Trial Guides is proud to have Rick Friedman as one of its authors. Rick built his reputation representing people and small businesses injured by large corporations and government agencies. He handles cases including catastrophic injury, defamation, insurance bad faith, and business torts.
Rick started his career in a small town in Alaska as a lawyer with no staff, where he developed a love for studying the books and transcripts of great trial lawyers. He built his career representing the poor, injured, and mistreated, sharing with jurors the truth about his clients’ injuries and what caused them. His trial method is to present the truth to the jury, and effectively counter defense tactics to distort the truth. He has developed methods for clearly showing jurors how defendants have broken the rules that protect all of us. Lawyers all over the country now ask him for help in trying their cases.
Among Rick’s landmark cases are Bellott v. State Farm, a $152,000,000 jury verdict on behalf of a client whose insurance agency agreement was terminated in retaliation for his refusal to engage in dishonest marketing practices; Washington v. Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada LLC, a $104,000,000 jury verdict for the infection of his client with Hepatitis C due to the defendant’s multi-dose vials of Propofol; Myrick v. Mastagni, a jury verdict believed to be the first case in California holding a building owner liable for injuries sustained in an earthquake; and Robinson v. State Farm, which exposed State Farm’s use of false doctor’s reports to deny claims. He has obtained four verdicts that ranked in the top ten verdicts of the year in the United States. He is a member and past president of the Inner Circle of Advocates as well as a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Rick is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the author or coauthor of four bestselling legal books for Trial Guides: Rules of the Road: A Plaintiff Lawyer’s Guide to Proving Liability, Polarizing the Case, Becoming a Trial Lawyer, and The Elements of Trial. These books have revolutionized how thousands of lawyers try their cases. He is licensed to practice in Alaska, Washington, Nevada, Kentucky and California, but also regularly appears pro hac vice in other state and federal courts around the country.
Rick has been an important advisor to Trial Guides since 2005.
A New York native, James was admitted to the State University of New York at Albany in the fall of 1982 at the age of sixteen. He graduated cum laude in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He subsequently received his J.D. from Arizona State University Law School in 1989 and has practiced within the state of Arizona since that time. His office is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
An astute litigator, James’ eclectic mix of practice areas includes serious personal injury, insurance/bad faith, medical and professional malpractice, securities, commercial and civil trial work and appeals. He has represented numerous clients who have sustained serious and permanent brain injuries. In addition, James has been involved in a number of reported legal opinions including Estate of Jared M. Reinen v. Northern Arizona Orthopedics, Ltd., 198 Ariz. 283, 9 P. 3d 314 (2000) which helped extend Constitutional rights to a Jehovah’s Witness in a medical malpractice action after he exercised his religious beliefs in refusing a post-operative blood transfusion.
In the spring of 2008, James was asked to provide assistance to the plaintiffs’ class action trial team in the cases of Nguyen, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., Meoli v. AT&T Wireless, Inc. et al., and Mendoza v. Cingular Wireless LLC et al., a series of consolidated lawsuits filed in Oakland against various cell phone companies regarding their business practices of Early Termination Fees and their Handset Locking of cell phones.
More recently, James has been involved in a series of plaintiffs’ cases filed throughout the country and Puerto Rico regarding various high net worth individuals brought against Citigroup for the marketing and sale of Citigroup’s ASTA and MAT Funds, which sought to use a leveraged municipal arbitrage bond strategy to enhance investor returns. These funds subsequently went on to lose much, if not all, of their value in the subsequent credit crisis.
Licensed to practice in the state and federal courts of Arizona, James is also a Sustaining Member of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association.
James Abernethy is of counsel at Friedman | Rubin.
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Friedman Fridays - April 1, 2020
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Friedman Fridays - April 10, 2020
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Friedman Fridays - April 17, 2020
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Friedman Fridays - May 15, 2020
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Friedman Fridays - August 20, 2020
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