About Browne Greene
Browne Greene is a founding senior partner who has set standards in plaintiffs' trial practice over more than five decades. He has tried and won more million-dollar jury verdicts than any attorney in California history. His trial record spans motor vehicle accidents, product liability, truck accidents, medical malpractice, police misconduct, wrongful death, workplace incidents, municipal liability, burn injuries, and entertainment-related matters. He was listed in 'The Best Lawyers in America' from its first edition in 1987.
He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and was admitted as a Diplomat to the American Board of Trial Advocates. He served as President of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (1979) and President of the Consumer Attorneys of California (1986-87). He received the Rage for Justice Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 and was inducted into the CAALA inaugural Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of George Washington University (B.A. 1958, LL.B. 1961) and served in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocates General's Corps in France from 1961 to 1964, attaining the rank of captain.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Acting as outside trial counsel for Los Angeles County, the firm then known as Greene, Broillet, Taylor, Wheeler and Panish helped recover approximately $3.3 billion for the county through the 1998 nationwide Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
A Haitian-American urological surgeon was subjected to a felony-level takedown on the Santa Monica Freeway after LAPD ran the plates on his rental car and received a stolen-vehicle alert caused by Budget Rent-A-Car's own plate error.
Mickail Myles sued San Diego County and Deputy Jeremy Banks over a Sept. 5, 2014 traffic stop near Fallbrook in which he was punched and bitten by a sheriff's K-9. A federal jury awarded him $5 million in October 2022 on excessive force and negligent supervision claims, after the court sanctioned the county for withholding records. The Ninth Circuit upheld liability but ordered the damages cut or retried, and in 2026 the county agreed to pay $6.5 million.
A woman identified as Jane Doe sued San Diego after officer Anthony Arevalos assaulted her in a 7-Eleven bathroom following a March 2011 traffic stop. A federal judge held the city liable in March 2014, leaving damages for a jury. The city settled in September 2014 for $5.9 million, including about $3 million in attorneys' fees and costs, with insurers paying most of it.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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