Attorney Profiles

Ronald F. Gari

rgari@lawrice.com
Tel: (310) 517-8600

Ronald F. Gari is an Associate of the Southern California based law firm of David Lee Rice, A Professional Law Corporation which concentrates its practice in the areas of Taxation and Elder Care law. For the firm, he provides legal services and counsel to its clients in the areas of Civil and Business Litigation, Probate, Trust and Elder Financial Abuse Litigation and Transactional work.

During his professional legal career, which spans more than two decades, Mr. Gari’s primary focus as a litigator has been in the areas of Bad Faith Insurance, Products Liability, Environmental Litigation and General Civil Litigation. His expertise in the insurance industry led to him testifying as an expert before the California Senate subcommittee hearing on past abuses in the nonadmitted insurance market and to offer his opinion on proposed legislation.

Throughout his career, Mr. Gari has served as primary counsel on several high profile cases ranging from a complex insurance fraud litigation case (“Rebuild L.A”) involving the Asian Pacific America Legal Community organization, which centered on the civil unrest caused by the Rodney King verdict, wherein he worked closely with Former Mayor Tom Bradley and spearheaded the successful efforts to recover millions of dollars in insurance benefits for small business owners, to his handling of several toxic tort cases encompassed in the litigation made famous in the motion picture, “Erin Brockovich.” In addition, he has been lead counsel on numerous complex Federal Court cases which involved potential damages in the hundreds of million dollars.

Prior to joining the Rice law firm, Mr. Gari’s professional legal career included service to three Los Angeles law firms: Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison; Chapin, Fleming, McNitt, Shea & Carter; and Shea, Stokes & Carter. He also served on the legal staff of Chevron Products Company.

Mr. Gari is licensed to practice before all California courts and the Central and Eastern Districts of the United States District Court.

A native of Flushing, NY, Mr. Gari relocated to California and attended California State University at Northridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He subsequently obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Glendale University College of Law.

Mr. Gari has two children and resides in Buena Park, CA.