Clint Ehrlich
BAR ADMISSIONS
California Supreme Court
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal
PREVIOUSLY ADMITTED PRO-HAC VICE
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Iowa
Nevada
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.