Attorney Profiles
Larry Booth (Of Counsel)
Richard Koskoff (Of Counsel)
Roger Booth (Of Counsel)
Donald Beck
Stephen J. Estey is one of the founders of Estey & Bomberger, LLP. Stephen J. Estey is an attorney at law duly sworn in the State of California and is authorized by the Supreme Court to practice law in all Courts in the State of California. Mr. Estey is also admitted and qualified to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit, the 11th Circuit & the Southern Central Districts of California. Mr. Estey has extensive legal experience in the negotiation, settlements and litigation of various types of legal matters, including, but not limited to, serious personal injury claims, wrongful death cases, car accident claims, truck & big rig accident claims and bus accident claims, insurance contract disputes and insurance bad faith claims. Mr. Estey and the Law Offices of Estey & Bomberger are committed to providing the highest quality of legal services for clients
Education
Bachelor of Arts Criminal Justice
San Diego State University, 1989
Juris Doctor California Western School of Law, 1992
Admitted to Practice:
United States Supreme Court
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
11th Circuit Court of Appeals
State of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
MCLE Lecturer for California Consumer Attorneys
Personal:
Married with two children
Michael Bomberger
R. Michel Bomberger is one of the founders of Estey & Bomberger, LLP. R. Michael Bomberger is an attorney at law duly sworn in the State of California and the State of Pennsylvania and is authorized by the Supreme Court to practice law in all Courts in the State of California. Mr. Bomberger is also admitted and qualified to practice law in the United States Federal District Court Southern & Central District of California. In addition, the States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has certified that Mr. Bomberger is admitted and qualified as an attorney to practice law in the United States Federal Court of Appeals. Mr. Bomberger has extensive legal experience in the negotiation, settlements and litigation of various types of legal matters, including, but not limited to, serious personal injury claims, wrongful death cases, car accident claims, truck & big rig accident claims, bus accident claims, elder abuse claims, birth injury claims, head injury claims, burn injury claims, dog bite claims and defective product claims in California . Mr. Bomberger and the Law Offices of Estey & Bomberger are committed to providing the highest quality of legal services for clients.
Education
Bachelor of Arts English and Economics
Bucknell University, 1988
Juris Doctor California Western School of Law, 1992
(American Juris Prudence Award for Legal Skills)
Admitted to Practice:
State of California
State of Pennsylvania
United States District Court Southern District of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
California Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
San Diego County Bar Association
Personal:
Married with four children.
Larry Booth (Of Counsel)
Lawrence R. Booth graduated first among day students from the University of Southern California in 1959. He worked with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office for two years which gave him substantial trial experience. He then went on to concentrate in the field of personal injury and wrongful death with the law firm of Silver & McWilliams (which eventually became Silver, McWilliams & Booth).
During his 20 years with Silver, McWilliams & Booth, Lawrence Booth was the lead trial lawyer in hundreds of personal injury cases, with major concentration in the field of construction accidents and products liability. In 1972, he became the fourth attorney in California, and among a select few in the country, to obtain a million dollar verdict in a personal injury case. In 1973, he was elected to the Inner Circle of Advocates. This national organization is limited to 100 of the finest trial lawyers in the United States, only a handful of whom are in California.
In 1974, Lawrence Booth became the first permanent Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association publication, The Advocate. After four years, he relinquished that post to become the president of the organization. The Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association (now known as the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles) includes over 2,000 attorneys practicing in the personal injury field in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1997, the organization nominated Mr. Booth (along with colleague Richard Koskoff) as "Trial Lawyer of the Year."
During his four decades of practice, Lawrence Booth has been a prolific author. His articles on personal injury practice regularly appear in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the primary legal newspaper in the State of California. For fifteen years, he has published a monthly column entitled "Tort Tactics" in the Barristers Bulletin of the South Bay Bar Association. Mr. Booth has appeared as a guest lecturer at dozens of personal injury seminars throughout California and for civic and professional organizations.
Richard B. Koskoff (Of Counsel)
Richard B. Koskoff graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Dean's Honor Student in 1968. He attended law school at the University of California at Davis from 1969 to 1972, representing UC Davis at the renowned California State Moot Court Finals in 1972. Shortly after graduation, Richard Koskoff embarked on his litigation-oriented career and became one of the head trial attorneys for the City of Los Angeles in prosecuting drunk driving cases.
During the 1970's, Richard Koskoff was an avant-garde litigator, representing the City in cases against environmental offenders. He was ahead of his time in protecting consumer rights and prosecuted numerous cases involving consumer rights violations and false advertising. After leaving the City Attorney's Office, Richard Koskoff opened his own criminal defense practice. As a criminal defense lawyer, he had a very successful trial record, including successfully defending a number of high profile cases.
In the mid-1980's, Richard Koskoff joined Lawrence Booth and has since concentrated on representing clients who have suffered serious and lifelong personal injuries, including the wrongful death of loved ones. He has obtained numerous million dollar and multi-million dollar results, including an astounding $16.5 million verdict in 1997, in an extremely difficult trial where the defendant had not offered any money to settle the case prior to trial. In a 1998 trial in which he handled the damages issues, Mr. Richard Koskoff obtained a $1.6 million verdict, setting a record for the highest hand injury verdict in Orange County history. Also in 1998, he settled an injury case for $9 million, which tied the record for the highest settlement ever paid by the City of L.A. In two of his recent cases, where the verdicts were in excess of a million dollars, the jury took the almost unheard of action of rendering monetary awards, which were higher than the amounts the plaintiffs demanded in trial.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was one of 11 attorneys to be nominated by the Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles as "Trial Lawyer of the Year." He is a repeated guest speaker and lecturer for various organizations and participates in the continuing legal education of lawyers as an invited speaker for the State Bar of California. Mr. Richard Koskoff has published numerous articles on the subjects of trial tactics and personal injury practice.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was the subject of a "Litigator Profile" in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger E. Booth (Of Counsel)
Since graduating from one of the top law schools in the country in 1991, Roger E. Booth has handled numerous large, complex cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants, and both individuals and corporations, throughout California. He has extensive jury trial experience and has developed particular expertise in products liability, construction accidents and insurance bad faith.
In 1987, Roger Booth graduated with honors from Pomona College (one of the top handful of liberal arts colleges in the U.S.) with a degree in English Literature. During his senior year, he spent a semester studying at Oxford University in England. He went on to attend Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, which is ranked consistently among the top seven law schools in the country. At Boalt, in addition to excelling in his academic courses, Mr. Booth gained practical legal experience representing numerous low-income clients in both civil and criminal matters.
After graduating from Boalt in 1991, Mr. Roger Booth became an associate with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, the largest law firm in California. At Pillsbury, he represented large corporations in a wide range of substantial litigation matters, specializing in insurance coverage and bad faith cases, and obtained extensive trial experience. Among the cases he handled was an insurance bad faith case against three of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., which resulted in settlements and a verdict for his client totaling over $11 million. In 1996, Roger Booth took a leave of absence from Pillsbury to work as a deputy public defender in San Francisco, gaining valuable jury trial experience handling criminal matters.
Mr. Roger Booth joined Booth & Koskoff in 1997 and, since then, has handled a variety of personal injury, wrongful death and insurance bad faith cases. In September 1998, in just his second personal injury trial, he (along with Richard Koskoff) obtained a $1.6 million verdict, establishing a new record for a hand injury case in Orange County. As a result of that verdict, Roger Booth was featured in a profile in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger Booth has published articles on the subjects of construction accident law, defective air bags and insurance bad faith.
Donald J. Beck
Donald Joseph Beck has practiced exclusively on high value complex personal injury cases since graduating from Southwestern University in 1975. While in law school, he clerked for a Los Angeles firm of personal injury lawyers who specialized in trial of large injury cases.
He is a pilot, and has achieved a $13,813,000 verdict in wrongful death airplane crash litigation. He has been significantly involved in many large settlements and verdicts as well, including other seven and eight figure results in construction machinery design, factory machinery design, as well as medical malpractice particularly malpractice which results in catastrophic injuries to infants. He has handled hundreds of important cases and is highly experienced in construction accident, highway design, serious injury automobile accidents, sexual molestation, catastrophic injuries in oil industry explosions, as well as products liability matters in the aircraft, automobile, and consumer fields.
Estey and Bomberger, LLP
2869 India Street
San Diego, California 92103
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