Anthony Luti
Anthony Ngula Luti (born June 14 1970, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), is a trial lawyer in Hollywood, California.
Education
Luti graduated from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1996. Luti then obtained his law degree, cum laude, and his Masters degree in Business Administration from Howard University in Washington, DC.
Practice
The founder of The Luti Law Firm, a civil rights law firm located in Hollywood, California that was created in 2003, Luti's trial practice encompasses employment discrimination, civil rights, and criminal defense. During the last four years, he has obtained millions of dollars in settlements, verdicts, judgments and awards for his clients. He has only lost one criminal case in his career.
Luti is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The Million Dollar Advocates Forum membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.
Luti also graduated as one of 48 trial lawyers nationwide picked to attend Gerry Spence's Wyoming Trial Lawyers College in 2005. The Trial Lawyers College is the most selective institution for training trial lawyers in the nation. The Trial Lawyers College is a training school for lawyers who represent the common person.
Luti argued the first case to delineate the filing requirements under the California Private Attorney General's Act (PAGA). In addition to doing trial work in the state court, Luti has federal appellate and jury trial experience, including first chairing a federal jury trial alleging constitutional rights violations against the City of Los Angeles and members of the Los Angeles Police Department. Luti has also argued numerous times before the California Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit.
Community Involvment
Luti is actively involved in his community, serving as the vice-president of the Association of African-American Attorneys in Downtown Firms (AAADF) in 2003. He also sits on the numerous Boards, including the Board of Directors of the HUEMAN Foundation, an organization dedicated to the empowerment of people of color, and TRUE Magazine, a hip hop magazine focusing on independent and underground artists.
Prior to founding The Luti Law Firm, Luti was associated with Latham & Watkins.
Prior to entering private practice, Luti served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Wiley Y. Daniel in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. This an honor bestowed only upon a few select law school graduates. While at Howard University, Luti published his student note, and served as Executive Publications Editor for the Howard Law Journal. He has also written numerous articles that have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Mondaq.com and TRUE Magazine.
Honors And Awards
- Lifetime Member, The Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Honored Member, Marquis Who's Who in American Law, 2007-2008 EDition
- Honored Member, Strathmore Who's Who, 2005-2006 Edition
- Listed in Los Angeles Magazine and Southern California Super Lawyers as a "Southern California SUPER Lawyer for 2004"
- 1999-2000 Federal Judicial Clerk for the Hon. Wiley Y. Daniel, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Earl A. Davis Advocacy Award, 1998
- Executive Publications Editor, Howard Law Journal, 1998-1999