For over 70 years, the firm of Rose, Klein & Marias LLP (RKM) has offered specialized legal services in the fields of Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury. The Firm presently consists of 40 lawyers including 18 partners, serving five Southern California counties from ten office locations - Los Angeles, Ventura, San Fernando Valley, Covina, Ontario, Orange, Long Beach, San Diego, Glendale and Santa Barbara.

The Firm traces its beginnings to the middle 1930's when Victor C. Rose (1907-1972), a 1934 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, commenced practice in Los Angeles. He was joined in 1940 by Alfred M. Klein (1913-2000), a 1937 law graduate of the University of Utah. They were joined in 1946 by Eugene Marias (1919-1982), a then recent graduate of the University of Southern California law school. The three name partners formally organized as a partnership for the practice of law in 1954 under the firm name of Rose, Klein & Marias and the Firm has so practiced without interruption ever since.

Currently, 13 of the Firm's attorneys work exclusively on Personal Injury litigation, while 27 concentrate solely on Workers' Compensation cases. The Firm prides itself on its ability to concurrently handle both components of an injured worker's legal claims. Through the joint efforts of RKM Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation attorneys, the victim's recovery is maximized.

Among the Firm's partners are certified Workers' Compensation specialists, including members of the State Board of Legal Specialization. RKM partners include four past presidents of the California Applicants' Attorneys Association (CAAA), as well as a past president of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC). Members of the Firm have served and continue to serve on the boards of these associations, as well as on the boards of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA), local Applicants' Attorneys Associations and the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA). RKM attorneys frequently appear as speakers at legal seminars, as "friends of the court" to argue appeals in major cases, and as witnesses before the major policy committees of the state legislature, sharing their expertise with fellow lawyers and lawmakers. 

RKM offers comprehensive and high quality representation within the increasingly complex areas of its specialization. The Firm has been a leader in the development of case law in Workers' Compensation as seen in County of Los Angeles vs. WCAB (Conroy) 30 Cal. 3d 391 (1981), Rosen vs. IAC, 239 Cal. App. 2d 748 (1966), Traub vs. Board of Retirement of Los Angeles County, 34 Cal. 3d 793 (1983), Price vs. WCAB, 37 Cal. 3d 559 (1984), Berry vs. WCAB, 68 Cal. App. 2d 786 (1968), Gaytan v. WCAB, 109 Cal. App. 4th 200 (2003). 

RKM has also pioneered the field of third party civil damage liability, pursuing claims on behalf of injured workers against contractors, property owners, product manufacturers and others arising out of jobsite injuries. The Firm successfully appeared as counsel for Plaintiff in such landmark cases as Armenta Vs. Churchill, 42 Cal. 2d 448 (1954), Kuntz vs. Del Webb, 57 Cal.2d 100 (1961), Lewis vs. American Hoist, 20 Cal. App. 3d 570 (1971) and Van Arsdale vs. Hollinger and the City of Los Angeles, 68 Cal. 2d 245 (1968) which established the liability of contractors and property owners for jobsite injuries arising out of the failure to take necessary precautions against special risks. More recently in Evraets vs. Intermedics, 29 Cal. App. 4th 779 (1994), the Firm successfully argued that federal law regulating drugs and medical devices does not prohibit a victim of fraud of a device manufacturer from suing the manufacturer for damages; while the Firm also prevailed in an opinion strengthening the right of an injured worker to enhance his damages by protecting the lien of the workers' compensation carrier at trial in Kindt vs. Otis Elevator, 32 Cal. App. 4th 452 (1995). Most recently, the Firm prevailed on behalf of hundreds of clients who had been exposed to contaminated groundwater. In this case, Hartwell Corp. vs. Superior Court (Santamaria), 27 Cal. 4th 256 (2002), the California Supreme Court ruled that our clients could proceed with their claims against water companies and industrial contaminators. 

In 1975, RKM spearheaded the asbestos litigation in California, bringing the first lawsuits on behalf of insulators and shipyard workers against asbestos manufacturers. The Firm obtained the first successful jury verdict in Southern California against the asbestos manufacturers and has since taken a lead role nationally through service on various bankruptcy reorganization committees including Manville and UNR Industries. As an acknowledged leader in asbestos litigation, the Firm maintains its highly specialized asbestos practice in both Workers' Compensation and Product Liability on behalf of victims of a wide variety of asbestos exposures. 

RKM continues to serve the needs of those injured on or off the job as a result of all manner and type of accidents, including: 

• equipment failures 
• design or manufacturing defects in products used in households or for industrial or construction purposes
• dangerous premises
• hazardous public property
• exposure to toxic substances and groundwater contamination
• consumer protection actions

RKM also applies its skills to the resolution of other injury claims: auto accidents, slip and fall cases, and the like. In addition, the Firm continues to successfully represent insurance policy, employment relations and professional negligence claimants. On behalf of these victims, RKM maintains its record of tenacious advocacy; achieving with regularity substantial results, including a significant number of seven figure recoveries.

Our services are generally offered on a contingency fee basis, with the Firm usually advancing all costs necessary to the successful prosecution of the case. Attorney referrals are encouraged under typical fee-sharing arrangements.