Will Skinner Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Will is a Partner and Trial Attorney with GRSM’s Los Angeles office. He has over 30 weeks as lead trial counsel handling complex product liability cases, and at least six plus weeks as second chair/co-trial counsel. Will’s trial and litigation experience covers a broad range of areas, including product liability, aviation, employment, commercial and contract disputes, intellectual property, unfair competition, personal injury and wrongful death. Will devotes a significant portion of his practice to handling employment and aviation matters. He has litigated and tried cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States.His employment practice includes providing counseling, workplace investigations, training, and litigation services to companies regarding all types of claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.Will’s aviation practice includes defending general aviation product liability actions, personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of international air transportation, commercial and contract disputes involving general aviation manufacturers and commercial airlines, libel and defamation actions involving airlines, employment matters and sexual harassment and assault claims involving airline personnel.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Will founded Skinner Law Group. He has trial and litigation experience covering a broad range of areas, including product liability, aviation, commercial and contract disputes, employment, intellectual property, unfair competition, personal injury and wrongful death. He devotes a significant portion of his practice to handling aviation litigation matters but also has extensive experience litigating cases in a wide range of areas in state and federal court throughout the United States. He is National Asbestos counsel for an aviation manufacturer. Will actively works with clients to avoid or minimize litigation, including conducting ongoing in-house product integrity training for a major general aviation manufacturer. However, when his clients become involved in litigation, Will’s approach is to aggressively and efficiently defend his clients with the goal of forcing an early dismissal or resolution when appropriate and possible. In numerous cases, he has obtained an early dismissal or resolution that allows his client to save considerable resources and focus on their core business rather than defending an ongoing lawsuit. When an early dismissal or resolution is not appropriate or possible, he will cost effectively prepare the case for trial and then try the case.His aviation practice has included defending general aviation product liability actions, personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of international air transportation, commercial and contract disputes involving general aviation manufacturers and commercial airlines, libel and defamation actions involving airlines, employment matters and sexual harassment and assault claims involving airline personnel. Will is also national coordinating counsel of asbestos claims for a general aviation manufacturer.

Will Skinner was a partner with DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis Skinner & Berardinelli from December 2008 (when he opened the Los Angeles office) until the end of December 2013 when he formed Skinner Law Group.

Will Skinner was Of Counsel in the firm’s Tort Defense Group. His practice focuses primarily on defending product liability and complex tort actions. He has extensive experience in all aspects of aviation litigation in both federal and state court, including appeals. He has experience with general aviation product liability actions, mass air disasters, commercial and contract disputes involving general aviation manufacturers and commercial airlines, libel and defamation actions involving commercial airlines, sexual harassment and assault claims involving airline personnel, and defending commercial airlines in all varieties of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of international transportation.

Practice included defense of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, mass tort litigation, medical malpractice and general products liability, all forms of aviation litigation, including litigation of complex mass air disasters, aviation products liability and appeals, and experience in intellectual property, unfair competition, defamation and commercial litigation.

Practice included defense of aviation industry, mass air disaster tort liability litigation, aviation products liability and general aviation litigation and commercial litigation.

Law clerk for Chief Judge Stephen D. Gerling (N.D.N.Y)

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Activities and Societies: The Labor Lawyer (ABA Publication) (Senior Editor); Syracuse Law and Technology Journal (Founding Member/Senior.

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