Raymond McElfish
Raymond McElfish (LAW’91) of West Hollywood, Calif., opened his law firm, McElfish Law, in New York City almost 25 years ago. He opened his Los Angeles office in 2002 and has been headquartered in West Hollywood. Since law school, he has litigated and tried to verdict hundreds of catastrophic accident cases, including trucking, general liability, products liability, and bad faith insurance cases. He has published in every area of his practice and is considered one of the preeminent trial lawyers in southern California today. In addition, he is a semiprofessional stand-up comedian, a regular at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Improv, and the Santa Barbara Comedy Hideaway. He has performed and taped for the Fox television showLaughs and was a featured speaker at the annual Mensa meeting in Los Angeles on the subject Comedy in the Courtroom, “chronicling how humor is present in all aspects of lawsuits and every walk of life if you know where to look,” he writes.
From the Fall 2018 issue.