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hgancedo@gancedonieves.com
HECTOR G. GANCEDO, founding and managing partner, is a graduate of the
University of California, Santa Cruz, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1980 and a
Masters of Science degree in Economics in 1982. Mr. Gancedo received his law degree for the University of
Southern California where he awarded the Merit Scholar Award.
Involvement
After graduation from law school Mr. Gancedo was associated with the firm of
Nouskajian & Cranert, P.C. as a trial lawyer, where he specialized in personal injury and product liability
defense litigation. In 1995 Mr. Gancedo established his own litigation firm where he concentrated in matters
of medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury and toxic torts. Since founding Gancedo & Nieves, Mr. Gancedo
has specialized in mass tort and class action litigation. In mass tort litigation, Mr. Gancedo has represented hundreds
of individuals in product liability and medical malpractice actions involving injuries resulting from defective medical
products and ingestion of pharmaceutical products including Fen-Phen, Redux, Rezulin, Baycol, PPA, Sulzer Hips, and Vioxx.
He has also represented hundreds of individuals for cancer and other serious illnesses resulting from toxic waste.
In addition to representation of individual clients in mass tort litigation, he has provided substantial common benefit
work for executive, discovery, expert and/or class committees in numerous mass tort litigations on a state and national level.
In class action litigation, Mr. Gancedo specializes in consumer fraud and unfair competition litigation
with a sub specialty in labor wage and hour litigation. Areas of Mr. Gancedo’s representation in class actions include labor,
antitrust, environmental, securities, banking, insurance, consumer and other class actions. He has acted as lead counsel or
class counsel in numerous class actions including Babinski v. Pilot Catastrophe Adjusters (wage and hour), Smiley v.
CSAA (wage and hour), Mazzarella v. Bank of America (consumer), Taylor v. PalmOne, Inc. (consumer), In Re Woodlawn
Cemetery (mishandling cemetery remains), and O’Connor v. Boeing (environmental), and has served as local counsel in
many other cases.
Mr. Gancedo is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as well as the United States District Court for the Central, Eastern and
Northern Districts of California.
Mr. Gancedo has served on the Board of Directors of OBA of OBA, Inc. dba Outward
Bound Adventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing outdoor environmental experiences and
education to “at-risk” urban youth, and of Tigers Soccer Club, a non-profit organization. He is fluent in Spanish.
Practice Areas
- Catastrophic Personal Injury
- Consumer Fraud
- Environmental Litigation
- Product Liability
- Antitrust Litigation
- Securities Litigation
Education
- USC Law Center (J.D., 1985)
- Merit Scholar Award Recipient
- University of California, Santa Cruz (M.S. Economics 1982, B.A. Economics, 1980)
Admitted to Practice
- State of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Professional Activities
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of California
- Member, Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles
- Member, American Trial Lawyers Association
- Member, Board of Directors of OBA, Inc. dba Outward Bound Adventures
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