About Mike Karns

Mike Karns is a Trial Attorney and Co-Founder of Karns & Karns Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys, where he practices alongside his brother Bill. He represents plaintiffs in major personal injury cases involving car accidents, motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall accidents, unsafe products, construction site accidents, pedestrian accidents, and business matters.

Karns earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Law School and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Stanford University. He is admitted to the California State Bar (Bar number 232256). A Los Angeles native, he previously spent more than a decade advising rapid-growth companies in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles in human resources law, licensing law, copyright and trademark law, workers' compensation, real estate, and international business and tax law. He also served as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco on the Code Enforcement team, coordinating Building, Health, Planning, Public Works, Fire, and Police Departments on public nuisance issues.

Karns is a member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and the Consumer Attorneys of California.

Practice areas

Education

Stanford University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California (Bar No. 232256)
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
Consumer Attorneys of California

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Los Angeles firms

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Panish Shea Ravipudi LLP
$1.2 billion · $4.9 Billion Verdict Over Chevy Malibu Fuel Tank Fire
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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.