Brenda Ligorsky is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Medical Malpractice and Healthcare Practices. Ms. Ligorsky has more than three decades of experience in the area of professional liability defense, particularly cases involving birth injuries and other catastrophic damages. Her clients include physicians, medical groups, hospitals, HMOs, and other health care providers, who she has successfully defended in both state and federal court in cases involving medical negligence, battery, fraud, elder and dependent adult abuse, bad faith, and products liability. 

Ms. Ligorsky has a particular interest in defending health care professionals against claims of elder and dependent adult abuse. Since 1997, she has been working to develop legal defenses to elder and dependent adult abuse claims, often working in concert with certified appellate specialists. She has secured several published appellate decisions, including in the seminal case of Carter v. Prime Health Care Paradise Valley LLC, 198 Cal.App.4th 396 (2011), a matter involving allegations of elder abuse in a hospital.

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • California
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California

Associations

• Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Southern California Association for Healthcare Risk Management

Education

University of Southern California Law School

Juris Doctor, 1993

Tufts University

Bachelor of Arts, 1990