Congratulations to Our Attorneys Named to the 2025 Best Lawyers® List!
The 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ are out, and Taylor & Ring is proud to have eight lawyers make these esteemed lists. Please join us as we congratulate our hard-working team!
Each year, Best Lawyers compiles a list of leading attorneys in particular regions and practices. Spots on these lists are based on peer reviews. Since 1983, Best Lawyers® has gained a reputation as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers uses exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluations to create its lists. Worldwide, more than 123,000 industry-leading lawyers are eligible to vote. Those attorneys received over 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers within specific practice areas and locations.
For the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, over 13.7 million votes were analyzed, resulting in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the 31st edition.
Introducing Taylor & Ring’s award-winning attorneys
Each of our lawyers has something unique to bring to the table. Here is a bit more about the work they do and the honors they’ve received from Best Lawyers:
The Best Lawyers in America®
- John C. Taylor: partner and co-founder.John has earned recognition from Best Lawyers for more than 30 years for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. He represents victims in childhood sexual abuse, civil rights, serious personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, employees’ rights, insurance bad faith
- Dave M. Ring: partner and co-founder.Best Lawyers has recognized David for more than two decades for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. Best Lawyers also named him Lawyer of the Year in 2015. His practice focuses on childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, and serious personal injury, and other general negligence cases.
- Robert R. Clayton: Senior Partner.Robert has earned recognition from Best Lawyers for seven years for his work representing plaintiffs in personal injury litigation and product liability litigation. His practice focuses on wrongful death, mass transit accidents, premises liability, dangerous conditions on public and private property, product liability, motorcycle accidents, and serious motor vehicle and burn injury claims.
- Natalie Weatherford: Senior Partner.Natalie earned recognition from Best Lawyers for the fifth year in a row for her work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. She represents both children and adults in sexual abuse and assault cases.
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™
- Brendan P. Gilbert: Brendan has been recognized for five years running in Best Lawyers: One to Watch for his plaintiff’s work in personal injury litigation. He focuses on cases involving the sexual abuse of minors, sexual assault and harassment, product liability, and complex catastrophic personal injury cases.
- Sonya Ostovar:partner. This is Sonya’s fourth year listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for her dedicated work in plaintiff’s personal injury litigation. She represents both children and adults in sexual abuse and assault cases.
- Neil Gehlawat: Also recognized in 2023 and 2024, Neil earned a spot in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his plaintiffs’ work in civil rights law and personal injury litigation. He focuses on cases involving the civil rights and sexual misconduct cases.
- Peter Reagan.This is Peter’s third consecutive year on the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America list for his work in plaintiff’s personal injury litigation. He focuses on the representation of victims of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and survivors of sexual abuse, assault, and misconduct.
At Taylor & Ring, our entire team is thrilled to congratulate John, Dave, Robert, Natalie, Neil, Brendan, Sonya, and Peter! We’re proud of you and your relentless commitment to your clients!
Serving clients throughout the Greater Los Angeles and Southern California area, we represent victims in a variety of civil litigation cases. If you or a loved one has been injured, turn to an experienced Los Angeles personal injury or sexual assault lawyer.
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