Pedram Esfandiary

Pedram Esfandiary is a partner at Wisner Baum's Los Angeles office, focusing on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, and consumer fraud litigation. Promoted in March 2023, he is the youngest lawyer to earn partner at the firm. Pedram was part of the trial teams for all three Roundup cancer verdicts against Monsanto: the $289.2 million Johnson verdict in 2018, the $80 million Hardeman verdict, and the $2.055 billion Pilliod verdict in 2019. He now leads the firm's toxic baby food litigation and sits on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the Baby Food Products Liability MDL.

He also co-led the trial team that won an $11.8 million police misconduct verdict against the LAPD. Educated at the University of Birmingham and Nottingham Trent University in the UK, he earned an LL.M from USC Gould School of Law and has spoken at UCLA and Yale law schools about the Monsanto litigation. He speaks Farsi.