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

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.”