Eric J. Ratinoff

I started my firm because I wanted to provide my clients with my own brand of excellent legal representation, consistent with my unique human qualities of compassion, strength, caring and integrity.  I have represented injured people for twenty five years.  While I have very successfully tried and settled many cases over the years, I take nothing for granted.  For that reason, I work very hard – harder than most.  I do it because I love what I do and I am constantly striving to improve, learn new ways of doing things, better ways of connecting with juries.  My clients deserve no less.I am proud of all of the great work that my team and I have done for our clients.  Some of the cases in which I have made the biggest difference for my clients have included traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, motorcycle accidents, trucking and car accidents, medical malpractice cases, insurance bad faith cases, wildfire litigation, and product liability lawsuits.One of my trial victories involves what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Sacramento County history. With a former law partner, I recovered $7.6 million on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to a Medical Center’s failure to diagnose a mass on her spine.Since 2015, I have personally represented hundreds of families and business owners who lost everything due to preventable wildfires throughout California. My team and I have recovered millions of dollars on their behalf, and as we continue to battle wildfires across the state, we are committed to rebuilding California’s beautiful landscape and infrastructure.Awards and AccomplishmentsNorthern California Super Lawyer, every year since 2010Northern California Super Lawyer Top 100 ListSacramento Super Lawyers Top 25 ListSacramento Business Journal Best of the Bar, every year since 2014Sacramento Magazine Top Lawyer, every year since 2015Martindale-Hubbell AV-Rated AttorneyCCTLA Mort Friedman Humanitarian of the Year Award 2013Faculty teacher at Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers CollegeFormer Member of the Board of Directors, Brain Injury Association of California (BIACAL)Former Member of the Board of Directors, Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)Former President, Secretary and Vice President, Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association (formerly Sacramento Consumer Attorneys)Member National Association of Personal Injury LawyersMember Insurance Bad Faith Trial Lawyers AssociationMember Cien AmigosFormer President and member of the Board of Directors, Sierra Forever FamiliesFormer member of the Northern California Board, AIPACEDUCATIONB.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989J.D., University of California, Davis, 1993Spence Trial Lawyers College*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings