SHAWN KHORRAMI PARTNER SKhorrami@kpalawyers.com Shawn Khorrami founded the firm in February, 1996, just two months after being admitted to practice law.  He has grown the firm from a solo practice to one of the largest plaintiff-only law firms in California. Shawn Khorrami's extensive litigation experience covers a broad range of issues, including pharmaceutical litigation, environmental law and toxic torts, wage and hour, consumer class actions and product liability litigation. He has obtained over $250 million in verdicts and settlements for clients across the country. Shawn has litigated many class and individual actions against some of the U.S.’s largest corporations.  He has participated in high profile pharmaceutical cases involving drugs and devices including Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra, Ortho Evra, Avandia, Prempro, Paxil, Zyprexa, Kugel Mesh Patch, Fosomax, Thimerosal, and ReNu. He has served on National Plaintiffs' Steering Committees and has been appointed lead and liaison counsel in a number of pharmaceutical cases. He currently represents thousands of individual claimants around the country alleging personal injuries against many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Shawn is one of the lead lawyers in class cases involving tens of thousands of individuals and businesses who were victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.  He represents more than 5,000 individual victims of the hurricane.  As a member of the steering committee, he oversees all aspects of the litigation.  Shawn has handled consumer fraud cases – particularly in the form of class actions.  He has been appointed class counsel and to the plaintiff steering committee in a number of cases valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.  Among these are cases against internet giants, Google, and Yahoo. Shawn also has extensive experience in employment litigation – everything from discrimination, and wrongful termination, to wage and hour violations both in individual and class settings.  He has been appointed class counsel in numerous employment class actions involving tens of thousands of class members.  He currently is lead or co-lead counsel in wage and hour class actions in a number of states from coast to coast.  Additionally, he represents thousands of individual wage and hour claimants in dozens of states. Shawn has handled numerous environmental toxic cases including cases involving toxic chemicals such as di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), mercury, perchloroethylene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's), DDT, toluene, diesel, lindane, and lead. Shawn has successfully litigated these cases in State and Federal Courts against chemical manufacturers, consumer item manufacturers and distributors, and mining and mineral-extraction interests. Shawn has represented numerous plaintiffs in civil rights actions.  He has litigated multiple class actions relating to the healthcare system in prisons.  Currently, he represents a class action involving the lack of healthcare for tens of thousands of prisoners who suffer from Hepatitis C – a potentially fatal disease. A frequent speaker, Shawn has testified on multiple occasions as an invited expert before the House of Representatives. He and his cases are regularly featured in the largest media outlets in the country, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and major daily newspapers, national magazine, and network and network affiliate news stations around the country. Shawn Khorrami is a member of the American Bar Association, The American Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles and California, and the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys of California. He graduated with honors from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1995, after earning his undergraduate degrees in mathematics, economics and computer programming at the University of California at Los Angeles.

PARTNERS >> Shawn Khorrami >> Dylan Pollard >> Danny Abir ASSOCIATES >> Matt Bailey >> Lourdes DeArmas >> Bahar Dejban >> Nancy L. Gardner >> Deborah Gutierrez >> Becki Kammerling >> James M. Kenna >> Galorah Keshavarz >> John McCarty >> Mark Ravis >> Sonia Tandon >> Karen Travis OF COUNSEL >> Payum Ryan Banafshe >> Mikel Jones >> David Mallen