Dorinda Varley advises her clients on discovery issues in complex product liability litigation. She conducts discovery for cases involving a broad array of products including motor vehicles, medical devices, cleaners and pesticides. She currently manages the relationships and workflow between document review vendors and three major automobile manufacturers.
Dorinda regularly coordinates efforts between clients and Bowman and Brooke’s Client Advisory Technology Services (CATS). She manages document review groups and is adept at producing efficient data sets, saving significant review time and client finances. She regularly performs quality control regarding confidentiality, privilege, responsiveness, and relevant issues to produce discovery sets, containing consistently coded documents. Dorinda is also skilled at quality control regarding redactions for relevance, privilege, and personally identifiable information (PII). Additionally, she drafts privilege logs for various clients, utilizing Relativity to achieve consistency and increase efficiencies.
Before becoming a lawyer, Dorinda studied fine arts, including painting and drawing. In her free time, she enjoys visiting museums, especially art museums in Paris. Among her favorite artists are Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, and Egon Schiele.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Florida, 2010
- Michigan, 2009
COURT ADMISSIONS
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
EDUCATION
- Wayne State University Law School, J.D., 2009
- Wayne State University, B.F.A., 2005
- New York University, B.F.A.
Dennis S. Ellis is a Partner in the Century City office of the Firm that bears his name: Ellis George LLP. Mr. Ellis has worked for a diverse group of clients that includes major retail chains, energy, petroleum, pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies, and international financial institutions. Mr. Ellis has been recognized by both clients and colleagues as an exceptional trial lawyer with a string of victories in both state and federal courts. Mr. Ellis is also one of the most renowned entertainment, media and advertising litigators in the country. Having successfully represented many celebrity clients and cosmetic brands such as L’Oréal USA, Inc., Avon Products, Inc. and social media favorite, Sunday Riley Cosmetics, just to name a few; he is the go-to litigator in this ever-changing landscape for top brands and celebrities alike. Perhaps most notably, Mr. Ellis obtained a $2.87 billion judgment on behalf of his client New World TMT Limited, which is believed to be the largest judgment ever rendered in favor of a Chinese Company in a U.S. Court.
Regina Petty is a partner in the San Diego and Los Angeles offices of Fisher Phillips. She practices in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels and is experienced in multi-district and class action litigation.
Regina advises employers and public agency boards and handles litigation for private and public employers. She successfully argued Jones v. The Lodge at Torrey Pines Partnership (2008), 42 Cal.4th 1158, before the California Supreme Court, a case noted on Bender's California Labor & Employment Bulletin's top ten list of most significant cases and trends for the Fair Employment and Housing Act's fiftieth anniversary.
Regina is a past president of the San Diego County Bar Association and a former member of the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
She is "AV" Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been listed in San Diego Super Lawyers every year since its inaugural issue. She has been named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal's Top 75 Women Litigators in California and one of the San Diego Daily Transcript's Top Ten attorneys in both the labor and employment and business litigation categories.
Regina is also a recipient of the San Diego Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business Award and she was honored by the Stanford University Black Community Services Center with its Legacy Award.
Fisher Phillips is a Mansfield Certified and Mansfield Plus Certified firm.
In 2022 Regina was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, named HRO Today 2022 DEI Executive of the Year and received a Lifetime Achievement from Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law.
Regina is recognized in the San Diego Business Journal’s SD500 Influential People and Top 100 Leaders in Law.
Education
- Certified Diversity Professional, 2021, Cornell University
- J.D., 1982, Stanford Law School
- A.B., 1979, Stanford University
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- U.S. Supreme Court
Professional Activities
Regina is a Master in the Louis Welsh American Inn of Court and chairs the CLE Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel. She is a member of the National Bar Association, the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association and the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys. In addition to being a past faculty member for the American Bar Association TIPS Trial Academy and for the IADC Trial Academy, Regina is a frequent speaker for and member of the Defense Research Institute, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers as well as the Litigation and Labor & Employment Law sections of the State Bar of California and of the ABA. The International Association of Defense Counsel named Regina chair of its 2010 CLE Committee.
Community Activities
- She serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit hospital Sharp Healthcare. She is a member of the Audit Committee and chairs the Litigation Committee.
- San Diego Bowl Game Association board of directors.
- Regina is a member of the Redcoat Committee of the San Diego Bowl Game Association.
- She is a past chair of the City of San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium Advisory Board and previously served on the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce's board of directors and executive committee.
- Regina chaired the Chamber's 1998 Insights World Conference.
- She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Gerald Brooks grew up in the small town of Livingston, on the western edge of Alabama’s Black Belt, and has carried forward the small-town values of hard work, respect, and fairness into his law practice. Brooks graduated from the University of Alabama twice — with an undergraduate degree in 1999 and with his law degree in 2002. After receiving his J.D., he joined a Birmingham insurance defense firm, where he stayed for five years until he realized that he wanted to work on behalf of injured people instead of insurance companies.
“Working for a defense firm on behalf of insurance companies, I learned a lot and it made me a better attorney,” he says. “I don’t know if I’d be as good helping my current clients but for the experience of seeing how the other side evaluates cases, and the tactics that they utilize. But doing defense work, you’re representing corporations, and your point of contact is an insurance adjuster who’s not concerned about anything but reports and evaluations. They don’t care right or wrong.”
In 2009 he crossed over to the plaintiff side of the law, joining a Montgomery law firm that concentrated in that area. He stayed there for three years, then ventured out on his own and joined forces with Chuck James, an old law school friend, in 2013, to form Serious Injury Law Group.
Brooks dedicates his practice primarily to wrongful death and catastrophic injuries caused by accidents involving commercial vehicles, medical malpractice and defective products. He has to his credit several multi-million dollar civil judgments including a $5,000,000 wrongful death judgment.
Brooks enjoys trying cases on behalf of his clients. He believes, however, that his clients can often be best served by obtaining a fair settlement without having to put the client through the stress associated with litigation and trial. To that end, he has obtained countless seven-figure settlements for his clients including a $7,500,000 wrongful death settlement involving a commercial vehicle.
“I take pride in aggressively fighting for my clients and consider it an honor to be trusted to serve my clients at perhaps the most vulnerable points in their lives. As our firm name suggests, I take that responsibility seriously. The best part of all is when you get a favorable outcome for a client, seeing their reaction, and knowing that you have positively affected their life.”
He also values positively affecting the communities that he serves, especially the youth. In 2017, the firm launched its first Serious Injury Law Group Living History Essay Contest. Fifteen high-schoolers received $1,000 scholarships for essays on living heroes in their communities. He also has given scholarships to numerous high school seniors.
Brooks has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, as a Top Attorney by Birmingham Magazine, as a Super Lawyer and has received a host of other awards and recognitions.
In his spare time, Brooks enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, travel, Crimson Tide sports and community engagement.
Nathan R. Miles is an associate in the firm's Commercial Litigation Practice. Mr. Miles has experience representing clients in a wide variety of complex litigation matters throughout the United States, including real estate related cases, product liability cases and general commercial disputes. He also represents clients in connection with complex insurance coverage disputes.
While in law school, Mr. Miles interned for the Honorable David R. Sweat of the Superior Courts of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit and the Honorable Timothy C. Batten, Sr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Miles served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert Benham on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
PRACTICES
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Coverage
- Litigation
BAR ADMISSIONS
Georgia, 2018
COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
EDUCATION
University of Georgia, 2018
- Juris Doctor (J.D.)
- cum laude
Emory University, 2015