Los Angeles Personal Injury and Habitability Attorney
Serious injuries deserve serious litigation — not a volume operation. Astraea Counsel takes select personal injury and habitability cases in Los Angeles, led by Brandon Orewyler: a trial-tested litigator whose personal injury practice began at Ervin Cohen & Jessup and continues today in co-counsel trial partnerships and a pending toxic-mold habitability action in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Injuries we litigate
- You or your family were seriously hurt and the insurer's first number is an insult
- Mold, water intrusion, or unsafe conditions in your home are making your family sick — and the landlord or HOA will not act
- A property owner's negligence put you in the hospital
- You have a high-value injury claim that needs a litigator with real trial experience
- You are a firm looking for co-counsel with complex-litigation depth on an injury case
How we litigate injury cases
- A select docket: we take fewer injury cases and litigate each one with the same discovery depth and trial posture as our commercial trial practice
- Habitability and toxic-exposure claims against landlords, HOAs, and property managers — including a pending Los Angeles Superior Court mold and habitability action
- Damages built for trial: medical evidence, experts, and life-impact proof assembled to support the real value of the claim, not the quick call
- Co-counsel partnerships: we team with other firms to bring complex-litigation depth to injury cases — a standing part of the practice
- A candid valuation up front: what the claim is plausibly worth, what it will cost to get there, and whether litigation beats the insurer's number
Recognition
- Astraea Counsel ranked in Chambers USA: Spotlight 2026 — Fintech (Los Angeles)
- Lawdragon 500 X — The Next Generation: Crypto Regulation, Disputes, Blockchain (2026), Chanté Eliaszadeh
- 2024 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award, The Burton Awards — Chanté Eliaszadeh, co-author (White & Case)
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America — Commercial Litigation (2026), Brandon Orewyler (recognized during his tenure at Ervin Cohen & Jessup)
- Recognized in The Legal 500 USA — Chanté Eliaszadeh (White & Case LLP, 2023)
- SEC Honors Program, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (honors intern, Cyber Unit, 2018)
- Invited speaker: American Bar Association Business Law Section, Korea Blockchain Week (BIF25), ETHDenver, GRR Live, Blockchain Law for Social Good Conference, Art Basel Miami, and Berkeley Law; keynote, Computational Law & Blockchain Festival
Common Questions
What are my rights if mold in my home is making me sick?
California law requires landlords to maintain habitable premises, and homeowners associations owe maintenance duties under their governing documents and can be liable in negligence for failures that cause injury. Depending on the facts, remedies can include damages for physical injury, displacement, and property loss. The strength of the case usually turns on documentation — reports, photos, medical records, and the paper trail of ignored complaints.
Do you handle injury cases on contingency?
Many injury and habitability matters fit a contingency or hybrid structure. Fee arrangements are case-specific and set out clearly in the engagement letter before any work begins — you will know exactly how the economics work.
Why hire a complex-litigation firm for a personal injury case?
Because the settlement conversation changes when the other side believes the case will actually be tried. Our injury docket gets the same litigation machinery as our commercial trial practice — a litigator who has first-chaired a bench trial and argued in the Ninth Circuit, building your case the same way.
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