Steven Hilst

Los Angeles, CA38 years experienceAdmitted 1988

About Steven Hilst

Steven Hilst is a Senior Trial Attorney at Hillstone Law with over 30 years of personal injury trial experience. He has obtained over $50 million on behalf of his clients, with numerous seven and eight-figure settlements and verdicts in auto defects and catastrophic injury cases. He is known for deep personal investment in cases and aggressive representation against insurance companies, focusing on motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, defective products, brain injuries, and mass torts.

Practice areas

Education

Santa Clara University School of Law
J.D., 1987
University of Southern California
Undergraduate, 1984

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1988
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) - since 2001
American Inns of Court (Master)
Carlos Moreno Trial Practice Inn of Court (First President)
William J. Rea/ABOTA Inn of Court (Board of Directors)
Beach Cities Trojan Club (Board Member)
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Awards & recognition

National Trial Lawyers Top 100
National Trial Lawyers Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyers
National Trial Lawyers Top 25 Brain Injury Trial Lawyers
Best Lawyers in America (Mass Torts)
Distinguished Justice Advocates
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Los Angeles firms

Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP
Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP
$1.2 billion · $4.9 Billion Verdict Over Chevy Malibu Fuel Tank Fire
Taylor & Ring, LLP
Taylor & Ring, LLP
$47.41 million · Road Rage Chase That Killed Torrance Teen Ends in $61.7 Million Jury Verdict
McGee Lerer Ogrin
McGee Lerer Ogrin
$122.5 Million Settlement for 124 Survivors of Police Activities League Volunteer Eric Uller
West Coast Trial Lawyers
West Coast Trial Lawyers
$13.1 million · Federal Jury Awards $13.1 Million to Parents of Man Shot in the Back by Riverside County Deputy
Wilshire Law Firm
Wilshire Law Firm
$35.3 Million Verdict for 81-Year-Old Backseat Passenger Rear-Ended by Tractor-Trailer on the 10 Freeway

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