Our Team
Peter J. McNulty
Peter J. McNulty was born in Boston, Massachusetts; admitted to bar, 1979, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1983, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of California; 1984, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1999, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 2000, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; 2012, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada, District of Hawaii and Southern District of Virginia; 2013, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2016.U.S. District Court of Colorado; 2021. Education: University of Vermont (B.A., 1976) Phi Beta Kappa; Boston College Law School (J.D., 1979). Assistant Editor, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 1978-1979. Member: Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Lawyers-Pilots Bar Association; The American Association for Justice; Federal Bar Association.
After working for the Public Defender’s office in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. McNulty was associated with the firm of Lawler, Felix and Hall (later Arter & Hadden) in Los Angeles. In coordination with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop), he defended clients such as Chevron, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, Amtrak and Miles Laboratories in complicated personal injury and commercial litigation matters both in California and nationally.
Since 1983, Mr. McNulty has practiced with his own firm. His primary office is in Los Angeles, California and he maintains affiliate offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. His firm specializes in the preparation and trial of catastrophic personal injury actions and complicated commercial actions with a special emphasis in Class Action and Mass Tort cases. His firm has also represented numerous Asian corporations (China Tire, Asia Pulp and Paper, Sinar Mas Group, Ltd. and eSun Holdings, Ltd.) and high net worth individuals in complex business litigation in the United States, London, Hong Kong and Macau. He currently represents Hong Leong Oei/Hong Kong Expo Holdings, LTD./Canadian Metropolitan Properties Corporation in a $1.5 billion Canadian Dollar dispute in Vancouver arising out of a development project on the Vancouver waterfront (Concord Pacific Acquisitions, Inc. v. Hong Leong Oei, et al. Vancouver Registry No. S-158989). His firm has also represented Nevada Energy Company in energy related litigation against El Paso, Dynergy and Sempra. His individual verdicts and settlements, not including class actions, total in excess of $600 Million Dollars. He has tried over 131 cases to verdict and has been involved in multiple nationwide class actions involving medical devices and pharmaceutical products such as Lupron, Accutane, Sulzer Hips, Intra-Ocular Lenses and AMO. He is a licensed pilot and has represented multiple air crash disaster victims in the U.S. and internationally. He is also currently serving on the plaintiffs Executive Committee in the Woolsey Fire litigation (JCCP 5000) and represents over 500 fire victims.
Mr. McNulty has an AV Preeminent Rating ® with Martindale Hubble, is listed in Martindale Hubble’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and has been selected as a top-rated lawyer in Medical Malpractice Law. Mr. McNulty has been an invited lecturer for courses sponsored by the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, The National Institute of Trial Advocacy and local Bar Associations. Mr. McNulty has also been selected as a Super Lawyer from 2010 through the present.
Brett Rosenthal
Mr. Rosenthal was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his degree in Legal Studies and minored in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998. He attended Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont, where he received his Juris Doctor and Masters in Environmental Law in 2001.
Mr. Rosenthal worked for the public interest law firm, Meyer & Glitzenstein, in Washington D.C. in 2001. In 2002, Mr. Rosenthal started Rosenthal Legal Services in Juneau, Alaska, where he provided research and writing for multiple general practice firms.
Since joining the McNulty Law Firm in early 2004, Mr. Rosenthal has practiced in the fields of personal injury tort claims, medical malpractice, elder abuse, wildfire litigation, products liability, class actions, contracts, sexual discrimination and criminal defense. Mr. Rosenthal is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice in all Courts in the State of California as well as the District Court of California for Northern District, Eastern District, Central District and Southern District.