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Darrell M. Padgette
also known as D. Mevlut Padgette
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Biography
Darrell Padgette represents personal injury plaintiffs in state and federal courts. Darrell Padgette's specialty includes personal injury, products liability and wrongful death cases.
Darrell Padgette focuses his litigation and trial practice on actions against individuals, businesses and government entities responsible for causing or creating defective products, automobile collisions, trucking crashes, and dangerous conditions of property.
BAR ADMISSION: State Bar of California, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and 10th Circuit; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California; multiple District Courts around the country on a Pro Hac Vice basis.
REPORTED CASES: Helman v. Alcoa Global Fasteners, Inc., 637 F.3d 986 (9th ) (involving Death On the High Seas Act); Getz v. The Boeing Company, 547 F. 1080 (N.D. ) (involving government contractor defense); McKinley v. XL Specialty Insurance Company (2005), 131 1572 (involving suits against own insureds); United States v. Reyes-Platero, 224 F.3d 1112 (9th ) (involving Hague Convention on Consular Relations).
PUBLICATIONS: Combatant Activities Defense: Another Option for Military Product Manufacturers, DRI Skywritings Aviation Law Committee (Dec. 2012); Severing Bureaucratic Red-Tape to Secure Evidence from the Federal Government in Aviation Cases, Aircraft Builders Council, Inc. Law Report (Fall 2012); Death On the High Seas Act and the New Frontier, Aircraft Builders Council, Inc. Law Report (Fall 2009); California Adopts the Sophisticated User Defense by Placing a Label on Already Existing Legal Principles, Newsletter of DRI Aerospace Law Committee (Fall 2008)
PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS: AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell; Super Lawyers; The National Trial Lawyers Top 100; The National Trial Lawyers: Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyers; The Corporate LiveWire Global Awards 2015; Bronze Star Medal, U.S. Army, Afghanistan
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Licensed in California for 27 years
State: California
Acquired: 1998
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Location
APG LAWYERS, APC
10940 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1600, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
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Experience
Honors
2025
Top 25 Products Liability Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2025
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2025
Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2025
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2024
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2024
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2024
Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2024
Top 25 Products Liability Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2023
Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2023
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2023
Top 25 Products Liability Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2023
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2022
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2022
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2022
Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2022
Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
2021
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2021
Super Lawyers, California Super Lawyers
2021
Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers
2021
Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers
2020
Super Lawyers, California Super Lawyers
2020
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2019
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2019
Super Lawyers, California Super Lawyers
2018
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell®
2018
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2017
Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2017
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2016
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2016
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2015
Global Award, Corporate Live Wire
2015
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
2014
Super Lawyer, California Super Lawyers
Work Experience
2021 - Present
Attorney, APG LAWYERS, APC
2011 - Present
Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Reserve
2018 - 2021
Attorney, Nelson & Fraenkel LLP
2015 - 2018
Managing Partner, KP LAW
2008 - 2015
Partner, Fitzpatrick & Hunt, et. al.
2002 - 2008
Attorney, Kern & Wooley, LLP
2000 - 2002
Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
1999 - 2000
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney's Office
Associations
2018 - Present
American Association of Justice (AAJ)Member
2015 - Present
Consumer Attorney Association of Los AngelesMember
2012 - Present
U.S. Supreme CourtMember
1998 - Present
State Bar of CaliforniaMember
Education
1998
University of Dayton School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
1995
Northern Arizona University
BS - Bachelor of Science
Speaking Engagements
2016
79th SSC Legal Workshop
Administrative Investigations
2016
79th SSC Legal Workshop
Rules Of Engagement (ROE) and Escalation Of Force (EOF)
Publications
2015
Defense Research Institute (DRI)
The Combatant Activities Defense: Another Option for Military Product Manufacturers,
2012
Aircraft Builders Council, Inc. Law Report
Severing Bureaucratic Red-Tape to Secure Evidence from the Federal Government in Aviation Cases
2009
Aircraft Builders Council
Death On the High Seas Act and the New Frontier
2008
Defense Research Institute (DRI)
California Adopts the Sophisticated User Defense by Placing a Label on Already Existing Legal Principles
Languages
English
Czech
Russian
Slovak
Turkish