Albert Villaneda

Albert Anthony Villaneda is a Senior Attorney with extensive catastrophic personal injury (i.e., auto v. auto, auto v. pedestrian, wrongful death, premises liability) experience. He began his legal career at a prominent plaintiff-side law firm where he helped prosecute many high-profile lawsuits. Over the course of his career, Mr. Villaneda learned how to prosecute a case from ‘day one.’ Executing effective trial strategies, Mr. Villaneda has recovered multi-million-dollar settlements on behalf of his clients. Mr. Villaneda has mastered how to identify, and exploit, the insurance company’s defense tactics.

In 2015, Mr. Villaneda briefed and argued a federal appeal before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before a veteran panel of judges. In that same year, Mr. Villaneda also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Steven J. Kleifield in the Los Angeles Superior Court Stanley Mosk Courthouse. In October 2023, he authored “Discovery And the Social Media Influencer: How to protect your case during discovery when your client earns income as a social-media influencer”, which was published in The Advocate and the Plaintiff magazines.

Mr. Villaneda earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Chapman University in Orange, CA, and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is admitted to practice in California state courts and the Central District of California. In his free time, Mr. Villaneda plays Alto Saxophone in the Loyola Law School Orchestra.