Career Highlights

• Co-Founder and Managing Partner: Co-founded The Simon Law Group with his twin brother, Brad Simon, in 2009 and helped expand it from a small boutique practice into a nationally recognized personal-injury firm with more than 30 attorneys and offices in California, Arizona, and Texas.
• Extensive Trial Record: Since 2012, has served as lead counsel in approximately 50 trials, winning 46 and developing a particularly strong reputation for high-value spine-injury verdicts.
• Multiple Trial Lawyer of the Year Honors: Recognized by his peers with Trial Lawyer of the Year honors from the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association.
• Legal-Technology Entrepreneur: Co-founded Justice HQ, a national professional community and collaborative platform for plaintiff and consumer attorneys, and Attorney Share, a digital marketplace designed to modernize attorney-to-attorney case referrals.
• Pepperdine Distinguished Alumnus: Named Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s Young Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2022 in recognition of his professional leadership, mentorship, service, and support of the law-school community.
• National Professional Recognition: Selected to Southern California Super Lawyers from 2015 through 2026, following Rising Stars selections from 2011 through 2014, and named among Southern California’s Top 100 Super Lawyers from 2018 through 2024.
• Best Lawyers Recognition: Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation–Plaintiffs since 2016.
• Elite Trial-Law Membership: Admitted as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the International Society of Barristers.
• Civic and Professional Leadership: Served as president of Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities and has continued supporting community-service programs, attorney mentorship, and access-to-justice initiatives.
• Published Trial-Advocacy Author: Authored Trying Disc Injury Cases, a practical guide to developing, presenting, and maximizing the value of spine-injury cases.
• Legal Educator and Speaker: Regularly teaches trial strategy, damages presentation, legal technology, law-firm management, and spine-injury litigation to attorneys nationwide.
• Trial-Law Education Leadership: Helped establish Pepperdine Caruso School of Law’s Southern California Trial Lawyers Conference.

Proven Experience

• Over $600 Million Recovered: He and his team have secured over $600 million in cumulative financial compensation via jury verdicts and settlements for victims of severe injuries and wrongful deaths.
• $16.5 MillionMotor-Vehicle Verdict — Pickett v. Norian: Secured a major verdict for a client who underwent cervical and lumbar fusion surgeries following a light-impact rear-end collision. The award included $15 million for past and future pain and suffering, with the judgment later exceeding $18 million after interest and costs.
• $1o.8 Million Commercial-Truck Verdict — Hansen v. Werner Enterprises: Robert and Brad Simon obtained this federal jury verdict for a client who sustained a spinal injury requiring fusion surgery after a commercial truck entered his lane. The defense disputed both liability and medical causation.
• $9.3 Million Premises-Liability Verdict — Cedillo v. Efen Sobol Trust: Robert and Brad Simon secured this verdict for a worker who fractured two vertebrae and underwent a three-level spinal fusion after falling from an unsecured ladder. The insurer’s highest offer before trial was $250,000.
• $7.9 Million Product-Liability Judgment — Olguin v. Twin Tires, et al.: Robert and Brad Simon obtained this result for a client who fractured his neck after an aged tire failed and caused his vehicle to roll off the freeway.
• $7.2 Million Premises-Liability Verdict — Kolstad v. Thoreau Janitorial Services: Robert Simon and Jenny Anglin obtained substantial compensation for a client who required back surgery and implantation of a spinal-cord stimulator following a workplace fall.
• $7 Million Commercial-Trucking Recovery: Robert Simon obtained a seven-figure result for clients involved in a serious rear-end collision with a tractor-trailer.
• $6.5 Million Wrongful-Death Recovery: Secured a multimillion-dollar result in a confidential wrongful-death matter.
• $3.8 Million Car-Accident Verdict — Rodrigues v. Parada: Robert and Brandon Simon obtained this verdict for a rear-end collision victim who underwent spinal-fusion surgery after the defense challenged the legitimacy and necessity of his treatment.
• $3.8 Million Bicycle-Accident Verdict — Bermudez v. Ciolek: Robert and Brad Simon secured this verdict for a bicyclist who suffered serious pelvic and knee injuries after being struck by a vehicle. The successful appeal also contributed to favorable published California authority concerning medical liens and the reasonable value of medical services.
• $1.8 Million Rear-End Collision Verdict — Confidential v. De la Rosa: Robert and Brandon Simon obtained a verdict exceeding the defendant’s final offer by more than ten times and surpassing the available commercial insurance policy limits.
• Seven- and Eight-Figure Spine-Injury Advocacy: Developed a recognized concentration in spinal-injury and chronic-pain litigation, using medical evidence, damages witnesses, and detailed personal storytelling to demonstrate the lifelong effects of injuries that insurers frequently undervalue.