Practice areas: Personal Injury, Products Liability; view more
Licensed in California since: 2016
Education: Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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Monique Alarcon is an attorney and partner in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. She focuses her practice on the firm’s medical device cases, pharmaceutical drug liability, consumer fraud litigation and police misconduct lawsuits. In February 2024, the firm’s leadership elevated Monique to partner. She earned this honor because of her dedication, leadership, and relentless hard work.
She is an integral part of the team suing Merck for Gardasil vaccine injuries and the team suing the manufacturers of ECT-Electroconvulsive Therapy machines for brain injuries. Monique is also an adjunct Professor of Law for Loyola Law School’s Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Team.
Monique has successfully sued the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Burbank Police Department (California) for police misconduct, civil rights violations, assault, battery, unlawful seizure, excessive force and negligence. She also obtained a settlement from the City of Irvine when its former mayor violated one of its citizen’s first amendment rights when she blocked him from posting to her personal Facebook page which she was using as a public forum concerning official mayoral business.
Before joining the firm, Monique worked as an associate attorney for the law office of Carol A. Sobel, where she gained valuable experience representing people in civil rights litigation that addressed police accountability, First Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment due process issues, and class actions for injunctive relief.
Monique served as an extern at Public Counsel’s Children’s Rights Project and clerked for Disability Rights Legal Center while she was attending Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She received her law degree in 2016.
Monique is a member of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles, and regularly volunteers at the NLG-LA’s legal clinics in Skid Row and Venice. She also coaches Loyola Law School’s Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Team and is a board member of the Latina Lawyers Bar Association.
Call Wisner Baum to schedule a free consultation with Monique, she is fluent in both English and Spanish.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - Products: PlaintiffFocus areas
Medical Devices, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Pharmaceutical, Wrongful Death
- 70% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 30% Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2016, California
Professional Webpage: https://www.wisnerbaum.com/attorneys/monique-alarcon/
- California, 2016
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2018
- U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico, 2021
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 2021
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2023
- State Bar of California
- National Lawyers Guild – Los Angeles
- Latina Lawyers Bar Association
- Hispanic National Bar Association
- The American Association for Justice; Leaders Forum
- Consumer Attorneys Association of California
- Elder Law and Disability Rights Center, Former Advisory Board Member
- $1.25 million settlement against the LAPD Peaceful protestor who suffered life-threatening injuries on May 30, 2020 on streets of Los Angeles sued the LAPD for firing a rubber bullet at his head as he stood with his arms raised while walking backward away from police. Plaintiff sued for punitive damages and seven causes of action: Count I: Violation of First Amendment – Free Speech and Assembly Count II: Violation of Fourth Amendment – Unlawful Seizure & Excessive Force Count III: Violation of Fourteenth Amendment – Substantive Due Process Count IV: Violation of Bane Act Count V: Assault Count VI: Battery Count VII: Negligence The Los Angeles Police Department later settled with the plaintiff for $1.25 million. Monique Alarcon was one of the lawyers from Wisner Baum that represented the plaintiff., 2022
- Attorney Monique Alarcon is one of the lawyers that represented a Marine Corps Veteran in his police misconduct lawsuit against the LAPD-Los Angeles Police Department. Her client’s lawsuit alleged that the LAPD’s unlawful crowd-control tactics used during the May 30, 2020 protests, violated his civil rights and caused life-threatening injuries, including a traumatic brain injury. Our client was shot in the head with a bean bag projectile, fired by an LAPD police officer, while he was peacefully protesting ongoing police violence perpetuated against communities of color, particularly Black people, across the United States. Our client had joined other protestors on May 30, 2020, to protest in solidarity with others across the nation to denounce systemic racism and the history of violence against Black lives, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others needlessly killed at the hands of the police. After two years of litigation, we obtained a $1.25 million settlement for our client, the largest to date stemming from the 2020 protests. Nothing in this settlement was construed as an admission of liability by any party, including the LAPD. KNX News Radio interviewed our lawyer, Monique Alarcon, about it. “We’re hopeful that this settlement and all the other litigation that has come about since the summer of 2020 protests will really be the impetus for the LAPD to implement much-needed changes to its flawed policies and inadequate training on less-lethal munitions and crowd-control tactics.”, $1,250,000 Injury Settlement Against the LAPD - KNX News Interview of Baum Hedlund's Monique Alarcon, 2022
- Represents people experiencing homelessness in infraction proceedings
- Coaches law school students who compete in a national moot court competition
- Serves as a board member for the Latina Lawyers Bar Association
- Former Advisory Board member for the Elder Law and Disability Rights Center in Santa Ana, California
- 2022-2024, Selected to: Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Super Lawyers, 2024
- Client Champion Silver Award - Martindale Hubbell, Martindale Hubbell
- Best Lawyers - Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers
- California Power House, Law360 Regional Powerhouse Series, 2021
- University of California, B.A.,in Sociology and Law & Society, 2013
- Scott Moot Court Honors Board, (2015 – 2016), Earned a “Top 10 Brief” Award
- Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic, Drafted and Filed Opening Brief in a § 1983 Civil Rights Appeal, 2015 – 2016
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Speaker, Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School’s Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Team, Legal, 2021
- Client-centered/movement lawyering, Speaker, Client-centered/movement lawyering, UCLA School of Law, Promise Institute for Human Rights Litigation Clinic, Los Angeles, California, Legal, 2021
- Document Requests, Speaker, Document Requests, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Discovery Academy Sessions seven-part series, Los Angeles, California, Legal, 2021
- Representing Protestors, Speaker, Representing Protestors, Loyola Law School, Webinar,, Legal, 2020
- Panelists – Combatting the Criminalization of Unhoused People, Speaker, Panelists – Combatting the Criminalization of Unhoused People, National Lawyers Guild, Continuing Legal Education Training, Legal, 2018
Office location for Monique Alarcon
11111 Santa Monica Blvd
Suite 1750
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: 888-795-5399
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2022 - 2025
