Super Lawyers - San Diego 2016

6 SUPERLAWYERS.COM AT TORNEYS SELECTED TO SUPER LAWYERS WERE CHOSEN IN ACCORDANCE WI TH THE PROCESS ON PAGE 18. 10YEARS

In the past six years, Wilson’s firm has increased by 50 percent. “We were 19 lawyers in 2010, and now we’re 28,” she says. “And we have taken out the rest of the floor and filled it. We’re sort of running out of space.” Wilson Turner Kosmo is evaluating opening offices in areas other than San Diego and San Francisco. “We now have clients that cover the whole state,” Wilson says.

Since 2008, Schoville has been inducted into the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, elected president and chief executive officer of Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation and, last fall, he received an Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego. In 2014, Schoville won an $11 million verdict against the state of California in a wrongful death case involving an automobile accident on Route 78.

In addition to continuing his criminal defense work at his solo practice, the lawyer we dubbed “Mr. Fix-It” in 2011 released Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts, his fifth book, in 2014. Compiled from over 30 years of court transcripts, the book shows Sevilla’s knack for being able to find humor in even the most dire of circumstances.

In 2015, Gerald “Gerry” McMahon celebrated his 50th year of practicing law. “I’m happy to be able to say I’m still doing it. The older you get, the happier you are to say that,” says the business litigation attorney. “‘Still upright’ would be the best explanation I can give,” he adds with a laugh.

Gomez has continued to grow Gomez Trial Attorneys, which now boasts 18 lawyers. He recently obtained the first plaintiff’s verdict in the United States for the victim of a defective DePuy ASR hip—which in turn led to thousands of settlement cases—and he will soon try a national class action case involving homeopathic drugs. Of course, Gomez continues to add to his collection of tattoos. The most recent? A samurai warrior on horseback.

When we caught up with our inaugural cover subject, he was in Australia with the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, as a member of its board of directors.

Casey is currently representing the family of Junior Seau, the recent NFL Hall of Fame inductee who suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy and tragically committed suicide in 2012. “We have opted out of the settlement with the NFL and are pursuing the NFL separately from any class action settlement,” Casey says. “The litigation has already had a huge impact on changing behavior on the football field in regard to concussions.”