Eric Ratinoff | Sacramento Injury Lawyer

I started my firm because I wanted to provide my clients with my own brand of excellent legal representation, consistent with my unique human qualities of compassion, strength, caring and integrity.  I have represented injured people for over twenty years.  While I have very successfully tried and settled many cases over the years, I take nothing for granted.  For that reason, I work very hard – harder than most.  I do it because I love what I do and I am constantly striving to improve, learn new ways of doing things, better ways of connecting with juries.  My clients deserve no less.

I am proud of all of the great work that my team and I have done for our clients.  Some of the cases in which I have made the biggest difference for my clients have included traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, motorcycle accidents, trucking and car accidents, medical malpractice cases, insurance bad faith cases, and product liability lawsuits.

One of my trial victories involves the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Sacramento County history. With a former law partner, I recovered $7.6 million on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to a Medical Center’s failure to diagnose a mass on her spine.

For the past three years, I have personally represented hundreds of families and business owners who lost everything due to preventable wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and in the Napa, Sonoma and Lake County regions of California’s wine country. My team and I have recovered millions of dollars on their behalf, and as we continue to battle wildfires across the state, we are committed to rebuilding California’s beautiful landscape and infrastructure.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Owner	Eric Ratinoff Law Corp	Sacramento, CA	2015 - Present
Founding Partner	Kershaw, Cutter, & Ratinoff	Sacramento, CA	2001 - 2015

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University of California, Davis School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1993
University of California	Bachelor of Arts	Philosophy	1989

State / Court	Date
California	1993

• Consulate General of Mexico | Consulting Attorney | 2014 - Present
  Cien Amigos | Member | 2013 - Present
  Consumer Attorneys of California | Board Member | 2013 - Present
  California Brain Injury Association | Board Member | 2013 - Present
  State Bar of California | Member | 1993 - Present
  American Association for Justice | Member | 1993 - Present
  Consumer Attorneys of California | Member | 1993 - Present
  Sierra Forever Families | Past President | 2010 - 2011
  Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association | Past President | 2006 - 2006
  American Israel Public Affairs Committee | Northern California Board | 2001 - 2007

• Superlawyers | Thomson Reuters | 2016
  Top Lawyers | Sacramento Magazine | 2016
  Best of the Bar | Sacramento Business Journal | 2016
  Top 100 | America's Top 100 Attorneys | 2016
  Top 100 Trial Lawyers | The National Trial Lawyers | 2016
  Top 100 Northern California | SuperLawyers | 2015
  Top 25 Sacramento | SuperLawyers | 2015
  American Jurisprudence Award | Lawyers Cooperative Publishing | 1991

• Consumer Attorneys of California | Strategies for Opening Statements | 2015
  American Association for Justice | California Destination Injuries | 2015
  Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College Regional Seminar | Discovering the Client's Story | 2012
  13th Annual Neuroscience of Brain Injury Conference: Research Informing Medical Treatment & Legal Practice | TBI Truth & Trial: Understanding the TBI client’s trust relationships and conveying them to a jury | 2012
  Plaintiff Magazine | Telling the Truth: Our most important trial skill. Understanding your client's trust relationships and conveying them to a jury | 2012
  Premises Liability Case Preparation and Trial | Premises Liability Case Preparation and Trial | 2008
  Premises Liability Case Preparation And Trial | How to prepare and win the premises liability case | 2008
  Litigation Consulting Services Meeting | The Expert's Role In Developing And Proving The Case | 2008
  CAOC Annual Convention | Assumption of the Risk in Premises Liability Cases | 2008
  Plaintiffs Personal Injury From Start To Finish | Plaintiffs Personal Injury From Start To Finish | 2006
  Effectively Using Medical Evidence In Court | Effectively Using Medical Evidence In Court | 2006
  The Litigator | Using Evidence Code 721 To Impeach Expert Witnesses | 2005

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(1993) Licensed as Attorney in California. Verified with State Bar of California.	August 10, 2018

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