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\r\nDoug\r\nhas served as an Orange County Superior\r\nCourt Temporary Judge and as an arbitrator and settlement judge for the\r\nOrange County Superior Courts. He has argued cases before the Ninth\r\nCircuit Court of Appeals, the California\r\nSupreme Court, and various Appellate\r\nCourts of the state of California.\r\nDoug has tried cases in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San\r\nBernardino, Imperial, and Alameda counties in California. He has also represented clients in most\r\nother California counties.
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\r\nDoug\r\nhas served as an Orange County Superior\r\nCourt Temporary Judge and as an arbitrator and settlement judge for the\r\nOrange County Superior Courts. He has argued cases before the Ninth\r\nCircuit Court of Appeals, the California\r\nSupreme Court, and various Appellate\r\nCourts of the state of California.\r\nDoug has tried cases in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San\r\nBernardino, Imperial, and Alameda counties in California. He has also represented clients in most\r\nother California counties.
\r\nDoug\r\nand his wife Rae have seven children.\r\nHis oldest son, Brian, and his second youngest son, Matt, and his\r\nson-in-law, Russ, all work as attorneys for the firm. In addition, Doug’s daughters, Dee and Kristy, have each\r\nworked for the firm at different times throughout their lives and his wife Rae\r\nis currently the Office Manager.\r\nThis familial nature within the firm gives common purpose and success to\r\nthe firm. Doug is especially proud\r\nthat all five of his sons are Eagle Scouts.
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Prior to law school, Gabriel was a paralegal for a personal injury law firm, where he experienced first-hand the inequities of a system that desired to take advantage of victims who had been harmed by the negligence of others, which sought to pay these victims as little as possible for the pain and suffering they endured. Gabriel realized that a strong and zealous advocate was needed to combat these inequities, and therefore he decided to become an attorney.
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Gabriel received his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009, where he majored in Criminology Law & Society and minored in English. Gabriel went on to attend Whittier Law School where he received his Juris Doctor Summa Cum Laude in 2014 and graduated in the top 4% of his class, ranking 7th out of 171 students. In December 2014, Gabriel was admitted to the California Bar.
Gabriel has always had a strong commitment to advocacy, which is evident through his time at law school and in his legal career. While in law school, Gabriel was a member of Whittier’s Trial Advocacy Honors Board and Moot Court Honors Board, where Gabriel competed on multiple occasions. At the onset of his career as an attorney, Gabriel focused his practice on all things litigation, which includes extensive experience in drafting complaints, law and motion, legal research & writing, and trial preparation.
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Gabriel is married to his wonderful and supportive wife, Dr. Kelsey Mendoza, who is a psychologist that practices in Orange County. Gabriel has a love for sports, especially for basketball with his favorite team being the Los Angeles Lakers. He enjoys reading, CrossFit, hiking, and finding ways to volunteer and give back to the community.
Gabriel is admitted to practice in all California state courts, the U.S. Eastern District Federal Court, and the U.S. Central District Federal Court.
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Gabriel has made an immediate impact at Easton & Easton, assisting in obtaining a six-figure settlement within his first month here. Gabriel knows that each person that walks through the doors of his firm has been harmed in some way and has a unique story to tell. He excels in bringing that story to light in a compelling, persuasive, and convincing manner. Now having been with the firm for more than five years, he has been an integral part to the team. He believes in a strong litigation posture, which allows him to orchestrate larger settlements for his clients. In 2019, he settled an $800,000 automobile accident case for his client, and a $740,000 automobile accident for another. He was also integral in mediating a hotly disputed premises liability action that he assisted in settling for $1,997,000.
Gabriel received his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009, where he majored in Criminology Law & Society and minored in English. Gabriel went on to attend Whittier Law School where he received his Juris Doctor Summa Cum Laude in 2014 and graduated in the top 4% of his class, ranking 7th out of 171 students. In December 2014, Gabriel was admitted to the California Bar.
Gabriel has always had a strong commitment to advocacy, which is evident through his time at law school and in his legal career. While in law school, Gabriel was a member of Whittier’s Trial Advocacy Honors Board and Moot Court Honors Board, where Gabriel competed on multiple occasions. At the onset of his career as an attorney, Gabriel focused his practice on all things litigation, which includes extensive experience in drafting complaints, law and motion, legal research & writing, and trial preparation.
Gabriel has always had a strong commitment to his community and serving others. At UCI, Gabriel was a Life C.O.A.C.H. for UCI’s counseling department, where he assisted people in overcoming hurdles in their life. Gabriel was also a member of a Jump Start Program and Criminology Outreach Program that allowed him to mentor students in the Orange County area, with a focus on developing children’s goals towards obtaining higher education.
Gabriel is married to his wonderful and supportive wife, Dr. Kelsey Mendoza, who is a psychologist that practices in Orange County. Gabriel has a love for sports, especially for basketball with his favorite team being the Los Angeles Lakers. He enjoys reading, CrossFit, hiking, and finding ways to volunteer and give back to the community.
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Kevin is listed in The Best\nLawyers in America®, a peer-reviewed survey listing outstanding attorneys\nthroughout the United States, and was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Product\nLiability Litigation “Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year” in Orange County,\nCalifornia. He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Mass Tort Litigation/Class\nActions “Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year.” Kevin has been listed for several\nyears by the attorney rating service Super Lawyers, and has been named in the\nSuper Lawyers Top 50 Orange County and Top 100 Southern\nCalifornia lists. He was named by The Trial Lawyer\nMagazine in its 2015 list of “America’s Most Influential Trial Lawyers,” and\n2018 “Trial Team of the Year.” In 2009 and in 2018, he was honored as a\nrecipient of one of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Awards, and in 2011 he was inducted into the\nWestern State University Alumni Hall of Fame. He has\nan AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for legal\nability and ethical standards under the national legal directory’s peer review\nsystem.\n
He was one of the lead attorneys representing the\nCounty of Los Angeles in its suit against several tobacco manufacturers‚ which\nresulted in a settlement under which the County will receive approximately $3.3\nbillion over 25 years. He also served as associate counsel with the Orange\nCounty District Attorney’s Office in the prosecution of actions against oil\ncompanies arising from underground storage tank leakage, and in actions brought\non behalf of the People of the State of California against major automobile\nmanufacturers under California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws.\nKevin has tried cases in California‚ Arizona and Texas‚ and has acted as\ncounsel pro hac vice in state and federal courts in several other states. He\nwas a member of the trial team in Echeverria v. Johnson & Johnson,\nwhich resulted in a $417 million jury verdict in 2017. He was also co-counsel\nin Ketchum vs. Hyundai‚ which resulted in a $15 million jury verdict‚ as well\nas In re Aircrash in Bali‚ Indonesia‚ where a jury in U.S. District\nCourt in Los Angeles found Pan American World Airways liable for willful\nmisconduct in the crash of a jet airliner.\n
Kevin has three decades of experience in automotive products liability\nlitigation relating\nto fuel system design‚ rollover protection‚ structural crashworthiness‚ dynamic\nstability and occupant restraint systems. He also has a broad range of\nexperience in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceuticals‚ medical devices\nand other defective products‚ in both federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL)\nand California Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP). Kevin has also represented a\nnumber of clients in connection with commercial and military aviation\naccidents‚ including crashes involving EgyptAir‚ Alaska Airlines‚ Pan Am‚ U.S.\nMarine Corps helicopters and ultralight aircraft.\n\nHe is an adjunct professor at the University of\nCalifornia‚ Irvine School of Law‚ and has been a frequent lecturer and writer\non topics related to civil litigation for a number of organizations‚ including\nthe American Bar Association‚ the Practicing Law Institute‚ the American\nAssociation for Justice‚ the Orange County Bar Association‚ the Western Trial\nLawyers Association‚ the Consumer Attorneys of California‚ the Ventura County\nTrial Lawyers Association‚ the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association‚ the Montana\nTrial Lawyers Association, and the Continuing Education of the Bar. He is also\na member of the Executive Council of the Mihaylo College of Business and\nEconomics at California State University, Fullerton‚ as well as a member of the\nCouncil's Advisory Board‚ and is a Founding Fellow of the Orange County Bar\nFoundation Society of Fellows.\n
In 1997, Kevin was elected to the Board of\nGovernors of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)‚ and served for\nseveral years as a member of the At-Large Board of Governors. He received\nCAOC’s Presidential Award of Merit in 1994‚ 1995‚ 1996 and 2000. He also served\nas the organization’s Education Chair and as Editor-in-Chief of FORUM Magazine‚\na monthly publication of CAOC.\n
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business\nAdministration and Finance from California State University at Fullerton‚ and a\nJuris Doctor degree from Western State University College of Law‚ where he\nserved as Editor-in-Chief of the Western State University Law Review. Kevin\nand his wife Peggy live in Coto de Caza‚ California. Their daughter Kelly is\nalso a graduate of Cal State Fullerton‚ and their son Sean is a graduate of USC\nand a former wide receiver for the Trojans.\n
Since 1995 Kevin has written a regular\nfeature for CAOC's FORUM Magazine, updating attorneys, legislators and judges\non recent opinions from the California Supreme Court and courts of appeal. He\nassisted the Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions in the\npreparation of the Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions\n(CACI), and has been a contributing editor to three practice guides for\nattorneys, including California Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Before\nTrial, Claims and Defenses (The Rutter Group 2012); Products\nLiability Litigation: Product Studies, Clark Boardman Callaghan (1996);\nand A Guide to Toxic Torts, Matthew Bender & Company (1987).\n
He has also authored or\nco-authored a number of articles relating to civil practice, including:\n\n \n\n“Apex Discovery:\nWhy Top Level Executives Are Not Immune from Deposition,” FORUM,\nConsumer Attorneys of California, November/December 2016.\n\n \n\n“Anticipating\nDaubert Challenges: Potential Attacks and Some Persuasive Authorities,” FORUM, Consumer Attorneys of California, March/April\n2015. \n\n \n\n“Roadway Design Litigation: A\nLegal Overview,” THE GAVEL, Orange County Trial Lawyers Association,\nWinter 2014.\n\n \n\n“Strengthen Your Case With\nOther Similar Incidents‚” TRIAL‚ Journal of the American Association for\nJustice‚ July 2013.\n\n \n\n“OSI Evidence In Products\nLiability Litigation‚” THE GAVEL‚ Orange County Trial Lawyers Association‚\nSpring 2013.\n\n \n\n“Relevance and Admissibility\nof Evidence of Other Incidents‚ Accidents and Product Failures in Products\nLiability Litigation‚” 42 Idaho Trial Lawyers Association Journal 1;\nFORUM‚ Consumer Attorneys of California‚ October 2012.\n\n \n\n“Admissibility of Foreign\nRegulatory Activities in Pharmaceutical Litigation‚” FORUM‚ Consumer\nAttorneys of California‚ July 2011.\n\n \n\n“Catalyst for Change: How\nProducts Liability Litigation Has Made Products Safer‚” ADVOCATE‚ Journal\nof Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California‚ March 2010.\n\n \n\n“A Catalyst for Safety‚”\nTRIAL‚ Journal of the American Association for Justice‚ November 2009.\n\n \n\n“The Noerr-Pennington\nDoctrine: Defective Products and the First Amendment‚” FORUM‚ Consumer\nAttorneys of California‚ May 2008.\n\n \n\n“Prescription Drug\nOverpromotion: How Marketing‚ Sales and Profit","CountryCode":"US","CssClass":"card card-lawyer card-lawyer-biography highlight d-flex flex-column border-0 rounded text-white background-dark-blue-gray background-dark-blue-gray-highlighted-hover","AriaLabel":"LawyerBio","ViewName":"LawyerBio","ViewPath":"~/Views/Shared/Components/Cards/Lawyers/LawyerBio.cshtml"},"Contact":null,"Pages":[{"IsLoty":true,"LotyBadgeUrl":"https://cdn.blrankings.com/best-lawyers/badge-images/loty-thumbnail-award-2025.png","PublicationListId":1,"HasLawyerProfileImage":true,"LawyerProfileImageUrl":"https://cdn.blrankings.com/best-lawyers/lawyer-images/kevin-f-calcagnie-144235?t=2021021119413269","IsLocked":false,"HasLawyerProfile":true,"LawyerProfileUrl":"https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/kevin-f-calcagnie/144235","LinkTarget":null,"LinkRel":null,"LawyerId":0,"LawyerFullName":"Kevin F. Calcagnie","LawyerGivenName":"Kevin F.","LawyerMiddleName":null,"LawyerFamilyName":"Calcagnie","LawyerInitials":"KC","HasFirmProfile":false,"FirmProfileUrl":null,"FirmName":"Robinson Calcagnie, Inc.","RecognizedSinceYear":2013,"LocationName":"Orange County, California","CountryCode":"US","TrafficId":144235,"TrafficCategory":"lawyer","PracticeAreas":["Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs","Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs","Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs"],"SpecificFocuses":[],"CssClass":"card card-lawyer card-lawyer-basic-info card-lawyer-bl highlight d-flex flex-column border-0 rounded text-charcoal background-white-lg background-white-lg-highlighted-hover","AriaLabel":"LawyerBasicInfo","ViewName":"LawyerBasicInfo","ViewPath":"~/Views/Shared/Components/Cards/Lawyers/LawyerBasicInfo.cshtml"},{"PublicationListId":1,"HasLawyerProfileImage":true,"LawyerProfileImageUrl":"https://cdn.blrankings.com/best-lawyers/lawyer-images/kevin-f-calcagnie-144235?t=2021021119413269","IsLocked":false,"HasLawyerProfile":true,"LawyerProfileUrl":"https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/kevin-f-calcagnie/144235","LinkTarget":null,"LinkRel":null,"LawyerFullName":"Kevin F. Calcagnie","LawyerGivenName":"Kevin F.","LawyerMiddleName":null,"LawyerFamilyName":"Calcagnie","LawyerInitials":"KC","Biography":"
Kevin F.\nCalcagnie is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc.‚\nspecializing in civil litigation with an emphasis in products liability. He was\nadmitted to the California Bar in 1983‚ and has been admitted to practice\nbefore the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals\nfor the Ninth and Fifth Circuits.
Kevin is listed in The Best\nLawyers in America®, a peer-reviewed survey listing outstanding attorneys\nthroughout the United States, and was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Product\nLiability Litigation “Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year” in Orange County,\nCalifornia. He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Mass Tort Litigation/Class\nActions “Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year.” Kevin has been listed for several\nyears by the attorney rating service Super Lawyers, and has been named in the\nSuper Lawyers Top 50 Orange County and Top 100 Southern\nCalifornia lists. He was named by The Trial Lawyer\nMagazine in its 2015 list of “America’s Most Influential Trial Lawyers,” and\n2018 “Trial Team of the Year.” In 2009 and in 2018, he was honored as a\nrecipient of one of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Awards, and in 2011 he was inducted into the\nWestern State University Alumni Hall of Fame. He has\nan AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for legal\nability and ethical standards under the national legal directory’s peer review\nsystem.\n
He was one of the lead attorneys representing the\nCounty of Los Angeles in its suit against several tobacco manufacturers‚ which\nresulted in a settlement under which the County will receive approximately $3.3\nbillion over 25 years. He also served as associate counsel with the Orange\nCounty District Attorney’s Office in the prosecution of actions against oil\ncompanies arising from underground storage tank leakage, and in actions brought\non behalf of the People of the State of California against major automobile\nmanufacturers under California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws.\nKevin has tried cases in California‚ Arizona and Texas‚ and has acted as\ncounsel pro hac vice in state and federal courts in several other states. He\nwas a member of the trial team in Echeverria v. Johnson & Johnson,\nwhich resulted in a $417 million jury verdict in 2017. He was also co-counsel\nin Ketchum vs. Hyundai‚ which resulted in a $15 million jury verdict‚ as well\nas In re Aircrash in Bali‚ Indonesia‚ where a jury in U.S. District\nCourt in Los Angeles found Pan American World Airways liable for willful\nmisconduct in the crash of a jet airliner.\n
Kevin has three decades of experience in automotive products liability\nlitigation relating\nto fuel system design‚ rollover protection‚ structural crashworthiness‚ dynamic\nstability and occupant restraint systems. He also has a broad range of\nexperience in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceuticals‚ medical devices\nand other defective products‚ in both federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL)\nand California Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP). Kevin has also represented a\nnumber of clients in connection with commercial and military aviation\naccidents‚ including crashes involving EgyptAir‚ Alaska Airlines‚ Pan Am‚ U.S.\nMarine Corps helicopters and ultralight aircraft.\n\nHe is an adjunct professor at the University of\nCalifornia‚ Irvine School of Law‚ and has been a frequent lecturer and writer\non topics related to civil litigation for a number of organizations‚ including\nthe American Bar Association‚ the Practicing Law Institute‚ the American\nAssociation for Justice‚ the Orange County Bar Association‚ the Western Trial\nLawyers Association‚ the Consumer Attorneys of California‚ the Ventura County\nTrial Lawyers Association‚ the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association‚ the Montana\nTrial Lawyers Association, and the Continuing Education of the Bar. He is also\na member of the Executive Council of the Mihaylo College of Business and\nEconomics at California State University, Fullerton‚ as well as a member of the\nCouncil's Advisory Board‚ and is a Founding Fellow of the Orange County Bar\nFoundation Society of Fellows.\n
In 1997, Kevin was elected to the Board of\nGovernors of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)‚ and served for\nseveral years as a member of the At-Large Board of Governors. He received\nCAOC’s Presidential Award of Merit in 1994‚ 1995‚ 1996 and 2000. He also served\nas the organization’s Education Chair and as Editor-in-Chief of FORUM Magazine‚\na monthly publication of CAOC.\n
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business\nAdministration and Finance from California State University at Fullerton‚ and a\nJuris Doctor degree from Western State University College of Law‚ where he\nserved as Editor-in-Chief of the Western State University Law Review. Kevin\nand his wife Peggy live in Coto de Caza‚ California. Their daughter Kelly is\nalso a graduate of Cal State Fullerton‚ and their son Sean is a graduate of USC\nand a former wide receiver for the Trojans.\n
Since 1995 Kevin has written a regular\nfeature for CAOC's FORUM Magazine, updating attorneys, legislators and judges\non recent opinions from the California Supreme Court and courts of appeal. He\nassisted the Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions in the\npreparation of the Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions\n(CACI), and has been a contributing editor to three practice guides for\nattorneys, including California Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Before\nTrial, Claims and Defenses (The Rutter Group 2012); Products\nLiability Litigation: Product Studies, Clark Boardman Callaghan (1996);\nand A Guide to Toxic Torts, Matthew Bender & Company (1987).\n
He has also authored or\nco-authored a number of articles relating to civil practice, including:\n\n \n\n“Apex Discovery:\nWhy Top Level Executives Are Not Immune from Deposition,” FORUM,\nConsumer Attorneys of California, November/December 2016.\n\n \n\n“Anticipating\nDaubert Challenges: Potential Attacks and Some Persuasive Authorities,” FORUM, Consumer Attorneys of California, March/April\n2015. \n\n \n\n“Roadway Design Litigation: A\nLegal Overview,” THE GAVEL, Orange County Trial Lawyers Association,\nWinter 2014.\n\n \n\n“Strengthen Your Case With\nOther Similar Incidents‚” TRIAL‚ Journal of the American Association for\nJustice‚ July 2013.\n\n \n\n“OSI Evidence In Products\nLiability Litigation‚” THE GAVEL‚ Orange County Trial Lawyers Association‚\nSpring 2013.\n\n \n\n“Relevance and Admissibility\nof Evidence of Other Incidents‚ Accidents and Product Failures in Products\nLiability Litigation‚” 42 Idaho Trial Lawyers Association Journal 1;\nFORUM‚ Consumer Attorneys of California‚ October 2012.\n\n \n\n“Admissibility of Foreign\nRegulatory Activities in Pharmaceutical Litigation‚” FORUM‚ Consumer\nAttorneys of California‚ July 2011.\n\n \n\n“Catalyst for Change: How\nProducts Liability Litigation Has Made Products Safer‚” ADVOCATE‚ Journal\nof Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California‚ March 2010.\n\n \n\n“A Catalyst for Safety‚”\nTRIAL‚ Journal of the American Association for Justice‚ November 2009.\n\n \n\n“The Noerr-Pennington\nDoctrine: Defective Products and the First Amendment‚” FORUM‚ Consumer\nAttorneys of California‚ May 2008.\n\n \n\n“Prescription Drug\nOverpromotion: How Marketing‚ Sales and Profit","CountryCode":"US","CssClass":"card card-lawyer card-lawyer-biography highlight d-flex flex-column border-0 rounded text-white background-dark-blue-gray background-dark-blue-gray-highlighted-hover","AriaLabel":"LawyerBio","ViewName":"LawyerBio","ViewPath":"~/Views/Shared/Components/Cards/Lawyers/LawyerBio.cshtml"},null],"ViewName":"Paged","ViewPath":"~/Views/Shared/Components/Cards/Paged.cshtml","CssClass":"card d-flex flex-column border-0 rounded text-charcoal background-transparent swiper-slide","AriaLabel":"Paged"},{"BasicInfo":{"IsLoty":true,"LotyBadgeUrl":"https://cdn.blrankings.com/best-lawyers/badge-images/loty-thumbnail-award-2025.png","PublicationListId":1,"HasLawyerProfileImage":true,"LawyerProfileImageUrl":"https://cdn.blrankings.com/best-lawyers/lawyer-images/mark-p-robinson-jr-35672?t=2021021119220857","IsLocked":false,"HasLawyerProfile":true,"LawyerProfileUrl":"https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/mark-p-robinson-jr/35672","LinkTarget":null,"LinkRel":null,"LawyerId":0,"LawyerFullName":"Mark P. 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