Donald J. Beck

Don Beck
Donald Joseph Beck has practiced exclusively on high value complex personal injury cases since graduating from Southwestern University in 1975.   While in law school, he clerked for a Los Angeles firm of personal injury lawyers who specialized in trial of large injury cases.

Don’s recent results as co-trial counsel include a landmark case resulting in a $30,000,000 gross verdict for a single victim of sex abuse, and also another case where the jury awarded a gross verdict of just under $11,000,000 on behalf of an injured construction worker.

He is also a pilot, and has achieved a $13,813,000 verdict in wrongful death airplane crash litigation. He has been significantly involved in many large settlements and verdicts as well, including other seven and eight figure results in construction machinery design, factory machinery design, as well as medical malpractice particularly malpractice which results in catastrophic injuries to infants.
Don has handled hundreds of important cases and is highly experienced in construction accident, highway design, serious injury automobile accidents, sexual assaults, elder abuse, catastrophic injuries in oil industry explosions, as well as products liability matters in the aircraft, automobile, and consumer fields.

Education:

  • Juris Docter
    Southwestern University School of Law, 1975

Admitted to Practice:

  • United States Supreme Court
  • State of California

Awards

  • Consumer Attorney of the Year Finalist 2011
  • AV-Rating – Martindale-Hubbell
  • Top 100 Verdicts in 2010

Member:

  • American Association for Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association)
  • Consumer Attorneys of California
  • San Diego Consumer Attorneys

Personal:

  • Married with 1 child