CASD Honors Board of Visitors Member and Adjunct Professor Bibianne Fell ’04 (JD) as 2026 Trial Lawyer of the Year
SAN DIEGO (December 19, 2025) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law congratulates Board of Visitors member and Adjunct Professor Bibianne “Bibi” Fell ’04 (JD) on being named Consumer Attorneys of San Diego’s (CASD) 2026 Trial Lawyer of the Year. She will be honored at CASD’s Annual Awards and Installation Celebration on January 29, 2026, at the U.S. Grant Hotel.
Fell, founder of Fell Law, PC, leads a plaintiffs’ firm focused on personal injury, wrongful death, sexual assault, and medical malpractice. Her courtroom results include a $105 million verdict in a medical fraud case as lead trial counsel, as well as several eight-figure settlements across her 22-year career. In addition to her work at Fell Law, she is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, where she will serve as president of its San Diego chapter in 2026, and is a director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Pacific Deposition Skills Program.
Beyond practice, Fell remains deeply engaged with USD School of Law as an alumna and educator. A magna cum laude graduate and Order of the Coif inductee, she has taught Advanced Trial Advocacy since 2015, preparing the next generation of trial lawyers. Through instruction and example, Fell pairs rigorous trial preparation with professionalism—values she instills in her students.
This recognition adds to a record of distinctions that includes The Daily Journal’s Top 100 Women Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, Super Lawyers, Pepperdine Law’s Trial Lawyer of the Year (2020), CASD’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer (2019), and USD School of Law Rising Star Recent Alumni Award (2013).
CASD is a nonprofit bar association that supports plaintiffs and consumer trial lawyers through education and advocacy on issues affecting access to justice, while its annual event spotlights excellence across the legal landscape.
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 88 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 34th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 35th 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.