Torsten Bassell

Torsten Bassell is a partner and co-founder of Lari-Joni & Bassell, LLP, located in Los Angeles, California. He is a litigator, trial lawyer, and appellate attorney, whose practice focuses on representing policyholders and consumers against insurance companies. Having secured significant settlements, verdicts, and judgments in matters involving coverage disputes, catastrophic losses, and insurance bad faith, Mr. Bassell has a reputation in the legal community as a dogged champion of policyholders' and consumers' rights. In addition to notable settlements and verdicts at the trial court level, Mr. Bassell also personally handles appeals on behalf of his clients. His work has secured significant appellate victories, including, but not limited to, the Court of Appeal opinions inCentury-National Insurance Company v. Olivo et al.,National General Premier Insurance Company v. Haro, andHedayati v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club.Since starting his law practice, Mr. Bassell has tried cases throughout Northern and Southern California. His verdicts have been featured by The Recorder and The National Law Journal as some of the "Top 100 Verdicts" in California and the nation. He is a past finalist for CAALA's Rising Star Award, CAALA's Trial Lawyer of the Year Award, and CAOC's Street Fighter of the Year Award. He has been repeatedly selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer for over a decade, and his work on behalf of consumers has been recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the Santa Barbara News Press.As for his reputation within the legal community, Mr. Bassell holds AVVO's top peer-review rating – 10.0 "Superb" – and has been listed in the directory of Ethical Lawyers of America for more than a decade. He also serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which is the largest local bar association of plaintiffs' attorneys in the country with a membership of approximately 3,000.Mr. Bassell is also a ranked member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which is an invitation-only organization that limits its membership to those attorneys whose trial experience has been vetted and who exhibit the virtues of civility, integrity and professionalism in the practice of law.Beyond his work in the courtroom, Mr. Bassell contributes his time to CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar • California), which is a self-supporting program of the University of California. Founded in 1947 to educate veterans returning to the practice of law after service in World War II, CEB offers three, six, and 24-hour continuing legal education (CLE) courses and practice guides. It is a prominent legal resource to attorneys in the California community. In addition to providing seminars to attorneys on various topics, Mr. Bassell serves as one of CEB's update authors for the preeminent legal treatise on evidence law - Jefferson's California Evidence Benchbook.