Ramon Rossi Lopez is the founder and managing partner of Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1972 and his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in 1978. Ramon has extensive civil trial experience in all areas of personal injury litigation, including complex medical malpractice and products liability actions. He has represented thousands of individuals in mass tort litigations, primarily against the pharmaceutical industry. His interest in this area was piqued during the three years he worked as a pharmaceutical company representative.

In 2003 Ramon was named Orange County Trial Lawyers Association's Top Gun Products Liability/Mass Tort Lawyer of the Year. In 1985 Ramon earned the highest jury verdict as of that time in San Luis Obispo County, California in a product liability case (Silva v. Aluminum Ladder), and later won a rare $3.2 million punitive damage award against Citicorp/Citibank for an emotional distress claim where there was no physical injury. From 2000 to the present, Ramon has negotiated and resolved, along with other members of the firm, several thousand individual cases in the Diet Drug (Fen-Phen), Rezulin, and Baycol pharmaceutical litigations and the Sulzer Hip and Ford/Firestone product liability litigations. The terms of the settlements are confidential but they are known to be among the highest attained on behalf of individual clients in each litigation nationwide.

Ramon has developed a national reputation for spearheading the organization of plaintiffs' firms across the country to agree to the joint and cooperative prosecution of mass torts in both federal and state courts. Ramon served on the California Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Breast Implant Litigation and the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in the Rezulin MDL proceedings coordinated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was co-lead counsel in the Sulzer Hip and Knee Prostheses coordinated proceedings in California and was a member of the steering committees of the Diet-Drug, Rezulin, Baycol and PPA California coordinated litigations. In addition to his management duties in the Baycol California coordinated proceedings Ramon acted as state-federal liaison counsel and special advisor and consultant to Judge Michael J. Davis in the Baycol MDL litigation, coordinated in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Most recently, Ramon was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Zyprexa MDL litigation in New York where he serves as co-chair of the Discovery Committee.

Currently Ramon is a member of the Plaintiffs' Management Committee for the PPA MDL in Seattle, Washington where he also is a member of the State-Federal Coordination Subcommittee. He is one of four lawyers who negotiated the global settlement of all Dexatrim cases against Chattem Corporation and is on the Creditors Committee in the ongoing negotiations with Delaco for injuries caused by Dexatrim prior to Chattem's ownership.

Even after its instrumental involvement in the $4 billion global settlement with American Home Products in the Diet Drug Litigation, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, with Ramon at its helm, helped several thousand individual clients obtain more favorable terms for heart and lung injuries sustained as a result of using Fen-Phen, Pondimin® and Redux®. These results were obtained for both original clients of Lopez Hodes as well as those of many other firms that retained Ramon to co-counsel on cases throughout the country.

Ramon oversees the administration of each of the firm's offices and spearheads the firm's mass tort litigations now pending throughout the country, including Zyprexa, Ephedra, Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), Vioxx, PremPro, Welding Rod, and Zycam.

Ramon is a frequent speaker and author, both locally and nationally, primarily on matters relating to pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. He is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association (ABA), Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), Consumer Attorneys Association of California (CAOC), Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA), Western Trial Lawyers Association, Orange County Bar Association, and Orange County Barristers. He also is a member of the prestigious International Society of Barristers.