Practice Areas
Auto Accident Injury
Bicycle Accident
Brain Injury
Children's Brain Injury
Burn Injury
Construction Accident
Dog Bite Injury
Motorcycle Accident
Nursing Home Abuse
Products Liability
Spinal Cord Injury
Truck Accident
Delivery Truck Accidents
Child Molestation & Sexual Abuse
Insurance Bad Faith Claims
Boating Accident
Maritime Injuries
Pedestrian Accident
Premises Liability
Train Accident
Trolley Accident
Amusement Park Accident
Amputation Injuries
UTV Rollover Accidents
Airline Accidents & Injuries
Wrongful Death
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$17.5 million products
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$5 million brain injury and wrongful death case
$2.96 million brain injury case
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injury case
$1.75 million birth injury case
$1.65 million spinal cord injury case
$1.55 million burn injury case
$1.34 million construction accident injury case
$1.3 million auto accident injury case
California Personal Injury Attorneys
Michael Bomberger
Stephen Estey
Larry Booth (Of Counsel)
Richard Koskoff (Of Counsel)
Roger Booth (Of Counsel)
Ljubisa "LJ" Kostic (Of Counsel)
Estey & Bomberger, LLP is a California personal injury law firm that handles serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. The reputation of Estey & Bomberger, LLP is based upon the outstanding results and personal commitment they have exhibited to their clients. Not surprisingly, Estey & Bomberger’s practice is built upon referrals from past clients and other attorneys that recognize the results Estey & Bomberger, LLP have obtained for their clients. Estey & Bomberger, LLP welcomes referrals from other attorneys and offers generous referral fees per California State Bar Rules.
The attorneys at Estey & Bomberger, LLP have over 40 years combined experience in handling serious personal injury cases. Estey & Bomberger, LLP attorneys have over 350 trials in California Municipal and Superior Courts with over 20 million dollars in verdicts and 50 million dollars in settlements. Cases handled by Estey & Bomberger, LLP have attracted both national and local media attention and have been covered by CNN, the CBS Evening News, Telemundo, Univision, the Associated Press, Reuters, Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union Tribune. Recently, two cases the firm handled resulted in published opinions that expanded consumer rights.
Estey & Bomberger, LLP has offices in San Diego and Los Angeles however, they have the resources to handle cases throughout the State of California.
All initial consultations with our attorneys are free. There are no legal fees or costs for our services unless we recover money on your behalf. The attorneys at Estey & Bomberger, LLP are available for home and hospital visits and can be reached by telephone 24/7 at (619) 295-0035 or contact via E-Mail at info@estey-bomberger.com.
Please contact us today if you or someone close to you has suffered a serious personal injury or death
Our practice areas include:
- Auto Accidents
- Wrongful Death
- Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Product Liability
- Brain Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Construction Accidents
- Dog Bite Injury
- Burn Injury
- Other serious injuries
Meet the California Personal Injury Attorneys
Stephen J. Estey is passionate about personal injury law, and considers this complicated and sensitive field his area of expertise. He's prepared, enthusiastic and unwavering in his commitment to help his clients receive the most appropriate resolutions. A founding partner of Estey & Bomberger, Stephen has established himself as a professional, qualified attorney who is authorized to practice law in California (by the California Supreme Court) and before the United States Supreme Court. An award-winning trial attorney, Stephen has received the highest possible AV-Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, and Law & Politics recently included in him in San Diego Super Lawyers® for the second consecutive year.
Education:
Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice
San Diego State University, 1989
Juris Doctor
California Western School of Law, 1992
Admitted to Practice:
United States Supreme Court
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
11th Circuit Court of Appeals
State of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
California Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
San Diego County Bar Association
National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Personal:
Married with two children.
R. Michael Bomberger is one of the founders of Estey & Bomberger, LLP. R. Michael Bomberger is an attorney at law duly sworn in the State of California and the State of Pennsylvania and is authorized by the Supreme Court to practice law in all Courts in the State of California. Mr. Bomberger is also admitted and qualified to practice law in the United States Federal District Court Southern & Central District of California. In addition, the States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has certified that Mr. Bomberger is admitted and qualified as an attorney to practice law in the United States Federal Court of Appeals. Mr. Bomberger has extensive legal experience in the negotiation, settlements and litigation of various types of legal matters, including, but not limited to, serious personal injury claims, wrongful death cases, car accident claims, truck & big rig accident claims, bus accident claims, elder abuse claims, birth injury claims, head injury claims, burn injury claims, dog bite claims and defective product claims. Mr. Bomberger and the Law Offices of Estey & Bomberger are committed to providing the highest quality of legal services for clients.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts English and Economics
Bucknell University, 1988
Juris Doctor California Western School of Law, 1992
(American Juris Prudence Award for Legal Skills)
Admitted to Practice:
State of California
State of Pennsylvania
United States District Court Southern District of California
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association
Presidents Club of California Consumer Attorneys
California Trial Lawyer Association
California Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Consumer Attorneys
San Diego Better Business Bureau
American Bar Association
San Diego County Bar Association
Personal:
Married with three children.
Lawrence R. Booth graduated first among day students from the University of Southern California in 1959. He worked with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office for two years which gave him substantial trial experience. He then went on to concentrate in the field of personal injury and wrongful death with the law firm of Silver & McWilliams (which eventually became Silver, McWilliams & Booth).
During his 20 years with Silver, McWilliams & Booth, Lawrence Booth was the lead trial lawyer in hundreds of personal injury cases, with major concentration in the field of construction accidents and products liability. In 1972, he became the fourth attorney in California, and among a select few in the country, to obtain a million dollar verdict in a personal injury case. In 1973, he was elected to the Inner Circle of Advocates. This national organization is limited to 100 of the finest trial lawyers in the United States, only a handful of whom are in California.
In 1974, Lawrence Booth became the first permanent Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association publication, The Advocate. After four years, he relinquished that post to become the president of the organization. The Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association (now known as the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles) includes over 2,000 attorneys practicing in the personal injury field in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1997, the organization nominated Mr. Booth (along with colleague Richard Koskoff) as "Trial Lawyer of the Year."
During his four decades of practice, Lawrence Booth has been a prolific author. His articles on personal injury practice regularly appear in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the primary legal newspaper in the State of California. For fifteen years, he has published a monthly column entitled "Tort Tactics" in the Barristers Bulletin of the South Bay Bar Association. Mr. Booth has appeared as a guest lecturer at dozens of personal injury seminars throughout California and for civic and professional organizations.
Richard B. Koskoff (Of Counsel)
Richard B. Koskoff graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Dean's Honor Student in 1968. He attended law school at the University of California at Davis from 1969 to 1972, representing UC Davis at the renowned California State Moot Court Finals in 1972. Shortly after graduation, Richard Koskoff embarked on his litigation-oriented career and became one of the head trial attorneys for the City of Los Angeles in prosecuting drunk driving cases.
During the 1970's, Richard Koskoff was an avant-garde litigator, representing the City in cases against environmental offenders. He was ahead of his time in protecting consumer rights and prosecuted numerous cases involving consumer rights violations and false advertising. After leaving the City Attorney's Office, Richard Koskoff opened his own criminal defense practice. As a criminal defense lawyer, he had a very successful trial record, including successfully defending a number of high profile cases.
In the mid-1980's, Richard Koskoff joined Lawrence Booth and has since concentrated on representing clients who have suffered serious and lifelong personal injuries, including the wrongful death of loved ones. He has obtained numerous million dollar and multi-million dollar results, including an astounding $16.5 million verdict in 1997, in an extremely difficult trial where the defendant had not offered any money to settle the case prior to trial. In a 1998 trial in which he handled the damages issues, Mr. Richard Koskoff obtained a $1.6 million verdict, setting a record for the highest hand injury verdict in Orange County history. Also in 1998, he settled an injury case for $9 million, which tied the record for the highest settlement ever paid by the City of L.A. In two of his recent cases, where the verdicts were in excess of a million dollars, the jury took the almost unheard of action of rendering monetary awards, which were higher than the amounts the plaintiffs demanded in trial.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was one of 11 attorneys to be nominated by the Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles as "Trial Lawyer of the Year." He is a repeated guest speaker and lecturer for various organizations and participates in the continuing legal education of lawyers as an invited speaker for the State Bar of California. Mr. Richard Koskoff has published numerous articles on the subjects of trial tactics and personal injury practice.
In 1997, Mr. Richard Koskoff was the subject of a "Litigator Profile" in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger E. Booth (Of Counsel)Since graduating from one of the top law schools in the country in 1991, Roger E. Booth has handled numerous large, complex cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants, and both individuals and corporations, throughout California. He has extensive jury trial experience and has developed particular expertise in products liability, construction accidents and insurance bad faith.
In 1987, Roger Booth graduated with honors from Pomona College (one of the top handful of liberal arts colleges in the U.S.) with a degree in English Literature. During his senior year, he spent a semester studying at Oxford University in England. He went on to attend Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, which is ranked consistently among the top seven lawschools in the country. At Boalt, in addition to excelling in his academic courses, Mr. Booth gained practical legal experience representing numerous low-income clients in both civil and criminal matters.
After graduating from Boalt in 1991, Mr. Roger Booth became an associate with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, the largest law firm in California. At Pillsbury, he represented large corporations in a wide range of substantial litigation matters, specializing in insurance coverage and bad faith cases, and obtained extensive trial experience. Among the cases he handled was an insurance bad faith case against three of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., which resulted in settlements and a verdict for his client totaling over $11 million. In 1996, Roger Booth took a leave of absence from Pillsbury to work as a deputy public defender in San Francisco, gaining valuable jury trial experience handling criminal matters.
Mr. Roger Booth joined Booth & Koskoff in 1997 and, since then, has handled a variety of personal injury, wrongful death and insurance bad faith cases. In September 1998, in just his second personal injury trial, he (along with Richard Koskoff) obtained a $1.6 million verdict, establishing a new record for a hand injury case in Orange County. As a result of that verdict, Roger Booth was featured in a profile in the Daily Journal (the leading legal newspaper in California).
Roger Booth has published articles on the subjects of construction accident law, defective air bags and insurance bad faith.
For the better part of a decade, Ljubisa "LJ" Kostic represented big businesses, private and government institutions, and their insurance companies. But he never forgot to wear his grandfather's watch, the one his grandfather (also named Ljubisa Kostic) was wearing the day he was killed by a bus because the bus driver was drunk. Now, Mr. Kostic represents ordinary people facing the extraordinary challenges that, unfortunately, so often follow when someone else's carelessness, broken promise or intentional conduct results in injury or loss. Mr. Kostic has extensive experience in cases involving wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, premises liability, dangerous conditions on public property, defective products, fraud, wrongful termination and employment discrimination, civil rights violations, sexual assault, assault and battery, disability discrimination and ADA violations, partnership disputes, and many others. He has successfully handled every aspect of litigation from inception to jury trial. He has also handled numerous appeals, including a published decision, O’Toole v. San Diego Community College District (2005) 140 Cal.App.4th 488. Mr. Kostic is licensed to practice law in California and Nevada, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in both states, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, the Southern and Central Districts of California and the District of Nevada.
Mr. Kostic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia). He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he received degrees in economics and psychology. Mr. Kostic received his law degree from California Western School of Law, where he was one of the top 10 students in his class, and received numerous awards. Mr. Kostic began his career with the Las Vegas law firm of Lionel, Sawyer & Collins, one of Las Vegas' oldest, largest and most prestigious corporate firms. Next, Mr. Kostic joined the well known San Diego based defense firm of Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz, where he was a partner until 2009. In 2007, Mr. Kostic was named one of the top ten young attorneys who have practiced for 5-7 years, as published in the annual Young Attorneys issue of the San Diego Daily Transcript, one of the most widely read business and legal journals in Southern California. Mr. Kostic is also an avid surfer, slightly less avid but enthusiastic snowboarder, animal lover, devoted husband and soon to be father to a baby boy.
Mr. Kostic is the principal of the Kostic Law Firm, and is of counsel to Estey & Bomberger."
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