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Bill Panagos
Charter Member
Intellectual Property Law

3331 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 102, Troy, MI 48084

 

Drawing from his 20+ years of experience as in-house counsel, including as Chief IP Counsel for Lear Corporation, Bill offers sophisticated business judgment that is rare in private practice. His in-house experience includes service for the US Army, BASF, SC Johnson, and Detroit Diesel. As evidence of his breadth and depth, Bill has structured acquisitions of technology companies, set up engineering entities in China for developing next generation batteries, cross-licensed IP, and litigated patent and trade secret issues. He knows how to focus on the clients' specific business objectives, regardless of technology or industry. And he delivers results.

Harsinie Panditaratne
Charter Member
Workers Compensation Law

1055 Westlakes Dr suite 300, Berwyn, PA 19312, USA

 

Harsinie is the founding member of HP Law. Harsinie focuses her Workers' Compensation practice on representing the self-insured and captive Employers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Harsinie's representative clients are in the construction, manufacturing, distribution, and temporary staffing industries. She has successfully litigated Claim, Review, Modification, Suspension, and Termination Petitions before Workers’ Compensation Judges, the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, and the Commonwealth Court. She recently defended an Employer against an ultimately dismissed Supreme Court appeal and successfully obtained a Section 20 Settlement while maintaining her client’s Section 40 lien rights. Harsinie is a highly sought-after lecturer and has delivered presentations and seminars across the country on Workers' Compensation laws. She recently presented Whose Claim Is It Anyway: Protecting Your Business from Claims from Uninsured Business Partners. Her other seminars include presentations on Medical Marijuana and Workers’ Compensation, Exceptions to the Workers' Compensation Act, Protecting Your Company from Litigation, and a three-part series on OSHA and Temporary Staffing Worker Initiatives. She has also presented seminars on Workers' Compensation Fraud and the Real Cost of a Workers' Compensation Fatality Claim.

Harsinie Panditaratne
Charter Member
Workers Compensation Law

1055 Westlakes Dr suite 300, Berwyn, PA 19312, USA

 

Harsinie is the founding member of HP Law. Harsinie focuses her Workers' Compensation practice on representing the self-insured and captive Employers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Harsinie's representative clients are in the construction, manufacturing, distribution, and temporary staffing industries. She has successfully litigated Claim, Review, Modification, Suspension, and Termination Petitions before Workers’ Compensation Judges, the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, and the Commonwealth Court. She recently defended an Employer against an ultimately dismissed Supreme Court appeal and successfully obtained a Section 20 Settlement while maintaining her client’s Section 40 lien rights. Harsinie is a highly sought-after lecturer and has delivered presentations and seminars across the country on Workers' Compensation laws. She recently presented Whose Claim Is It Anyway: Protecting Your Business from Claims from Uninsured Business Partners. Her other seminars include presentations on Medical Marijuana and Workers’ Compensation, Exceptions to the Workers' Compensation Act, Protecting Your Company from Litigation, and a three-part series on OSHA and Temporary Staffing Worker Initiatives. She has also presented seminars on Workers' Compensation Fraud and the Real Cost of a Workers' Compensation Fatality Claim.

Brian Panish
Charter Member
Personal Injury Law

11111 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90025

 

One of the country’s leading trial attorneys, Los Angeles personal injury lawyer Brian Panish has obtained some of the most significant jury verdicts in United States history on behalf of plaintiffs. His courtroom victories include a $4.9 billion record verdict in the landmark products liability case Anderson v. General Motors, over 100 verdicts and settlements in excess of $10 million, six verdicts in excess of $50 million, and more than 500 verdicts and settlements over one million dollars in personal injury, car accident, wrongful death and business litigation cases. Mr. Panish consistently serves in a leading role in the largest personal injury cases in California and the country — he currently serves as Plaintiffs Co-Lead Counsel in the Woolsey Fire litigation, Plaintiffs Co-Lead Counsel in the Southern California Fire Cases litigation arising from the 2017 Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flows in Montecito, California and serves on the Plaintiffs Executive Committee for the 2017 North Bay Fires in Northern California. Additionally, Mr. Panish has been appointed as Lead Trial Counsel in the Porter Ranch/Aliso Canyon Gas Well Blowout Litigation and has served in leadership roles in the Asiana Airlines Crash Litigation, the Olympus Superbug CRE Litigation and DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation, among others. Since 2011, Mr. Panish has obtained more than $500 million in verdicts including, among others, a $23,720,996 bench trial award for a Southern California man and his wife after the man suffered a lower leg amputation as a result of being struck by a 28-foot utility truck while riding his motorcycle, a $21,503,420.48 verdict for a man who suffered catastrophic injuries after a vehicle illegally exiting the 405 Freeway HOV lane struck his motorcycle, a landmark $53,745,374 verdict for two Southern California brothers who were severely injured following a head-on collision with CRST big rig, a $41,864,102 jury verdict and subsequent $46,000,000 settlement for a United States Air Force Captain who suffered catastrophic injuries after being struck from behind while on his motorcycle and then dragged the length of a football field and a half by a Southern California Gas Company truck, a $36.5 million jury verdict against Schneider National for a big-rig crash that left a woman with severe spinal cord injuries, a $34.5 million verdict for a man who suffered a below the knee amputation after being hit by a tractor trailer, a $21,503,420.48 jury verdict for a Southern California man who suffered catastrophic injuries after a vehicle illegally exiting the 405 Freeway HOV lane struck his motorcycle and sent him careening across three lanes of traffic and into a passing flatbed trailer, a $17.4 million verdict for a Ph.D. student who suffered brain and jaw injuries during a rear end chain collision accident, a $17 million jury verdict against the Los Angeles MTA in the wrongful death of a visually impaired passenger, a $17.845 million award in a wrongful death case involving four family members killed when a Marine jet crashed into their home, a $20 million jury verdict for a woman who suffered a brain injury in a hit-and-run accident involving a J.B. Hunt tractor trailer, a $17 million jury verdict for a 84-year old man hit by a bus resulting in a leg amputation, a $15.3 million jury verdict for a woman and her daughter after the woman was severely injured on a negligently driven Alameda Contra-Costa Transit District bus, a $10.45 million jury verdict for the family of a security guard killed on the CBS studio lot and a $8.3 million jury verdict in the first DePuy ASR Hip Implant case to go to trial. Because of his expertise in personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort and product liability cases, Mr. Panish has been appointed to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Steering and Executive committees in numerous high profile mass torts and major disaster cases, including litigation involving train crashes (co-lead counsel in the the Chatsworth Metrolink disaster, the Glendale Metrolink crash, and the Placentia Metrolink collision), airplane disasters (Alaska Airlines Flight 261 and Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes), pharmaceuticals (Vioxx and diet drugs), and defective product cases (Welding Rods, DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation, and Toyota Unintended Acceleration cases.) He is currently handling numerous cases involving the Asiana Flight 261 plane crash as well as serving as Plaintiffs Co-lead Trial Counsel, representing over 7,000 clients in the Porter Ranch Gas Leak litigation. Mr. Panish has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations as being among the top trial lawyers in the country.

Max N. Panoff
Charter Member
Personal Injury Law

4000 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Ste 490, Coral Gables, FL 33146

 

Max N. Panoff is a trial attorney whose practice focuses on tort litigation including wrongful death, medical malpractice, birth injuries, negligent security, nursing home and assisted living facility negligence, premises liability and falls, construction site accidents, motor vehicle, motorcycle, bus, commercial carrier and trucking accidents, pedestrian victim accidents, and other negligence cases.