David Shoop is a nationally recognized lawyer and founder of Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation - one of California's most successful plaintiffs' firms. In his years of litigating matters involving defective products and medical devices, Mr. Shoop has amassed well over $400 million in verdicts and settlements in these cases alone. He has secured numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements, including 9 figures in medical device and product liability settlements, a $30 million verdict in a complex product liability case in Los Angeles County (Case No. BC594187), and $54 million in recent product liability settlements.

Mr. Shoop is a trial lawyer who understands how insurance companies and manufacturers defend and evaluate their claims, having previously tried and litigated numerous multi-million dollar cases on behalf of some of the world's largest corporations and their insurers, he now exclusively represents victims in personal injury cases, with an emphasis on catastrophic injuries caused by defective products and medical devices. Mr. Shoop proudly puts his experience and reputation to work for you-coupled with an unwavering will to win.

Trial-Tested Ability & Experience

Mr. Shoop has years of experience litigating matters involving defective products, medical devices, recalled medical devices, motor and recreational vehicles, burn injuries, complex industrial machinery, conveyor systems, and various other consumer products like household appliances. He has helped his clients successfully prosecute cases involving wrongful death, paraplegic injuries, permanent brain damage, limb amputations and severe burn injuries. In a recent, complex orthopedic injury case in Los Angeles, the was matter resolved for over $6 million at trial. Clients come to Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation for Mr. Shoop's significant experience in product design, testing, evaluation, development, biomechanics, and physiology, as well as accident reconstruction and analysis. Mr. Shoop has litigated numerous burn injury cases and has years of experience in fire cause and origin analysis and National Fire Protection Association ("NFPA") 921 standards application. In recent burn injury cases, Mr. Shoop obtained a settlement of $3.5 million in Merced, California, and a seven-figure judgment against Wal-Mart, Worthington Cylinder Corporation and the Coleman Company in federal court in San Francisco. In addition to his impressive product liability and medical device case record, Mr. Shoop has also obtained a $5,036,489 jury verdict in Riverside, California against Peerless Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Company, for insurance bad faith. The verdict included an award of $3,500,000 in punitive damages against Peerless Insurance for claims-handling practices found by the jury to be in conscious disregard of the rights of its insured and stands as one of the largest such first-party verdicts in the history of the County.

Representation You Can Count On

Mr. Shoop has significant experience dealing with the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and has resolved hundreds of claims against consumer product manufacturers, helping clients win numerous, multi-million-dollar settlements. He has also won hundreds of cases against medical device manufacturers. These claims often involve medical devices that have been recalled by the FDA.

Mr. Shoop has coordinated complex litigation across the country, working with clients in:

Mr. Shoop received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, Mr. Shoop is a proud veteran of the United States Army, serving on active duty. Prior to founding Shoop | A Professional Law Corporation, Mr. Shoop was a partner in the oldest, active law firm in Beverly Hills, California.