Gregory A. Yates
Member
Email: gyates@gregoryayates.net

Practice Areas: Product Liability; Personal Injury; Tort; Trial Practice; Unsafe Products; Consumer Law; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Wrongful Death; Dog Bites.

Admitted: 1972, South Dakota; 1974, California; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S Supreme Court; 2006, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Law School: University of South Dakota, J.D., 1972

College: University of Wyoming; University of South Dakota, B.A., 1969

Member: American Board of Trial Advocates; Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (Member, Board of Governors, 2007-2009); Consumer Attorneys of California (Member, Board of Governors, At Large, 2007-2009); Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Biography: Finalist, Consumer Attorneys of California Lawyer of the Year Award, 2005. Recipient, California Lawyer of the Year Award, California Lawyer Magazine, 1997. Nominee, Trial Lawyer of the Year, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, 1999. Named to Top 25 Lawyers in the Valley, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, 2007. Honored as a Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2007, 2008, 2009. Judge Pro Tem, Los Angeles County. Member, Steering Committee, Rampart Coordinated Litigation, U.S.F.D.C., Central District of California.

Reported Cases: Ovando vs. City of Los Angeles, et al., 92 F.Supp 2d 1011 (C.D. Cal. 2000).

Born: Glendale, California, July 2, 1947

ISLN: 902584066