Greene Broillet & Wheeler

Overview

<p>Greene Broillet &amp; Wheeler, LLP is a California plaintiff's trial firm founded in 1970, based along the Los Angeles coast, that concentrates on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and complex civil litigation. The firm's documented caseload spans product liability, traumatic brain and spinal-cord injuries, motor-vehicle and commercial trucking collisions, premises liability, legal malpractice, insurance bad faith, employment retaliation, and sexual abuse, with cases tried in Los Angeles County and across California's state and federal courts.</p><p>The firm's record includes several of the largest reported civil verdicts in California history. In 1999, a Los Angeles jury returned a $4.9 billion verdict in Anderson v. General Motors — at the time the largest personal-injury award reported in the United States — in which firm attorneys represented passengers severely burned when a rear-end collision ignited a defective fuel system in a Chevrolet Malibu, as published on the firm's case results page and corroborated by multiple legal press accounts. The firm also prosecuted Los Angeles County's litigation against major tobacco manufacturers, yielding a reported $3.3 billion resolution. In 2016, a Nashville, Tennessee jury returned a $55 million verdict in Andrews v. Marriott at Vanderbilt, a privacy-invasion matter tried by partners Bruce A. Broillet and Molly McKibben; PR Newswire reported that the Consumer Attorneys of California subsequently recognized the trial team with its Consumer Attorney of the Year honor.</p><p>Independent peer recognition is documented across several credentialing bodies. Founding partners Browne Greene and Bruce A. Broillet are both members of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the invitation-only organization capped at 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States. Three firm partners — Bruce A. Broillet, Mark T. Quigley, and Geoffrey S. Wells — hold fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers, which limits active membership to approximately one percent of the trial bar in each state. The firm has carried a Tier 1 ranking in Best Lawyers 'Best Law Firms' for Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs in Los Angeles continuously since 2011, and eight attorneys appear in the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers per Lawdragon's published list.</p><p>All attorneys hold California bar admission. The firm accepts referrals from California counsel on matters involving catastrophic loss and maintains a published attorney-referral program on its website.</p>

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