California Lawyers

Health Care Law

633 W 5th St, Ste 4000, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Personal Injury Law

501 W Civic Center Dr, Santa Ana, CA 92701

Civil Litigation

215 N Marengo Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA

Daniel Friedenthal graduated with honors from UCLA in 1983, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law in 1986. Mr. Friedenthal is a member of both the California and Colorado Bars. Since the late 1980s, Mr. Friedenthal has routinely handled and tried complex, catastrophic and high exposure cases in a variety of fields, including premises liability, products liability, employment law, construction site accidents, suspicious/fraudulent claims, and auto, motorcycle and truck accident cases. He has tried more than 60 jury trials in some of the toughest jurisdictions in California. He began his career working at a large civil defense firm, before forming his own law firm in 1999. Mr. Friedenthal has achieved the elevated rank of Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization of experienced trial lawyers dedicated to the promotion of civility, integrity and professionalism in trial advocacy. He takes pride in serving his clients in an ethical and zealous manner, while always being accessible and responsive to their needs. Mr. Friedenthal is often called at the eleventh hour to get up to speed on a case and take it to trial.

Personal Injury Law

11601 Wilshire Boulevard, 14th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025

Area of Practice: Mass Torts A member of the firm since 1986, Daniel Whalen specializes in representing victims of wildfires, defective products and bad faith conduct by insurance companies. An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Whalen is admitted to practice before the California State and Federal Courts, as well as the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His significant published opinions include McDonald v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company regarding juror misconduct and Fogel v. Farmers Group, Inc., a Class Action involving inappropriate conduct by an insurer’s attorneys-in-fact, affecting millions of policyholders across the nation. In 2011, the Fogel case was described by The Reporter as the top settlement for that year. In 2014, Mr. Whalen and the firm recovered damages suffered by more than 200 victims from Southern California Edison in the largest loss of homes due to fire in Los Angeles history. He has, and continues to, successfully represent consumers in residential and business fire losses, insurance policyholders faced with bad faith conduct, and families who have suffered significant injuries or death due to defective vehicles and products. He has been selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2005, 2013 and 2014, with particular recognition in Los Angeles Magazine, The Recorder, Law Dragons, and the National Law Journal.

Antitrust Law

100 Pine St., Ste 1250, San Francisco, CA 94111

Area of Practice: Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law