Clare Hamilton Lucich

Clare Lucich is an attorney in the Claremont office of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP. She joined the firm first as a clerk in 2010 and clerked throughout law school. After working as a litigator at anAmLaw 100 firm, she joined the firm as an attorney.

Ms. Lucich’s practice includes insurance bad faith, personal injury and she has also had experience with wage and hour claims, discrimination, sexual harassment and other workplace litigation issues. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine, in 2008, where she graduated summa cum laude and was selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Lucich received her JD in 2012 from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude and was selected for membership in The Order of the Coif.

Ms. Lucich’s experience includes the following:

• Being a member of the trial team which secured a $3.8 million verdict in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of a young man who sustained a degloving injury to his dominant right hand while in metal shop class (Zavala v NMUSD). Ms. Lucich helped prove that the disc sander the student was using violated Cal OSHA safety guidelines and that the dangerous machine should not have been used in class.
• Helping to secure a $3.2 million verdict in a wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury trial in Bakersfield involving a motor vehicle accident (Rojas v HFS Enterprises). When a large pickup truck pulling a trailer collided with a 2002 Honda Accord, the passenger of the car was killed and the driver was severely injured.
• Assisted in obtaining a settlement in excess of $2 million in a slip-and-fall injury case against a grocery store on behalf of a client who sustained a back fracture in the incident.

While in law school, Ms. Lucich was a staff member on the Pepperdine Law Review.