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Civil Litigation

Jun. 29, 2022

Asbestos litigation in Los Angeles: 2022

There was a time when it seemed that the avalanche/tidal wave of new asbestos personal injury and death filings in state and federal courts would overwhelm the U.S. legal system.

Stanley Mosk Courthouse

Lawrence P. Riff

Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court

Some of the most skilled, dedicated and hardest working lawyers in our community practice in but a single department in the Los Angeles Superior Court: Department 15 of the Spring Street Courthouse. D15 is complex civil department, home to the Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding (“JCCP”), which encompasses all cases filed in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties asserting personal injury, wrongful death or loss of consortium claims from alleged injurious ex...

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