USA
Practice Areas
Manuel Cachán is a trial lawyer who has served as lead counsel on numerous significant and high-profile jury trials in the most challenging jurisdictions throughout the United States. He has represented Fortune 500 companies before federal and state courts in jury trials across the nation in breach-of-contract litigations, banking actions, product liability lawsuits and professional malpractice cases. His representations include handling numerous matters for Monsanto Company, Johnson & Johnson, NBCUniversal, among many others. Mr. Cachán is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only fellowship of lawyers “who have demonstrated the very highest standards of trial advocacy, ethical conduct, integrity, professionalism, and collegiality.” He also is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, which is granted by invitation only and limited to 500 active trial lawyers from the United States.
Career
Fulbright Fellow, Spain, 1997
Law Clerk, Hon. Arthur L. Alarcón, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Professional Memberships
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
Board Member, Public Counsel
Board Member, Alliance for Children’s Rights
Honorary Trustee, Mexican-American Bar Foundation
Member, Chancery Club of Los Angeles
Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Personal
Mr. Cachán has been honored by several leading industry outlets and organizations, including:
Benchmark Litigation as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in the United States, the 2024 Product Liability Litigator of the Year, a National Practice Area Star, a California Litigation Star and a Local Litigation Star
The American Lawyer as Litigator of the Week and Litigator of the Week Runner-Up (multiple times)
the Los Angeles Daily Journal, which listed two of his jury wins as a Top Defense Verdict of the year
Forbes as one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers
the Los Angeles Business Journal as a Top 100 Lawyer and a Leader of Influence: Top Litigator and Trial Lawyer
the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, which has named him to its annual list of Rainmakers
Lawdragon, which named him to its list of 500 Leading Litigators in America
Education
Harvard Law School
J.D. (cum laude)
2000
Harvard College
A.B. (magna cum laude)
1996