Bisnar | Chase, an AV-rated national law firm founded in 1977 in Newport Beach, California, is spearheaded by Managing Partner and Senior Trial Attorney Brian Chase. The firm specializes in automotive defect cases, catastrophic personal injuries, mass torts (pharmaceutical and medical devices where he holds and has held leadership roles), and employment and consumer class actions (where he holds and has held leadership roles). Mr. Chase is currently (2025) on the Board of Directors of the Masters Division for the Orange County Bar Association. In 2023 he was Chair of the Tort & Trial Section for the OCBA. In 2020, 2021 & 2023 he was listed in the Daily Journal’s Top Plaintiff Lawyers. Mr. Chase was the 2015 President of the Consumer Attorneys of California and the 2007 President of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. In 2014 and 2004 he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year in Products Liability by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. In 2012, Chase was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys Association of California and a Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominee by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. He is a member of ABOTA. He’s been listed as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association since 2007. In 2009, Mr. Chase published a book - "Still Unsafe at Any Speed" - dealing with litigating automotive defects and catastrophic injuries. In 2019 he published his second book dealing with auto defect cases called “The Second Collision”. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, including appearances on the CBS Morning Show, Good Morning America, CBS Special Reports, CNN, World News Tonight, and Fox 11 News. He was lead attorney on four important, precedent-setting appellate opinions: Martinez-Mazon v. Ford Motor Company (dealing with forum non-conveniens); Romine v. Johnson Controls (dealing with using the consumer expectations test exclusively to prove an auto defect); Schreiber v. Estate of Kiser (dealing with the scope of nonretained expert testimony); and Hernandez v. State of California (dealing with design immunity).