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D. Aaron Brock is an attorney in JML Law’s Personal Injury and Employment Law Departments.
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For Personal Injury and Employment Plaintiffs, JML Law’s Expansion into OC Has Been a Huge Hit by Karen Gorden “I always knew I wanted to be a trial lawyer. I was born and raised in Texas which is the birthplace of many great trial attorneys,” says D. Aaron Brock, Partner at JML Law in Orange, CA. “Orange County reminds me a lot of Texas and I feel that helps me in litigating in a county that is considered by many attorneys to be unfriendly to plaintiff’s cases,” he adds. However, the attorneys at JML Law are no shrinking violets. Though they may be the new kids on the block in Orange County, they are far from new to the practice of personal injury and employment law. “JML has been an established plaintiff’s firm in LA County for almost 30 years. Due to the increasing need and demand for our services in Orange County, we opened our office here in January 2013. It is much more convenient for our clients to have us here rather than having to drive to LA,” he adds.
BREAK OUT STARS JML Law was founded by Joseph M. Lovretovich in the 1980’s in effort to represent the rights of the individual, with a special emphasis on employment law. As Principal Partner at JML Law, APLC, Lovretovich’s reputation as a top trial attorney was earned through precedent setting cases including Colmenares v. Braemar Country Club, which substantially expanded the definition of disability in California. He also successfully argued the case of Dee v. Vintage Petroleum, which added substantial protections for the victims of racial prejudice. It was Lovretovich’s reputation that drew Brock to JML Law upon earning his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2005. “I spent the first three years of my career at JML Law mostly doing Attorney Journal Orange County | Volume 100, 2014 21