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A native of Los Angeles, Marcus Petoyan was employed in acute-care hospitals during his undergraduate studies, learning first hand about the quality of health care offered to medical consumers. While attending law school at Southwestern University, Mr. Petoyan clerked at a civil litigation firm and volunteered at the university’s Neighborhood Law Clinic, serving disadvantaged clients.

After receiving his law degree, Mr. Petoyan was a trial attorney in a civil litigation defense firm representing doctors and insurance companies, before changing his focus to represent victims of injury. Throughout his 25 year legal career, Mr. Petoyan has specialized in civil trial law, obtaining multiple six and seven figure verdicts on behalf of clients involving medical malpractice, dangerous conditions of public and private property, products liability and sexual harassment lawsuits.

He has participated in discovery and depositions of complex pharmaceutical products liability and multi-district mass tort litigation in both State and Federal Court including Diet Drug Litigation [MDL 1203, JCCP 4032], Rezulin Products Liability Litigation [MDL 1348, JCCP 4122] and the Ortho Evra Litigation [MDL 1742, JCCP 4506].

Mr. Petoyan is rated ‘ AV Preeminent’, the highest peer review rating available, following a detailed and thorough review by Martindale-Hubbell, one of the oldest and most respected attorney peer review organizations. He has also been selected as a ‘Superlawyer’ for each of the last 7 years , by the well respected legal publisher Thomson Reuters, as an outstanding lawyer who has attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement following a rigorous and comprehensive selection process.

Mr. Petoyan is also a member of The National Trial Lawyers, a national organization composed of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers from each state. Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications, leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as trial lawyers, both civil plaintiff and criminal defense.