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Howard D. Krepack
Howard D. Krepack With three decades of successful legal practice, Howard D. Krepack has earned the recognition of his peers and accolades from his clients based on his long string of successes in the courtroom. Whether it concerns a spinal injury from a defective product, a wrongful death in a medical malpractice, or any other serious personal injury, those harmed turn to Mr. Krepack for effective representation. Law & Politics magazine has twice named him a Los Angeles “Super Lawyer” and West magazine lists him as a “Best Lawyer.” He is a member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates.

In the area of medical malpractice, Mr. Krepack has taken on difficult claims and obtained substantial verdicts. In a case involving an organ transplant, Cole v. Regents of the University of California, Mr. Krepack won a settlement of an immediate cash payment of $1.9 million plus a structured fund paying $140,000 annually. In Kubin v. Doe, M.D, Mr. Krepack settled a botched back surgery case for $2 million. In Vogt v. Ventura Orthopedic Sports & Medical Group, a Simi Valley jury found for the plaintiff who had sustained a serious leg injury, and returned a settlement of $1,055,000, the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in that courtroom.

Other representative successes include Martinez et al v. Doe Oil Company in which Mr. Krepack settled a severe burn case for $6.5 million. In Spitzke v. NASA, after two federal court trials and an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Krepack recovered $4.2 million for a client whose brain was injured while attempting to load a portion of the space shuttle for transport.

In Young v. Kmart, a jury in Pasadena awarded Mr. Young almost $1.5 million for a serious back injury suffered during a fall. In Alvarado v. Beloit Manufacturing, a Norwalk jury, found a very old paper-making machine defective, and awarded Mr. Alvarado $2 million for the loss of his non-dominant hand.

Mr. Krepack, a Martindale Hubbell AV-rated attorney, earned his law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972. He is admitted in the State of California; the United States District Court, Central District of California; the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U. S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Club, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Consumer Attorneys Association of California, and the American Association for Justice. He has served as a Judge Pro Tem.

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