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About David Ring
Dave Ring is a plaintiff's personal injury trial lawyer and co-founder of Taylor & Ring, the firm he started with John C. Taylor on a handshake in 2002. Over more than 30 years he has become one of the nation's leading advocates for survivors of sexual abuse and assault, representing children and adults in cases against schools, churches, youth organizations, and other institutions, while also handling major personal injury, wrongful death, vehicle accident, premises liability, product liability, and civil rights cases. His results include a $102.5 million verdict for two former Dartmouth Middle School students in Jane Doe 1 & 2 v. Union School District, a $100 million settlement for men molested as boys by a Santa Monica police civilian employee, and the largest school bullying settlement in the country at $27 million.
He represented Jane Doe 1 in the Harvey Weinstein criminal case in Los Angeles. California Lawyer named him Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year, the Daily Journal has listed him among the Top 100 lawyers in California, and he served as President of CAALA in 2016. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and ABOTA, and graduated cum laude from USC and Order of the Coif from USC Law School.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Los Angeles County jury found the county's Department of Children and Family Services 45 percent responsible for years of sexual abuse a girl suffered in her El Monte home, returning a $45.4 million verdict in July 2018 and splitting the rest of the fault between the girl's mother and four men who lived in the apartment. Two DCFS social workers had been monitoring the family and knew a man with an arrest record for sexual abuse of a minor was staying there, but never called the county hotline or the police. The county's 45 percent share, about $20.7 million, was later brought down to a $10.5 million judgment, of which the county paid $5.5 million in the 2018 to 2019 fiscal year. David Ring and Louanne Masry represented the girl at trial.
Lucia Mar Unified School District agreed to pay $10 million in May 2022 to settle negligence claims brought on behalf of a nine-year-old special-needs girl who was repeatedly sexually abused by a school bus driver in 2017, a driver the district had hired despite a prior peeping conviction he concealed on his application.
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