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Twenty Years of Extraordinary "BIG CASE" Litigation Experience, Major Complex Liability and Damage Trials. Million Dollar Settlements and Million Dollar Jury Verdicts.
Most Recent Example
Henke's Jury Verdicts and Settlements for June 2002
$2,500,000 Settlement, June 3, 2002
Contested Liability Motorcycle Intersection Accident
Motorcycle, pulled out from between two left turn lanes
Below Knee Amputation, Broken Ribs and Clavicle.
Required Disclaimer. The results obtained in those cases were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts.
A Lawyer Recognized and Acclaimed By His Trial Lawyer Peers
An elected and reelected Governor of the LATLA. (The fifth largest Trial Lawyers Association in the Country)
Nominated for the coveted "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award by the LATLA Board of Governors.
Editor-in-Chief of the Prestigious "Advocate" Law Journal.
For more that a decade Henke has received the Very Highest Professional Rating from the most respected National Lawyer Ranking Publication in the Country, Martindale & Hubble.
"Legal Ability" Rating: "A" (from very high to preeminent).
"General Ethical Standards" Rating: "V" (very high)
A Trial Lawyer With A National Reputation
Extensive Positive Media Recognition for Henke's Trial Work.
National television coverage/interviews, e.g., Tom Brokaw's Nightly News, CNN.
Scores of Feature Newspaper Articles about Henke and Henke's Cases/Victories, from the front page of the New York Times to the front page of the Los Angeles Times.
Cover and Feature Legal and Lay Magazine Articles about Henke and Henke's Cases/Victories.
Book chapters devoted to Henke's Legal Work/Trial Victories.
Congressional Testimony on the subject of 10 of Henke's Cases and his strategic use of Claims for Punitive Damages, at the Invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives.
Significant Published Appellate Victories.
Appellate victories can be an important measure of the attorney's ability to make the most effective legal arguments at every stage of litigation, improving the client's settlement position, overcoming evidentiary hurdles, obtaining strategic advantages and then preserving the favorable judgment on post Trial Motions and Appeal.
Examples of Mr. Henke's Extraordinary Published Appellate Victories Include:
Henke prosecuted important pretrial appeal from a trial court decision applying "tort reform" legislation to deny his client's rights to pursue punitive damages. Henke obtained a stay of the trial, persuaded the appellate court to intervene on an "extraordinary writ," overturn the trial court's decision and change the law, essentially removing the teeth from the tort reform law. James Looney v. Superior Court, 16 Cal.App.4th 521 (1993)[reh. den. July 10, 1993][rev. den. September 2, 1993]
On behalf of a single client Henke filed another "petition for writ of mandamus" from an Ohio Federal District Court's certification of a "mandatory class action" and Court approved $120,000,000 brokered settlement purporting to bind 1000 product liability claimants in Ohio and all others nationwide. Mr. Henke argued on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that the District Court's class certification and settlement impaired his single client's right to choice of the attorney of his preference and control over his individual litigation. The United States Court of Appeals agreed with Mr. Henke's position, overturned the Federal District Court's order certifying the class, and voided the $120,000,000 settlement. In re Bendectin, 749 F.2d 300 (6th Cir. 1985). Discussed in Henke, "Mandatory Class Action," Trial Magazine, LATLA, May 1985
Mr. Henke has also authored more than 30 legal articles which have been published in National, Statewide and Local Trial Lawyer Magazines on subjects ranging from Evidentiary Issues to Trial Tactics.
Bibliography available upon request.
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