The
Massachusetts Bar Association is pleased to announce that trial
attorney Mark J. Geragos, of Geragos & Geragos, APC, in Los
Angeles, will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Dinner on
Thursday, May 7, at the Westin Boston Waterfront.
Geragos,
the principal at the internationally known law firm of Geragos
& Geragos APC, in Los Angeles, is the only lawyer besides
Johnnie Cochran ever named "Lawyer of the Year" in both the
criminal and civil arenas. Geragos cemented his national reputation
as a trial attorney winning back-to-back state and federal court
jury trial acquittals, and a presidential pardon, for renowned
Whitewater figure Susan McDougal.
In addition, during the last
decade,
Geragos
has won two consecutive dismissals of murder charges against
clients by proving flawed eyewitness identification. One of those
clients later won a $1.7 million settlement when the Geragos firm
sued the City of Glendale for their false arrest of that
client.
"I am so
excited to announce attorney Mark Geragos as the MBA's keynote
speaker for our annual dinner. Attorney Geragos has had an
extraordinary career in his representation of so-called celebrity
clients, including but not limited to Winona Ryder, Michael Jackson
and many more," said MBA President Marsha V. Kazarosian. "Notably,
as a proud Armenian, he advocates vigorously for the recognition of
the Armenian genocide and for reparations. As an accomplished
author and president of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
(ABMDR), Attorney Geragos has pledged a percentage of his earnings
from his 2013 book, Mistrial, to the ABMDR. Please join us
on May 7 to listen and learn from Attorney Geragos … an
extraordinary lawyer, accomplished author, speaker and advocate for
human rights."
Geragos
was one of the lead lawyers in a pair of groundbreaking federal
class action lawsuits against New York Life Insurance and AXA
Corporation for insurance policies issued in the early 20th century
during the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman
Turk Regime, eventually settling these two cases for more than
$37.5 million. He is currently suing the Government of Turkey for
reparations arising out of the Armenian genocide.
In
addition, his $59 million jury verdict in a trade secrets case
against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Corporation was voted a "Top
Fifty Verdicts in the United States" by the National Law
Journal. He is the immediate past president of the National
Trial Lawyers Association.
Mark
Geragos has represented some of the most prominent figures in the
world. His client list has included former Congressman Gary Condit,
former first brother Roger Clinton, Grammy Award-winning artist
Chris Brown, platinum-selling artist Kesha Sebert, Nicole Ritchie,
hip hop stars Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale and Sean "Diddy" Combs
(aka Puff Daddy), Usher Raymond and former heavyweight champion
Mike Tyson.
Geragos is
a legal analyst for CNN and has regularly appeared as both guest
and legal commentator on the "Today Show," "Good Morning America,"
"Dateline NBC," "Larry King Live," "Greta Van Susteren's On the
Record," "60 minutes," and "48 hours," and has lectured extensively
and authored numerous articles and law review publications on the
subject of media and the law. Geragos authored Mistrial: An
Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works... and
Sometimes Doesn't, which won the grand prize at the 2014 Los
Angeles Book Festival and was a bestseller.