USD School of Law Alumna Bibianne Fell ’04 (JD) Earns CASD’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award

Bibianne Fell ’04 (JD) Earns CASD’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award

SAN DIEGO (November 27, 2019) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumna Bibianne Fell, ’04 (JD), earned the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer award.

Fell was awarded for her work in the case Kali v. Young, in which Young falsely pushed his non-medical treatments as a cure for cancer. The fraudulent treatments allowed Kali’s cancer to progress from stage one to stage four, resulting in a large accumulation of medical expenses. Fell’s work lead to a $105 million settlement to cover Kali’s medical expenses and other non-economic damages.

Currently, Fell is a partner with the Gomez Trial Attorneys law firm where she practices in medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injury cases. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is one of The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Fell received her Juris Doctor from USD School of Law. She also teaches Advanced Trial Advocacy at USD School of Law.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 36th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 22nd nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.