlier, she'd have a case on the exact same issue - in fact, the exact same tire.


The Ford case involved a Ford 15-passenger van accident that killed two passengers and injured two others after the vehicle flipped four times because of a tread separation in a defective rear tire. The jury determined Ford was at fault because it never took steps to i...

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