Dayna Ellsworth

San Diego, CA14 years experienceAdmitted 2015

About Dayna Ellsworth

Dayna Ellsworth, Esq. is an Attorney at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc. since 2017, focused on representing clients affected by serious accidents. She has more than 14 years of legal experience, having served as a Deputy District Attorney from 2012 to 2015 before transitioning to private practice. Her prior firms include Bennett and Bennett, APC and the Singleton Law Firm.

Ellsworth has been recognized on the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 list in 2018 and 2019. She received the M. Eugenia Lopez Memorial Award and Scholarship and the Trial Advocacy Award and Scholarship in law school, and previously served as President of the Public Interest Law Foundation. She also coaches high school mock trial.

She earned her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 2015 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 2009, with a double major in Interpersonal Communication and Sociology and an emphasis on juvenile crime. She is admitted to the State Bar of California.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.

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$21.5 millionSettlement

David Long tripped on two inches of exposed trolley track left by construction grinding crews at the 12th and Imperial MTS station and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic; the case settled for $21.5 million.

San Diego County Superior Court, Central Justice Center · 2015Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$13.28 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #18

A Tulare County jury awarded $13,284,363 to a nineteen-year-old Farmersville woman who suffered permanent traumatic brain injury and hemiparesis when a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash sent an oncoming car into her lane.

Tulare County Superior Court (Visalia, CA) · 2009Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.59 millionVerdict

A San Luis Obispo County jury awarded $6,709,300 to the family of Tricia Rittger, a KSBY sales manager who was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing Shell Beach Road to reach The Cliffs Resort, after the firm proved the resort had violated its own parking policy and a city-issued operating permit.

San Luis Obispo County Superior Court · 2014Wrongful 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
B.A. in Interpersonal Communication and Sociology, 2015
University of Utah
Undergraduate, 2009

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2015
Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association
Consumer Attorneys of California
American Association for Justice
Riverside County Inn of Court

Awards & recognition

National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2018, 2019)
M. Eugenia Lopez Memorial Award and Scholarship
Trial Advocacy Award and Scholarship

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