Civil Litigation


Richard J. Kossler, J.D. has been a member of the California State Bar since 1981 and he has dealt with a variety of legal disciplines for over 25 years. He has maintained a constant commitment to giving exceptional legal service to his clients. He has endeavored to give his clients the type of personal services generally associated with a smaller firm while maintaining the variety of expertise and the level of excellence of a much larger firm. Our extensive experience in handling general civil cases has proven extremely valuable to our clients.

We have prosecuted, defended and/or overseen civil lawsuits involving individual and corporate clients including collection cases, cargo damage cases, personal injury actions, worker’s compensation claims and cases, other tort and breach of contract cases. 

We are fully prepared to take cases through trial and appeal, but where appropriate we encourage the use of early settlement and alternative dispute resolution techniques as a means of efficiently and effectively handling our clients’ matters.  Our litigators work closely with other attorneys in litigation avoidance, risk management and pre-litigation strategy.  We have a proven track record of representing individuals in personal injury actions of the plaintiff’s side which has resulted in large settlements for clients. 

We have defended numerous litigation cases for companies and as General Counsel he oversaw the risk management of the company, established a reserve amount for each case, interacted with insurance carriers due to the ongoing litigation and workers compensation cases and interacted with a major bankruptcy’s firm due to his expertise in the transportation field. 

Kossler & Associates have overseen the handling of numerous personal injury cases, including wrongful death actions involving millions of dollars against his corporate clients. Further, we have overseen a number of complex worker’s compensation cases and have litigated many employment disputes.  We have also overseen cargo litigation by other law firms throughout the country.  We have been retained by major insurance companies to represent their insured’s performing insurance defense work.  

Please contact us at 951-789-7022 for legal counsel.