Vickie E.
Turner is a partner at WTK. Ms. Turner has
years of experience in complex litigation matters filed against corporations, with extensive emphasis in the areas of product liability, warranty, and general business litigation.
Ms. Turner
has successfully defended manufacturers, distributors
and retailers in complex product liability
claims throughout California, and in 12 other
western states. She was defense counsel for
Ford Motor Company in a product liability
case that was named one of the Top 20 Defense
Counsel Verdicts for 2003. She also was selected
as one of California's Top Women Litigators
in 2005 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and named one of San Diego's top 5 product liability defense attorneys by San Diego Super Lawyers® in 2007 and 2008.
Ms. Turner
has represented a wide array of companies
in the defense of business disputes. Throughout
her career, Ms. Turner has actively participated
in lengthy mediations and arbitrations, and
has defended numerous class action lawsuits.
Ms. Turner
joined Wilson Turner Kosmo as
a partner in 1998 after being an associate
and partner with Luce, Forward, Hamilton &
Scripps in San Diego for 16 years. Throughout
her career, Ms. Turner has received numerous
awards and honors, including Outstanding Trial
Lawyer Award from the San Diego Trial Lawyer
Association, Outstanding Service to the Legal
Profession Award presented by the San Diego
County Bar Association, women who mean business award from the San Diego Business Journal, the Frederick Douglass
Award by the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association,
Women of Distinction Award from Women’s
Inc., Outstanding Service Award from National
Bar Association, Phenomenal Woman Award presented
by San Diego County Ethnic Minority Bar Association,
and Community Service Award from Sisters by
Choice.
Ms. Turner
has participated in multiple forums, workshops
and seminars on a wide variety of topics,
including corporate witness preparation, Airbag and Passenger Restraint Claims, Minority Representation of Corporate
America in Catastrophic and High Stakes Litigation,
Effectively Developing and Managing Successful
Business Relationships, Diversity in the Courtroom
- Defending Product Liability Cases, and Ethically
Representing Your Client in the Court of Public
Opinion. She has also been named as one of
California’s Top 25 Outstanding Lawyers
by the Daily Journal’s California
Law Business.
- Product
Liability Advisory Council
- American
Bar Association
- National
Bar Association
Life Member, Commercial
Law Section Executive Board
Former Special Assistant to
the President
- San
Diego County Bar Association
Former Member, Judicial Evaluation
Committee;
Former Chair, Ethnic Minority
Relations Committee
- University
of San Diego School of Law
Board of Visitors, Former
Adjunct Professor, Former Alumni Board Member
- American
Law Institute
-
Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court
Master; Executive Board Member
- Lawyers
Club of San Diego
Advisory Board
Member
Former President and Vice President
- Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association
Membership Chairperson
Former
President and Secretary
- Pathways 2 College
Board Member
- Links, Inc.,
San Diego Chapter
1st Vice-President
- Jack
and Jill of America, Inc., San Diego
Chapter
- Southern District Judicial
Appointment Advisory Committee
Former
Member (Appointed by US Senator Barbara
Boxer)
- Ninth Circuit Judicial
Conference
Former Lawyer Representative
(Appointed by U.S. District Court Judges)
- California
Minority Counsel
Former Member, Steering
Committee
Former Secretary
- San
Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program
Former Board Member
- Small Claims Court
Former
Judge Pro Tem
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2010)
- Named by San Diego Super Lawyers® as one of the top 5 product liability defense attorneys in San Diego (2007 and 2008)
- San Diego Trial Lawyer
Association - Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award
- San
Diego County Bar Association - Outstanding
Service to the Legal Profession Award
- Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association
- Frederick Douglass Award
- Women’s Inc. - Women
of Distinction Award
- National
Bar Association - Outstanding Service
Award
- San Diego County Ethnic
Minority Bar Association - Phenomenal Woman
Award
- Sisters by Choice - Community
Service Award
- San
Diego Business Journal – Women
Who Mean Business Award
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