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Arrest of Stanford student journalist covering barricaded pro-Palestinian protest gets pushback
Suzanne Phan | ABC 7 News | June 21, 2024, 11:45 PM PST STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) — When pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the office of Stanford’s president, a student journalist followed them inside. That student reporter did what journalists do–documented the news...
SUPPORTERS OF TORT REFORM IN IOWA ACCUSED OF MANUFACTURING A CRISIS
By Don Wiener January 11th, 2024 at 8:18 AM (CST) Billionaire Charles Koch’s political network won a major state legislative victory last year when Iowa passed a bill that limits damages in medical malpractice lawsuits. Now, a new court filing claims that an insurance...
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY: MITCH CARTER’S INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY
A newly filed lawsuit claims an insurance company engineered a record-setting medical malpractice judgment in Iowa to spur state legislators into passing tort-reform legislation. In March 2022, a Johnson County jury awarded more than $97.4 million to the family of a...
BAYER HIT WITH $857 MILLION VERDICT ON TOXIC MONSANTO CHEMICALS
Jef Feeley | Bloomberg News | December 19, 2023, 12:12 AM PST Bayer AG was ordered to pay $857 million to former students and parent volunteers at a Seattle-area school who blamed exposure to the company’s hazardous chemicals at the facility for causing brain damage...
JURY RETURNS $63M VERDICT AFTER FINDING CHEVRON COVERED UP TOXIC PIT ON CALIFORNIA LAND
Published 7:42 PM PST, June 8, 2023 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A California jury has returned a $63 million verdict against Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a toxic chemical pit on land purchased by a man who built a house on it and was later diagnosed...
Family sues MercyOne for negligence in heart patient death
Photo Credit: Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal file Excerpt from Nick Hytrek‘s Sioux City Journal Article SIOUX CITY — The family of a Le Mars, Iowa, man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Sioux City hospital, alleging staff members gave him a lethal dosage of...
Nick Rowley Named Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyers 2022
Nicholas Rowley Named 2022 Top 100 Lawyer by Daily Journal
Family of Transit Worker Who Died In Mass Shooting Files Suit
News Links for this Case SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Family of VTA mass shooting victim files lawsuit saying authorities failed to protect workers SAN JOSE SPOTLIGHT - San Jose VTA faces lawsuit from family of shooting victim En Español: San Jose VTA enfrenta...
In The News: Increasing Medical Malpractice Caps In California
May 9, 2022 - Featuring Nick Rowley's contributions for increasing medical malpractice limits in California. LA Times: Column: Everyone wins in compromise to increase malpractice payouts — especially victims LA Times: California’s malpractice payouts would rise...
Los Angeles hospital sued for racism in death of Black mother
Above Photo: Charles Johnson, right, is surrounded by his legal team Chris Dolan, left, in blue, Courtney Rowley, center, and Nick Rowley, second from right, during a press conference announcing a lawsuit outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in...
ELAWVATE PODCAST: NICK AND COURTNEY ROWLEY
Season 2 / Episode 1: DAMAGES EVOLVING WITH DAVID BALL, ARTEMIS MALEKPOUR, NICK AND COURTNEY ROWLEY We are kicking off Season 2 of the Elawvate podcast with a bang! In our first episode, Ben and Rahul host four of the country’s most respected trial lawyers and trial...
Legal Beagle Podcast: Nick and Courtney Rowley
Nick Rowley, Courtney Rowley, and Daniel Bidegaray join Jonathan to talk about Loss of Consortium. Loss of consortium is a standalone claim for damages brought by the spouse (and sometimes children) of an individual who has been injured or killed as a result of a...
NATION STATE OF PLAY PODCAST FEATURING NICHOLAS ROWLEY ON CALIFORNIA’S REGRESSIVE MALPRACTICE DAMAGES CAP
Listen to the Podcast Is a child’s life worth more than $250,000, if negligently killed by Medical Malpractice. The answer is no! Not since 1975 in the State of California. @JuryTrialLawyer Nicholas Rowley, has been featured on the Nation State and...
$15.45 Million Verdict For Violation Of Civil Rights and Discrimination
TJ SIMERS AWARDED $15.45 MILLION VERDICT IN RETRIAL FOR VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS, AGE, AND DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AFTER THE LA TIMES CONVINCED THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE PREVIOUS JURY VERDICT OF $7.1 MILLION LOS ANGELES,...
Article By Nick Rowley Featured In The Advocate Magazine
Trial Lawyer Nick Rowley recently wrote an article for The Advocate Magazine titled “How to think about, discuss, and present money damages in voir dire and opening statement”. The article dives deep into Nick’s strategies into asking for specific...
Nick Rowley Named CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year
Trial Lawyer Nick Rowley, partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley and founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice, has been named the 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year. The CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year Award is one of the most significant honors...
Nick Rowley Named To National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers Top 50 Verdicts Of 2018
Nick Rowley, partner and lead trial lawyer at Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley and founder and trial lawyer at Trial Lawyers for Justice, was named to the National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers of 2018 for having a top 50 verdict in the country. The...
Nick Rowley Named To Los Angeles Top Litigators Of 2018
Nick Rowley, founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice and partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley, was recently named to the Los Angeles Business Journal Top Litigators of 2018. The piece highlights top litigation attorneys in all practice areas. To view click...
Trial Lawyers for Justice Announces Record $29.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For The Negligent Killing Of A 40 Year Old Wife & Mother
Carrie DeJongh , a 40 year old wife and mother from Sioux County Iowa, had four beautiful children (ages 4, 9, 14, and 17) and a loving husband who she didn’t come home to for supper on June 9, 2015, because she was negligently killed in a hospital as a result of...
Nick Rowley Fireside Chat – The Art of Storytelling in Trial
Nick Rowley recently sat down with Trial Guides for another Fireside Chat on the topic of “The Art of Storytelling in Trial”. In the video, Nick spends nearly two hours talking about the importance of the jury hearing, feeling, and experiencing for themselves...
Nicholas Rowley Profiled On Cover Of Lawyer Monthly Magazine
Nick Rowley, partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley and founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice, was recently profiled on the cover of Lawyers Monthly Magazine and featured in a 4-page interview within the publication. The interview focuses on Rowley’s...
Nick Rowley Interviewed About The Destiny Reyes Case
Nick Rowley, trial lawyer for little Destiny Reyes, speaks on camera about Destiny Reyes, a young girl who was injured in a car accident, and how he and his trial team stepped in to fight for justice against a large insurance company to ensure she would receive...
Nick Rowley Podcast – Case Feature – Destiny Reyes
Nick Rowley was recently interviewed by DK Global regarding the Destiny Reyes case. Listen along to the full podcast at the link below to learn more about the case, how Nick prepares for a case, and the tools he uses in conveying complex medical conditions to a jury....
Nick Rowley Featured As Attorney Of The Month
Nick Rowley was featured this month on the cover of Attorney at Law Magazine as the featured attorney of the month. The piece includes an interview with Rowley talking about everything from his life growing up to law school to becoming one of the best personal injury...
Nick Rowley Featured As Thought Leader In Lawyer Monthly
Nick Rowley, founder of T rial Lawyers for Justice and partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley, was featured as a thought leader in the personal injury section of the latest edition of Lawyer Monthly. In the article, Rowley talks about how he fights for his...
Trial Lawyers For Justice Announces $10 Million Verdict In Wrongful Death Case
Dubuque, September 20, 2017— Trial Lawyer Nick Rowley, founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice and partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley, and his trial team Rodney Ritner, Dominic Pechota, and Grayson Yoder, recently won a $10 million non-economic...
Nick Rowley Announces $45 Million Settlement In Car Accident Case
The Los Angeles based personal injury law firm Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley (CZR) announces a $45 million settlement in a disputed liability car accident case against an insurance company. The case was handled by CZR Trial Lawyer Nick Rowley as well as...
Attorney Nick Rowley Wins $6.5 Million For Client In Nightclub Assault
SAN DIEGO, August 7, 2017— Attorney Nick Rowley, partner at the law firm of Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley and founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice, announces a verdict of $6.5 million for client Lisa Lopez as a result of an assault and...
Nick Rowley To Be Guest Speaker At “Take Back the Courtroom IV” in Miami, Florida
Trial Guides is proud to announce the fourth Take Back the Courtroom CLE event. This two-day, intensive CLE brings together three of America’s greatest trial lawyers: Rick Friedman, Roger Dodd, and Randi McGinn (plus guest speakers Nicholas Rowley and Keith...
Attorney Nick Rowley Wins $1.5 Million Slip and Fall Verdict Against Costco
LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2017—Attorney Nick Rowley of Trial Lawyers for Justice and Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley recently stepped in and took a difficult slip and fall case to trial in Santa Monica, California for client Brenda when her trial attorney fell ill and...
TL4J Mentioned In The Huffington Post On Personal Injury Lawyers
Trial Lawyers for Justice (TL4J) was recently mentioned in an article in The Huffington Post titled “Things You Should Know about Pursuing a Personal Injury Claim”. The section titled “Be Smart When Choosing Your Lawyer” mentions the importance of choosing an...
Attorney Nick Rowley to Speak at the American Association for Justice “Rules of the Road For Doctors, Drugs, and Devices” Seminar
DES MOINES, Iowa, March 30, 2017 — Attorney Nick Rowley of Trial Lawyers for Justice will speak at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) “Rules of the Road For Doctors, Drugs, and Devices” seminar at the Fairmont Mission Inn and Spa...
Second KHSD cop readies lawsuit against district in CLETS scandal
The Kern High School District launched an internal affairs investigation against a senior officer last year and accused him of wrongdoing after he helped uncover a decades-long practice of administrators misusing a sensitive police information database, a government...
TBC EXCLUSIVE: KHSD police chief files suit against district, alleges retaliation
Joseph Lopeteguy, the whistleblowing police chief who discovered that his bosses at the Kern High School District were for decades misusing a sensitive police database to spy on students, job applicants and others, filed a civil suit Friday in what could be the first...
Nick Rowley Featured On Trial Guides For “Chicken Suit” Case
As America’s leading litigation publisher, we hear a lot of great trial stories. After all, we publish the best trial lawyers in the country—including more Inner Circle of Advocate members than all of the other legal publishing companies combined. But when we heard...
Attorney Nick Rowley Comments On $127 Million Verdict Awarded to Sexual Assault Victim
DES MOINES, March 7, 2017/PRNewswire/—Attorney Nick Rowley of Trial Lawyers for Justice recently commented on the $127 million verdict awarded to a child who was a victim of sexual assault and her family. James Hohenshell was found guilty of...
Attorney Nick Rowley Featured In Forbes Article
Brian Rashid, contributor to Forbes, recently interviewed attorney Nicholas Rowley about a personal approach to business and how it can make you successful. Rowley shared tips on his personal growth as a human and a lawyer, and how compassion and staying true to...
JUSTICE FOR ALL As a trial lawyer, he’s won more than $1 billion for underdogs everywhere
The plane was on the ground for all of 10 minutes. “I’m Aria,” the pilot said, welcoming his passenger aboard the turbocharged aircraft whose glass cockpit was outfitted with digital displays presumably reverse-engineered using captured Batplane technology. Aria —...
Lawyer: Methodist pain medication theft was ‘institutional failure’
The theft of powerful painkillers from patients at a Des Moines hospital was not the misstep of a single employee, it was an institutional failure, said attorneys for nine patients who filed a lawsuit Friday against Iowa Methodist Medical Center. The lawsuit accuses...
Nick Rowley Highlighted On Master Practice
Nick Rowley was recently interviewed and showcased on the website MasterPracticeStory.com, a site dedicated to highlighting the best attorneys in their fields of practice. See the full interview in the video below: https://youtu.be/-HSIO1Ae_ps
American Law Society Recognizes Nicholas Rowley
The American Law Society Board of Directors is proud to announce that Nicholas Rowley has been accepted as a new member with ATL distinction. Their America Top Lawyers list is comprised of well-rounded individuals representing a diverse cross-section of U.S. legal...
Nick Rowley Featured Twice On CVN’s Top 10 Plaintiff Verdicts of 2016
Nick Rowley became the only attorney to be highlighted twice on the CVN Top 10 Plantiff Verdicts of 2016. #3: Carter v. Kern County School District – Attorney wears chicken suit and wins millions Link to video of the trial:...
Attorney Rowley hopes insurance companies wake up after verdict
A Decorah attorney involved in a record-breaking personal injury award in Howard County is hoping it wakes up insurance company executives in the state of Iowa. The jury recently awarded nearly $1.6 million to Kelsey Bronner of Cresco, who was injured in a one-vehicle...
KHSD settles chicken suit beating case for $10.5 million
The Kern High School District agreed Wednesday to pay $10.5 million to a former student injured in a violent dog pile that broke out during a 2010 Bakersfield High School pep rally, cutting short an ongoing civil trial that threatened to cost the district’s insurance...
Jury Socks LA Transit System With $8.35M Verdict Over Deadly Vehicle Collision
Los Angeles – A California state court jury has slammed the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority with an $8.35 million verdict in a lawsuit filed by the family of a Vietnamese immigrant who died after being rear-ended by an MTA vehicle. The jury...
RIVERSIDE: Jury awards $40 million in TGI Fridays stabbinG
A Riverside couple has won a $40 million award – one of Riverside County’s biggest civil verdicts ever – in a suit over their son’s 2009 stabbing at a TGI Fridays. Orlando Jordan, a 33-year-old Riverside resident, was stabbed to death at the TGI Fridays at the...