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ExperienceYears
Partner, Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff2002-Current
Plaintiffs civil trial lawyer specializing in serious personal injury cases and insurance bad faith cases. I represent clients when they have been injured by defective products, car accidents, negligent doctors, nursing homes, truck accidents, and motorcycle accidents. My insurance bad faith cases involve disability, life, homeowner, long-term care, fire, and property and casualty policies.
Partner/associate, Friedman, Collard, Cutter & Panneton1993-2002
Plaintiffs civil trial lawyer on behalf of injured people in personal injury, product liability, automobile accident, medical malpractice, elder abuse, employment and insurance bad faith cases.
Education
SchoolFocusDegreeYear
The Trial Lawyers College2004
University of California - DavisLawJ.D.1993
Honors: Editor, U.C. Davis Law Review; American Jurisprudence Award, Legal Writing
Professional Activities
ActivityOrganizationStart YearEnd Year
PresidentSierra Forever Families2009
Details: SFF is a non-profit organization whose mission it is to transform the lives of children and youth in foster care by building and nurturing permanent families.
PresidentCapitol City Trial Lawyers Association20062006
Professional Affiliations
PositionYears
Member, Consumer Attorneys of California1993-Current
Member, Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association1993-Current
Activities: Through the years I served as Secretary, Vice President, and President of the organization, which is dedicated to further the rights of individuals in our trial courts.
Member, American Association for Justice1992-Current
President, Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association2006

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Twitter / EricRatinoff
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  • EricRatinoff: Brooks Cutter and I just got this $7.6m verdict on Friday for a very deserving young woman. http://lnkd.in/rakzcJ
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  • EricRatinoff: Please learn more about what we can all do to transform the life of children in foster care. Contact www.sierraff.org. The kids need us.
  • EricRatinoff: 2% of foster youth earn an AA degree and 2% transfer to a 4-year college.
  • EricRatinoff: 50% of foster youth complete high school, significantly below their peers who complete high school at a rate of 70%.
  • EricRatinoff: 2/3 of emancipating females had at least one birth within 5 years of leaving foster care, 20% while in foster care or within the first year.
  • EricRatinoff: 51% of former foster care youth are unemployed upon leaving foster care.
  • EricRatinoff: 40% of people living in homeless shelters were former foster youth.
  • EricRatinoff: 65% of emancipated youth leave foster care with no place to live.
  • EricRatinoff: Every year, over 4,000 youth “age out” of the California foster system without a permanent family.
  • EricRatinoff: ...25% are homeless.
  • EricRatinoff: ...40% are on public assistance or are incarcerated; and...

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