Bio

John Choi

John is an experienced trial lawyer. Prior to practicing law, he was the executive director of a non-profit. He was raised by an engineer dad and a pharmacist mom who instilled in him precision, accuracy, and determination. In his extended family, there are four M.D.s, three dentists, many engineers, as many veterans, and entrepreneurs. He proudly presents as the only lawyer.

John’s primary focus is representing injured people, but he enjoys filing lawsuits against insurance companies. He has a record-breaking three-day trial in which the jury awarded millions against a national insurance company for its failure to pay a valid claim. John called Nick from the courthouse steps to thank him and attributes his big verdict to Nick.

Having worked in the government as a Deputy Attorney General, John tried many cases, and one of his appeals was published in a Hawaii Supreme Court opinion dealing with the constitutional issue of the separation of powers between the executive branch and the judicial branch of government.

After leaving the government, John’s first jury trial win was in a criminal grand theft auto case involving a repeat offender. The client fired her public defender, who was trying to get her to plea bargain. She told John that her first two convictions were the same – the public defender talked her out of going to trial and had struck a plea deal. They went to trial and won! John exposed the government’s conflicting trial testimony that revealed the truck owner’s son had lost the truck in a poker game and never told his dad who had reported it stolen. You can’t make this stuff up. They were going to put this lady in jail for 10 years on a false charge. The truck was never stolen.

John was awarded Teacher of the Year at the Princeton Review, his first job out of college. While at UC Irvine, he was inducted into the Order of Omega. In law school, he was selected for the joint degree environmental law program. John also wrote for the Vermont Bar Journal.

While in law school, he was a summer intern at the Hawaii State Attorney General’s Office, where he worked for Larry Lau and Brian Yee, two iconic figures. There, he helped on a Clean Water Act case and with matters dealing with Public Utilities. In Hawaii, John has been a chapter president of the Hawaii Jaycees, Hawaii Christian Legal Society, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Hawaii Association for Justice.

He also represented Hawaii counties in the opioid litigation together with a team of premier lawyers against Big Pharmaceutical companies in a historic $78 million statewide settlement.

John also represents indigent clients pro bono. An 80-year-old grandmother was injured on the city bus, and he represented the grandmother pro bono without a fee.

Away from the courtroom, John enjoys his family time in the ocean, on the golf course, or in the kitchen. He and Michelle have been married for over 25 years. They have two daughters, one in college who competes in NCAA golf tournaments and another still in high school. They also raise a rescue dog from Kauai, a rare barkless Chihuahua. They also enjoy two laying hens, a Legbar and a White Crested Polish.

John speaks Hawaiian Pidgin, Korean, and Spanish.

Bio

Clint Ehrlich

Clint Ehrlich is one of America’s foremost legal minds. He is a partner at Trial Lawyers for Justice, where he heads the firm’s nationwide appellate and insurance litigation practices. In that role, he acts as in-house appellate counsel for Nicholas Rowley and also handles select outside matters. 

Clint has extensive experience in eight- and nine-figure civil litigation in state and federal courts, including the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. His practice areas include personal injury, products liability, intellectual property, class actions, insurance bad faith, and employment law. 

 In many of his appeals, Clint has developed new legal doctrines that have shaped the course of future cases. He is one of the only lawyers who has been quoted directly by the California Supreme Court when formulating the law of the land. California’s standards for negligence – including the prohibition on considering case-specific facts in analyzing duty and the distinction between justification and proximate causation – are based directly on ideas Clint developed early in his legal career as a law student in the case of Cabral v. Ralphs Grocery Co. 

 In his pro bono work, Clint has taken on the FBI and freed an innocent man serving life in prison for murder. He spearheaded the exoneration of Sgt. Raymond Jennings, an Iraq war veteran who spent more than a decade behind bars for allegedly murdering a teenage girl. The case was featured on America’s Most Wanted and other national media before Clint persuaded the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office that they had prosecuted the wrong man. 

 Not just a lawyer, Clint is also an accomplished computer scientist. He holds a U.S. patent for the invention of advanced cryptographic networking protocols (US11151549B2), and he was appointed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s A.I. Committee by the Circuit’s Chief Judge. He previously served as a Principal Investigator for the U.S. National Science Foundation, which awarded him a quarter-million-dollar grant for his work adapting biological signaling theory to build fault-tolerant distributed systems.

 Clint has become a leading voice on appellate law, insurance litigation, and the intersection of AI with legal practice. He has delivered keynote addresses and training seminars for major U.S. law firms and professional organizations, including the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Trial Lawyers University, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. His television appearances have reached millions of viewers around the world, including major networks in the United States, Canada, Russia, the Middle East, and Asia.

 Clint has been featured in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, the BBC, NPR, and Dateline NBC. He was a Visiting Researcher in the Faculty of International Law at MGIMO University, Russia’s most elite academic institution, where he pursued dual PhDs in international law and nuclear game theory.

Bio

Daniel B. Bidegaray

A native of Montana, Daniel was raised on a farm and ranch in the eastern part of the state.   After graduating with a Bachelor of Science from Montana State University in 1990, he attended law school at the University of Montana and was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1993. Daniel is licensed to practice in Montana and North Dakota, and he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and the Fort Peck Tribal Court.

Honors and Memberships  

To stay abreast of current developments in his practice areas, Daniel is an active participant in several legal organizations. His memberships include the Montana Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. His commitment to developing his skills and legal knowledge led him to attend and graduate from the Trial Lawyer’s College and the Keenan Trial Institute.  Highly regarded by his fellow professionals for his track record and high ethics, Daniel has received an AV peer-reviewed rating through Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating possible. Mountain States Super Lawyers has repeatedly selected Daniel to its list, which is limited to the top five percent of attorneys in the northwest of the United States.

More about Daniel 

Daniel enjoys hearing each client’s story and making sure they feel heard.  Understanding a client and helping them navigate through a claim with an insurance company is not for every lawyer but is something Daniel excels at and enjoys.

Daniel saw firsthand, the struggles of hard-working people and families growing up.  His parents immigrated to eastern Montana from southern France, starting with nothing except a strong work ethic.  They raised their family on the farm and ranch and encouraged Daniel and his sisters to obtain advanced degrees.  His father had only an eighth-grade education because southern France was in a deep recession, and he needed to work to provide for his family.  Daniel’s parents instilled in him and his siblings the importance of honesty, education and hard work.  This work ethic has translated into substantial results for his clients.

Daniel is the proud parent of three sons who enjoy hiking, skiing and participating in many other outdoor activities. Daniel also enjoys hiking, skiing, biking and the other outdoor activities that Bozeman has to offer. Daniel is a first-generation American and is proud of his Basque heritage.

Bio

Angela Bruno

Angela Bruno is the managing partner at BRUNO | NALU, a personal injury law firm. She gained public attention after participating in a wrongful death case against a major restaurant franchise that resulted in a $40 million verdict. Angela actively tries cases with her husband, Keith Bruno, a two time back to back “Trial Lawyer of The Year” winner in Orange County. In the last several years, Angela has focused on case settlement as the art of negotiation is her true passion. She has earned great respect among the ADR community for her preparedness and commitment to the process. Angela not only takes her own cases to mediation, but will also mediate cases for other lawyers who have not found success within that forum.

For the last three years, Angela has been on the board of directions for OCLTA (Orange County Trial Lawyers Association), and is also on the board of directors for OCTLC (Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities). Angela seeks out opportunities to give back to the local community, and is passionate about helping people.

Angela is a graduate of UCLA (Summa Cum Laude, 2001) and UC Hastings College of the Law (JD, 2007). She studied abroad at the University of Sydney (2000) and worked at ADR Center in Rome, Italy (2007-2008).

Bio

Keith Bruno

Keith is an extraordinary trial lawyer who tried and won his first case just one month after passing the bar in 2002. Almost 20 years later and more than 150 trials later, he is still trying and winning cases for people against large corporate and insurance interests in courtrooms throughout the United States.

Keith Bruno is a trial lawyer for people. He began his career as a corporate lawyer and quickly realized it was not the type of law he was made to practice. He became a Public Defender and discovered his passion. Keith won the 2006 “Don Simms Public Defender of the Year Award” after racking up a stirring string of Not Guilty verdicts in case after case. Keith represented people against the awesome power of the government and won.

While practicing criminal law, Keith was paired up with renowned civil attorney Nick Rowley to try a civil case and they became fast friends and partners. Keith left criminal defense and teamed up with his wife and fellow TL4J trial lawyer, Angela Bruno, to try civil cases. From there Keith set record verdicts including numerous eight-figure verdicts and seven-figure verdicts. Keith was selected Orange County Trial Lawyer of the Year for two years, the only back to back winner in the award’s history for his incredible civil jury verdicts. In addition to those honors, Keith has been selected as a National Trial Attorneys Top 100 Attorneys every year since 2014. He is a proud member of CAALA, CAOC, CASD, and OCTLA.

Keith is committed to partnering with other lawyers throughout the United States to help them achieve full justice and full value on all cases. He has dedicated his life to trying the cases of his clients — ordinary people, often fighting large companies or the government — against extraordinary odds. Despite the overwhelming challenge, Keith wins. Throughout his career, whether his clients are victims of another’s negligence or are facing criminal charges, countless people have turned to Keith for help in their hour of need. Keith’s achievements in the courtroom have been as diverse as they are stunning, and include winning a $40 million verdict side by side with Nick Rowley and Angela Bruno in a wrongful death case (Jordan v. TGI Friday’s) to an acquittal in a first- degree murder case (People v. Sosa), and countless other wins in between.

Keith is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he earned his undergraduate degree, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College, with his most important schooling coming in the trial courts.

After nearly a decade in private practice as a criminal defense attorney, Keith seamlessly transferred his skills into a successful plaintiff ’s personal injury trial attorney. Keith demonstrated consistent excellence that led him to be recognized by SuperLawyers as a Rising Star from 2009-2015, followed by the continued distinction of SuperLawyer in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Keith is known for trying and winning the toughest cases, often on very little notice. He believes genuinely in the trial team approach to helping personal injury clients and enjoys working with a variety of referral attorneys throughout the country. Keith recognizes that a referred case is often the referral lawyer’s most important case, and partners with each lawyer with that in mind. Being of service to the referral lawyer and client is the easiest top priority for Keith. His personal cell is 310-745-7811 and he welcomes your call or text.

Keith is a proud father to four wonderful children—Jackson, Lucy, Avery, and Ford, and husband, soulmate, and trial partner to Angela Bruno.

Bio

Barrie Duchesneau

Attorney Barrie Duchesneau is a Partner at Trial Lawyers for Justice. Prior to joining the firm, she spent over a decade representing injured clients at the largest Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury law firm in the Northeast. While Barrie is a New England native, she litigates cases nationwide. Barrie is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society and a member of the Trial Law Institute, Diversity Law Institute and New Hampshire Association for Justice.

BARRIE’S SUCCESSES

Barrie is responsible for obtaining over $200 million in settlements and has played an integral role in multi-million dollar verdicts. Here are some of her notable winnings:

• 2023 – Barrie settled a claim on behalf of a 73 year old cyclist hit by truck for $5.75 million.
• 2019 – Barrie helped obtain a $5.1 million settlement in the case of former Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks who suffered a spinal surgical injury which focused attention on the practice of simultaneous surgeries.
• 2015 – Barrie successfully argued in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, which reversed a Medical Malpractice Tribunal’s dismissal of her client’s claim. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recognized the Appeal as one of the most influential cases of 2015. She has had continued success in the Appeals Court.
• 2014 – Duchesneau was integral in winning a $16.7 million verdict for a failure to diagnose lung cancer, resulting in the death of a 47-year-old.

Duchesneau is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of New Hampshire, The State of Iowa, The State of Nebraska, the State of South Dakota, the State of Georgia the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire,  and the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

BARRIE IN THE NEWS

• Massachusetts Super Lawyer
• Recognized by Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly  for her appellate advocacy
• Massachusetts Super Lawyer Rising Star