Ramin T. Montakab

He Once Defended Major Corporations—Now Ramin Montakab Builds Cases for the People Facing Them

Long before Ramin T. Montakab represented injured people, he studied what makes a complex case succeed. He began working as a litigation consultant in 2008, helping lawyers understand the statistical and economic evidence behind major disputes. He later represented Fortune 500 companies, contractors, and financial institutions in civil litigation. Then he made a consequential professional turn: he founded RTM Law and placed that experience behind individuals whose lives had been disrupted by someone else’s negligence.

That history matters because an injury claim is rarely decided by the accident alone. The outcome may depend on whether a lawyer can organize medical records, financial losses, expert analysis, and conflicting accounts into a case that an insurance company—or eventually a jury—cannot easily dismiss. Montakab spent years seeing how corporations and institutional defendants challenge liability and limit exposure. He now brings that understanding to cases involving vehicle collisions, dangerous properties, defective products, and wrongful death.

His experience also extends beyond negotiations. In Orange County, he represented a grocery-store chain through a ten-day jury trial and obtained a complete defense verdict. In Los Angeles, he served as one of two trial attorneys in a complex civil case that ended with a verdict for the plaintiff. Working from both sides of the courtroom gave him a practical understanding of how arguments are tested, how weaknesses are exposed, and how evidence must be presented to ordinary people asked to decide a case.

The results produced under his leadership show the scale of the practice he has built. RTM Law secured a $5 million global settlement arising from a trucking accident, a $2 million recovery in a wrongful-death case involving an automobile collision, and a $1 million settlement in an auto-versus-truck matter. The firm also obtained $900,000 following a collision between two automobiles. Together, those outcomes demonstrate an ability to pursue substantial compensation across cases involving serious injury and devastating loss.

Although RTM Law serves clients through several California locations, Montakab leads a relatively small attorney team. That structure can give injured clients a meaningful advantage: senior leadership remains close to the work, communication passes through fewer layers, and responsibility for each case is easier to identify.

Montakab speaks English and Farsi, while his team can also assist Farsi-, Spanish-, and Tagalog-speaking clients. That combination of close attorney involvement and accessible communication appears to resonate with the people the firm represents: its Santa Ana practice maintains an impressive 5.0-star Google rating based on 147 reviews.

There is a personal dimension to the firm as well. Montakab’s family experience with autism helped inspire RTM Law’s advocacy for injured people with autism and other special needs. The program focuses on providing patient, individualized assistance to clients and families who may encounter additional difficulties after an accident.

His professional standing has grown alongside the firm. Montakab was selected to Southern California Rising Stars in 2023 and 2024 before earning selection to Super Lawyers in 2025 and 2026. Yet the clearest measure of his value is the direction he chose for his career. He learned how powerful organizations defend complicated civil cases, developed genuine trial experience, and then used that knowledge to build a practice for injured people preparing to challenge them.

That combination of experience, reputation, verified professional standing, and public credibility is why Ramin T. Montakab was included on FreddieFender.com.