The Ouchi Law Firm

Overview

<p>The Ouchi Law Firm APC is a California civil rights boutique founded by Wesley G. Ouchi and headquartered in Old Town Pasadena. The firm concentrates exclusively on civil rights litigation arising from police misconduct, encompassing claims of excessive force, unlawful police shootings, false arrest, fabrication and concealment of evidence, wrongful death, and negligent denial of medical care. Cases are prosecuted against municipal police departments, county sheriffs' offices, and the governmental entities that employ them throughout California.</p><p>Wesley G. Ouchi completed undergraduate studies with highest honors at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a double major in Psychology and Social Welfare, before receiving his J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 2014 (Bar No. 297187). The National Advocates, a national peer-recognition organization for plaintiff trial attorneys, has listed Ouchi in both its Top 40 Under 40 designation and its Top 100 Lawyers roster for civil rights practitioners.</p><p>The firm's publicly reported case record includes a $5,000,000 settlement in Nicholson, et al. v. City of Inglewood — an excessive-force police shooting claim that the firm reported as the third-largest civil rights settlement in California for 2018. A subsequent false arrest claim on behalf of a homeless plaintiff resolved for $750,000, identified by the firm as the largest such settlement in California for 2022. These outcomes represent individual closed matters and carry no predictive value for future cases.</p><p>Case work from the firm has drawn coverage in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, NBC, and KTLA, among other regional and national media. The firm maintains offices in Pasadena and Redlands and serves plaintiffs across the Greater Los Angeles region and statewide.</p>

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