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Emery Ledger

Emery Brett Ledger brings more than 27 years of experience to personal injury law. He founded & led The Ledger Law Firm in securing over $100 million in compensation for clients with life-altering injuries & complex claims. Licensed in California, Texas, & Washington, Emery earned his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. His practice areas include car & truck accidents, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, maritime claims, & mass tort litigation. He has been recognized by The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100, Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Top 25, and America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys. Emery also received the 2025 Elite Lawyer Award & holds a perfect 10.0 Avvo rating with Platinum Client Champion status. His legal work has been featured on CNN, Forbes, NBC, & ABC.

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Did a Drunk Uber Driver Force a Passenger to Take the Wheel? Uber/Lyft Accidents
September 22, 2018

Did a Drunk Uber Driver Force a Passenger to Take the Wheel?

In one of the more shocking stories involving a ridesharing driver, an Uber passenger in India has made the claim that his Uber driver was drunk behind the wheel. The driver was so intoxicated, in fact, that the passenger claims he had to take the wheel in order to drive himself home safely. The passenger, Surya Oruganti tweeted about the incident…
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Would Safety Be an Afterthought for Any Driverless Car Bill That Passes the Senate? RoundUp Tort
September 14, 2018

Would Safety Be an Afterthought for Any Driverless Car Bill That Passes the Senate?

In a year where Americans revealed they have serious doubts about the safety of self-driving cars — a study conducted shortly after the first Uber self-driving car crash fatality revealed that 73 percent of Americans would be afraid to ride in autonomous vehicles — it is clear that the self-driving sector has work to do concerning the public trust. As such, it…
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Farm Bill May Prevent Local Governments From Using Their Own Pesticide Regulations to Limit Glyphosate RoundUp Tort
September 14, 2018

Farm Bill May Prevent Local Governments From Using Their Own Pesticide Regulations to Limit Glyphosate

According to an analysis conducted by Beyond Pesticides and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), local governments may be prevented from banning glyphosate if a a provision in a 748-page farm bill is passed into law. According to the EWG analysis, more than 50 city and county ordinances banning glyphosate could be overturned, which may lead to a renewed glyphosate presence…
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Is a "Robotaxi" Soon on the Way Via Waymo’s Self-Driving Project? Uber/Lyft Accidents
September 14, 2018

Is a "Robotaxi" Soon on the Way Via Waymo’s Self-Driving Project?

As 2018 is in its waning months, it seems fair to say that 2018 was a rough year for the "true believers" in a driverless future. American sentiment has grown increasingly untrusting in a number of studies and surveys, while ride-sharing leader Uber suffered from a spate of negative publicity after the first fatal self-driving car crash in Tempe. However,…
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Vallejo, Home City of CA Groundskeeper in $289M Roundup Verdict, Will Continue to Use Glyphosate RoundUp Tort
September 13, 2018

Vallejo, Home City of CA Groundskeeper in $289M Roundup Verdict, Will Continue to Use Glyphosate

California groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first plaintiff to have a jury verdict rendered in lawsuits against Monsanto involving glyphosate. Mr. Johnson was one of thousands who alleged that the company's glyphosate herbicide caused their cancer, and the jury found for Mr. Johnson in a case that garnered significant national attention. The attention was of such a magnitude that Bayer's…
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Monsanto Fails to Collect Documents From Advocacy Group Seeking a Halt to Glyphosate RoundUp Tort
September 13, 2018

Monsanto Fails to Collect Documents From Advocacy Group Seeking a Halt to Glyphosate

In past blog posts, we have extensively covered the ongoing saga surrounding the what are now thousands of lawsuits arguing that glyphosate causes cancer. Regular readers will recall that plaintiffs are relying on a 2015 World Health Report finding that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen. Monsanto and Bayer, alternatively, rely on studies such as the EPA's claim that glyphosate is likely not…
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Lawsuit Alleges Uber Saved $500M by Misclassifying Its Drivers As Independent Contractors Uncategorized
September 13, 2018

Lawsuit Alleges Uber Saved $500M by Misclassifying Its Drivers As Independent Contractors

In past blogs, we have written about the financial and legal incentives Uber has to continue classifying its drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Indeed, we also extensively covered an important California Supreme Court decision that increased the likelihood Uber and Lyft drivers will become employees in the state of California. Months after we wrote about the highest California court's decision…
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Apple’s First Reported Self-Driving Crash Brings Attention to the Tech Giant Uber/Lyft Accidents
September 13, 2018

Apple’s First Reported Self-Driving Crash Brings Attention to the Tech Giant

For regular readers of our blog and tech enthusiasts alike, the notion that Silicon Valley is going full-speed ahead to embrace self-driving comes as little surprise. What may be surprising, however, is that Apple is also involved in the ever-growing competition for dominance in the self-driving car sector. Apple has kept their self-driving car program largely under wraps, but the…
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A Closer Look at Dicamba’s Link to Various Forms of Cancer RoundUp Tort
September 4, 2018

A Closer Look at Dicamba’s Link to Various Forms of Cancer

After a nearly $300 million verdict was awarded to a California groundskeeper who argued his terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer was caused by glyphosate, the potentially carcinogenic nature of herbicides has received a renewed spotlight. As national conversations continue over glyphosate, the thousands of lawsuits against Bayer AG Monsanto will continue to unfold. Many of these lawsuits will rely on findings…
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Could Glyphosate Verdict Renew a Legal Battle Over Agent Orange? RoundUp Tort
September 4, 2018

Could Glyphosate Verdict Renew a Legal Battle Over Agent Orange?

Thousands of glyphosate lawsuits have been filed in the aftermath of the landmark $289 million verdict delivered by a San Francisco jury in August of 2018. This surge in litigation came after the first Roundup cancer lawsuit at trial ended with the jury finding that Roundup's glyphosate caused the eventual diagnosis of a school groundskeeper's terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. While much of…
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