Steven Hilst
Senior Trial Attorney at Hillstone Law Accident & Injury Attorneys
Los Angeles, CA38 years experienceAdmitted 1988
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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
$1.2 billion (approximately, after the punitive award was cut to $1.09 billion; $4.9 billion gross verdict) · Anderson v. General Motors: A $4.9 Billion Verdict Over a Chevy Malibu Fuel Tank Fire
The Dominguez Firm
$29 million · Los Angeles Jury Awards $29 Million to Pedestrian Hit in Crosswalk
Wisner Baum LLP
$56,005,830 judgment after remittitur (about $11.2 million compensatory plus about $44.8 million punitive; jury awarded $37.2 million compensatory plus $1 billion punitive to Alberta Pilliod; her husband Alva's award is a separate row) · Livermore Retiree Whose Lymphoma Spread to Her Brain Holds a $56 Million Roundup Judgment Through the U.S. Supreme Court
Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.
$21.5 million · $21.5 Million Settlement After Exposed Trolley Rail Left Man Paralyzed at San Diego Transit Station
West Coast Trial Lawyers
$7 million · Mother Wins $7 Million After Disabled Son Dies in Hot Car Left by Caretaker Driver