Michelle Dordick
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About Michelle Dordick
Michelle Dordick is a personal injury attorney at Dordick Law Corporation. After graduating from Fordham University School of Law in New York in 2017, she took both the California and New York bar exams and is admitted in both jurisdictions. She practiced family law for her first three years before joining her family's firm, where she litigates a broad range of personal injury matters including sexual assault, auto collisions, dog bites, slip and falls, and catastrophic injuries. Together with her father Gary Dordick and sister Taylor Dordick, she was on the trial team that won a $2.28 billion verdict in Riverside County in Doe v. Fitzgerald, a sexual assault case for a plaintiff who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather throughout her childhood. Super Lawyers has selected her to its Rising Stars list every year from 2021 through 2027, recognizing her among California's most accomplished emerging attorneys.
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A Riverside County jury awarded $2.28 billion on April 25, 2023, to a woman identified as Jane Doe who was sexually abused by her stepfather from age 5 until she was 14, at the family's Lake Elsinore home and at events and property of the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The stepfather, who had pleaded guilty in 1997 to lewd acts with a child under 14 and served three years in state prison, admitted the abuse at deposition, then skipped the first day of jury selection and withdrew his answer rather than face a bench warrant. The church settled for $1 million and the mother for $200,000 before trial. The verdict, $836 million in compensatory damages and $1.44 billion in punitive damages after three days of deliberation, is one of the largest ever returned for a single survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
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