Maria Pappas-Rajotte

Los Angeles, CA15 years experienceAdmitted 2010

About Maria Pappas-Rajotte

Maria Pappas-Rajotte is a Trial Attorney at the Dolan Law Firm, PC, working out of the firm's downtown Los Angeles office. With more than 30 years in the legal field overall, her practice focuses on personal injury litigation, including motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, dog bites, products liability, medical malpractice, and third-party criminal liability. She has notable experience including a significant case against Amazon involving dangerous products.

Before becoming an attorney, Pappas-Rajotte worked extensively in defense civil litigation as a paralegal and as a Legal Assistant Manager supervising more than 50 legal assistants. She also served as an Adjunct Legal Writing Professor at John F. Kennedy University.

She earned her Juris Doctor in 2010 from John F. Kennedy University School of Law in Pleasant Hill, California, where she received Witkin Awards in Torts and Community Property and served on the John F. Kennedy Law Review (2009).

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Dolan Law Firm, PC Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$36 millionSettlement

Chris Dolan represented the surviving Tran family and reached a $36 million settlement with Alameda County after an off-duty deputy who had failed his psychological exam shot Maria and Benison Tran in their Dublin home.

Alameda County, CA · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.5 millionVerdict

An Alameda County jury awarded $18,574,222 to Juanita Cerrato, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after she swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer left blocking her lane on a Fresno highway near midnight.

Alameda County Superior Court, CA (Fresno crash) · 2025Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$17.2 millionVerdict

A Sacramento County jury awarded $17,220,807 to Lethesia Guzman, whose car stalled on the Yolo Causeway before a Morning Star tomato truck set off the chain-reaction crash that killed her fiance and left her with catastrophic injuries.

Sacramento County Superior Court, CA · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$3.26 millionVerdict

A federal jury found that a City of Roy, Washington police officer used excessive force when he shot two unarmed men riding an off-road vehicle during a 2019 snowstorm, awarding $3.26 million.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Tacoma) · 2021Civil RightsRead the full story →
Settlement

Christopher Dolan secured a confidential settlement from Uber in what is widely described as the first wrongful-death suit filed against the company over a driver's conduct, after a New Year's Eve 2013 crosswalk collision in San Francisco killed a 6-year-old girl.

San Francisco Superior Court, CA · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

John F. Kennedy University School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.), 2010

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2010

Awards & recognition

Witkin Award - Torts (JFK Law)
Witkin Award - Community Property (JFK Law)
John F. Kennedy Law Review (2009)

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West Coast Trial Lawyers
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$13.1 million · Federal Jury Awards $13.1 Million to Parents of Man Shot in the Back by Riverside County Deputy
Wilshire Law Firm
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$35.3 Million Verdict for 81-Year-Old Backseat Passenger Rear-Ended by Tractor-Trailer on the 10 Freeway

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