Awards & Accolades

  • Top 100 Trial Lawyers
    Top 100 Trial Lawyers

    This exclusive admission is only by invitation sent to the premier trial lawyers in the country. The selection process is objective, and is performed in multiple phases, including peer nominations and external research. Only trial attorneys who meet the Top 100 criteria are admitted.

  • The National Law Journal
    The National Law Journal

    The $30,000,000 jury verdict that Mr. Shoop won has been certified as the Third Largest Personal Injury Verdict awarded in California in 2018. The verdict in this case, Anaya v. Superior Industries, was featured in Law 360. This verdict has also been featured in the National Law Journal as being one of the TOP 100 VERDICTS of any kind in the entire United States for 2018.

  • Top 20 Jury Verdicts California
    Top 20 Jury Verdicts California

    Mr. Shoop obtained what has been certified as one of the Top 20 Jury Verdicts in the entire State of California for 2018. The verdict won by Mr. Shoop in this wrongful death matter was issued by a unanimous jury.

  • Top 25 Products Liability Trial Attorneys
    Top 25 Products Liability Trial Attorneys

    An invitation-only professional organization composed of and limited to the Top 25 attorneys in America.

  • Top 50 US Jury Verdicts
    Top 50 US Jury Verdicts

    Mr. Shoop’s 2017 unanimous jury verdict in a Premises Liability case has been certified as the 18th largest Premises Liability Verdict in California for 2018. The verdict has also been certified to be on of the 50 largest Personal Injury Verdicts in the entire state for 2018.

  • Number 3 Verdicts in California in 2018
    Number 3 Verdicts in California in 2018

    Mr. Shoop obtained the third largest verdict in the state of California for a product liability case.

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David R. Shoop

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Bio

David Shoop is a nationally recognized lawyer and founder of Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation – one of California’s most successful plaintiffs’ firms. In his years of litigating matters involving defective products and medical devices, Mr. Shoop has amassed well over $300 million in verdicts and settlements in these cases alone. Moreover, he has numerous multi-million dollar results to his credit, including a $30 million verdict in a complex product liability case in Los Angeles County (Case No. BC 594187), a $14 million settlement involving implantable Class III medical devices and $34 million in recent product liability settlements.

Mr. Shoop is a trial lawyer who understands how insurance companies and manufacturers defend and evaluate their claims, having previously tried and litigated numerous multi-million dollar cases on behalf of some of the world's largest corporations and their insurers. He now exclusively represents victims in personal injury cases, with an emphasis on catastrophic injuries caused by defective products and medical devices.

Mr. Shoop proudly puts his experience and reputation to work for you—coupled with an unwavering will to win.

Attorney David Shoop has significant experience in these representative matters:

  • Product Liability
  • Catastrophic Injury
  • Defective Medical Devices
  • Recalled Medical Devices
  • Industrial Machinery Accidents
  • Medical and Professional Malpractice
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Breach of Contract
  • Unfair Competition
  • Class Action
  • Construction Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation

Trial-Tested Ability & Experience

Mr. Shoop has years of experience litigating matters involving defective products, medical devices, recalled medical devices, motor and recreational vehicles, complex industrial machinery, conveyor systems, and various other consumer products. He has helped his clients successfully prosecute cases involving wrongful death, paraplegic injuries, permanent brain damage, limb amputations, and severe burn injuries. In a recent complex orthopedic injury case in Los Angeles, the was matter resolved for over $6 million in trial.

Clients come to Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation for Mr. Shoop’s significant experience in product design, testing, evaluation, development, biomechanics, and physiology, as well as accident reconstruction and analysis. Mr. Shoop has litigated numerous fire and casualty cases and has years of experience in fire cause and origin analysis and NFPA 921 standards application. In recent burn injury cases, Mr. Shoop obtained a settlement of $3.5 million in Merced, California and a $1.1 million dollar judgment against Wal-Mart, Worthington Cylinder Corporation and the Coleman Company in federal court in San Francisco.

In addition to his impressive product liability and medical device case record, Mr. Shoop has also obtained a $5,036,489 jury verdict in Riverside, California against Peerless Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Company, for insurance bad faith. The verdict included an award of $3,500,000 in punitive damages against Peerless Insurance for claims-handling practices found by the jury to be in conscious disregard of the rights of its insured.

Representation You Can Count On

Mr. Shoop has significant experience dealing with the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and has resolved scores of claims against medical device manufacturers, helping clients win numerous, multi-million-dollar settlements. These claims often involve medical devices that have been recalled by the FDA.

David Shoop has coordinated complex litigation across the country, working with clients in:

  • California
  • Oregon
  • Washington
  • Arizona
  • Texas
  • Arkansas
  • Oklahoma
  • Illinois
  • Michigan
  • Florida
  • New York

Mr. Shoop received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, Mr. Shoop is a proud veteran of the United States Army, serving on active duty in in both Karlsruhe and Hanau, Germany. Prior to founding Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation, Mr. Shoop was a partner in the oldest, active law firm in Beverly Hills, California.

Bar Admissions

  • California State Bar
  • United States District Court, Central District of California
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of California
  • United States District Court, Southern District of California
  • United States District Court, Northern District of California
  • United States District Court, District of Colorado
  • United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • State Bar of California
  • Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA)
  • Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)
  • Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

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