Evidence Code § 801.1: Holding Defense Experts to the Same Causation Standard

Joe O’Hanlon is an attorney at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP and focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases in California.

Mr. O’Hanlon earned his J.D. from Southwestern Law School, where he served as Chair of the Board of the Trial Advocacy Honors Program, as a staff writer for the Journal of International Law, and as a teaching assistant to Professor Hila Keren. Mr. O’Hanlon received numerous distinctions during law school including the CALI Excellence for the Future Award, the Bluebook Award, and semi-finalist honors in his first-year intramural trial advocacy competition.

Mr. O’Hanlon began his career at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP as a summer clerk. He also clerked in the White Collar Crime Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and externed for the Honorable Michelle C. Kim at the Los Angeles County Superior Court during his studies.

Mr. O’Hanlon is a member of the State Bar of California, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the Consumer Attorneys of California, the American Association for Justice, and the Irish American Bar Association. He also currently serves on the board of the Nickel Club, Southwestern Law School’s alumni association for recent graduates.

Robert Glassman is a partner at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP where he represents plaintiffs in large and complex personal injury cases and is a recognized leader in the Los Angeles legal community.

Recognized by the Daily Journal as among the 2023 Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 in California, Mr. Glassman has also been named a “Rising Star” in Personal Injury litigation by Law360 and recognized as a “Rising Star” by the Super Lawyers publication since 2013 where he has been consistently selected as one of the “Up-and-Coming 100 Southern California Rising Stars”, the list of lawyers who rank at the top of the Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars list.

His work on three high-profile school injury cases –  Lee v. Pupil Transportation Cooperative, Pierce v. Murrieta Valley Unified School District, and Sepulveda v. Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District – led to significant reforms at the school districts where the tragedies occurred and helped to establish new child safety laws in California.

Mr. Glassman also represents victims and survivors of sexual abuse, including ‘Jane’ who filed suit against her abusers in the high-profile case against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.