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 2007-2009.