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JAY A. KAPLAN - was born in Los Angeles, California into a family with a tradition of being lawyers. He attended college at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he graduated in 1973 with the highest academic honors, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Jay earned his law degree at U.S.C. and Whittier Law Schools. While attending school, Jay clerked for the Magana Law Firm, which had represented injured railroad workers under the FELA since the early 1950's. Following his graduation from law school, Jay went into solo practice until 1981 when he helped found the law firm of Kaplan, Zorigian & Kaplan. In 1991, he founded the present Law Firm of Kaplan Law Corporation. During the course of his twenty+ year-legal career of representing injured unionized workers, Jay has been designated by the United Transportations Union, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman, Transportation Communications Union which includes the Brotherhood of Railway Carman as well as the former Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship, Clerks, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Ironship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers and the International Brotherhood of Fireman and Oilers. In addition to being designated by the aforementioned rail unions, Jay and Kaplan Law Corporation are also designated Legal Counsel for the Inlandboatman's Union of the Pacific, a division of the International Longshoreman and Harbor Worker's Union, the United Association of Plumbing, Pipefitting, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Industry and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Los Angeless, San Gabriel and San Bernardino. Recent representations of injured members of these unions have resulted in three separate verdicts each of which was significantly over a million dollars as well as several in the very high six figure range. Additionally, Jay recently settled a case against one of the major railroads, involving a 53-year-old shop craft worker for a present value settlement in excess of three million dollars. Jay is licensed to practice in all of the Courts of California including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals where he has successfully won cases. He is a longstanding member of the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys as well as the Consumer Attorneys of California and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He has an AV Martindale Hubbell rating which is the highest rating conferred by this highly respected directory and rating system of lawyers and law firms in the United States. Jay is also fluent in Spanish.