A. Ilyas Akbari
Brain Injury Attorney | Serving Beverly Hills, CA
9701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1000, Beverly Hills, CA
Brain Injury, Defective and Dangerous Products, Personal Injury, Transportation & Wrongful Death
California
Biography
A. Ilyas Akbari is the Founder and President of KENNEDY WILSHIRE PC. In addition to a trial lawyer, he is also a bioengineer. Ilyas was a Senior Shareholder and Senior Partner at two of the most prestigious law firms in the country prior to starting his own firm. He is an experienced aviation litigator, having worked on over 200 aviation cases since 2005. Ilyas has litigated crashes and incidents involving commercial airlines, charter operations, general aviation aircraft, military aircraft, seaplanes, and rescue and air ambulance aircraft, in addition to litigating product liability claims against many of the aircraft and component part manufacturers. He has worked on aviation crashes in Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, U.K., Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Malaysia, China, and New Zealand, to name a few.
Ilyas has served in numerous leadership positions and has represented clients in most of the major airline disasters, including the September 11 Litigation, American Airlines Flight 587, Air Midwest Flight 5481 (resulting in first public apology by an airline), Southwest Airlines Flights 1248 and 1380, TACA Flight 390, Continental Airlines Flight 1404, Colgan Flight 3407, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 (only case proceeding to trial, settling prior to voir dire), Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), Germanwings Flight 9525 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, among others.
Ilyas is a frequent speaker at aviation conferences and is currently Plaintiff's Vice Chair in the American Bar Association Aviation and Space Law Committee. He also serves as the Editor of the ABA Aviation and Space Law Committee Newsletter for the year 2020.
Best Lawyers in America® has named Ilyas Lawyer of the Year annually from 2019 through 2022 in the Consumer Protection category and, additionally, has recognized Ilyas in both the Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation category and Consumer Protection category since 2016; the Wall Street Journal® similarly named him Lawyer of the Year in Southern California in 2020 and 2021; Los Angeles Magazine recognized Ilyas as one of Southern California’s Top 100 Lawyers; Southern California Super Lawyers® has listed him as a top rated Aviation & Aerospace attorney since 2007.
Additionally, Ilyas has been honored as a Southern California Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars, Up and Coming 100; the National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Lawyers; the Aviation Trial Lawyers Association: Top 10; and Nations Top One Percent, National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He has earned the highest AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating through / Martindale Hubbell®, the highest Superb Score of 10; and is listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™, Martindale Hubbell®.
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Practice Areas
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Brain Injury20%
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Defective and Dangerous Products20%
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Personal Injury20%
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Transportation20%
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Wrongful Death20%
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A. Ilyas Akbari
A. Ilyas Akbari
Brain Injury, Defective and Dangerous Products, Personal Injury, Transportation & Wrongful Death
Beverly Hills, California