Frantz Law Group Social Media Litigation Attorneys
James P. Frantz’s 43 years of legal experience includes litigating catastrophic injury claims, tractor-trailer collisions, amusement park accidents, products liability, motorcycle and automobile collisions, aviation accidents, fire and explosion related injuries, wrongful death claims, mass transit accidents, construction accidents, industrial accidents, complex business disputes, class actions, and mass torts. Mr. Frantz currently serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the Porter Ranch Gas Leak litigation (one of the largest mass tort lawsuits in U.S. history), as well as the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the wildfire litigation against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE). The Daily Transcript honored Mr. Frantz as one of the Top 10 Attorneys. Mr. Frantz has been nominated for Top Attorneys in the insurance and personal injury category for the years 2010–2023. Mr. Frantz has also been honored as a Super Lawyer and Tier One Best Lawyers of America for 15 consecutive years. Mr. Frantz is a cum laude graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and a graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He represented the San Diego County Bar Association as a Delegate to the State Bar of California and has served as a Special Master for the State Bar of California for the past 30 years. He has also been an Arbitrator for 30 years. He is a Master of the William B. Enright Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He is a Fellow and Associate of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates and is AV rated by Martindale- Hubbell.
• $55.4 million - jury verdict*-awarded to the families of four Marines who were killed as a result of the negligence of San Diego Gas & Electric Utility (no pre-trial offer was made by defendants). • $223 million - jury verdict*-awarded in a professional negligence case (top pretrial offer was $100,000). • $18.5 million - verdict*-Mr. Frantz’s expertise was sought by Congress where he testified as a product liability expert with respect to the litigation he prosecuted against a drug manufacturer in which he won (with co-counsel) an $18.5 million verdict. Within months of Mr. Frantz’s congressional testimony, the product was banned bythe federal government due to significant safety concerns.
*Reduced and appealed; resolved for a confidential amount
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