Partners & Donors

Managing Partner, Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, LLP

Mickey Segal, CPA, is the Managing Partner of Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, LLP. Mickey graduated cum laude in accounting from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In 1997, he was inducted into their Accounting Hall of Fame and he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University's business school. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Mickey has served two-four year terms on the Arcadia City Council and served as Mayor twice. Mickey also chaired the City of Arcadia's Financial Advisory Committee.

Mickey is involved in numerous philanthropic activities. Mickey chaired and completed the $2.5 million Capital Campaign to raise money for the Arcadia Unified School District's Technology Plan. He has also chaired and completed a $6 million Capital Campaign for Covenant House. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Arcadia Methodist Hospital and has chaired the Capital Campaign for the new Tower raising over $28 million to date. Mickey has co-chaired the American Cancer Society's Southern California Invitational Golf Tournament for six years. He also co-chairs the Heartbeat of Hollywood Golf Tournament for the benefit of the Motion Picture Television Fund. The one day event raises over $700,000. Mickey is a board member of the Unified Educational Trust at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and is the Vice-Chair of Planned Giving for their $150 million Capital Campaign.

Mickey and his wife, Lee, have three children, Allison, Matthew and Andrew, and live in Arcadia. They are members of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center, where Mickey is a past President. He has chaired the major gifts committee for the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys. Mickey is also a member of Hillcrest Country Club. Mickey enjoys playing golf, watching football and baseball games and participating in community activities.

One of the country’s leading trial attorneys, Brian Panish has obtained some of the most significant jury verdicts in United States history on behalf of plaintiffs. His courtroom victories include a $4.9 billion verdict in the landmark products liability case Anderson v. General Motors, and over forty verdicts and settlements in excess of $10 million in personal injury, wrongful death and business litigation cases.

Since 2011 alone, Mr. Panish has obtained more than $225 million in verdicts, including eleven eight-figure verdicts. Among them are a $36.5 million jury verdict against Schneider National for a big-rig crash that left a woman with severe spinal cord injuries, a $34.5 million verdict for a man who suffered a below the knee amputation after being hit by a tractor trailer, a $17.4 million verdict for a Ph.D. student who suffered brain and jaw injuries during a rear end chain collision accident, a $17 million jury verdict against the Los Angeles MTA in the wrongful death of a visually impaired passenger, a $17.845 million award in a wrongful death case involving four family members killed when a Marine jet crashed into their home, a $20 million jury verdict for a woman who suffered a brain injury in a hit-and-run accident involving a J.B. Hunt tractor trailer, a $17 million jury verdict for a 84-year old man hit by a bus resulting in a leg amputation, a $15.3 million jury verdict for a woman and her daughter after the woman was severely injured on a negligently driven Alameda Contra-Costa Transit District bus, and a $10.45 million jury verdict for the family of a security guard killed on the CBS studio lot.

Mr. Panish has been recognized by numerous publications and organizations as being among the top trial lawyers in the country. Among other honors, he received the 2014 Consumer Attorney of the Year from the Consumer Attorneys of California, 2013 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award in the area of Personal Injury, and Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2010 by the California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and in 1999 by the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles. Mr. Panish is a member of the prestigious Inner Circle of Advocates, comprised of 100 of the nation’s top plaintiffs’ lawyers. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and was the 2011 President of the Los Angeles Chapter of ABOTA.

Mr. Panish received his law degree, with honors, from Southwestern Law School, and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Southwestern in 2011. He received his B.S. from California State University Fresno, where he was named Scholar Athlete, was the recipient of the Athletic Directors Award and was named outstanding alumnus at the school’s Centennial Celebration in 2010.