Ognian Gavrilov

Managing Partner

Sacramento Office
2315 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95816

E: [email protected]

P: 916-333-0886

F: 916-727-6877

Ognian Gavrilov, managing partner of Gavrilov & Brooks in Sacramento & Los Angeles, has tried over 60 trials in business, employment, IP and personal-injury cases.

Ognian Gavrilov is the managing partner of Gavrilov & Brooks, a full-service practice with offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Mr. Gavrilov has tried over sixty trials and arbitrations.

He has tried both plaintiff and defense cases in the areas of business law, corporate law, personal injury, defamation, insurance bad faith, employment law, patent law, trucking law, immigration law, family law, and medical malpractice. He routinely handles trials on short notice for other law firms and has many eight-figure verdicts and settlements. His $39 million jury verdict in Gunderson v. Edward Jones, et al. is the largest defamation verdict in the history of California. He also holds the largest invasion of privacy violation verdict where the court awarded $37 million to five women who were surreptitiously filmed without their permission. Moreover, he prevailed in a $25 million corporate takeover trial for a public traded company in the Eastern District of California. In addition, Mr. Gavrilov’s $18.5 million verdict in Guzman v. Wigle is the largest non-amputation shin/knee injury in US history.

Mr. Gavrilov is the 2024 Attorney of the Year by the Sacramento County Bar Association, the 2020 Advocate of the Year by CCTLA (Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association) and was one of five finalists for Advocate of the Year in 2015 and 2021. Mr. Gavrilov is a Northern California Super Lawyers’ top attorney from 2019 to 2025 and made the Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers List from 2017 to 2025. He is the 2016 Justice Abroad recipient by the Sofia (Bulgaria) Attorney Association.

Mr. Gavrilov is the Honorary Consul for Republic of Bulgaria in California, a Board of Directors Member of Bearpaw, co-founder of the Slavic American Chamber of Commerce, a former Chairman of the Small Business Advisory Board for the City of Sacramento, and a former Advisory Board Member of Wells Fargo Bank. His biggest accomplishment, however, is winning the 2007 UOP, McGeorge Golf Championship.

Published Cases

Davis v. Ross, 39 Cal.App.5th 627 (2019)

Education

J.D. from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

B.A. in History, with honors, California State University San Bernardino

Affiliations and Activities

Co-Founder, Slavic Chamber of Commerce

Co-Founder, Bulgarian Film Festival, SF

Past member, Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court

Honors and Awards

2024 Attorney of the Year by the Sacramento County Bar Association

2020 Advocate of the Year by the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association (CCTLA)

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers list

2018, 2016, 2015 Sacramento Business Journal’s Best of the Bar list

2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers’ top rated Business and Corporate attorney

2015 and 2021 one of five finalists for Advocate of the Year by the Capital City Trial Lawyers Association (CCTLA)

2016 Justice Abroad award recipient by the Sofia Attorney Association in Bulgaria

California State Assembly Certificate of Recognition recipient

2007 UOP, McGeorge Golf Championship Winner

Settlement Results

$47 million settlement, with $5 million above the policy limits for an auto accident case

$18 million settlement on a partnership dispute

$11 million settlement, with $10 million above the policy limits for a wrongful death case

$8.5 million settlement, with $6.5 million above the policy limits for an auto accident case

$12 million settlement on an employment matter

Trial Results

$39 million verdict – defamation