David Bricker

David Bricker is of counsel to Thornton Law Firm LLP. He manages the firm's California office where his practice focuses on birth injury and asbestos litigation. Mr. Bricker is a graduate of Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. He received his law degree from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Bricker is admitted to practice law in the states of California, Illinois, and Massachusetts. In addition, he is admitted to practice before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Southern District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Central District of California, the Northern District of Illinois, and the District of Massachusetts. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Bricker brings to his clients more than twenty-five years of state and federal trial experience in complex civil matters, including toxic exposure litigation, birth injury litigation, asbestos litigation, product liability litigation, medical and professional malpractice litigation, railroad litigation and elder and dependent adult abuse litigation. He has devoted a significant portion of his career to representing catastrophically injured individuals with an emphasis on representing injured children. Mr. Bricker has obtained numerous notable verdicts on behalf of his clients including a $17 million verdict in favor of a man left paralyzed by the negligence of a hospital's neurosurgeon and a $32 million verdict in favor of a child severely injured by the negligence of a hospital's delivery room staff. He has also served as class-counsel in national products liability cases, most recently on behalf of nearly 4000 plaintiffs in the Caldera mesh litigation in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Awards and Honors Honors Listed in Top Verdicts: California's Million Dollar Verdicts, #18 overall: on Jan 29, 2010, Hughes vs. Pham (Riverside, Co. Cal.) counsel for plaintiff (The Recorder, Verdict Search, April 25, 2011 - Present

• Of Counsel

• Moldo Davidson Fraioli Seror & Sestanovich LLP, Los Angeles, California, Partner

• Volunteer Arbitrator, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1995 - Present
• Physicians for Peace
• Bet Tzedek, The House of Justice
• Pro Bono Representation Panel for the United States District Court for the Central District of California

• California, 1992
• Illinois, 2014
• Massachusetts, 2016
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1992
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1992
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1992
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts

• California Bar Association
• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
• American Bar Association
• American Association for Justice, Railroad Law Section
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Beverly Hills Bar Association
• Consumer Attorneys of California
• American Association for Justice, Professional Negligence Section