Christopher Bulone is a fast-rising star in California courtrooms where he continues to rack up record results. Mr. Bulone graduated from the public interest-minded law school of The University of San Francisco in 2011 and spent his entire career since working tirelessly on behalf of the most downtrodden against the world’s most powerful corporations.
So far in 2024, Mr. Bulone won a two million, five hundred thousand dollar ($2,500,000.00) jury verdict in Van Nuys, believed to be a courthouse record for a mild traumatic brain injury. Forty-two million dollars ($42,000,000.00) in a fiercely disputed vicarious liability delivery truck versus auto case resulting in a severe traumatic brain injury. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000.00) against Cal Trans in a negligently constructed highway. Seven million, seven hundred thousand dollars ($7,700,000.00) for a man injured when a fire engine entered an intersection on a red light; eighteen million, seven hundred thousand dollars ($18,700,000.00) for a man struck by a park ranger while napping in a park. Furthermore, Mr. Bulone argued that a $100,000 insurance policy limit was “opened” due to insurance bad faith and recovered five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) for a child injured by a driver running a stop sign.
In 2023 Mr. Bulone was named as one of the Top 40 lawyers under 40 by The Daily Journal, which is California’s only dedicated legal newspaper serving the entire state of California since 1888.
In November of 2023 Mr. Bulone and Gary Dordick co-tried the case of Greyson Griepentrog v. Banner Health in Maricopa County, Phoenix Arizona. The result of more than thirty-one million dollars ($31,000,000.00) is thought to be the largest personal injury verdict in the history of Arizona. In that case, Mr. Bulone argued that Greyson Griepentrog suffered a catastrophic brain injury during his birth on June 1, 2014, at Banner UMC-Phoenix. Mr. Bulone argued that Banner nurses, residents, and the attending OBGYN each violated the standard of care by administering Pitocin in the face of non-reassuring fetal heart rate monitoring indications. Mr. Bulone argued that the Pitocin caused Greyson’s mother to undergo longer, more frequent and more intense contractions. Each contraction led to a deprivation of oxygen in the baby’s brain until his oxygen reserves were depleted and the boy permanently brain damaged and paralyzed. Mr. Bulone argued that the Pitocin should have been stopped much sooner in the face of the non-reassuring fetal heart tracings evidenced in the nursing chart notes. Banner Hospital claimed that the indications on the fetal heart monitor were not dangerous but also claimed to have “lost” the monitoring strips before the plaintiff or his experts could see them. Banner Hospital and their experts argued that Greyson’s abnormal presentation at birth and subsequent disability was due to a genetic abnormality and not to any medical negligence. They were proven wrong according to the unanimous jury verdict. Banner Hospital offered nothing in settlement.
On January 30th of 2023, Mr. Bulone set a record in Contra Costa County with a more than five-million, one hundred-thousand-dollar ($5,100,000.00) jury verdict ($7,670,000.00 to include prejudgment interest) for an immigrant struck in a crosswalk by a careless taxi driver. The plaintiff spoke no English and suffered from severe prior mental health issues for which she was hospitalized during the year before the accident. Difficulties with language, cognition, and the victim’s righteous refusal to voice any of her deficits caused a mild traumatic brain injury to go undiagnosed for the first five years following the accident. Mr. Bulone was, nonetheless, able to prove the link between the car accident, the mild traumatic brain injury and the residual deficits that unfairly afflicted the hard-working mother of three.
In late 2021, Mr. Bulone’s record setting jury trial verdict, of more than seventy-two million, six hundred thousand dollars ($72,600,000.00) in Greene v. Driz et al made headlines throughout the country. There, Mr. Bulone represented a young model and her brother, a restauranteur and bar owner, who were the victims of a brutal beating at the hands of the wealthy then owners of eleven different Blaze Pizza franchises. Both injury victims were acting as innocent good samaritans attempting to stop the beating of a TMZ photographer just outside West Hollywood’s The Nice Guy restaurant and lounge. The defendants claimed that they were attacked first and acted only in self defense, and that none of them were responsible for any injury or blows landed on Ms. Greene. The claims were soundly rejected by the jury. After a three-week trial wherein Mr. Bulone, as lead trial attorney, selected the jury, gave opening and closing arguments, the jury awarded his clients more than seventy-two million, six hundred thousand dollars ($72,600,000.00) between compensatory and punitive damages. The jury award is thought to be the largest in history for a case of predominantly PTSD injuries.
Also in 2021, Mr. Bulone aggressively and tirelessly litigated the case of Eric Murillo v. U-Haul Co. of Arizona et al against one of the country’s largest rental companies and a defense law firm who bitterly contested fault. The case culminated in a forty-two million, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar ($42,750,000.00) result. […]
Mr. Bulone’s other noteworthy results since joining the Dordick Law Corporation in 2017 include a $31,000,000 jury verdict in Sosa v. DJI Technology, a $17,000,000 brain injury case, an $8,000,000 settlement, a $12,500,000 motorcycle accident settlement, and multiple seven-figure outcomes in insurance bad faith, ride-share assault, and wrongful death cases.
In 2019 Mr. Bulone took on powerful construction companies in a scaffolding death case. Despite no witnesses and no OSHA violations, discovery revealed a cover-up and led to a multi-seven-figure settlement.
He also represented a 13-year-old girl injured by a falling eucalyptus tree, resolving for $14,000,000 after proving the defendants should have acted on the known hazard.
In June 2019, he was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in California. Mr. Bulone was named a Super Lawyers’ “Rising Star” in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2025, he was recognized as a Super Lawyer.
Mr. Bulone is an Honorary Board Member of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charity (LATLC).
He has lectured on brain injury cases and hospital toxicology report issues at TBI Med Legal and Dordick Trial College, including a 5,000-person seminar discussing the Murillo v. U-Haul result. Dordick Trial College, Murillo Case News Coverage
