Join us for our conversation with preeminent trial lawyer, Khaldoun Baghdadi.  Khaldoun talks about how his Palestinian background has influenced his perspective and approach to the law. He talks about the principles that have enabled him and his firm to obtain many record setting verdicts in both individual plaintiff and mass tort trials.  Since 2009, Khaldoun has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer®. In addition, Khaldoun is AV – Pre-Eminent rated by Martindale Hubbell, signifying the highest peer review mark for ethics and standards of practice. His AVVO professional rating is 10.0 – Superb, reflecting the highest rank available.

Khaldoun served an adjunct instructor teaching trial advocacy at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He has also served as an instructor on trial technique, deposition practice and lawyering skills for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Active in the courtroom and the community, Khaldoun served the City of San Francisco by way of Mayoral appointment to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. In 2006, he was elected chair of that body.

Khaldoun graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, and obtained his law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

Noteworthy Verdicts and Settlements

• $1 billion dollar jury verdict for defective hip implant
• $ 9 million dollar medical negligence settlement
• $8.3 million dollar jury verdict for defective hip implant
• $7.8 million dollar personal injury settlement for defective medical device
• $7.3 million wrongful death jury verdict in an automobile collision
• $6.25 million wrongful death settlement in a vehicle/trailer rollover
• $4.5 million dollar personal injury settlement in an automobile collision
• $2.9 million wrongful death settlement for roof crush vehicle defect
• $2.6 million settlement for defective medical device
• $2.4 million medical negligence settlement

Published Works

• Apples and Oranges, the Supremacy Clause and the Determination of Self-Executing Treaties

Representative Cases

• Detoy v. City and County of San Francisco
• Ard v. Bi-Bett Corporation
• Bennett v. City of Visalia
• Gu v. BMW

Honors and Awards

• Northern California Super Lawyer®, 2009
• AV – Pre-Eminent rated by Martindale Hubbell
• AVVO Professional Rating is 10.0 – Superb

Professional Associations and Memberships

• San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Member and Chair
• Arab American Attorneys Association, Co-chair, Bay Area Chapter
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Member
• San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• American Association for Justice, Member

 

 

About the Elawvate Podcast

The Elawvate Podcast – Where Trial Lawyers Learn, Share, and Grow is where the practice of trial law meets personal growth. To succeed as a trial lawyer and build a successful law firm requires practice skills, strategic thinking and some amount of business and entrepreneurial savvy. Elawvate is a place to learn and share skills and strategies for success.

But it is also a place to dig deeper and achieve personal growth.

Those who succeed as trial lawyers at the highest levels cultivate character, principle, integrity, leadership, courage, compassion and perseverance.  

We learn and draw inspiration from those who have achieved this success.

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For more information or to contact the hosts, see:

(Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com) 

(Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC)