Terry Cole
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About Terry Cole
Terry J. Cole was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and is the first attorney in his family. He has worked at Dordick Law Corporation for some 15 years, becoming an associate attorney in 2018 after his admission to the California bar, and handles personal injury matters from inception through resolution, securing settlements and verdicts totaling tens of millions of dollars. Most notably, he co-chaired Greene v. Driz, in which the jury awarded $72.6 million to a brother and sister who sustained multiple orthopedic injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder in a brutal assault. In Palomino v. Ride Share Company he secured a $4.5 million settlement in a wrongful death and injury action for a husband and wife injured as rideshare passengers, focused on establishing an employment relationship between the rideshare company and its driver.
Super Lawyers has named him a Rising Star from 2020 through 2027. He earned his law degree at the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Civil Procedure, and studied political science at UCLA. He serves on the Planning and Environment Commission for the City of Lakewood and has served as an assembly district delegate of the California Democratic Party.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Matthew Greene, a restaurant and bar owner, ran to help his sister when four men, twin brothers Maurice and Alberto Driz, Maurice's son Shawn Driz, and their friend William Joelson, knocked her unconscious outside the Nice Guy restaurant in West Hollywood at about 1:30 a.m. on April 17, 2015, after she tried to stop them beating a photographer. He was beaten and left with a fractured spine and post-traumatic stress disorder. After a three-week trial in July 2021 in which the four defendants represented themselves, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded him $17.9 million in compensatory damages, found malice, and assessed about $20.2 million in punitive damages against the four men. The siblings' combined award was $72,645,492; a third victim won $8.9 million separately.
Anne Greene, a model and actress, intervened at about 1:30 a.m. on April 17, 2015, when four men, twin brothers Maurice and Alberto Driz, Maurice's son Shawn Driz, and their friend William Joelson, were beating a photographer outside the Nice Guy restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood. She was punched in the head from behind and left with a fractured skull and jaw, a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. After a three-week trial in July 2021 in which all four defendants represented themselves and claimed self-defense, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded her $20.1 million in compensatory damages, found malice, and assessed a further $14.3 million in punitive damages against the four men. The siblings' combined award was $72,645,492; a third victim won $8.9 million separately.
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