Todd Lezon is a partner at Walsworth who focuses his practice on transportation and general liability matters. He is an accomplished trial attorney with extensive experience handling all phases of civil litigation, including case strategy development, discovery planning, depositions, and client representation in arbitrations, mediations, and trial.
Todd represents commercial drivers, motor carriers, and freight forwarding brokers in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in state and federal court. He has represented Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of truck accident cases. Many of his motor carrier clients are foreign companies that conduct cross-border operations hauling freight between the United States and Mexico.
Todd also has vast experience representing property owners and professional management companies in habitability cases. Many of Todd’s litigated habitability matters have involved high exposure claims, including lawsuits brought by over three dozen plaintiffs. Todd has taken habitability cases to trial and obtained favorable results for his clients.
Todd takes an aggressive approach to litigation by conducting extensive discovery early in the case. He believes that the best way to minimize his clients’ risk is to obtain as much information about any claim at the outset of the case so that it can resolve early.
Todd strives to keep his clients fully informed throughout all phases of the litigation. To keep his clients apprised of the risk assessment in every case, Todd’s updates to his clients include recently reported jury verdicts for similar cases. This approach to risk assessment has a proven track record of accurately predicting the range at which a case will be resolved. Before he went to law school, Todd deployed twice to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a soldier in the United States Army.
- Obtained a defense judgment in a bench trial in a highly contentious habitability and housing discrimination case involving claims for statutory attorney’s fees and punitive damages.
- Obtained summary judgment under the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act in favor of a freight broker in a high exposure case with permanent injuries.
- Obtained dismissals of 13 plaintiffs in a multi-plaintiff habitability case after the Court granted motions for terminating sanctions.
- The Wrong Lawsuit at the Wrong Time: The Limits of Wrongful Death in California, USLAW Magazine, Spring 2021.
- Received two Army Commendation Medals; Foreign Service Medal; Iraq War Campaign Medal; and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Force Medal.