About Paul Batta

Paul Batta is a co-founder and partner at Batta Fulkerson Law Group. He grew up in Los Angeles, California, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine in 2008, graduating with honors and serving as co-chair of the Lebanese Social Club. He earned his Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 2011, where he served as president of the Middle Eastern Law Student Association and completed advanced mediation training. He was admitted to the California bar in 2012 and Idaho in 2025.

During law school, Batta worked at the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, co-authoring a court judgment collection manual. He has since handled thousands of personal injury cases involving motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, slip-and-fall injuries, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death throughout California. He is fluent in Arabic and is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, and the Arab American Lawyers Association of Southern California. He has been selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list from 2020 to 2022 and was named a Super Lawyer in 2026.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Batta Fulkerson Law Group

These results are credited to Batta Fulkerson Law Group. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$7.5 millionSettlement

A Ventura County jury awarded $10 million after a corporate van driver executed an illegal U-turn into a painter's path, leaving him needing a cervical fusion four years later; the case settled for $7.5 million when the defense's life care planner admitted on cross-examination to using ChatGPT for her cost estimates.

Ventura Superior Court (Case No. 56-2021-00551735-CU-PA-VTA) · 2025Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$10.02 millionVerdict

A painter was injured in March 2019 when an Oakwood Worldwide van made an illegal U-turn in Ventura County, and he later needed a C5-C6 cervical fusion. After a seven-day trial, a jury returned $10,024,171 following one day of deliberation in February 2025. The firm reports that the case then resolved after the verdict for $7.5 million.

Ventura County Superior Court · 2025Car AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

California Western School of Law
J.D., 2011
University of California, Irvine
Undergraduate, 2008

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2012
State Bar of Idaho, admitted 2025

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