Compassionate Car Accident Attorney in Culver City

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I Can’t Imagine a Better Law Firm
“Multiple lawyers recommended Wisner Baum to me and I have been consistently impressed with the quality of their work.”
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They Are About Changing the Systems...
“Wisner Baum are not only amazing attorneys but more importantly, they are activists. They are about changing the systems which got us into trouble in the first place. They understand their role in the process of making change.”
- Kim Witczak
Top Legal Minds in the Country
“The Wisner Baum firm has some of the top legal minds in the country; they are driven, determined, trustworthy, ethical and passionate.”
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Diligent & Professional Representation
“Thanks to your efforts I was able to recover from a tragic experience and turn my life around for the best.”
- W.T.
Our Best Interest Was Always Number One on Your List
“A special thank you to your Spanish-speaking staff for the extra effort put into this case. The language barrier was never a problem, and we are so very thankful to them. Your name holds much respect in our family.”
- G.C. & C.C

In the Fight Against Insurance Companies, You’re Not Alone

We’re Standing at the Ready to Help You File a Car Accident Claim: 855-948-5098

Even though insurance companies are in place to curb the financial burden that comes with unexpected accidents, far too often they do just the opposite. Unfortunately, these companies will often do whatever it takes to pay out the minimum possible amount or deny the claim entirely. We’re here to ensure that doesn’t happen to you and your family. At Wisner Baum, we offer effective legal solutions, compassionate support, and aggressive advocacy to clients in Culver City and the surrounding areas. While you focus on your recovery, we’ll devote our time to the pursuit of fair compensation.

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Meet Our Firm

We won’t let you go through this process alone. We’re here for you.

R. Brent Wisner
Attorney, Managing Partner

R. Brent Wisner is the managing partner of Wisner Baum and is based at our San Francisco Bay Area office. Brent is driven by a deep-rooted passion for using the law to help those who have been marginalized and hurt by large, and sometimes malicious, ...

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Michael L. Baum
Attorney, Senior Partner

Michael L. Baum is a senior partner of Wisner Baum (formerly Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman) with nearly 40 years of experience. He was the managing partner of Baum Hedlund from 1993 to 2022 and proudly turned over the reins to R. Brent Wisner in ...

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Bijan Esfandiari
Attorney, Senior Partner

Bijan Esfandiari is a pharmaceutical product liability litigation attorney and senior partner at Wisner Baum in Los Angeles. Since joining the firm in 2007, Bijan has worked as lead counsel on several cutting-edge pharmaceutical and medical device ca ...

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Timothy A. Loranger
Attorney, Senior Partner, Pilot, Marine Corps Veteran

Timothy A. Loranger is an attorney and senior partner at the national mass disaster law firm of Wisner Baum. A consumer attorney, pilot, and avid citizen advocate , Tim oversees our firm's transportation product liability litigation, aviation, and commercial ground transportation accidents (including truck accidents , train crashes, and military vehicle accidents), and military accidents resulting in catastrophic personal injury or wrongful death . He served as Chairman of the Aviation Law ...

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Monique Alarcon
Attorney

Monique Alarcon is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she focuses her practice on the firm’s medical device cases, pharmaceutical drug liability and consumer fraud litigation. She is also an adjunct Professor of Law for Loyola Law School’s Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Team. Monique recently successfully sued the Burbank Police Department (California) for police misconduct, civil rights violations, assault, battery, unlawful seizure, excessive force ...

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W. Crawford Appleby IV
Attorney

William Crawford Appleby IV is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. He focuses on complex law and motion matters, in-depth legal research and writing, and case strategy. Utilizing these skills, Crawford helps maximize case value by digging deep into both United States and foreign law to obtain the best outcome for Wisner Baum’s clients. He contributes to cases at both the trial and appellate level by, among other things, drafting briefs, compiling and analyzing legislative ...

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Pedram Esfandiary
Attorney, Partner

Pedram Esfandiary is a partner and trial attorney based in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum, where he concentrates his practice on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, consumer fraud litigation and police misconduct lawsuits. He was promoted to partner in March 2023 . He is the youngest lawyer to earn this distinction at the firm. He is currently leading the firm’s legal team handling the toxic baby food litigation. This new mass tort litigation involves ...

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Adam M. Foster
Attorney

Adam M. Foster is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. Adam concentrates his practice on class actions and mass torts particularly those related to pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and products liability, generally. During his years at Wisner Baum, Adam has worked on a variety of cases including Zantac, Roundup, and other similar cases. In that time, SuperLawyers®, the National Trial Lawyers, and Best Lawyers® have all recognized Adam’s work, naming him a Rising Star, a Top ...

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Matthew P. French
Attorney

Matthew P. French is an attorney at Wisner Baum’s Los Angeles office, where he focuses his practice on the firm’s commercial transportation accident cases. Led by a strong desire to help people when they need it most, Matthew’s clients appreciate his empathetic approach to how he handles his cases. Before coming to Wisner Baum, Matthew was an associate attorney at a Los Angeles area law firm where he focused on personal injury cases and handled all aspects of civil litigation. KGO ABC7 News ...

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Ari S. Friedman
Attorney, Partner

Ari Friedman is a partner and trial attorney at Wisner Baum where he focuses his practice on complex and multi-district litigation, product liability, and personal injury and wrongful death cases stemming from transportation accidents (including aviation accidents and truck crashes ) and other catastrophic injury (including TBI ). He joined Wisner Baum in 2022. Over the past decade, Ari has worked at other prominent law firms where he has handled complex litigation involving corporate ...

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Harrison E. James
Attorney

Harrison E. James is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum, where he focuses his practice on the firm’s pharmaceutical drug liability, class action, and consumer fraud litigation. Harrison joined Wisner Baum in May 2019 as a law clerk while he was still a student at UCLA School of Law. He was hired as an attorney in May 2021 after passing the California bar exam. During his time at UCLA, Harrison was the Chief Managing Editor of the Pacific Basin Law Journal. He was also a member ...

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Mayra Maturana
Attorney

Mayra Maturana is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she concentrates her practice on toxic tort injuries. She is part of firm’s legal team handling the toxic baby food litigation. Before joining Wisner Baum, Mayra gained experience in family law, immigration, and personal injury. A graduate from Southwestern Law School, Mayra competed and was honored as brief writer finalist for the Moot Court Honors Program Intramural Competition during her first year of law school. She ...

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Clay Robbins III
Attorney, Partner

Clay Robbins III is an attorney and partner in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. A third-generation California lawyer, Clay concentrates his practice on commercial transportation accident litigation and mass disasters. For 40 years, Clay has championed the rights of victims and their families in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits across the nation stemming from major accidents involving aviation, boats, buses, trains, tractor-trailers and auto defects. Prior to joining our law ...

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Stephanie B. Sherman
Attorney, Partner

Stephanie B. Sherman is a multiple award-winning trial lawyer and partner at Wisner Baum. With over 20 years of experience, she has helped thousands of clients in serious personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, chemical exposure, and dangerous pharmaceutical cases. Stephanie believes that obstacles reveal opportunities. Her background in psychology and the law gives her the unique ability to understand the complexities of trauma and the human experience while thoughtfully guiding her ...

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Helen E. Tokar
Attorney

Helen E. Tokar is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she focuses her practice on the firm’s Zantac cancer litigation. For eight years before joining Wisner Baum, Helen gained considerable experience handling a variety of practice areas, including criminal defense and landlord/tenant law. She was also responsible for a substantial caseload of personal injury cases where she handled everything from A to Z. She litigated cases, wrote demands, conducted discovery and ...

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Cara J. Luther
Attorney of Counsel

Cara J. Luther is of counsel to Wisner Baum, focusing on the firm’s mass disaster cases and commercial transportation accident cases. She worked for 31 years as a full-time attorney at the firm until 2022. She concentrates her practice on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases stemming from aviation accidents (including airline, helicopter and small planes), bus crashes, rail disasters, commercial truck crashes and defective pharmaceutical products . Helping her clients through ...

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Frances M. Phares
Attorney of Counsel

Frances M. Phares is of counsel to Wisner Baum, where she focuses her practice on personal injury and wrongful death litigation stemming from major transportation disasters , pharmaceutical product liability cases and toxic exposure across the nation. Ms. Phares earned her law degree from Tulane University Law School and holds an undergraduate degree in Zoology from Louisiana State University . While in law school she clerked for the Orleans Parish District Attorney and tutored Tulane ...

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Mark H. Schlein
Attorney of Counsel

Mark H. Schlein transitioned to ”of counsel” status to Wisner Baum in 2022 and continues to focus on the firm’s whistleblower qui tam cases. For 11 years he worked full time as the firm’s top whistleblower attorney, handling dozens of whistleblower cases. Throughout a career spanning over 50 years as a police officer and a lawyer , Mark has been committed to public service and protection. His unique experience as an urban police officer and attorney makes him particularly effective fighting ...

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Ronald L. M. Goldman
Pilot, Attorney of Counsel, Retired

Ronald L. M. Goldman retired after 60 years in the practice of law on January 10, 2023. He held the positions of vice president and senior trial attorney at Baum Hedlund & Aristei & Goldman (now Wisner Baum) and was a pillar of Baum Hedlund for 19 years. We marked his retirement with this special commemorative article. While practicing, Ron was a skilled trial lawyer and board-certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Pretrial Practice Advocate and Civil Trial Advocate, Senior ...

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John A. Greaves
Consulting Counsel, Retired Air Transport Pilot

AVVO Superb Score 10 out of 10 | AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated John A. Greaves is an experienced airline transport pilot and a former airline captain. He is also a seasoned airline accident lawyer. John has represented hundreds of airline accident victims in more than 35 airline disasters, representing clients in virtually every major U.S. airline disaster in the last 20 years. He was on the legal team that negotiated one of Baum Hedlund’s most significant aviation litigation achievements when ...

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Paul J. Hedlund
Senior Shareholder, Mechanical Engineer, Retired

Paul J. Hedlund was an attorney for 45 years and a member of our team at Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman for 30 of those years. He served as one of the firm’s senior shareholders for more than 20 years, overseeing the firm’s major transportation accident cases. Paul focused his practice on commercial transportation accidents including, aviation, bus, train and truck crashes. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his law degree from UCLA. Over the ...

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J. Clark Aristei
Senior Shareholder, Deceased

J. Clark Aristei was an attorney for more than 40 years and a member of our team at Wisner Baum for 26 of those years. Clark served as a senior shareholder for more than two decades and then semi-retired while also acting as Of Counsel to our firm. During his time at Baum Hedlund, Clark focused on all of the firm’s commercial transportation disaster litigation stemming from aviation, bus, maritime, train, and truck accidents. In Memory of Wisner Baum Senior Partner J. Clark Aristei: A Lawyer’s ...

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We Help Get the Results & Compensation You Need

When you have us standing by your side, you don’t need to worry.

Toxic Torts $2.0 Billion Verdict
In May of 2019, the jury in the case of Pilliod et al. v, Monsanto Company ordered the agrochemical giant to pay $2.055 billion in damages to the plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a Bay Area couple in their 70s.
Pharmaceutical Settlement $105 Million Settlement
Wisner Baum obtained $105 million on behalf of multiple clients involved in a pharmaceutical negligence case.
Whistleblower Settlement $18 Million Settlement
Wisner Baum secured an $18 million settlement against the Boeing Company for overcharging the U.S. government on aircraft maintenance.
A Major US Plane Crash $17.5 Million Settlement
Wisner Baum obtained a $17.5 million settlement on behalf of a client who was killed in a major U.S. plane crash.
Commercial Truck Accident $15 Million Settlement
Wisner Baum secured a $15 million settlement for a person gravely injured by a major truck company.
Commercial Truck Accident $8.5 Million Verdict
Wisner Baum secured a $8.5 million wrongful death verdict against the food industry company, Tyson Foods, for the wrongful death of a young man.

What We Can Offer You During This Difficult Time

Increased Risk
Major study finds that taking Tylenol during pregnancy is associated with a 19% increased risk of autism and 21% increased risk of ADHD.
Over $4 Billion Won For Our Clients
Our history of success reflects our relentless pursuit of justice and unwavering dedication to achieving the best possible outcome for every case we handle.
You Won't Pay Unless We Win
Our personal injury firm is dedicated to fighting for the rights of our clients and obtaining maximum compensation on a contingency basis.
Known Dangers
Tylenol autism lawsuits allege drug makers and retailers like Walmart, CVS, and others failed to warn parents of autism link despite knowing of the dangers.
Available Compensation
Parents can seek financial compensation for their child’s treatments, therapy, medical expenses, and other damages resulting from the diagnosis.
A Leading Pharmaceutical Litigation Firm

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