El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers

About El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers

El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers is a personal injury practice led by founding partners Sherif Edmond El Dabe and Jonathan M. Ritter. El Dabe is licensed in California as S Edmond ElDabe and has been an active attorney since 2001; Ritter has held an active California license since 2006. The practice maintains its principal office at 1150 S. Olive Street, Suite 1300, in Downtown Los Angeles, with another office at 1120 Pacific Coast Highway, Unit A, in Huntington Beach.

El Dabe earned a J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2001 and a bachelor's degree in communication studies from UCLA. His professional background includes a clerkship for U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen J. Hillman, work at a Los Angeles plaintiffs' practice and later work in insurance defense. His current caseload includes severe orthopedic and brain injuries, wrongful death and insurance bad-faith disputes. He reports speaking Arabic and Spanish. Ritter graduated from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, founded Ritter Law in 2011 and belongs to the American Board of Trial Advocates. His work includes brain and spinal injuries and claims involving trucking companies and app-based transportation platforms.

The firm's matters span car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, electric bicycle, pedestrian, bus, rideshare, DUI-related and U.S. Postal Service vehicle collisions. It also handles aviation and boating accidents, slip-and-fall and other premises liability claims, dog bites, burns, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations and wrongful death. The legal team also includes Christopher Dickson, Cynthia Goodman and Kristopher O'Connell, in addition to the two founding partners.

The Downtown Los Angeles office is in South Park near the Los Angeles Convention Center and L.A. Live, while the second office is in Huntington Beach. The practice describes its fee and client-service arrangements as contingency-based, with free, no-obligation evaluations, English- and Spanish-language access, direct contact with the responsible attorney, and continuity of the same legal team if a matter proceeds from negotiation into litigation or trial.