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

Tom Dickerson

Thomas J. Dickerson is a passionate Kansas City personal injury lawyer and advocate with a strong moral compass. Tom believes in the importance of standing up for individual people and their families against wrongdoers and the insurance companies that defend this wrongful conduct. Tom routinely takes this battle into the courtroom and has tried a significant number of trials, including personal injury trials on transportation collisions, construction zone accidents, boating accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, dog bites, property damage, and consumer protection matters.

Tom was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Overland Park, Kansas. Tom started doing legal work when he was only 19 years old, working for the head of litigation at a mid-size firm that defended large financial institutions. In that position, Tom obtained invaluable experience seeing how some of the largest corporations in the country approached legal cases against everyday people. After seeing numerous cases where everyday people faced insurmountable odds against big business, Mr. Dickerson decided to dedicate his career to standing up for regular, hard-working people and their families. He fights to protect their rights and helps them obtain justice and fair compensation for their injuries and damages suffered due to the negligence of others. Tom started the Dickerson Oxton Law Firm with Chelsea Oxton Dickerson in 2010.

Tom has extensive experience in motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice and nursing home negligence, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, dog bites, job-related injuries, insurance disputes, and consumer protection matters.

Bio

Renee Finch

Renee Finch is one of the most highly respected trial attorneys in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Her track-record of obtaining amazing results for her clients actually started by defending, during the first several years of her career, major insurance companies and nationally-known corporations.  As a result of this representation, she gained a thorough understanding of the extent to which such entities will go to protect their bottom line, the degree to which they will attempt to obtain unfair advantages and, most importantly, the lack of respect and dignity they have for the individuals who often are injured by their actions and decisions made solely in furtherance of profit.

Renee was born in Alliance, Nebraska and had a solid midwestern upbringing in the Great Plains states of Nebraska and South Dakota.  While still in high school, she began working as a law clerk at a Rapid City, South Dakota law firm. It was there that she first learned the importance of the patient and careful examination of the law and how that, combined with a focus on empathy, attention to detail, and appropriate aggression, is crucial to obtaining justice.   She moved to Nevada after graduating from South Dakota State University, where she had won the NCAA national debate championship, and began law school.  After learning during her early legal career the hard lessons of how the corporate “profits over people” mentality is devastating to individuals, she dedicated her career to obtaining justice for those injured by the actions of companies and entities that operate with little to no regard for the rights of others.

Through her dedication to upholding the rights of those injured by others, Renee obtained one of the largest settlements in Las Vegas product liability litigation history after a company’s negligence and intentional disregard of the dangers its own internal testing revealed, resulted in the near- amputation of her client’s hand.  Renee has a wealth of experience in cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and insurance company bad-faith, and is eager to apply that experience to achieve results that better her clients’ and their families’ lives and right the wrongs done to them.  

In 2025, she proudly founded Summit Trial Attorneys to achieve for injured individuals and their families the justice and compensation they deserve. She has received multiple awards for being one of Las Vegas’s finest attorneys and is an active member of ABOTA, the American Board of Trial Attorneys. ABOTA is a peer-voted organization that recognizes only the top trial talents in the country. 

Renee is married, with four children, Kendall, Cassandra, Kallista and Ethan, and two French bulldogs, Coco and Lulu.  In the little spare time she has, she runs a high-end designer handbag and fashion website and participates in local charitable work.

Bio

Stuart R. Fraenkel

Mr. Fraenkel has a broad range of experience in civil litigation, including complex, high profile aviation, admiralty/maritime, auto, bus, truck, motorcycle, premises, personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, insurance bad faith, business litigation, mass tort, patent and entertainment matters.

Having handled numerous high-profile personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout his career with notable results, Mr. Fraenkel’s litigation experience has spanned the World, including Africa, Asia, Canada, Central America, Europe, Mexico, the Middle East, South America and just about all 50 states of the U.S. He is well versed in State and Federal Tort claims procedures and requirements in addition to being an authority in national and international conflicts and choice of law issues. He has reached the height of professional excellence and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity as a “preeminent-rated” attorney through the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell ® Peer Review Ratings™.

Mr. Fraenkel has litigated numerous international and domestic airline, commuter, military and general aviation crash cases. He was a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee on the China Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Korean Airlines cases. Mr. Fraenkel was one of the lead attorneys in the landmark Silk Air matter.

Mr. Fraenkel has also handled numerous general and commercial aviation cases involving Airbus, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Aero Vodochody, Aerospatiale, Beech Cessna, Citabria, Foland, Gulfstream, Icon, Marchetti, Mitsubishi, Pilatus, Piper, Westwind, and various experimental fixed wing airplanes, Augusta-Westland, Bell, Eurocopter, and Robinson helicopters, and blimps.

The military accidents Mr. Fraenkel has handled involved Sikorsky CH-53 Super Stallion, EH-101 Merlin, McDonnell Douglas F/A 18 Hornet, Agusta Westland EH 101 Merlin, and UH-1N Huey aircraft.

Some of the more high-profile general aviation matters Mr. Fraenkel worked on were the:

• 1989 Chuck Norris movie, Delta Force 2 helicopter crash, Tagaytay, Philippines;
• 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughn helicopter crash, near Elkhorn, Wisconsin;
• 1991 Col. Donald Madonna, Foland Gnat crash, Shreveport, Louisiana;
• 2010 Senator Stevens plane crash, Dillingham, Alaska;
• 2012 Michael DeGruy, Robinson R44 crash, Berry NSW, Australia.

Mr. Fraenkel is also often called upon to participate as an aviation and legal source by numerous media, radio and television companies worldwide and has been quoted in various publications on numerous occasions. An article featuring Mr. Fraenkel was written for the Cessna Pilot’s Association magazine and another for an ABA TIPS publication. Mr. Fraenkel was also featured as an aviation law expert on a special NBC segment on Hawaiian Air Tour Safety.

Mr. Fraenkel is a United States Marine Corps veteran. He served as a CH-46 Sea Knight crew chief and A-4 Skyhawk plane captain, receiving numerous commendations during his tour. He also has extensive experience in aviation and vehicle maintenance—including combustion, diesel and turbine engines, electrical systems, hydraulics, structures, avionics systems, ejection systems and airframes. It is this extensive avionic background that has helped Mr. Fraenkel successfully litigate numerous international and domestic airline, commuter, military and general aviation crash cases during a career that has spanned more than two decades.

Mr. Fraenkel has also litigated numerous first party bad faith actions in cases arising out of the failure of insurance companies to defend and/or indemnify its insured, low-balling, fire loss, etc. Specifically, he was part of the team that received the landmark settlement against State Farm arising out of the Northridge Earthquake.

Mr. Fraenkel was also part of the team that litigated the famous, landmark case against PG&E which ultimately was made into the academy award winning movie, “Erin Brokovich.”

Bio

Greyson Goody

Greyson Goody is a nationally recognized trial attorney specializing in prosecuting personal injury cases. Originally from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Greyson grew up deeply rooted in the practice of law, often watching his father, Keith Goody, defend and try criminal cases across Wyoming. Keith Goody, still actively trying death cases at 75 years old, instilled in Greyson a lifelong passion for justice and advocacy.

Since becoming an attorney in 2013, Greyson has tried 25 civil cases to verdict (and one criminal case), securing more than $60,000,000 in jury verdicts. His first trial as lead counsel was the landmark case of Pebley v. Santa Clara Organics, which resulted in a $3,466,000 verdict for a cervical fusion. The appellate court’s ruling in Pebley set crucial precedent in California personal injury law by clarifying how to determine the reasonable value of lien-based treatment for insured plaintiffs. Today, Pebley is binding law and cited routinely in personal injury litigation throughout California.

Greyson Goody is an Associate member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and an active member of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, the Orange County Trial Lawyers’ Association, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. His outstanding courtroom success earned him the CAOC Street Fighter Trial Lawyer of the Year award in 2019 and the OCTLA Top Gun Young Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year award in 2021.

Greyson approaches every case with honesty, openness, and humility, modeling his courtroom strategies after legends like Gerry Spence, Keith Mitnick, and the many peers he continuously collaborates with and learns from. His daughter, Tallulah, remains his greatest inspiration and the light of his life. Away from the courtroom, Greyson enjoys family time at his ranch in Bondurant, Wyoming.

He practices alongside Partner Talayeh Goody, who is licensed to practice law in both Wyoming and Minnesota, further strengthening the firm’s multi-jurisdictional personal injury litigation capabilities.

Bio

Stephen A. King

Stephen A. King is an accomplished trial lawyer with more than 100 jury trials to verdict. He attended law school with Nick Rowley, where they met in their first-year civil procedure class, became moot court partners, and have remained close friends ever since. Even then, Nick inspired in him a deep sense of purpose to stand up for the underprivileged and pursue justice by holding powerful corporations accountable.

He began his career as a public defender before transitioning into civil practice, where his work now centers on complex cases involving catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and civil rights violations such as excessive force and prison neglect.

Throughout his career, Stephen has earned recognition for record-setting verdicts in both constitutional law and wrongful death cases. In 2015, he served as lead trial lawyer on a team that secured a $40 million non-economic wrongful death verdict in Riverside County, California, the largest of its kind at the time. The following year, he set another record with a $3.1 million verdict in a constitutional law violation case against the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, a case that helped establish new legal precedent.

An Associate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Stephen also teaches at the prestigious Gerry Spence Method Trial Program in Dubois, Wyoming. His accolades include Most Influential Minority by the Los Angeles Business Journal and recognition among the National Black Top 100 Lawyers, National Trial Top 100 Lawyers, and National Top 10 Civil Rights Lawyers. In 2025, he received the California Lawyers Association Community Service Award. He currently serves as President-Elect of the California Association of Black Lawyers and sits on the Executive Board of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charity.

In every case, Stephen brings passion, precision, and an unshakable sense of justice. He has tried cases alongside Nick Rowley and Keith Bruno and now leads the civil rights and prisoner rights division of TL4J with Jakob Norman. His mission remains clear: to fight for the underprivileged and hold governmental agencies and insurance companies accountable.

Away from the courtroom, he enjoys time with his twin boys, spinning, and playing basketball. His next personal challenges are learning to surf and mastering salsa dancing.