Erik B. Feingold

Partner Erik B. Feingold, a past President of the Ventura County Bar Association, has over thirty years of trial and litigation experience in all aspects of litigation involving fire and insurance litigation, major personal injuries, business litigation and construction and real estate disputes. Mr. Feingold lost his family home in the 2017 Thomas Fire and represented hundreds of similarly affected homeowners in litigation against Southern California Edison stemming from both the Thomas and Woolsey fires. Mr. Feingold shared a nomination as the Consumer Attorneys of California trial lawyer of the year and the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association trial lawyer of the year for his role in obtaining one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Ventura County history in the amount of $39 million on behalf of a catastrophically injured CHP officer.

Mr. Feingold earned his law degree in 1993 from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he was a member of Law Review and a judicial extern for the Honorable Donald Work, Associate Justice for the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District in San Diego.

Mr. Feingold has been a Ventura resident since 1977, and enjoys mountain biking and surfing in his spare time.

Mr. Feingold is active in the community and with the Ventura County Bar Association. He is the Past President of the Ventura County Bar Association, the Business Litigation section of the VCBA, and the Ventura County Trial Lawyer Association.  He is a current board member board of the Judicial Evaluations Committee and Ventura County Legal Aid. He is also a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), and the litigation section of the California State Bar. He has been a member of the Downtown Ventura Rotary Club for over twenty years, serving two board terms. He is the current President of Downtown Ventura Partners, an organization committed to making downtown Ventura a clean, safe, and economically viable area.

Mr. Feingold is also a past professor of civil procedure at the Southern California Institute of Law.

Mr. Feingold had an article published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal entitled “Life in the bike lane: the law in California,” was quoted in the Pacific Coast Business Journal in an article entitled “Sierra Vista Faces Rare Punitive Damages Claim,” appeared on a televised panel discussion titled “How to Identify & Avoid Fraud & Scams in Ventura County” presented by the Conejo Simi Moorpark Association of Realtors, and was recently quoted on an insurance coverage issue in the Ventura County Star in an article entitled “Camarillo Springs insurance coverage murky.” Mr. Feingold authored an article published in Citations Magazine titled “Picking Up the Pieces” about wildfire recovery and insurance claims.

In 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017, Mr. Feingold was named to the “Who’s Who in Professional Services” list by the Pacific Coast Business Times.