About Robert Hamparyan

Robert Hamparyan is Of Counsel at Batta Fulkerson Law Group and the founding attorney of Hamparyan Personal Injury Lawyers San Diego, APC. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California in 1987 and a Juris Doctor from Western State University School of Law in 1994. He was admitted to the California bar in 1996 and to the U.S. District Court, Southern and Central Districts of California in 1995. He began his career working for insurance companies, learning defense strategies from the inside before shifting to plaintiff-side personal injury work.

He has since become one of California's most decorated trial attorneys, earning the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association in 2008, the San Diego County Top Attorney Award from 2009 to 2017, and Super Lawyer recognition every year from 2009 to 2026, including Top 10 rankings in 2024, 2025, and 2026. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and an inductee of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). His firm's reported case results include a $13.3 million recovery for a client injured in a head-on collision.

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

Western State University School of Law
J.D., 1994
University of Southern California
Undergraduate, 1987

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1996

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