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A. ILYAS AKBARI IAkbari@BaumHedlundLaw.com Media Interview Request: RMcCall@BaumHedlundLaw.com Aviation Accidents, Commercial Truck Accidents, Complex and Multi-District Litigation, Mass Disaster Litigation, Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical Drug Product Liability, Product Liability, Wrongful Death Law |
A. Ilyas Akbari is an associate attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and concentrates his practice on commercial transportation accidents resulting in catastrophic personal injury or wrongful death as well as pharmaceutical drug 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 was also an integral part of the firm’s trial team which tried an aviation accident product liability case 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.
Ilyas has worked on many of the firm’s cases and has experience handling many different types of wrongful death and personal injury cases, including aviation accidents, traumatic brain injury cases, truck crashes, pharmaceutical injuries and toxic poisoning cases.
Born:
- Kabul, Afghanistan, 1976
- University of California, San Diego, (B. S., Bioengineering, 2000)
- Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., 2003)
- Founding Vice President, International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, 1999-2000
- Member, Sangam Community Service Organization
- Recipient Provost Honors
- President, Student Bar Association, 2001-2002, elected position
- Member, Entertainment Law Society, 2001-2003
- Recipient, Paul Wildman Scholarship, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03
- Recipient, Mary E. Waters Scholarship, 2001-02, 2002-03
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
- State Bar of California
- The American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) membership, Aviation Law Section; Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Brain Injury Association of America
- California Brain Injury Association
- Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- 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
- Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- Selected to: Southern California Super Lawyers – Rising Star, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Aviation Accidents
- Commercial Truck Accidents
- Complex and Multi-District Litigation
- Mass Disaster Litigation
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceutical Drug Product Liability
- Product Liability
- Wrongful Death Law
- Farsi