Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo

Dale K. Galipo is the founder and principal of The Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo, located in Woodland Hills, California. Originally hailing from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a degree in business administration and earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1984. Over the years, Mr. Galipo has garnered a reputation as one of the nation's leading civil rights attorneys.

Specializing in civil rights cases involving police misconduct, Mr. Galipo has demonstrated exceptional trial skills. By 2004, he was securing seven-figure jury verdicts for victims of excessive force  and restraint. Remarkably, in 2011, he won ten civil rights cases in a single year. In recognition of his work, Mr. Galipo received the Defender of the Constitution Award from the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association in 2012 and was honored with the Martin Luther King Award at the UC Davis School of Law. In 2023, he was named among The Daily Journal’s Top Plaintiff’s Lawyers. Mr. Galipo has also been lead counsel and Co-Counsel in numerous fatal police shooting matters throughout California.

Mr. Galipo has been selected to the Southern California’s Super Lawyers list for eleven consecutive years and is a distinguished member of The Inner Circle of Advocates and a Fellow of The American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year and the CAOC Consumer Attorney of the Year. Over the past twelve years, Mr. Galipo’s cases have resulted in 15 published opinions on civil rights matters, and he has achieved success in 59 jury trials. His efforts have led to over 100 seven-figure verdicts and settlements in civil rights cases alone. Mr. Galipo is widely regarded as one of the top civil rights trial attorneys in the country.