Khail A. Parris

Career Highlights

• Firm Partnership: Partner at PARRIS Law Firm, where he has practiced since 2015 and focuses on catastrophic personal injury, product-liability and product-defect claims, including complex cases involving brain injuries, spinal injuries, trucking collisions, and multiple plaintiffs.
• More Than $500 Million Recovered: Has obtained more than $500 million in verdicts and settlements for injured individuals since joining PARRIS Law Firm.
• Early Trial Foundation: While attending law school, worked at the Van Nuys City Attorney’s Office on driving-under-the-influence and sex-crime cases. He was the only law clerk in his class permitted to try cases before juries and completed his tenure without losing a trial.
• Academic Recognition: Named to the Dean’s List at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law for superior academic performance.
• Daily Journal Recognition: Named to the Daily Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 list in 2022 and subsequently recognized among the publication’s Top Plaintiff Lawyers.
• Trial Lawyer of the Year: Named the Antelope Valley Bar Association’s Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018.
• Sustained Professional Recognition: Selected to Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2021 through 2026 and recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch from 2021 through 2026 for Civil Rights Law, Personal Injury Litigation–Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation–Plaintiffs.
• Los Angeles Litigation Recognition: Selected as one of the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2025 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys.
• National Trial-Law Instruction: Regularly teaches other attorneys through Trial Lawyers University and has presented for TBI Med Legal, Trial Guides, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the Kentucky Bar Association. His programs have addressed depositions, defense medical examinations, expert preparation, trucking litigation, courtroom technology, and presentation strategy.
• Published Trial-Strategy Author: Wrote “Four Underutilized Rules of Evidence at Trial,” published in the January 2025 edition of Advocate magazine, explaining practical methods for challenging speculative expert testimony and using evidence effectively before juries.

Proven Experience

• $77.1 Million Motorcycle-Collision Verdict: Served as lead counsel with R. Rex Parris in a 2025 trial for a motorcyclist left wheelchair-dependent after a speeding driver repeatedly lost control and crossed into oncoming traffic on Angeles Forest Highway. The result was subsequently recognized as a Top Verdict by the Daily Journal.
• $58.3 Million Railyard-Injury Verdict: Khail Parris and Alexander R. Wheeler obtained what was identified as the largest known slip-and-fall verdict in the United States for a Palmdale railyard worker severely injured after falling from a train car while performing electrical repairs. The unanimous verdict included more than $54.1 million in compensatory damages and $4.2 million in punitive damages.
• $56.5 Million Truck-Collision Verdict — Lennig v. CRST: Helped represent two brothers who suffered permanent injuries when a commercial truck crossed into their lane and struck their vehicle head-on. Parris handled litigation from its early stages, conducted more than 30 depositions, and examined multiple witnesses during the 16-day trial.
• $49.6 Million CHP Motorcycle-Officer Verdict: Served as co-counsel during a six-week trial for an on-duty California Highway Patrol officer who was thrown from his motorcycle after being struck by a distracted driver. The officer sustained catastrophic injuries and could not return to his CHP career.
• $41.6 Million Distracted-Driver Verdict: Served as counsel for a 27-year-old back-seat passenger who became quadriplegic after a distracted driver caused a T-bone collision in Palmdale. The defendant’s insurer subsequently paid the entire jury verdict, providing for the client’s lifelong medical and nursing needs.
• $32.8 Million State-Employee Collision Verdict: Co-led a 2025 trial for a man rear-ended on Highway 14 by a California Department of Insurance employee traveling at highway speed. The client required spinal-fusion surgery, received an implanted spinal-cord stimulator, and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
• $13 Million Product-Liability Settlement — Tapia v. Tesla: Helped obtain a settlement for a client who developed complex regional pain syndrome following an incident at a Tesla facility. Parris led the damages portion of the litigation, deposed more than six opposing experts, defended the client’s damages experts, and handled most of the treating-physician depositions.
• $9.6 Million Distracted-Driving Verdict: Served as lead counsel for a Santa Clarita collision victim whose vehicle was struck and overturned by a driver who ran a red light. Parris rejected a $370,000 offer before trial and a proposed agreement capped at $5 million before closing arguments; the jury ultimately returned the larger verdict.
• $1.05 Million Disability-Discrimination Verdict — Gonzalez v. Swissport SA: Served as lead counsel for a longtime aviation-services employee who was terminated after requesting medically restricted work following major heart surgery. Parris delivered the opening statement, closing argument, and rebuttal and examined most of the witnesses during the trial.