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About Darren Legato
Darren Legato is an Attorney at Marko Law Firm, focusing on general negligence, premises liability, motor vehicle collisions, trucking cases, assault and battery, dog bites, dram shop liability, nursing home abuse, sexual assault, employment discrimination, and product liability.
Legato earned his Juris Doctor from Florida International University in Miami and his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University. He is admitted to the Florida Bar (2012), the Michigan Bar (2013), the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
A Macomb, Michigan native, Legato worked as a Certified Legal Intern at the Miami-Dade Public Defenders Office during law school. He initially worked for large insurance defense firms representing Fortune 500 companies before transitioning to plaintiff representation in 2018. He joined Marko Law in 2025 after serving six years as an equity partner at another plaintiff firm.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Marko Law Firm
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An Oakland County jury awarded $896.5 million to a young boy who was struck by a prototype test car during a student field trip at a Continental test track, reported as the largest verdict in Michigan history. The award is pre-appeal: post-trial motions are pending, Continental never made a settlement offer, and the amount could still be reduced.
A Detroit federal jury awarded former Michigan inmate Kohchise Jackson $307.6 million after the state's for-profit prison health contractor refused to pay for the $919 surgery that would have reversed his colostomy.
An Oakland County jury found Kroger solely liable and awarded HVAC technician Brian Mierendorf and his wife $76.7 million after a failed R-22 refrigerant line at a Bloomfield Township store burned and destroyed most of both his hands.
On September 11, 2026, an Oakland County jury awarded about $32.7 million to a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury and back and leg injuries when a prototype Ford Mustang crashed into spectators at a Continental Automotive Systems test track in Auburn Hills in 2023. Continental admitted liability, so the trial decided damages only. It was the third trial from the same crash, and the company made no settlement offer in any of them.
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