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Christopher Aitken was born in Placentia, California on May 10, 1969, is a partner of Aitken Aitken Cohn with nearly 25 years of experience in trial litigation. He is proud to represent plaintiffs in major civil jury trial litigation in the fields of personal injury, insurance bad faith, wrongful death and general business litigation.
Daily Journal recognized Chris as one of the “Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California” in both 2024 and 2022, a distinction given to less than 50 lawyers in California. Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) named Chris also Finalist for 2021’s Consumer Attorney of the Year Award for securing an $11 million settlement with a state political party to resolve a case involving a Riverside man left paralyzed after a freeway collision with an unlicensed election worker.
Chris has been named 2024’s “Citizen of the Year” by The San Clemente Chamber of Commerce for his various non-profit endeavors to help his local community, including supporting the local businesses through his leadership of the downtown business association during Covid. Chris was also recently named in 2024 to the Irish 100.
Chris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Political Science Major. He obtained his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Southern California.
Chris is a life-long resident of the OC and currently resides in San Clemente, with his wife Maureen, and their four children.
Chris Aitken is a strong advocate for consumer safety and has successfully litigated and tried numerous civil actions wherein he has obtained numerous seven and eight figure results for his clients. One of his most notable achievements includes a trial judgment on behalf of his client, a 13 year old boy who sustained a severe brain injury in an automobile collision, resulting in a jury verdict of $23,500,000 in Feitler v. E.A. Pedersen Power Products, Peter I. Mr. Aitken recently obtained a $20,000,000 settlement (and estimated over $100,000,000 payout) for an 8 year old boy who suffered a brain injury by falling from a soft contained playground at a prominent fast food chain in B. v. Doe Fast Food Chain. Due to in part to this matter, the food chain is in the process of performing retrofits for consumer safety on all their playgrounds on a national basis.