Carolyn Afari

Attorney at Omega Law Group
Los Angeles, CA13 years experienceAdmitted 2012

About Carolyn Afari

Carolyn M. Afari is a Personal Injury Attorney at Omega Law Group. She focuses her practice on auto accidents, slip and falls, trucking accidents, and premises liability cases.

Prior to joining Omega Law Group, Afari practiced bankruptcy law and civil litigation for over a decade, focusing on Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases, Adversary Proceeding cases, and creditor rights work. She represented high net worth individuals and corporate Chapter 11 debtors, confirming successful reorganization plans discharging hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.

Afari earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2012 and is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Central and Eastern Districts of California.

She co-authored A Summary of the Law of Business Organizations (2015) and served as adjunct professor at University of West Los Angeles School of Law teaching Legal Research and Writing.

She is fluent in Farsi with conversational Spanish.

Practice areas

Education

University of Southern California
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2012
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Central District of California
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers

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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