About Samira Bokaie

Samira Bokaie is an attorney at Levin Simes whose practice focuses on complex civil sexual assault litigation and product liability litigation against corporate giants such as Uber Technologies, Samsung, and LG Chem. She has been integral to the Uber Rideshare Assault JCCP in San Francisco Superior Court since the litigation began, playing a key role in the petition for coordination, and is also involved in the Lyft Rideshare Assault JCCP, where she assisted in depositions of critical Lyft employees and briefed multiple discovery issues. In her e-cigarette explosion practice she has briefed, argued, and defeated personal jurisdiction challenges by foreign corporate entities in multiple state and federal courts.

She also has arbitration experience, including motions in limine and direct and cross examination. A Sonoma County native, she graduated from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where she was a senior editor on the Constitutional Law Quarterly. She was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2023.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Levin Simes LLP

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$208.8 millionVerdict

A Los Angeles jury awarded $208,821,015 to Rhoda Evans, who developed mesothelioma after decades of washing the asbestos-laden work clothes of her husband, a Los Angeles DWP pipe cutter, with $200 million in punitive damages assessed against pipe maker CertainTeed. William Levin and Laurel Simes tried the case for the plaintiffs. The full number did not stand: months later the trial judge struck the punitive award as unconstitutional and ordered a new trial on all issues, and the Court of Appeal affirmed that order in 2012. No retrial result or settlement was ever reported.

Los Angeles County Superior Court, Stanley Mosk Courthouse · 2010Product LiabilityRead the full story →

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Practice areas

Education

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
J.D.
Hofstra University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California

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