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Yvette Essakhar

Los Angeles, CA10 years experience

About Yvette Essakhar

Yvette Essakhar is co-founder and lead trial attorney at Hillstone Law Accident & Injury Attorneys, concentrating her practice on personal injury litigation throughout California. She has nearly a decade of personal injury law experience and previously represented insurance companies on the defense side, giving her an insider's understanding of personal injury litigation strategy. Before founding Hillstone, she worked as trial counsel at The Kaufman Law Group focusing on complex civil business litigation and white-collar criminal defense. While completing her legal education, she worked at a premier anti-terrorism law firm in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Practice areas

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA School of Law)
J.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
State Bar of U.S. District Court Central District of California
State Bar of California

Awards & recognition

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, UCLA

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Los Angeles firms

Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP
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
The Dominguez Firm
$29 million · Los Angeles Jury Awards $29 Million to Pedestrian Hit in Crosswalk
Wisner Baum LLP
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.
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
West Coast Trial Lawyers
$7 million · Mother Wins $7 Million After Disabled Son Dies in Hot Car Left by Caretaker Driver