Rudyard “Jake” Jewell-Cohen

Why I do this work

Insurance companies have professionals working on their side of your claim from the moment the crash is reported. My job is to make sure you have one too — and that you know which attorney is responsible for your case.

I grew up in Venice Beach and worked full-time from the age of sixteen — restaurants, hospitality, personal training — to put myself through school. I know what it means when an injury takes away your ability to earn. That's the perspective I bring to every case: my clients aren't files, they're people whose lives got interrupted by someone else's carelessness.

Today I'm a Senior Associate and first-chair trial lawyer at Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys, LLP, litigating catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases — motor vehicle collisions, defective products, dangerous properties, and animal attacks — against major insurers and corporate defendants.

How I practice

Three commitments, and you can hold me to them:

• A trial attorney reads it. I review every submission myself.
• You get the truth. Including the case value conversation, the lien conversation, and the timeline conversation — early, in plain English.
• You get trial-ready work. I'm a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Method at Thunderhead Ranch, and every case is built to be tried. That's what makes insurers pay attention during settlement talks.

Background

• Licensed to practice law in California — State Bar No. 298384
• J.D., cum laude (Dean's List), Thomas Jefferson School of Law · B.A. Political Science, UC Santa Barbara
• Admitted before the United States District Courts of California
• Graduate, Gerry Spence Trial Method (Thunderhead Ranch, Wyoming)
• Member, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
• Member: Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) · Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) · American Association for Justice (AAJ) · American Bar Association (ABA) · Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG)

Publications

My article on litigating slip-and-fall cases against Costco — the defense traps, and how to build the case from day one to survive them — was published in CAALA's Advocate magazine (October 2023). It's the same philosophy you'll see on this site: know the defendant's playbook, and prepare from the outset as if trial is coming.

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