Personal Injury Handbook

by Larry Booth and Roger Booth

About the Authors

Larry Booth graduated first in his class from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1959, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review. After trying over 200 criminal cases as a prosecuting attorney and then practicing in criminal defense, Mr. Booth worked at Silver, McWilliams & Booth in Los Angeles for 20 years as the lead trial attorney.  There he achieved multiple multi-million dollar results in construction and products liability cases. 

In 1984, he opened his own firm in Torrance, California, now known as Booth & Koskoff. Booth & Koskoff continued to concentrate on high profile personal injury and death cases in a wide variety of cases including auto defects, construction accidents, products liability, drugs, malpractice, governmental liability, and more. To date they have produced over 75 verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars.

In 1974, he was elected to the Inner Circle of Advocates, which is a national organization limited to the top 100 trial lawyers in the United States. In 1978, he was the President of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association.

 

Roger Booth has handled many large, complex cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and both individuals and corporations, throughout California and the United States, in a legal career that began in 1991. Since 1997, he has focused on representing people who have suffered catastrophic injuries or the loss of a loved one. 

Mr. Booth graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California  Berkeley in 1991. From 1991-97, Mr. Booth was an associate at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (then the largest law firm in California) in San Francisco, where he handled a variety of large complex business litigation  and insurance bad faith matters.

In 1997, Mr. Booth joined his father, Larry Booth, at Booth & Koskoff and quickly made his mark as a plaintiff’s attorney. In 1998, in just his second personal injury trial, he obtained a $1.6 million verdict in Orange County, setting a record for a hand injury case in that jurisdiction.  Since then, Mr. Booth has handled more than 20 cases that have resulted in verdicts or settlement in excess of $1,000,000. In 2009 and 2010, he was named a “Super Lawyer,” an honor limited to the top 5% of attorneys in Southern California.