About Lady Luna
Lady’s path to the law profession was different from most. She moved to the United States after obtaining a law degree in her native Colombia. Upon arriving in the United States, Lady obtained a certificate in International Business and worked for international companies for over two years. Lady began work as a paralegal, helping Hispanics in California with their personal injury cases.
She has used her fluency in both English and Spanish to expertly advocate for clients and ensure that no detail is overlooked. The rewards of these human connections and her empathy for the challenges faced by Latino people inspired Lady to become a licensed attorney here in the United States. Lady is proud to be a part of the small but significant cadre of Hispanic women attorneys in the state of California.
Lady’s motivation has always been to present the stories of injured immigrants, Latinos, and people of color in front of juries. She expertly tells their stories, stories she has encountered ever since she arrived in the United States, and demands commensurate justice on their behalf.
Lady is a licensed attorney in both Colombia and California, a trained lawyer in common and civil law. As part of her legal studies, she participated in alternative dispute resolution programs for personal injury cases and commercial disputes. Over the past six years, she has played an essential role in numerous personal injury and medical malpractice cases, including cases featuring wrongful death and traumatic brain injury.
When Lady is not practicing law, she can be found in a cafe in Colombia or riding her bicycle through canyons in Los Angeles.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Trial Lawyers for Justice
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Carrie DeJongh, 40, of Hull, Iowa, died on June 9, 2015 after receiving iodinated contrast dye for a CT scan at Sioux Center Health, when the physician treating her gave her an antihistamine but did not immediately check her vital signs or give epinephrine. Her family sued Sioux Center Health and Dr. Roy T. Slice for negligence, and both defendants denied the allegations. A Sioux County jury in Orange City returned a $29.5 million verdict on June 13, 2018, covering DeJongh's pain and suffering before her death and loss of consortium for her husband and four children. No appeal, remittitur or reduction has turned up since.
In February 2017, a physician assistant at a UnityPoint urgent care clinic in Des Moines diagnosed Joseph Dudley with the flu despite a negative flu test, sent him home on Tamiflu, and never ordered a complete blood count. Two days later Dudley was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis caused by an undetected heart valve infection, spent eight days in a medically induced coma, and suffered a series of strokes that left him with permanent brain damage, hearing loss, vertigo and nerve damage. A Polk County jury tried the malpractice claim against physician assistant Melanie Choos and Central Iowa Hospital Corp, doing business as UnityPoint Clinic, over a week in November 2022 and returned a $27,000,000 verdict, all of it noneconomic damages. The defense moved for a new trial afterward and UnityPoint said it was weighing an appeal.
Richard J. Pellock, 80, had surgery to remove bladder cancer at UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa in January 2015, and the operation succeeded. Days later he needed a second procedure for a post-surgical complication, and the nurse anesthetist handling that procedure induced anesthesia without first emptying his stomach despite signs he had a full one. Pellock aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure, and died. His widow and son sued the anesthesia group and a Dubuque County jury returned a $10 million verdict against it in September 2017, awarded entirely as loss-of-consortium damages. Defense lawyers were reported as saying they would challenge the verdict, but no Iowa appellate decision in the case has ever been published.
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