Profile
Richard Tabura focuses his practice defending product manufacturers against consumer protection and product liability claims. He litigates and manages single-plaintiff, coordinated actions, mass torts, and class actions in state and federal courts, regularly appearing in courts throughout California.
Richard routinely handles matters from the pre-litigation stage through trial. He has broad experience preparing pleadings-based challenges and dispositive motions which have led to outright dismissals or have placed significant settlement pressure on opposing parties. A member of the ABA’s Mass Tort Discovery Strategies committee, Richard is well-versed in conducting discovery in multiparty, complex cases. While always keeping an eye towards the big picture and avoiding unnecessary disputes, Richard leaves no stone unturned and works to ensure his client’s best story is affirmatively developed and told. He has also taken numerous depositions of complex experts and healthcare providers, and has defended numerous depositions of key company witnesses. Richard also has significant trial experience, including second-chairing multiple jury trials. In those trials, he led the motions team and directed and cross-examined key fact and expert witnesses.
主要执业方向
主要执业经验
- Member of trial team that obtained dismissal of a pharmaceutical and personal care products company on the eve of trial in a case involving alleged asbestos-contamination in a talcum powder product.
- Defends medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers in single plaintiff and mass tort product liability actions.
- Ayala v. Paint Sundries Solutions, Inc. (Los Angeles Superior Court): second-chaired at trial in a successfully defended automobile collision case.°
- Defended manufacturers of various solvent-based products, including paint removers, paint thinners, and engine degreasers in toxic tort matters.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Tabura prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
荣誉和领导力
- Team Member, BTI’s Most Recommended Law Firms, Big Pharma, 2025
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2023-2025
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Southern California Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2020-2024
- Team Member, a Law360 “Product Liability Practice Group of the Year,” 2021-2022
- Recipient, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP), ABA Military Pro Bono Project Outstanding Services Award, 2020
- Team Member, The American Lawyer’s “Products Liability Litigation Department of the Year,” 2018
- Board Member of Mending Kids, a nonprofit which provides corrective, rehabilitative, transformational, and life-changing surgeries to children in developing countries worldwide, 2018-Present
- American Bar Association, Section of Litigation
- Member, Mass Torts Committee, 2017-Present
- Member, Discovery Strategies Subcommittee, 2017-Present
资历
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J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- Dean’s Honor List
- Recipient, Loyola Scholarship
- Recipient, First Honors Award, Antitrust Law
- Member, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
- B.S., Environmental Economics & Policy, University of California at Berkeley
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- 加利福尼亚中区美国联邦地区法院
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