California license and practice

Ronald S. Hodges is an Active member of the State Bar of California (State Bar of California #150586). Verify the current individual Bar record at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/150586 before hiring an attorney.

Ronald S. Hodges is a Partner at Goe Forsythe & Hodges LLP in Irvine, where he has practised for more than thirty years as a trial lawyer, with extensive jury-trial and bench-trial experience for plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts. His complex litigation work includes business and commercial law, professional malpractice, health care, employment, insurance, officer and director liability, financial fraud, real estate, bankruptcy, unfair competition and trade secret, and personal injury matters. He serves as outside general counsel to several successful California businesses and as personal legal counsel to many high-net-worth individuals, and has been retained as an expert witness in legal malpractice and legal ethics claims. He speaks and presents continuing-education seminars on business litigation, trial strategies and legal ethics, and sits on the boards of charities and non-profit organisations. The firm states he obtained a $36 million fraud judgment for a local businessman against his former business partner and a $6 million judgment for high-net-worth individuals against the operators of a fraudulent (Ponzi) scheme. He was educated at Loyola Marymount University, where he was Student Body President, played Division 1 baseball and was a member of the Crimson Circle and Sigma Pi, and at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He is admitted to practise in California and Washington, D.C. He has been named a California Super Lawyer 2006–2021, a Top Attorney by Orange Coast Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine, and the 2021 Litigator of the Year by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers, and holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating.

Matters this legal field covers

Business legal work may cover business and commercial litigation, professional malpractice, financial fraud, real estate, bankruptcy, unfair competition and trade secret matters.

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