Wildfire Lawyers for Business & Home Owners in Southern California

Robert is a trial lawyer and founding partner of Jackson Trial Lawyers. Over the past 38 years, Robert has represented thousands of individuals, families, and small businesses in their fight for justice. Robert has tried over 80 jury trials and mediated/arbitrated hundreds more cases.

Robert began his legal career with a large law firm in Orange County. Robert quickly discovered however, that “large firm” lawyering was not for him and he decided to come home to Southern California and start his own law practice. After working on a variety of cases, Robert quickly found his niche, representing individuals in severe personal injury and traumatic brain injury cases.

A graduate and former instructor at Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer College, Robert knows the art and science of getting to the heart of the story and presenting it to a jury, arbitrator, and/or mediator.

Robert served as the Lead Trial Lawyer in the Wood Hollow Fire litigation, and was Co-Chair of the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee in the Butte Fire litigation. He has served as the lead Liaison counsel for the Rice Canyon Fire, one of three consolidated cases comprising the 2007 San Diego County wildfire cases (Rice fire-Witch Creek fire-Guijito fire). At the time of the San Diego Wildfire cases, the Judge supervising the case had characterized it as the largest single case in the history of California.  

Robert went on to work in various roles and capacities representing thousands of victims in the North Bay fires cases, the Sulphur fire and the Camp fire. In 2019, Robert acted as Liaison counsel in the Kincade fire that devastated large swaths of Northern California.   

Since 2005, Robert has worked on almost every large scale wildfire case in the Western United States in some form of a leadership capacity. Robert has helped supervise and consolidate settlements of billions of dollars against the responsible parties that ignited these devastating wildfires. 

Eric is the founder of Eric Ratinoff Law Corp. For more than 30 years, Eric Ratinoff has dedicated his professional life to fighting for people and businesses that have been harmed by others. Eric has successfully tried and settled numerous lawsuits on behalf of his clients in a wide range of catastrophic cases.  

For the past ten years, he has dedicated his law practice almost exclusively to the representation of people and businesses who have suffered devastating losses from wildfires that have been caused by public utilities and corporations, as well as helping those same people and businesses battle their insurance companies for the benefits owed for their insured losses. 

For the past ten years, Eric has personally represented thousands of California families, businesses and property owners who were victims of catastrophic wildfires. These were some of the most destructive wildfires in California history, including the 2015 Butte Fire in Calaveras and Amador Counties; 2017 North Bay Fires in Napa, Sonoma and Lake Counties; 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County; and 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma and Lake Counties. 

Putting his brand of personal focus on each of their cases, Eric ensured that each client’s unique story was told in a compelling way through client narratives, videos and graphic story boards, no matter the size of the case. His part in litigation over these monumental wildfires was instrumental in securing the full measure of justice for his clients.

A faculty teacher at Spence Trial Lawyers College, Eric teaches trial lawyers from all over the country how to improve their trial skills. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Brain Injury Association of California.  

For multiple years, Eric has been AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, and named a "Top Lawyer" in the Sacramento Business Journal's Best of the Bar Publication and a Northern California “Super Lawyer" by Thompson Reuters Super Lawyers Publication, an honor limited to less than 5% of all attorneys and approximately 1% of plaintiff personal injury attorneys. He has been included in Super Lawyer's Northern California list of Top 100 Attorneys and the Sacramento list of Top 25 Attorneys. Eric is also included in America's Top 100 Attorneys and the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. 

Founder and lead attorney of The Law Offices of Scott Glovsky, Scott is a nationally recognized advocate for the rights of insurance policyholders. Scott has worked in insurance law for more than 30 years and has recovered tens of millions of dollars for insurance policyholders. 

Scott has received honors and awards for his work on insurance bad faith cases. He received the California Lawyer Magazine’s California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award, the Consumer Attorneys of California’s Street Fighter of the Year Award, and the Consumer Attorney’s Association of Los Angeles President’s Award of Merit. Scott has been a designated Super Lawyer every year since 2006 and has many more awards to his credit.

Scott has spent his career fighting big insurance companies, and has handled numerous insurance cases that have resulted in published and unpublished appellate court opinions. Scott completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his law degree at Cornell Law School.

He is the author of the book Fighting Health Insurance Denials: A Primer for Lawyers, the training manual and reference book for lawyers fighting health insurance denials. Scott is the host of Trial Lawyer Talk, a long-running, educational podcast featuring in-depth personal interviews and sound advice from some of the country's best trial lawyers. 

As a faculty member at Trial Lawyers College, Scott has litigated a host of lawsuits that have changed the way insurance companies operate, forcing them to honor their agreements with their customers. Scott’s settlements have changed the way that certain insurance companies handle appeals, required insurers to cover ABA and speech therapy for children with autism, and forced insurers to honor their networks of providers. 

Scott frequently lectures and writes in the area of insurance law. Scott appeared in the film SiCKO and has provided advice relating to health insurance in People Magazine, and his cases have been profiled on CNN and the major networks. He is a repeat guest on AirTalk with Larry Mantle. His cases have been profiled on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and Paula Zahn Now, NBC News, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Univision and various other television and radio programs.