Antony Stuart

Antony Stuart is an accomplished trial attorney and the principal of Stuart Law Firm in Los Angeles.  He specializes in tort litigation, including invasion of privacy, consumer protection cases, legal malpractice, class actions and insurance litigation. In recent years he has pioneered the prosecution of fraud cases against purveyors of junk health insurance. He was lead counsel for the plaintiff in the seminal California privacy case, Shulman v. Group W Productions, 18 Cal.4th 200 (1998), and was instrumental in the successful effort to institute statutory regulation of attorney advertising in television and radio. In 1998, California Lawyer magazine named him one of California’s top 20 lawyers, and in 2000, Editor and Publisher magazine named him one of the nation’s “Three Kings of Privacy,” in media litigation.

A leader of his profession, Mr. Stuart served as President of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles in 2004, and in 2011, the Secretary of Consumer Attorneys of California.  In 2003, he was appointed by the Chair of the California Judicial Council to serve on the Blue Ribbon Panel on the Fair and Efficient Administration of Civil Cases.  In this capacity he was instrumental in the revision and liberalization of the rules of judicial management of civil cases and the grounds for continuance of civil trials. In 2001 he served on the AB 2069 Subcommittee of The Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) of the California State Bar Board of Governors.

Mr. Stuart has been recognized for his accomplishment as a trial lawyer, receiving, on three occasions, the nomination of his peers for consideration as “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” an award of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association/Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.

He is the author of “Don’t Be a Target:  Learn to Identify the Red Flags for Malpractice,” Advocate, Journal of the Consumer Attorneys Assn. of Los Angeles, Vol. 39, No. 10, October, 2012,  “In Support of Informing California Juries About the MICRA Limit,” Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Advocate, Vol. 33, No. 2, February, 2006; “Despite Hanif, the Collateral Source Rule Is Alive and Well,” Consumer Attorneys of California Forum, Vol. 32, No. 6, July/August, 2002; “Vulture Video:  Protecting the Consumer,” published in 1995, in Consumer Attorneys of California Forum magazine, Vol. 25, No. 2, and “Attorney Advertising and the Civil Justice System,” California Trial Lawyers Association Forum, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1994.

• Admitted to practice in California, November, 1979.
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1980.
• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2005.
• Admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals, 1986.

B.A., 1975, University of California at Los Angeles.

J.D., 1979, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California.

• Associate Attorney, Gantman & Gantman, Beverly Hills, California, 1980 – 1982;
• Associate Attorney, Greene, O’Reilly, Agnew & Broillet, Los Angeles, California, 1982 – 1989;
• Partner, Greene, Broillet, Paul, Simon & Wheeler, Los Angeles, California, 1989 – 1990;
• Founding Partner, Paul & Stuart, Santa Monica, California, 1990 – 1996
• Principal, Stuart Law Firm, Los Angeles, California, 1996 – present

• Named  one of California’s top 20 lawyers by California Lawyer magazine, 1998
• Named  one of the nation’s “Three Kings of Privacy” in media litigation by Editor and Publisher magazine, 2000
• Nominated for consideration, on three occasions, as “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association/Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles .

Consumer Attorneys of California (member Board of Governors, 1990 to 2011; thereafter, Emeritus Board of Governors);

Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (President, 2004);

American Association for Justice;

Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Box v. Lawyer — $1.3 million jury verdict

Lopez v. Maged Abu-Assal — $1.5 million jury verdict

Ramirez v. Good Samaritan Hospital — $1.9 million jury verdict

Scott & Johnston v. Whittiker Corporation — $1.5 million jury verdict

Farajpour v. University of Southern California — $1,000,000 jury verdict

McNair v. Worldwide Church of God — $1,250,000 jury verdict

Caceres v. Amtech Reliable Elevator Company — $671,000 jury verdict

Fisher v. USA Petroleum – $1,406,000 jury verdict

Triller v. Volkswagen, A.G. — $1,000,000 jury verdict

“Don’t Be a Target:  Learn to Identify the Red Flags for Malpractice,” Advocate, Journal of the Consumer Attorneys Assn. of Los Angeles, Vol. 39, No. 10, October, 2012,  “In Support of Informing California Juries About the MICRA Limit,” Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Advocate, Vol. 33, No. 2, February, 2006; “Despite Hanif, the Collateral Source Rule Is Alive and Well,” Consumer Attorneys of California Forum, Vol. 32, No. 6, July/August, 2002; “Vulture Video:  Protecting the Consumer,” published in 1995, in Consumer Attorneys of California Forum magazine, Vol. 25, No. 2, and “Attorney Advertising and the Civil Justice System,” California Trial Lawyers Association Forum, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1994.