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A. Ilyas Akbari is an associate attorney at Baum Hedlund and concentrates his practice on commercial transportation accidents resulting in catastrophic personal injury or wrongful death as well as pharmaceutical product liability and class action cases.

Mr. Akbari's bioengineering degree has proven very beneficial in the trials in which he assisted as well as with the handling of his cases in general. He was part of the team of Baum Hedlund lawyers who obtained one of the largest verdicts for the death of an unmarried person in Ohio state's history in a truck accident case.

He is an integral part of the firm's trial team. He most recently worked on one of the firm's aviation accident product liability trials against Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

After earning his B.S. in 2000 from U.C. San Diego, where he was the founding Vice President of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, Ilyas continued on to Southwestern University School of Law. While at Southwestern, he served as President of the Student Bar Association. He was also a Certified Law Clerk at the District Attorney's Office in East Los Angeles, where he conducted preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials. Mr. Akbari has been named a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star for the years 2007-2011.

Bar Admissions:

California, 2003

U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2003

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2006

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2006

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 2008

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2008

U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2008

U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2009

Education:

Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California, 2003, J.D.

University of California, San Diego, California, 2000, B.S. in Bioengineering

International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, Founding Vice President, 
1999 - 2000

Author:

The Exclusionary Rule in Strict Liability Cases: A Defect in the Law

American Association for Justice - Products Liability Newsletter

Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2010

Honors and Awards:

Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

Rising Star, Southern California Super Lawyers, 2007 - 2011

Avvo.com Superb Score 10.0 out of 10

 

Professional Associations and Memberships:

State Bar of California, 2003

The American Association for Justice, Member of Aviation Law Section, Products Liability Section; Heparin Litigation Group; The Spinal Cord Litigation Group; Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group

Consumer Attorneys of California, Member

Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Member

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member

Biomedical Engineering Society, Member

North American Brain Injury Society, Member

California Brain Injury Association, Member

Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, Member

Aircraft Owners and Pilot's Association, Member

Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1967 In Re: Bisphenol-A (BPA) Polycarbonate Plastic Products Liability Litigation, 2009

Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, MDL-2085, In Re: Air Crash near Clarence Center, New York
on February 12, 2009 (Colgan Air dba Continental Connection)

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