Costa Mesa, CA

Wayne R. Gross

Wayne Gross is one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, selected as lead trial counsel by companies, executives, and celebrities in high-stakes litigation. He has been repeatedly included in The Best Lawyers in America, most recently named “Lawyer of the Year - Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement” in Los Angeles for 2021. He is recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and a “Winning Litigator” by the National Law Journal. A former supervisory federal prosecutor, Mr. Gross also handles internal investigations, corporate crisis management, and white collar defense. He has appeared as a legal commentator on CNN, PBS, and Inside OC, and served as president of the Orange County Bar Association in 2013.

Wayne R. Gross

Wayne Gross is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, repeatedly selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and named "Lawyer of the Year - Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement" in Los Angeles for 2021. He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and a "Winning Litigator" by the National Law Journal. A former federal prosecutor, he represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes litigation, including internal investigations, corporate crisis management, and white-collar defense.

W. Douglas Easton

Doug Easton has practiced law since 1971. After 20 years of practicing with various large litigation firms, he founded the Law Offices of W. Douglas Easton in 1991 as a solo practitioner. In the years that followed, Doug’s sons Brian and Matt joined him in the practice and helped build the firm into a powerful force to help right the wrongs done to their clients. Much of their success over the years has stemmed from the dynamic created by the familial nature of the firm and how harmoniously they all work together, each of their individual strengths complementing and fortifying the group as a whole. Accordingly, the firm changed its name to Easton & Easton, LLP in 2014 to better reflect the true dynamic of the firm and Doug now serves as Managing Partner of Easton & Easton. In his many years of experience, Doug has often been recognized by his colleagues and peers for his service and the skillful advocacy that he provides on behalf of his clients. Each year from 2007 through the present, Doug has been chosen anew as one of the Best Lawyers in America. The Best Lawyers in America is a preeminent referral guide for the legal profession in the United States. Best Lawyers lists attorneys who have been nominated and voted on by their peers. Lawyers cannot buy their way onto this list. They must earn a spot through exemplary legal work that attracts the notice of their colleagues. To remain on the list, they must remain at the top of their game, year after year. In addition to Doug’s selection as a Best Lawyer in America, the firm Easton & Easton, LLP has been selected for the U.S. News “Best Law Firms in Southern California” List each year since 2014, thereby recognizing the impressive combined results of Doug and his sons, Brian and Matt. Doug has also been featured in the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2007 through the present as one of Southern California’s “Best Lawyers.” In 2009, Doug was proudly named as a Southern California Super Lawyer. Since then, Doug has been chosen as a Super Lawyer every year through the present. The only way a lawyer can be recognized in as a Super Lawyer is through a selection process involving a multi-step evaluation that incorporates peer recognition and professional achievement. In 2015, Doug was selected as a Top 100 Litigation Lawyer in California by The American Society of Legal Advocates. In addition, Doug is listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who, and in 2008 was named its “Professional of the Year” in Medical Malpractice. For over 25 years, Doug has had an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious peer rating service. These ratings are the result of confidential questionnaires sent to other practicing attorneys and members of the judiciary. The “A” rating is “the highest legal ability rating,” while the “V” signifies “very high adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability, and diligence.” Only about 5% of the attorneys in America have an “AV” rating. Doug and the firm are also proudly listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, a listing of the legal community’s most highly regarded professionals. Over his career, Doug has represented thousands of people in personal injury claims who have sustained all manner of injuries in all types of accidents through the negligence or wrongdoing by other individuals, businesses, or governmental entities. During that time, Doug has obtained vast experience, wisdom, and judgment in settling and trying personal injury matters. Doug enjoys particularly handling and trying medical malpractice cases due to the increased difficulty and challenges these cases present. Doug spent the first 6 years of his practice as an attorney working for insurance companies defending negligent persons and companies and learning how insurance companies defend, diminish, and defeat valid personal injury claims. If you know their tricks, stratagems, and defenses, you can usually defeat them with proper preparation. In over 42 years of experience on both sides of the personal injury practice, Doug has learned their tricks, stratagems, and defenses. For the past 32 years Doug has battled against the insurance industry to obtain fair and adequate compensation for people who have been injured through the negligence or fault of individuals, businesses, or governmental entities. Doug received his B.A. degree cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1967 and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1970, which at the time was one of the top five rated law schools in the Nation. Doug has been admitted to practice law in California since January 1971. In addition, Doug is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals and the United States Federal District Courts for the Central, Northern, and the Southern districts of California. He has argued cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court, and various Appellate Courts of the state of California. Doug has tried cases in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Imperial, and Alameda counties in California. He has also represented clients in most other California counties. Doug has served as an Orange County Superior Court Temporary Judge and as an arbitrator and settlement judge for the Orange County Superior Courts. Doug is a member of the California Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association, and the J. Ruben Clark Law Society. Doug belongs to numerous trial advocacy organizations including the Consumer Attorneys of California, the American Association for Justice, the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Doug has served as a lecturer on trial advocacy skills on several occasions for California Continuing Education of the Bar. Doug and his wife Rae have seven children. His sons Brian and Matt are both partners in the firm, and his youngest son Travis recently joined the firm as its newest attorney in 2014. In addition, Doug’s daughters, Dee and Kristy, each currently work for the firm and his wife Rae is currently the Office Manager. This familial nature within the firm gives common purpose and success to the firm. Doug is especially proud that all five of his sons are Eagle Scouts.

Alan A. Greenberg

Alan Greenberg is an accomplished trial and appellate attorney who handles high-stakes and complex cases. He has been repeatedly named as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and been named a “Winning Litigator” by the National Law Journal. Alan combines extensive trial experience with tremendous knowledge of business and finance to represent plaintiffs in contingent-fee cases. Alan has settled numerous multi-million-dollar cases on behalf of employees suing employers for whistleblower retaliation, gender discrimination, racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and breach of employment contract. Two of Alan’s trial verdicts have been listed as among the Top Verdicts of the Year in California. He has been named as an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by the National Law Journal and a California Trailblazer by The Recorder. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a highly selective trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He has repeatedly been named to lists of The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. He has maintained a Martindale Hubbell peer review rating of AV Preeminent, 5.0 out of 5.0, for more than 20 years. As Chief Executive Officer, Alan has presided over the expansion of the firm to five offices in four states.

Matt Easton is the Co-Managing Partner of Easton & Easton, LLP primarily responsible for shepherding the business aspects of the firm’s meteoric growth since 2019. Matt has also been a central figure in some of Easton & Easton’s most prominent cases, including a $32,000,000 policy limits settlement in 2024, a $26,000,000 settlement in 2023, a 2019 mediated settlement for $20,000,000, a 2022 mediated settlement for $7,000,000, and a 2016 settlement for $3,060,000 - all of which were selected as Top Million-Dollar Settlements in California for their respective years and which contributed to Matt’s lifetime selection to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum® - The Top Trial Lawyers in America® (an honor given to less than 1% of all attorneys in the United States). Matt has been selected each year since 2023 as a Southern California Super Lawyer. Prior to that, he was selected each year from 2016 - 2022 among Super Lawyers’ Up-and-Coming Top 100 (Southern California) and Super Lawyers’ Up-and-Coming Top 25 (Orange County), honors given to less than 1% of attorneys. Matt has also been chosen each year since 2018 as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Plaintiff’s Personal Injury and Product Liability Litigation. Best Lawyers selects attorneys who have earned peer recognition through exemplary legal work that attracts the notice of their colleagues. Lawyers cannot buy their way onto this list. Matt has also been featured among Southern California’s “Best Lawyers” each year since 2017 in the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times Magazine. Additionally, he has been chosen each year since 2023 among the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers; and prior to that was selected from 2014 - 2022 for the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in California, honors given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in Southern California. Matt has also been selected each year since 2015 for the American Academy of Trial Attorneys’ Premier 100 Trial Attorneys, the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys “10 Best” Attorneys for California, the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys’ Top 10 Under 40, and for the highest AV Preeminent rating offered by Martindale-Hubbell, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious peer rating service for legal ability and ethics. The recognition that Matt is receiving from his peers in the legal community is not surprising, as he first came to our firm with high marks and accomplishments in college and law school. He received his B.A. in 2006 from Brigham Young University, where he majored in English and minored in Philosophy and Editing. Whittier Law School awarded Matt a full academic scholarship and he received his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Whittier Law School, graduating in the top 10% of his class in 2009. He was admitted to the California Bar in 2009. While at Whittier Law School, Matt was chosen as the “Best Oral Advocate” of the 3rd Annual Susan E. McGuigan Oral Advocacy Competition and “Best Overall Competitor” of the 2008 Spring Trial Advocacy Competition. He also competed in numerous external oral advocacy competitions on behalf Whittier Law School’s Trial Advocacy Honors Board and Moot Court Honors Board, which took him as far as Vienna, Austria in Competition. In 2008, Matt was selected as the Chief Justice of the Moot Court Honors Board and served in that position from 2008 till his graduation in 2009. Based on the significant trial skills and incorporation of trial technology that Matt has brought to bear in his cases, he was asked to join the faculty at Whittier Law School as an Adjunct Professor to teach a class on Trial Technology from 2015 - 2017. Matt was also a graduating member of Whittier’s prestigious Law Review, where he assisted in the editing and publication of numerous scholarly legal articles. In addition, Matt’s own article was published in the Whittier Law Review in Fall 2008 (Volume 30, Number 1). Matt’s article, “Disparate Outcomes Among Medical Malpractice Victims: A New Look at an Equal Protection Challenge to MICRA,” allowed him to passionately address the continuing problems that MICRA poses to California medical malpractice victims, which is an issue he has seen the effects of first-hand through his work at Easton & Easton. Since joining Easton & Easton, Matt has litigated hundreds of cases for meritorious plaintiffs, including important cases against the State of California, numerous cities, numerous school districts, and countless large corporate entities and other defendants. Matt has acquired more than $100,000,000 for his clients by way of verdict, settlement, or arbitration award. Apart from the verdict and settlement funds Matt has acquired for his clients, he has also been able to affect lasting change in how corporations, cities, and the state of California conduct themselves in order to prevent similar future injuries. For example, as part of Matt’s handling of a roadway defect bicycle case against the state of California, the state of California later coordinated complex efforts with the cities of Newport Beach and Irvine to correct the dangerous condition relating to the designated bike lane at the location of the incident. Matt is the second youngest son of Doug and Rae Easton and grew up most of his life with the strong desire to work with his father and brothers in providing passionate service to the legal community. Matt spent almost every summer since High School working for the law firm in various capacities and, in doing so, he saw how lawyers like his father could really help the ordinary person achieve extraordinary and needed aid in their individual lives. This inspired Matt to become a lawyer and continue the Easton’s legacy of helping the ordinary man achieve justice, no matter how big of a goliath he may be facing off against. While Matt grew up in Orange County and has a strong love for the community here, he also spent two years abroad in Mexico City on a mission for his church. There he sincerely fell in love with the Hispanic culture and the people that so warmly welcomed him into their lives. He also became fluent in Spanish, which has allowed him to help clients in Southern California that do not speak English. Matt is also an Eagle Scout and continues to enjoy many outdoor activities including camping, mountain biking, snow skiing, rock climbing, waterskiing, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, golf, and tennis. Matt has a strong sense of family commitment, much like his parents, and truly feels blessed to work alongside his family at Easton & Easton. In addition, Matt and his beautiful wife Rachel have four children.

Shahab Mossavar-Rahmani

Shahab Mossavar-Rahmani is a California founding partner at Omega Law Group, PC, and a skilled trial lawyer dedicated to helping individuals wrongfully injured. He previously gained valuable trial experience as a Deputy Public Defender in Orange County. Since 2014, he has focused 100% on representing injury victims. Shahab is recognized by the National Trial Lawyers-Top 100 Trial Lawyers and is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Club. He has been named a Southern California Rising Star every year since 2015. He earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2009 and a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 2005. He is admitted to practice in California and Texas, including the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Mohammad Abuershaid

Attorney Mohammad Abuershaid is the founding partner of ALL Trial Lawyers. He is the lead attorney handling the firm’s juvenile dependency practice (CPS defense). He has counseled and represented hundreds of parents against Child Protective Services (CPS), Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and other social service agency investigations. Attorney Abuershaid has fought for and protected parents in juvenile dependency cases in numerous counties in Southern California, including but not limited to, Orange County, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Riverside. Mohammad Abuershaid is highly equipped to handle juvenile dependency cases of all severities, including cases involving allegations of general neglect or negligence, failure to protect, severe physical abuse, positive toxicology results in infants, sexual abuse, fractures or broken bones, head injuries, and trauma. He is equally well versed in representing people accused of committing felony and misdemeanor crimes, with over 30+ jury trial and bench trial experience. His motivation for becoming a lawyer stemmed from a desire to advocate for those who may not have a voice, particularly in challenging situations involving family and parental rights, aiming to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives.