ROBINSON CALCAGNIE - Key Persons
Allan F. Davis is a partner with Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. He attended the University of Wyoming where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology in 1976‚ and his Juris Doctor in 1982. In 1980, Mr. Davis was awarded the Paul Stock Law Scholarship. He has been a member of the firm since 1988.
Mr. Davis' primary fields of emphasis are road design and product liability. As a consumer attorney for more than 20 years‚ Mr. Davis has litigated a number of cases for his clients involving dangerous roadways. His background in microbiology and medical sciences facilitated the handling of litigation dealing with defective medical products‚ including human vaccines and prescription drugs.
In March 2000‚ Mr. Davis and Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. partner Jeoff Robinson obtained an $11 million verdict against the California Department of Transportation‚ Caltrans‚ in a dangerous road condition case involving Interstate 15 at the Baker Grade.
In 2003‚ Mr. Davis and Jeoff Robinson obtained a $31 million jury verdict in San Bernardino Superior Court for their client who was injured in a ski lift accident.
In 1997, Mr. Davis represented two boys in the U.S. District Court in Orange County who suffered severe injuries in an accident caused by a jeep with defective brakes. That trial ended in a judgment in favor of the boys for $6.75 million.
In 1988, Mr. Davis represented a woman whose husband had been severely injured in a forklift accident in Riverside. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the worker and his wife for $1.8 million.
Mr. Davis has also been involved in litigation focusing on defective child car seats‚ including cases involving two-piece infant car seats that failed during a car accident.
Mr. Davis serves on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and the Executive Committee of the Republican Trial Lawyers Caucus. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association‚ Consumer Attorneys of California‚ Orange County Trial Lawyers Association‚ the Republican Trial Lawyers Caucus, and the Orange County Bar Association.
Amanda C. Robinson is an associate at Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. She is currently working on cases involving products liability and mass tort litigation‚ including Transvaginal Mesh‚ Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella‚ Fosamax and others. She also handles personal injury cases and general business litigation.
Prior to joining the firm‚ Ms. Robinson served as a Deputy District Attorney at the Orange County District Attorney's Office where she honed her trial and courtroom skills prosecuting numerous trials‚ preliminary hearings, and other proceedings.
Ms. Robinson graduated from Williams College in Williamstown‚ Massachusetts, with a B.A. in Classics/Latin. After graduation‚ she studied Cognitive Behavior at Columbia University in New York‚ New York, and then received her law degree from California Western in San Diego‚ California.
Ms. Robinson is admitted to the California Bar. She is a member of the American Bar Association‚ the American Association for Justice‚ the Orange County Bar Association‚ and the Orange County Trial Lawyers' Association.
Dalton B. Phillips joined Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. in 2010 and has devoted his practice to obtaining recoveries in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. Mr. Phillips' areas of practice include negligence, defective products, premises liability, government claims, dangerous conditions of public and private property, industrial and construction accidents, traumatic brain injuries, amputation, spinal cord injuries, catastrophic burns, bicycle accidents, airplane/aviation accidents and accidents involving commercial vehicles.
Mr. Phillips has been a part of Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. teams that have recovered numerous seven figure results for their clients at both settlement and at trial. In 2014, Mr. Phillips went to trial with Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. partners Jeoffrey Robinson and Allan Davis and obtained a $4 million dollar verdict for the parents of a young man who was tragically struck and killed by a commercial van while riding his bicycle. In 2015, Mr. Phillips obtained a settlement in the amount of $3.5 million dollars for the wife of a gentleman who was struck and killed by a component that detached from a semi-truck while on a local freeway.
Mr. Phillips is admitted to the California bar and is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Central District of California. He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA), Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA), and the National Crime Victim Bar Association.
Mr. Phillips graduated from Whittier Law School in 2013 and received several awards for achievement during law school, including the CALI Excellence for the Future Award. He received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University where he was a member of the football team, a two-time varsity letter recipient, a two-time Academic All-Big East selection, and a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society.
In his free time, Mr. Phillips enjoys reading, working out, fishing, camping, snow-sports and football.
Daniel S. Robinson is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. where he focuses on civil litigation involving consumer rights, products liability and environmental contamination. He is admitted to practice law in New York‚ Pennsylvania and California. Dan has obtained substantial trial verdicts to date, including a $14.5 million verdict for a client injured in a motorcycle accident, a $5.3 million verdict for a client injured in an auto accident, and a $3.2 million verdict for a client injured during a workplace incident.
Dan has received several honors and awards, including Daily Journal's 2022 and 2023 Top 100 Lawyers in California; 2022, 2023 and 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers; Daily Journal's 2021 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award (One October Mandalay Bay Shooting cases); Daily Journal's Top 25 and Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California; Best Lawyers' 2022 Lawyer of the Year in the area of product liability litigation, Orange County; Super Lawyers's Top 50 lawyers in Orange County; Daily Journal's Top 20 Attorneys Under 40 in California (2015); American Association of Justice's "Wiedemann & Wysocki" award and "Above and Beyond" award; The National Trial Lawyers' Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 (2012); and Orange County Trial Lawyers Association's Top Gun-Young Gun Award (2011).
Mr. Robinson has been appointed to several leadership roles, including:
Interim Co-Lead Counsel - Tsvetanova v. Regents of the University of California, 37-2021-00039888-CU-NP-CTL;
Co-Lead Counsel in In re Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Data Incident Litigation, 21STCV44106;
Interim Co-Lead Counsel in In re Ring LLC Privacy Litigation, 19-CV-10899 MWF (RAOx);
Interim Co-Lead Counsel in In Re Ambry Genetics Data Breach Litigation, 8:20-cv-00791 CJC (KESx);
Interim Co-Lead Counsel in Yahoo! Inc. Private Information Disclosure Cases, JCCP 4895; Additional Settlement Class Counsel in MDL 2752;
Co-Lead Counsel in the Risperdal® and Invega® Product Liability Cases, JCCP 4775;
Co-Lead Counsel in Dodge v. PHH Corporation, et al., 8:15-cv-01973;
Co-Lead Counsel for In Re Experian Data Breach Litigation (SACV 15-1592 AG CD CAL);
Co-Lead Counsel in In re 21 st Century Oncology Customer Data Security Data Breach Litigation, MDL 2737;
Co-Lead Counsel in the St. Joseph Health System Medical Information Cases, JCCP 4716;
Lead Counsel in Blue Cross of California Website Security Cases, JCCP 4647;
Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in the Biomet M2a Magnum MDL;
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the In re Actos Product Liability Cases, JCCP 4696;
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in In re Fosamax/Alendronate Sodium Drug Cases, JCCP 4644;
Plaintiffs' Executive Committee for the Contaminated Heparin Litigation, MDL 1953;
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee of MDL No. 2879, In Re Marriott International, Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation; and
Counsel for Plaintiff and the Class in Flores v Don Roberto Jewelers, Inc., 30-2021-01212035-CU-NP-CXC.
Background
Before working at Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc., Mr. Robinson was a civil litigator at a defense law firm. Before that‚ Mr. Robinson served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office under the Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau. As a New York County prosecutor, Mr. Robinson conducted numerous criminal trials, investigations and grand jury proceedings.
Education
Williams College, B.A.
Loyola School of Law, J.D.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Inc. As an Associate
Genevieve Outlaw received her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University-Camden School of Law, where she served as associate managing editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. During law school, Mrs. Outlaw was selected to serve as a Marshall Brennan Fellow, spending a semester teaching constitutional law at a local Camden high school. She also served as treasurer of the American Constitution Society and participated in the Hunter Moot Court Competition. During her last year of law school, Mrs. Outlaw participated in the Juvenile Justice Clinic, representing children in Camden's juvenile court. Prior to law school, Mrs. Outlaw attended Penn State and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and International Business.
Prior to joining the firm, Mrs. Outlaw served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carol E. Higbee, J.S.C. T/A, of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. Mrs. Outlaw began her clerkship as Judge Higbee's law clerk in the Civil Division where Judge Higbee was assigned to the mass tort docket and served as the Presiding Civil Judge for the New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic County. Mrs. Outlaw also served as Judge Higbee's law clerk in the Appellate Division after Judge Higbee was elevated to the Appellate Division.
Mrs. Outlaw joined Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. as an associate in 2014, and is currently working on mass tort litigation in the firm's pharmaceutical division, focusing particularly on Fosamax and SSRIs.
Mrs. Outlaw is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Jennifer M. Collins is an attorney at Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. Since joining the firm in 2012, she has devoted her practice to personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, and all aspects of civil litigation. Currently, Ms. Collins represents hundreds of plaintiffs who have had their health and livelihoods irreparably damaged by pharmaceutical drugs and defective medical devices. Specifically, Ms. Collins represents women in cases involving important women's health issues, including women injured by transvaginal mesh and Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella oral contraceptives.
Ms. Collins graduated magna cum laude from Chapman University in Orange, California, with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Political Science. She then received her Juris Doctor from Chapman University's Fowler School of Law where she received several awards for achievement, including the CALI Excellence for the Future Award. During law school, Ms. Collins had the pleasure of working in the Bette and Wylie Aitken Family Protection Clinic and the Orange County Family Justice Center, where she provided free assistance in immigration and human trafficking matters, and secured U Visa and VAWA relief for numerous undocumented immigrants.
Ms. Collins is admitted to the California bar. She is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ).
Jeoffrey L. Robinson is a partner with Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc.‚ a law firm specializing in catastrophic injury‚ product liability and unfair business practices litigation. Mr. Robinson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Pacific and graduated from Southwestern University School of Law.
Mr. Robinson began his career in 1981‚ in the Orange County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy District Attorney. He tried approximately 135 jury trials over a 12-year span‚ including 35 murder trials‚ with a conviction rate of over 98% for felony trials. Mr. Robinson has tried several high profile and nationally acclaimed cases throughout his career. In the case of People vs. David Brown‚ Mr. Robinson's trial was profiled in a book which made the New York Times Best Seller list and was the subject of an NBC mini-series. Mr. Robinson also tried a highly publicized case involving the daughter of the late John Wayne‚ against reputed Mafia lawyer‚ Bruce Cutler‚ which was aired in its entirety on Court Television.
Kevin F. Calcagnie is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc.‚ specializing in civil litigation with an emphasis in products liability. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1983‚ and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Fifth Circuits. Kevin is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, a peer-reviewed survey listing outstanding attorneys throughout the United States, and was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Product Liability Litigation "Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year" in Orange County, California. He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions "Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year." Kevin has been listed for several years by the attorney rating service Super Lawyers, and has been named in the Super Lawyers Top 50 Orange County and Top 100 Southern California lists. In 2015 he was named by The Trial Lawyer Magazine in its annual list of "America's Most Influential Trial Lawyers." In 2009, and again in 2018, he was honored as a recipient of one of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Awards, and in 2011 he was inducted into the Western State University Alumni Hall of Fame. He has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards under the national legal directory's peer review system.
Lila Razmara represents plaintiffs in mass tort actions involving personal injuries, property damage and consumer protection. She is highly involved in new, emerging litigations and enjoys researching and developing new projects aimed at seeking justice, especially in the consumer rights arena. Currently, Ms. Razmara works on the JUUL Labs Products Cases, JCCP No. 5052, Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2921 and JCCP No. 5104, In re: LTL Management, LLC (Talc Bankruptcy), 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2885, and PG&E Bankruptcy Fire claims.
For the past 12 years her practice has focused primarily on representing individuals in pharmaceutical drug, medical device and mass tort actions. Ms. Razmara has worked extensively on the following federal multi-district, state-coordinated proceedings, and mass tort actions: October 1, Route 91 Las Vegas Shooting cases, The People of the State of California v. Purdue Pharma, et al. relating to the Opioid crisis, In re: New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc. (Chapter 11), In Re: Quinine JCCP No. 4565, In Re: Reglan/Metoclopramide JCCP No. 4631; and In Re: Actos JCCP No. 4696. She also served as Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel in the In Re: Karl Storz Power Morcellator Litigation in Los Angeles.
Ms. Razmara received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, Law and Society, cum laude as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Behavior, cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine.
Ms. Razmara has always had a passion for the social justice system. She has been helping people who have been wronged since 2006. While attending Loyola Law School, Ms. Razmara volunteered at the Disability Rights Legal Center where she fought for justice for disadvantaged and marginalized clients who experienced discrimination. During her second year, Lila worked as an extern for Commissioner Harvey Silberman in his Family Law court in Los Angeles, where she assisted individuals who could not afford lawyers.
Ms. Razmara is fluent in Farsi/Persian. During her spare time, Ms. Razmara enjoys traveling back home to London, England where most of her family lives.
She is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founding Partner
- Senior Partner
- Sole Shareholder and Senior Partner
Mark P. Robinson, Jr. is the founder, senior partner and sole shareholder of Robinson Calcagnie, Inc., based in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Robinson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and graduated cum laude from Loyola School of Law. He has established a prominent legal practice devoted to consumer safety and has worked on thousands of products liability cases, including the landmark Ford Pinto case, Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, where a jury in Orange County, California, awarded $128 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The verdict was recognized by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America as one of the ten most significant civil trials of the past millennium.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Member of the Orange County Bar Association
Michael W. Olson is an attorney at Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. where he handles personal injury, mass tort, and class action litigation involving products liability and consumer rights.
Mr. Olson has worked on many important Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. cases, including Yahoo! Inc. Private Information Disclosure Cases, JCCP No. 4895 (Super. Ct. Cal. Orange Cnty.) ($117.5 million class action settlement), In re Experian Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 8:15-cv-01592-AG (C.D. Cal.) (class action settlement valued in excess of $39 million), In re 21st Century Oncology Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., MDL No. 2737 (class action settlement valued in excess of $12.5 million), and Dodge et. al. v. PHH Corp. et. al., Case No. 8:15-CV-01973-FMO-AFM (C.D. Cal.) ($17 million class action settlement). Mr. Olson was also a member of the team that helped secure a landmark settlement in Sheppard, et al. v. Mandalay Bay, LLC, et al. for the victims of the country's worst mass shooting, and was nominated for the 2021 Consumer Attorney of the Year award by Consumer Attorneys of California.
Currently, Mr. Olson works on numerous cases, including Tsvetanova v. Regents of the University of California, Case No. 37-2021-00039888-CU-NP-CTL; In re Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Data Incident Litigation, Case No. 21-CV-44106; Hellyer, et al v. Smile Brands Inc., et al., 8:21-cv-01886-DOC-ADSx; In re Ring LLC Privacy Litigation, 19-CV-10899 MWF (RAOx); In Re Ambry Genetics Data Breach Litigation, CV 20-cv-00791 CJC (KESx), and In Re Marriott International, Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2879.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of California‚ Los Angeles‚ Mr. Olson graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. While at UC Irvine School of Law, Mr. Olson served as a staff editor on the UC Irvine Law Review and as a board member of the UC Irvine Moot Court competition. Mr. Olson also participated in the UC Irvine Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he argued an immigration case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. During law school, Mr. Olson served as a law clerk under the Honorable Theodor C. Albert of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California. He also served as an extern for the United States Attorney's Office, Criminal Division in Santa Ana, California, and for the Appeals, Writs, and Trials section of the California Attorney General's Office in Los Angeles, California, where he drafted respondent's briefs to criminal appeals and successfully argued several cases before the Second District of the California Court of Appeal.
Mr. Olson is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, and serves on the planning committee of the Federal Bar Association's Young Lawyer Division.
Michelle M. West is a partner at Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. focusing her practice on trucking accidents, automobile collisions, unsafe premises cases, traumatic brain injury, amputation, spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic personal injury and products liability matters. Ms. West generally handles cases that involve matters including defective products, dangerous public and private property conditions, industrial and construction accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning, cruise ship injuries, unsafe working conditions and motor vehicle accidents. She is dedicated to serving clients throughout the State of California and across the country with the assistance of local counsel. Ms. West dedicates her practice to making places and products safer and obtaining recovery for those injured by unsafe products, practices and premises.
Ms. West has committed herself to advocating on behalf of those injured by the recklessness or negligence of others. She reviews each case from every angle, works with forensic and other professional experts, and employs numerous resources in order to help her clients obtain financial compensation for their losses. Ms. West has recovered seven and eight-figure settlements and verdicts on behalf of numerous clients. Her dedication to providing quality, professional representation while maintaining the highest standards of legal ethics helped her to receive the highest possible rating of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell.
Beyond her work in the courtroom, Ms. West is active in the legal community. She is a member of numerous professional associations, including the Orange County Bar Association, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles. Michelle West is a proud Board Member of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charities (an organization dedicated to improving the lives of those in need in Los Angeles) and is President Elect of Western Trial Lawyers Association. Ms. West is the President of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities which was formed in 2020 and completed numerous services projects in 2021 and 2022 in the Orange County area and gave away over $200,000 in its first two years of active operations to Orange County charities. She also serves as the Founding Member of OCTLC which includes a group of lawyers who donated $10,000 each to get the organization up and running to help the OC Community.
In 1999, Ms. West graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in history from California State University Long Beach. She went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law, graduating cum laude and in the top 10 percent of her class. She is a Proud 50 for 50 Member of the Pepperdine University School of Law which is comprised of past law school graduates who have made a significant commitment of $50,000 to provide exceptional students seeking to attend law school at the University by way of scholarships to defray the cost. She is dedicated to the Justice System and ensuring competent and compassionate professionals are able to serve as lawyers for decades to come.
To keep mentally sharp and agile to be the best lawyer for her clients, Ms. West continues to train her body. She is an avid runner and has completed about 100 marathons, over 35 double-century bike rides (200 miles or more), multiple century rides, over ten full Ironman triathlons, and she attempts and often completes 100 mile races, including the Badwater 135 mile race which goes from Badwater Basin in Death Valley up to highest location in the contiguous United States, Mt. Whitney. Ms. West has completed Badwater 4 times and raised money for charity while doing it, including for St. Jude's Children's Research, Arthritis Foundation, MS Society, Challenged Athlete's Foundation and Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities.
As a daughter of a Marine, who grew up in a small town in the Southern California desert town of Yucca Valley, sharing a small home with her 8 brothers and sisters, she knows how to work well with others and can successfully lead a team as well as being part of one.
Nathan Ross Hurd joined Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. in 2012 and has devoted his practice to obtaining recovery for individuals who are catastrophically injured due to defective products including vehicles, tires, skylights, machinery, and pharmaceuticals, among others. In addition to his work in product liability, Mr. Hurd also handles cases involving premises liability, government claims, dangerous condition of public and private property, industrial or construction accidents, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, amputation, and accidents involving big-rig trucks and other commercial vehicles. Mr. Hurd has recovered numerous seven figure results for his clients at both settlement and trial.
Mr. Hurd received his law degree from Chapman University School of Law, where he received a Merit Scholarship. During law school, Mr. Hurd was a law clerk with the United States Department of Justice, Trustee's Office. Mr. Hurd received several awards for achievement during law school including multiple CALI Excellence for the Future Awards. Mr. Hurd is admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court‚ Central and Eastern Districts. He is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California‚ Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire‚ Orange County Bar Association‚ and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Member of the American Bar Association
Patrick Brian Embrey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from California State Polytechnic University‚ Pomona‚ in 1995, and a Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School in 2001‚ where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Review and graduated Magna Cum Laude. While at Whittier‚ he earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award‚ Dean's Merit Scholarship‚ and was on the Dean's list. Patrick published Limitation of Defect & Related Emotional Distress Damages in California Construction Defect Lawsuits‚ 23 Whittier L. Rev. 215‚ in 2001.
While a law student‚ Mr. Embrey was certified in the Central District Federal Court to practice in a case brought under the Death on the High Seas Act. He also assisted in updating and editing several chapters of Benedict on Admiralty‚ published by Mathew Bender & Company.
Mr. Embrey is admitted to practice before the Central and Southern Federal District Courts for California and the Supreme Court of California. He is currently working on cases involving product liability‚ consumer protection‚ personal injury and environmental protection.
Mr. Embrey is a member of the American Bar Association‚ Orange County Bar Association‚ Los Angeles County Bar Association‚ Consumer Attorneys of California‚ Association of Trial Lawyers of America‚ Orange County Trial Lawyers Association‚ Trial Lawyers for Public Justice‚ and is a sustaining member of California Trout.
Paul Dagostino is an attorney at Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. working on mass tort, class action, and products liability cases. Since joining the firm in 2013, Paul has represented plaintiffs in complex litigation across the country. Paul currently represents plaintiffs in the Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Cases and military service members in actions against 3M relating to injuries caused by 3M's Combat Arms Earplugs. Paul also handles wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases.
Paul was a member of the trial team, led by the firm's founding partner, Mark P. Robinson, Jr., that won a record $417 million jury verdict in Echeverria v. Johnson & Johnson for a woman who contracted ovarian cancer due to her use of talcum powder products. He also worked closely with Mr. Robinson in obtaining a $16 million settlement for a young girl who was catastrophically injured while she was walking to school. Paul has obtained millions of dollars of settlements for his injured clients in a spectrum of cases ranging from automobile collisions to defective products to travel insurance disputes.
Paul received his law degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he received a Merit Scholarship. During law school, Paul was a law clerk with the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, Criminal Division. Paul received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Irvine, graduating cum laude. In his spare time, Paul enjoys rooting for the Anaheim Ducks and USC Trojan Football.
Paul is admitted to the California State Bar.
Ms. Lukei has played an integral role as a member of the firm's pharmaceutical and auto product litigation teams, contributing to the successful resolution of multiple complex mass tort actions including Baycol, Rezulin, Zyprexa, Vioxx, Paxil, and the Toyota sudden unintended acceleration litigation.
Ms. Lukei received her initial legal experience at the defense firm of Haight‚ Brown and Bonesteel‚ where she defended insurance companies in construction defect‚ breach of contract‚ product liability and personal injury litigation.
Ms. Lukei attended Loyola Law School on an academic scholarship‚ and graduated in 1999 as a member of the St. Thomas More Honor Society. While at Loyola‚ she was an Articles Editor for the Loyola Law Review and completed a judicial externship with U.S. District Court Judge Gary Taylor. She also received the American Jurisprudence Award in Ethical Lawyering. Ms. Lukei received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She majored in English and graduated with departmental honors and as a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa Honors Society.
Ms. Lukei is admitted to the California Bar and is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court‚ Central District of California.
Job Titles:
- Sole Shareholder and Senior Partner
Passionate about protecting consumers from unsafe products and unfair business practices, Tracy specializes in products liability and mass tort cases. She joined Robinson Calcagnie in 2022 from the Los Angeles County Counsel's Affirmative Litigation and Consumer Protection Division, where she was the Consumer Protection Team Leader, and co-lead of the LACC People v. Juul Labs, Inc. and People v. Purdue Pharma et al litigation teams. As a Senior Deputy County Counsel, she coordinated two successful legislative initiatives to strengthen consumer protection enforcement in California.
Tracy spent two decades as a prosecutor at the Orange County District Attorney's Office and has extensive courtroom and criminal trial experience. She has also prosecuted civil actions against Fortune 500 companies including Sears Holdings Corporation, Mondelez International, Inc., and Sysco Corporation, and served as the Assistant Head of Court for the OCDA Consumer and Environmental Protection Unit. Tracy has led consumer protection actions involving the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65), internet sales of banned pharmaceuticals, and the marketing and sale of misbranded drugs and devices. She was the coordinator of the California Food, Drug and Medical Device Task Force from 2012-2020, and was commissioned with the Food and Drug Administration from 2012-2020 to facilitate public health enforcement actions. Tracy received the Leveraging & Collaboration Award from the FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs-Pacific Region in 2016.
Tracy has led trainings on advanced negotiation, the opioid crisis, California consumer protection law, and enforcement of judgements.
Active in her community, Tracy serves on the Executive Boards of the Orange County Women Lawyers and the California Women Lawyers. She was designated as the Orange County District Attorney's Office representative to the OCBA Administration of Justice Committee from 2018-2020, and was on the Steering Committee of SaferRX OC, a group of community stakeholders working to reduce opioid overdose deaths in Orange County, from 2015-2020. She was recently nominated by her peers as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Education:
BA Stanford University
MA Stanford University
JD University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Wesley K. Polischuk is an attorney at Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. where he represents plaintiffs in product liability, pharmaceutical, medical device and personal injury cases, in addition to class action litigation involving fraud, misrepresentation, consumer and data privacy and other consumer protection.
Specifically, Mr. Polischuk represents or has represented plaintiffs involving the following products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices: YAZ/Yasmin/Ocella (In re Yasmin and YAZ (Drospirenone) Mktg., Sales Pracs. & Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2100, United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois), DePuy ASR hip implants (In re DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL. No. 2197, United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio), DePuy Pinnacle hip implants (In re DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Pinnacle Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2244, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas), Stryker Rejuvenate hip implants (In re Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2441, United States District Court, District of Minnesota), Xarelto (In re Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2592, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana), Risperdal (Risperdal and Invega Product Liability Cases, JCCP No. 4775, Los Angeles County Superior Court), Testosterone (In re Testosterone Replacement Therapy Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2545, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois), Wright hip implant (Wright Hip System Cases, JCCP No. 4710, Los Angeles County Superior Court), Biomet hip implant (In re Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2391, United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana), and Roundup. Mr. Polischuk also represents victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, which resulted in a $800 million settlement. Along with Mark Robinson, Daniel Robinson and Michael Olson of Robinson Calcagnie, Inc., he was a finalist for the 2021 CAOC Consumer Attorney of the Year for his work on this case.
Mr. Polischuk also handles consumer class actions, including some of the following:
St. Joseph Health System Medical Information Cases, JCCP No. 4716, which resulted in a $39.5 million settlement on behalf of consumers just prior to the start of trial
Blue Cross of California Website Security Cases‚ which resulted in a settlement providing millions of dollars in benefits for over 640‚000 WellPoint customers whose information and health records were disclosed on the Internet
In Re Experian Data Breach Litigation (SACV 15-1592 AG CD CAL), which resulted in a $22 million non-reversionary settlement fund that provided over $170 million in value to the class
In re 21st Century Oncology Customer Data Security Data Breach Litigation, MDL 2737, which resulted in a $7.85 million non-reversionary settlement fund that provided over $12.5 million in value to the class
Dodge v. PHH Corporation, et al. (8:15-cv-01973), which resulted in a $17 million settlement related to alleged violations of section 8(a) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA"), 12 U.S.C. § 2607(a) for paying and receiving kickbacks, referral fees, or other things of value in connection with the referral of title insurance and other settlement services
Mr. Polischuk has been named a Rising Star from 2013 to 2022 and an Up-and-Coming Orange County Top 25 from 2018 to 2022 by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is the 2022 Secretary of the Board of Directors of Project Youth OCBF, which provides integrated prevention and intervention services to at-risk youth in Orange County that address barriers to education, health, youth crime, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse, and served as its 2018 Associate Board President. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of California and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Polischuk is married to Camden Polischuk, an attorney in Orange County, and has three children. In his spare time, he coaches his children's baseball and soccer teams, and is a member of the Ladera Ranch Little League Board of Directors.