Lisa Perrochet

Practice Areas

Defense of manufacturers against toxic tort, product liability, and consumer claims; defense of insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation; appeals involving medical malpractice and lawyers professional liability, including disqualification issues.

Career

With a strong reputation for creativity and success in high stakes appellate litigation, Lisa Perrochet is sought out by clients for her considerable defense expertise regarding toxic tort and product liability claims; punitive damages claims; consumer claims against manufacturers, banks and other institutions; insurance coverage and bad faith litigation; as well as professional liability (medical and legal malpractice) and ethics matters, including attorney disqualification.

Lisa has represented clients in hundreds of appeals and writ proceedings, and has argued before the California Supreme Court and intermediate appellate courts throughout the state. She has also handled matters in other jurisdictions, including Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Hawaii.

Lisa is a partner at the firm and has more than 30 years specializing in civil appeals. Lisa has been a California State Bar Certified Appellate Specialist since the first year the State Bar offered certification in 1996. She is also on the board of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, and for many years has served as the editor of that organization's Verdict magazine.

Lisa's representative matters in the intermediate appellate courts are too numerous to list. In the California Supreme Court alone, Lisa has represented parties and amicus curiae entities in dozens of cases

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California

PilotLegis Risk Retention Group, Board Member (2001-present)

American Bar Association, Council of Appellate Lawyers (2001-present)

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Appellate Courts Section (1988-present), Executive Committee member; State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee (1997-2005)

Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, Board Member and Publications Chair (2001-present)

Federal Bar Association (1996-present)

Publications

Green Sheets: Notes on Recent Decisions (2001-present) regular feature in each issue of ASCDC's Verdict magazine

California Legal Bills: Privileged Until They Aren’t? (Jan. 10, 2017) Law360

Briefs Are All About The Words, Not Pages (Feb. 10, 2015) Daily J., p. 8

New Calif. Appeal Bond Rules Correct Outdated Process (Sept. 10, 2014) Law360, New York

Unpredictable Juries: When do their Miscues Constitute Misconduct? (Jan. 2012) Chartis Litigation Management Update

The Supreme Court of California Rules on Santa Clara Contingency Fee Issue - Backpedals on Clancy (July 2011) IADC Defense Counsel Journal

'Oasis West': What's a Lawyer to Do? (Apr. 18 2011) The Recorder [online exclusive]

Special Jury Instructions: When CACI Won't Cut It (Feb. 2011) Valley Lawyer p. 14

A Fine Line: The California Supreme Court Bars Statutory Trebling Of Restitutionary Awards In Private Party UCL Actions For Predatory Conduct Against Elders (Aug. 2010) Mealey's California Section 17200 Report, p. 19

Legal Ethics and Corporate Conflicts (Nov. 2006) California Lawyer

The Ethics and Legality of Jury Investigations (1st Quarter 2006) Verdict p. 38

California's "Little FTC Act": Benefitting Consumers, or Lawyers? (Dec. 4, 1998) Wash. Legal Found. Legal Backgrounder, Vol. 13, No. 46

Putting a Price on Partial Loss: A Case Stemming from the Northridge Earthquake, Cheeks v. California Fair Plan Assn., Creates No Fair Plan for Adjusting Partial Losses (Sept./Oct. 1998) S.F. Recorder Ins. Litig.

Writ Intake Procedures Cal. Civil Writ Practice (Cont.Ed.Bar 3d ed. 1996) ch. 2

What a Difference a Day Makes: Age Presumptions and the Standard of Care Required of Minors (1993) 24 Pac. L.J. 1323

No Chance for a Lost Chance of Recovery (Sept. 1992) L.A. Lawyer

Lost Chance Recovery and the Folly of Expanding Medical Malpractice Liability (1992) 27 Tort & Ins. L.J. 615