Experience

Kenneth G. Katel is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. He has extensive trial experience in a wide variety of matters, ranging from securities fraud and RICO actions to products liability and toxic tort cases. Mr. Katel has tried over seventy-five cases to verdict. 

While attending the law school at the University of San Diego, Mr. Katel was a member of the Appellate Moot Court Board, the National Moot Court Team and served as an Instructor of Legal Research and Writing.

Mr. Katel was a staff attorney for the Webster Commission, the investigation conducted by former FBI Chief William Webster into the response of the Los Angeles Police Department to the civil unrest following the Rodney King Simi Valley trial. He is a member of the Panel of Settlement Referees for the Los Angeles Superior Court and a member of the board of directors of the Harvard Water Polo Foundation.

Education

• University of Illinois, B.A., 1975
• University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 1979

Bar Admissions

• State Bar of California