{"id":2375,"date":"2011-11-28T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlawblog.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-11-28T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:23:00","slug":"chris-aitken-darren-aitken-rich-cohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2011\/11\/28\/chris-aitken-darren-aitken-rich-cohn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Aitken, Darren Aitken, Rich Cohn and Wylie Aitken Named Best Lawyers by Los Angeles Times: November 27, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Our firm motto is ‘experience, compassion, resources, and results<\/em>,'” <\/strong>Wylie Aitken says. “Those four values guided us in our growth over the past 35 years, helping us to become a nationally respected boutique firm of distinguished trial lawyers that would protect citizens and businesses alike<\/strong> <\/strong>from predatory special interests<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Today, the firm is known for its many multimillion dollar trial victories and settlements, in addition to a number of precedent-setting appellate decisions. In one of the firm’s most widely recognized cases, Wylie, along with his partner Christopher Aitken, secured a record breaking settlement<\/a>\u2014estimated at $25<\/strong> <\/strong>million<\/strong>\u2014after a dislodged metal cleat on an amusement park’s sailing ship ride took the life of a 34-year-old man and severely disfigured his wife. Most recently, Wylie Aitken, along with his partner Darren Aitken triumphed and attained a $55million-dollar verdict<\/a> against the U.S.<\/strong> <\/strong>Government \u2013 the largest personal injury<\/strong>judgment in Federal Tort history<\/strong>\u2014on behalf of a paralyzed nine-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

In addition to high-profile personal injury cases, the firm also handles everything from business litigation and products liability<\/a>, to insurance bad faith<\/a> and business torts. Wylie credits the firm’s history of notable results to the commitment of its attorneys,<\/strong> who employ creative strategies to achieve substantial recoveries, while building direct working relationships with their clients.<\/p>\n

The firm’s four partners are considered leaders in the legal community<\/strong> and have all been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America<\/em>\u00ae 2012, as well as the firm itself being included in U.S. News & World Report\u2013Best Lawyers<\/em>\u00ae Best Law Firms 2011\u20132012<\/a>. Christopher Aitken<\/a><\/strong> is a strong advocate for consumer safety and has been named to Super Lawyers <\/em>and Rising Stars <\/em>2005-2011, a list of <\/em>leading lawyers in the nation.<\/p>\n

Richard Cohn<\/a><\/strong> was also recognized in the Law Drago<\/em>n 500 list and is past president of the Orange Country Trial <\/em>Lawyers Association. Darren Aitken<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong> meanwhile,was named as one of the Top 50 lawyers in Orange County by Southern California Super Lawyers <\/em>and currently serves as president of theAssociation of Business Trial Lawyers. <\/em>Wylie<\/a><\/strong> has received many prestigious awards throughout his career, including The Best Lawyers in America<\/em>\u00ae 2009 Lawyer of the Year award for Personal Injury Litigation. He was<\/strong>recently named as liaison counsel for the<\/strong>nationwide Toyota litigation<\/a><\/strong> concerning the unintended acceleration of Toyota vehicles.<\/p>\n

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“Our firm motto is ‘experience, compassion, resources, and results,’” Wylie Aitken says. “Those four values guided us in our growth over the past 35 years, helping us to become a nationally respected boutique firm of distinguished trial lawyers that would protect citizens and businesses alike from predatory special interests.” Today, the firm is known for… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}