About James Fox

James H. Fox is a highly experienced attorney with more than 40 years of practice spanning personal injury, product liability, premises liability, business litigation, insurance bad faith, and environmental cases. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara and UC Hastings College of Law, where he served as Law Review Editor, he has handled thousands of litigated matters at major law firms and as senior counsel for a leading international security services company, where he managed complex national litigation and oversaw a staff of in-house lawyers. He has tried cases in both California and Michigan and holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating since 1998. He is a member in good standing of the California State Bar since 1983 and is admitted to all Southern, Eastern, Central, and Northern U.S. District Courts of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Frantz Law Group

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

Frantz Law Group, representing roughly 5,000 victims, helped negotiate a $13.5 billion PG&E bankruptcy settlement covering tens of thousands of survivors and families from the 2015 Butte, 2017 North Bay, and 2018 Camp wildfires.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Frantz Law Group, led by attorneys James Frantz and William Shinoff, represented nearly 1,000 public school districts across 38 states in multidistrict litigation against JUUL Labs, reaching a $1.7 billion settlement in 2023 that covered approximately 1,600 school districts, local governments, tribal entities, and individual consumers.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (MDL) · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →

An $800 million settlement from MGM Resorts International resolved claims by more than 4,400 plaintiffs over the October 1, 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, one of the largest victim-compensation settlements in U.S. history.

Multiple state courts / mediation · 2019Wrongful 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

UC Hastings College of Law
J.D., 1982
University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate, 1976

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