Elliott Jung

Proven Verdicts
San Diego, CA13 years experienceAdmitted 2012

About Elliott Jung

Elliott H. Jung is a Founding Partner of HHJ Trial Attorneys (Hepburn, Hernandez & Jung), a top-rated personal injury and employment litigation firm serving San Diego County. He represents victims of catastrophic injuries, traumatic brain injuries, sexual assault, and workplace retaliation, and has tried more than 50 jury trials to verdict. Elliott teaches trial skills as an adjunct professor at California Western School of Law, coaches law students in local and national trial competitions, and is a graduate of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. He is committed to pro bono service through the San Diego Christian Legal Aid Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian Cultural Media Alliance. During law school, Elliott interned with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office Appellate Unit, where he argued cases before a panel of three judges, and spent his final year with the Federal Public Defender's Office helping defend federal drug-smuggling and high-profile fraud cases.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$10.02 millionVerdict

A painter was injured in March 2019 when an Oakwood Worldwide van made an illegal U-turn in Ventura County, and he later needed a C5-C6 cervical fusion. After a seven-day trial, a jury returned $10,024,171 following one day of deliberation in February 2025. The firm reports that the case then resolved after the verdict for $7.5 million.

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

Practice areas

Education

Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles)
J.D. (Honors Program; Trial Advocacy Honors Program)

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2012
Adjunct Professor, California Western School of Law
Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College (graduate)
San Diego Christian Legal Aid Society (volunteer)
Asian Cultural Media Alliance — Board of Directors

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers, Top 2.5%
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
1st Place, ABA Labor and Employment Trial Competition (regional)

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