Lara Deitz

Senior Trial Attorney at Gomez Trial Attorneys
San Diego, CA6 years experienceAdmitted 2019

About Lara Deitz

Lara Deitz is a Senior Trial Attorney at Gomez Trial Attorneys in San Diego, where she handles personal injury and civil litigation matters. Born and raised in San Diego, Lara earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Criminal Justice from Texas Christian University.

Lara earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from California Western School of Law, where she completed a Business Law Concentration with honors and received multiple Academic Excellence Awards. She was admitted to the California State Bar in December 2019.

During her legal career Lara clerked for the General Counsel of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and interned with the San Diego County District Attorney's Office. Before joining Gomez Trial Attorneys she practiced as a litigation attorney at Antonyan Miranda, a prominent San Diego family law firm, where she handled a broad range of family law, personal injury, workplace rights, and probate litigation matters. She brings a strong foundation in both civil and family law litigation to her personal injury practice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Gomez Trial Attorneys

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

$25.9 millionVerdict

A San Diego jury found Robert O. Young, author of the best-selling book "The pH Miracle," liable for $105 million after he treated Dawn Kali's breast cancer with baking soda infusions and told her to skip conventional care, an award a judge later cut to about $25.9 million.

San Diego County Superior Court, San Diego, CA · 2018Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$16.2 millionVerdict

A Kern County jury awarded William Kidd and his wife Elaine $16.2 million after he slipped at a Bakersfield El Pollo Loco and suffered a brain injury that later required surgery.

Kern County Superior Court, Bakersfield, CA · 2018Slip & FallRead the full story →
$14.5 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2006 · #7

A San Diego jury held former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum and San Diego County responsible for the 2000 fentanyl killing of Greg de Villers, awarding his family $106 million in a wrongful death case tried by John Gomez.

San Diego County Superior Court, San Diego, CA · 2006Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$10.8 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2010 · #20

A San Diego jury returned a $10.8 million verdict against Pizza Hut after one of its delivery drivers drifted across a center divide and hit a mother and daughter head-on, leaving the daughter with a permanent brain injury.

San Diego County Superior Court, San Diego, CA · 2010Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$8.5 millionVerdict

A San Diego County jury found the Metropolitan Transit System 40 percent at fault for the death of Anthony McGaff, who was held in a chokehold for more than eight minutes aboard a moving city bus.

San Diego County Superior Court, San Diego, CA · 2025Wrongful 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

California Western School of Law
Political Science, 2019
Texas Christian University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2019 (Bar No. 328302)

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