Robert N. Stone, Esq.
Bob is first and foremost a trial lawyer representing injured people and their families in a variety of personal injury and wrongful death cases, having personally tried over 100 cases involving Superior Court jury trials, Federal Court trials, and arbitrations. Some of the cases he has handled have involved motor vehicle accidents, defective highway design, air crashes, railroad crossing accidents, workplace injuries, defective products, explosions, water sports, medical and hospital malpractice and drug liability, to name a few. He and his longtime firm have garnered millions of dollars for their clients through the years both by settlement and by trials.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from Boalt Hall School of Law (U.C. Berkeley) and his Masters of Law (in tort law) from the U.S.C. Law School. He is admitted to practice before all of the Courts throughout the State of California as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court and the Federal District Court.
He has tried several landmark cases, to include the first damage case arising out of the Cerritos air crash disaster, as well as a case against the State of California interpreting the doctrine of comparative fault.
Bob has been honored by having been made a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (limited to the top one percent of lawyers in the State), as well as a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Attorneys (limited to 500 lawyers in the United States). He has been named a Super Lawyer by Los Angeles magazine and is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America”. He is past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and has served as its California Chair person. He served honorably in the U.S. Army Staff Judge Advocates. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association as well as the Consumer Lawyers Associations of both California and Los Angeles and is a past president of the Medicolegal Society of Southern California.
Through the years he has devoted time from his trial practice to participate as a legal instructor at trial schools, has appeared several times in the ABOTA Masters In Trial programs in several states, and has served as a Judge Pro Tem and Settlement Officer for the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. He has lectured on personal injury and malpractice subjects to a number of groups, to include the Trial Advocacy program at the Hastings College of Law, students at the USC Law School, residents in pediatrics at the UCLA Medical School, American Academy of Dermatology, dermatology students at UCLA Medical School, the Southern California Defense Counsel (insurance attorneys) at their annual convention, the Insurance Underwriters of Southern California, the Southern California Hospital Risk Managers Association, the Southern California Society of Highway Engineers, as well as several programs sponsored by the California State Bar Association.
Above all, Bob brings his many years of knowledge and experience to the fore in representing his clients. He is both compassionate and caring and always puts their best interests first. He is well respected by his peers and by the Courts.
Charles I. Dolginer, Esq. 
Charles Dolginer is a practicing attorney with a speciality in personal injury, product liability, and medical malpractice. He is ranked among the top attorneys in California having received the highest ratings by Martindale-Hubbell, a noted reference on attorney qualifications and competence. His extensive knowledge and proficiency is confirmed through 35 tears of practice with the firm of Stone, Dolginer & Wenzel. He is held in high regard by attorneys, judges and past clients, as well.
Mr. Dolginer is a skilled negotiator and highly respected for his ability to settle law suits before it becomes necessary to take them to trial. This aptitude has evolved into his secondary vocation as an active mediator and arbitrator, resolving an array of complex disputes since 1995.
He has been a prominent member of numerous bar associations and has maintained an enduring commitment to organizations that provide legal services to the economically disadvantaged.
Mr. Dolginer's dedication to the community is evidenced through his actions. He is a past president of the Amie Karen Cancer Fund; trustee emeritus of the Archer School for Girls; past trustee of the Harvard-Westlake School; a supporter of the Museum of Tolerance and theSouthern Poverty Law Center.
EDUCATION:
J.D., Hastings College of Law and the University of Colorado Law School.
B.A., University of California Berkeley
MEMBER and FORMER MEMBER:
California Trial Lawyers Association, Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, Wilshire and Los Angeles County Bar Associations, Phi Delta Phi, Director of Legal Aid Services at the University of Colorado Law School.
Mark D. Wenzel, Esq.
Mark is a third generation lawyer, both his father and grandfather having gone to law school and practiced law. In 1980, Mark started out representing corporations and insurance companies in litigation matters. After a few years, Mark began to become uncomfortable with the notion of the fact that when he succeeded, injured people often lost. After some additional soul searching, Mark left the firm that he started with right out of law school and joined Bob Stone and Charles Dolginer in 1984. Mark's purpose in joining the firm was to represent real people, individuals and their families who had been touched by tragedy.
Over the years since 1984, Mark has handled a wide variety of cases including defective product cases, aircraft cases, roadway design and maintenance cases, construction accident cases, medical malpractice cases, defective medical implants or devices, pharmaceutical liability, and all manner of other types of accidents.
Through the years, Mark has developed a reputation as being honest, forthright and civil but a tenacious fighter of his clients' interests. Over the past twenty-four years, Mark has handled many jury trials, including trials in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, Ventura County, Tulare County, Fresno County and Butte County. In addition to typical successes, Mark has also been successful in gaining verdicts on behalf of his clients against powerful entities as the United States Government and the State of California.
Mark has been active in many of the trial lawyer bar organizations, including the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, the Consumer Attorneys of California, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. Additionally, in 2000, Mark was invited to become a member of ABOTA - the American Board of Trial Advocates, the one trial organization in the country that requires its members to have completed a certain number of jury trials. In addition to belonging to ABOTA, Mark is also Serving on the Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates. The Foundation has been set up to educate the public as to the importance of the civil justice system and preserving the Seventh Amendment's right to jury trials in civil cases.
Mark got his undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1977, and his J.D. in law from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1980. Mark is admitted to practice before all the state and federal courts in California.
In addition to practicing law and trying cases, Mark occasionally authors articles on various aspects of medical negligence practice. Additionally, Mark has participated as a speaker on various subjects of the law for varying professional organizations, including the California Highway Engineers Association; the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants; Southern California Association of Defense Counsel; and others. Additionally, Mark has participated as a teacher training young trial lawyers through the Jack Daniels ABOTA Trial School and Mark has participated in the Masters in Trial Program put on by ABOTA every year to demonstrate to trial practitioners the very best that the trial bar has to offer in trial lawyer skills and techniques.
Like Bob and Chuck, people come first. We could not be in this business for so long if we did not care and have real compassion for the individuals and families we represent. We never forget that at the end of the day what we really do is help some people get through some very difficult times in their lives. It is this devotion to our clients which has kept us together such a long time.
