As our newest Partner, Ruth Rizkalla brings significant experience and victories to The Carlson Law Firm’s new Los Angeles office. She has significant experience in complex mass torts litigations and has represented injured victims involving:
Defective products
Dangerous drugs
Complex business litigation
Partnership dissolution
Ruth has spent her 17-year career representing those injured through severe negligent acts of large corporations. She has served in multiple leadership positions in several coordinated mass tort proceedings. Most recently, she has served as Co-lead in The Xarelto Products Liability JCCP and Plaintiff’s Steering Committee member of The 3M Combat Earplugs Products Liability MDL. Over her career, she has been appointed to positions in the following torts:
Judge-appointed Co-Liaison Counsel for Zoloft JCCP 4771
Judge-appointed Co-Liaison Counsel for Cymbalta JCCP 4825
Judge-appointed Co-Lead Counsel for Xarelto JCCP 4862
Judge-appointed Plaintiff’s Steering Committee Member for Pradaxa JCCP 4863
Judge-appointed Plaintiff’s Steering Committee Member for 3M Earplugs MDL 2885
Judge-appointed Plaintiff’s Steering Committee Member for Elmiron MDL 2973
Judge-appointed Plaintiff’s Steering Committee Member for Paragard MDL 2974
She graduated from Santa Clara University in 1998 with her B.S. and from the University of San Francisco with her Juris Doctorate in 2002. During the summer of 2000, Ms. Rizkalla attended the Udayana University School of Law in Bali, Indonesia and during the summer of 2001, she attended the Charles University School of Law in Prague, Czech Republic.
