Laguna Niguel, CA

Mitch Jackson

Jon Mitchell “Mitch” Jackson is a senior partner and founding attorney of Jackson & Wilson. He has represented clients in the Orange County area for over 30 years, recovering millions in settlements and verdicts. He was named Orange County “Trial Lawyer of the Year” in 2009 and received the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Award for litigation in 2013. He is also a multiple-time member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer multiple times.

Chris Russell

For over 40 years, Personal Injury Lawyer Chris Russell has represented over 10,000 clients in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange Counties regarding their personal injury claims. He is a highly respected and experienced attorney who puts his clients’ interests first. As a result, he has obtained over $300 million in personal injury compensation on behalf of his clients. Chris personally understands how overwhelming it is to be involved in a severe accident, as he has had several close family members suffer accident-related injuries, including his two youngest daughters, who an intoxicated boat driver seriously injured. Chris has been practicing law since 1984 and is the founder and principal partner of Russell & Lazarus APC. The firm of Russell & Lazarus was established in 1998 and is located in Newport Beach, California, with offices serving the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Sacramento, and Orange. Mr. Russell began his practice with the premise that by meeting the needs of his clients first, the needs of his firm and his employees would also be met. Mr. Russell coached high school football as a way to put himself through college. He practices law and lives by the motto of former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz: 1. Do right by people at all times; 2. Do everything to the best of your ability; 3. Show people you care. Chris and his associates have successfully litigated over 10,000 personal injury claims to verdict or claims settled before trial or arbitration, ranging in value from $25,000 to $16.2 million. Chris belongs to the American Association of Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association), the Consumer Attorneys Of California, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Chris has also been admitted to all of the courts of the State of California and has argued cases in the Federal Courts and the California Court of Appeals. He shares strategies and communicates daily with his Plaintiff attorney colleagues across California on trial tactics, judge selection, expert witness background information, medical provider credibility, etc. These strategies help put his clients in the best position to allow them to resolve their injuries as quickly as possible and to obtain fair compensation from at-fault parties often represented by insurance companies that seem to have lost the ability even to understand the definition of “fair.” He has worked on almost every type of personal injury claim imaginable, including motor vehicle collisions, product liability claims, slip, trip, and fall claims, premises liability claims, animal-inflicted injury claims, work-related claims, sexual assault claims, and the list goes on. The common theme to all of these claims was that someone was injured and they needed help. Chris’ goal in helping people is twofold: get them better and get them fair compensation. Chris has recovered compensation on behalf of his clients 95% of the time. Chris does not shy away from taking on complex liability claims when the injuries are substantial, which is why it is not 100%. Chris has been blessed to be married to Helene for 32 years. He has four grown daughters, who, along with his wife, are the loves of his life. His current hobbies are few, as he lives a busy life practicing law, helping his clients, and keeping up with weddings and the college comings and goings of his daughters. When his girls were active in sports, he coached, sponsored, or helped coach more than 50 of their sports teams. When he has spare time, Chris enjoys giving back to the community in the context of activities or events that involve preventing injuries or honoring those injured or killed in accidents. Chris has been a primary sponsor of the Sarah DeMille annual cross-country race, which was established in memory of one of his daughters’ classmates who died tragically in a car crash. Chris is also a primary sponsor for “Swim for Life,” an organization devoted to preventing child drowning, which is still the number one cause of death for children under the age of 5 in Orange County. Chris is the third of six children, and his youngest brother, John, is heading up his affiliate office in Northern California, Russell & Philbrick.

Steven Zwick

Steven Zwick is passionate about attaining justice for his clients and has spent his entire career representing people in need throughout the State of California. He has tried an abundance of cases during his 40 years as an attorney and settled many claims resulting in millions of dollars in recovery. Steven’s commitment to providing value is demonstrated by his willingness to always be accessible to his clients while delivering expertise, integrity, and tenacity. As a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States, he devotes his practice to fighting for those who are inexperienced in the system, the language, and the rules insurance companies use. Steven is admitted to practice in the State of California, and he obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. He is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. Steven is admitted and qualified to represent clients in all the Federal District Courts, every Superior Court within the State of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court. He is active in his local community and supports a number of charities devoted to human rights and our military veterans, including volunteering at Camp Pendleton by distributing food and supplies to active military and their families. When he is not in the office or volunteering in the community, Steven enjoys scuba diving, traveling, dining, as well as going to the movies and attending sporting events with his family.

Marc Lazarus

Mr. Lazarus has served as lead counsel on hundreds of litigated actions in which he has taken and/or defended over a thousand depositions of parties, witnesses, and experts. He has also represented clients as lead counsel on approximately five bench trials, approximately twenty jury trials, approximately one hundred binding arbitrations, more than a hundred judicial arbitrations, and over two hundred mediations, mandatory settlement conferences, and voluntary settlement conferences. As proof of success, Marc has received recognition as a 2022 Southern California Super Lawyer, and a Clients’ Choice Award from Avvo. For more than twelve years prior to becoming a plaintiff personal injury attorney, Mr. Lazarus worked as a paralegal with several plaintiff personal injury law firms, and he has extensive experience in working with individuals who have been injured in automobile collisions, motorcycle collisions, bus accidents, slip and falls, trip and falls, falls from ladders, product-related injuries, medical malpractice claims, and work-related claims. He specializes in cases resulting in traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, shoulder injuries, wrist and hand injuries, knee injuries, and ankle injuries. Mr. Lazarus’ knowledge in the area of medicine has served to greatly improve the value of his clients’ cases throughout his career. Mr. Lazarus has had the privilege of giving back some of his experience to the legal community including his work as an instructor at the University of California at Irvine and at Southern California College of Business and Law in their American Bar Association-approved paralegal certification programs. Mr. Lazarus has offered his services as a pro bono arbitrator through the Los Angeles Superior Court and is still an active member of the panel of arbitrators. He has also served as a pro bono mediator in resolving disputes in several limited jurisdiction civil actions in Orange County. Mr. Lazarus has been married to his wife Cathy for 19 years. He has enjoyed the privilege of serving as a Boy Scout Den Leader for Pack 632 for three consecutive years, and on weekends he has volunteered as an AYSO Assistant Soccer Coach in Regional 1422 for the past five years. Mr. Lazarus is currently a member of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and spoke at the Arbitration: Procedure & Practice conference when invited to the CAALA convention as a featured speaker. He is also a member of Consumer Attorneys of California, and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, and Mr. Lazarus enjoys attending classes at Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers’ College offered on a regular basis throughout the United States.

Christopher J. Skorina

Christopher J. Skorina is the firm's President. He has successfully resolved matters for clients through trial, arbitration, and mediation throughout the United States. His practice is focused on serious personal injury, including wrongful death, and business, real estate, and construction litigation. He also serves as General Counsel to start-up companies in southern California.

Lisa M. Wilson

Lisa M. Wilson is a senior partner at Jackson & Wilson, with over three decades of experience protecting the rights of the injured. She has secured numerous seven-figure cases, including one of Orange County’s largest first-party insurance bad faith cases. She is a multi-sport scholar athlete from high school and a graduate of USC and Western State School of Law.

Jorge F. Ramirez

Jorge F. Ramírez received his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Political Science from California State University Long Beach in 1996, where he was recognized as a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. Mr. Ramirez received his Juris Doctor degree from Whittier Law School in 2000, where he received the CALI Award of Excellence. Mr. Ramirez also studied in Mexico at the University of Guanajuato School of Law as a part of a Summer Law Institute program co-sponsored by New Mexico School of Law and Texas Tech School of Law, where he studied International Arbitration, NAFTA, and International Business Law. Mr. Ramirez is admitted to the State Bar of California, United States District Court for the Central District of California and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has been practicing law since 2001 and his primary area of practice is personal injury representing tort victims arising from motor vehicle accidents, product liability, premises liability, medical malpractice, police misconduct, civil rights and wrongful death. He also has a limited practice in business matters and related litigation. He has taken several cases to trial. He has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. Mr. Ramirez is fluent in Spanish and has volunteered as a guest speaker in English and Spanish at a community-based family resource center known as Families of Costa Mesa, where he lectured and provided self-help materials to indigent and homeless families on issues concerning landlord-tenant law, immigration law, employment law, family law and domestic violence. Mr. Ramirez is or has been a member of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, Orange County Bar Association, and Orange County Hispanic Bar Association. Mr. Ramirez enjoys spending time with his family, coaching youth sports, playing golf and being involved in the professional boxing scene. He has represented professional fighters.