Miller Barondess partners Skip Miller and Amnon Siegel have been honored by the Los Angeles Business Journal among the 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys. The award seeks to recognize the region’s very best litigators and trial attorneys who go to the proverbial mat to fight for their clients before judges and juries.
With a litigation career spanning five decades, trial lawyer Skip Miller works with clients on their most important cases. He has been lead counsel in 100+ state and federal trials and arbitrations nationwide and has prevailed against some of the largest corporations and law firms in the world with billions of dollars at stake. Miller maintains an active trial practice, handling high-stakes matters for an array of clients. He often uses unconventional but highly effective and efficient approaches to problem-solving. For example, during mediation of high-stakes litigation, Miller worked up a multi-defendant case and gave opening statements/closing arguments to the other side and their insurance adjusters in a series of mediations, resulting in settlements totaling $60 million. This was done before the discovery phase had even begun, saving substantial legal expense. Currently, Miller is representing the trustee of the Woodbridge Liquidation Trust in a lawsuit against multiple professionals alleging they aided and abetted the now-bankrupt real estate investment firm Woodbridge Group in a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. He also represents LifeBrite Laboratories, an Atlanta-based clinical testing laboratory, and its founder, Christian Fletcher, against major health insurance companies, charging they made false allegations about LifeBrite to regulators and prosecutors to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in claims.
Amnon Siegel is a partner with Miller Barondess and has been instrumental in the firm’s growth as a litigation powerhouse. An experienced trial lawyer and litigation strategist, Siegel handles complex disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of sectors, including banking and asset management, technology, real estate, consumer products, transportation, governmental regulation, and insurance. He has recovered more than $500 million for plaintiffs and has helped his defense clients avoid substantial exposure and potential liability. Siegel’s past trial victories include a $256 million jury verdict
against defendant Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp, a $16 million jury verdict against Toyota, and
a unanimous jury defense verdict for East West Bank in a multimillion-dollar lender liability action. Among Siegel’s recent victories, he secured a favorable settlement after a six-week jury trial when a juror asked a question to the judge during deliberations that telegraphed a victory (and an impending second phase on punitive damages) for Seigel’s plaintiff client. He also served as lead counsel and secured a favorable class action settlement after defeating multiple motions by defendant Toyota, benefiting 1.1 million Prius owners in a federal court action for concealing a serious safety defect.