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Police Defense Attorney
Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP
Los Angeles, California, United States
Eugene P. Ramirez graduated from Whittier College School of Law (J.D., 1987). He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach (B.A., 1983).
Mr. Ramirez previously worked as a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He has also worked as a reserve police officer for the Whittier Police Department and the Monterey Park Police Department.
Mr. Ramirez serves as an advisor to several public entities on the issues of use of force, employment issues and policies and procedures. He has provided training to thousands of police officers and supervisors, from around the country and Canada, over the past 20 years.
Eugene P. Ramirez, a founding member of the firm, graduated from Whittier College School of Law (J.D., 1987), where he was Notes & Comments Editor of the Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Honors Board and President of the Student Bar Association. At Whittier, he received an award as the Best Oral Advocate and the Outstanding Moot Court Graduate Award. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach (B.A., 1983), where he minored in both Criminal Justice and Public Policy.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Ramirez worked as a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, where he conducted numerous misdemeanor and felony jury trials, including murder trials. He has also worked as a reserve police officer for the Whittier Police Department and the Monterey Park Police Department.
He serves as an advisor to several public entities on the issues of use of force, canine and SWAT issues and policies and procedures. He has provided training to thousands of police officers and supervisors, from around the country and Canada, over the past 20 years.
He is the General Counsel for the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) and he is the General Counsel for the United States Police Canine Association (USPCA).
Mr. Ramirez regularly speaks to Chiefs of Police Organizations on liability and supervision issues. He also addresses supervisors of all ranks on how to recognize risk management issues.
Mr. Ramirez is an instructor on liability issues for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Basic SWAT School. He is also an instructor for the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) and for the National Tactical Officers’ Association (NTOA). He was a member of the State Attorney General’s Blue Ribbon SWAT Committee and he was a member of POST’s Executive Advisory Committee for SWAT Teams. He was a member of the LAPD Board of Inquiry, which examined LAPD SWAT operations. He is an approved California POST instructor.
Mr. Ramirez was profiled in the April 2003, California Lawyer Magazine, for his work in defending law enforcement. He was honored with the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS). He has been named as a 2005-2011, 2014-2018 Super Lawyer for Southern California. He was also named to the distinguished American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), in 2005, an award only bestowed upon proven trial attorneys. Mr. Ramirez is also a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America.
He was selected as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department’s Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1993 and, 2006, by two different Sheriffs. He was selected as the 2009 Alumni Attorney of the Year for Whittier School of Law. He has been selected twice as one of the Top 25 Municipal Attorneys in California by the Daily Journal. He was named a 2019 "Top Litigator and Trial Attorney" by the Los Angeles Business Journal. One of his cases, Hernandez v City of Huntington Beach, was selected as one of the Top Defense Verdicts for 2022 by the Daily Journal.
Mr. Ramirez has been awarded Certificates of Appreciation from the United States Army Special Operations Command (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) and from the United States Secret Service.
He is currently an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Rio Hondo College Police Academy teaching at the Basic Recruit Academy; the Field Training Officer School; and the New Supervisor School.
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Monday, October 16, 2023
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