Nicholas M. Hutchinson

Nicholas M. Hutchinson is a founding partner at Johnston & Hutchinson LLP in Los Angeles, California, where he focuses his practice on complex business litigation and catastrophic personal injury. His more than twenty years of trial experience in state and federal courts has produced significant results for individuals and private organizations throughout California, all handled with the discretion and confidentiality his clients trust.

Mr. Hutchinson earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and has been admitted to practice in California since 2002. His work spans complex business disputes, catastrophic personal injury, and insurance bad faith claims, and he has secured numerous seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients.

Among his most notable representations, Mr. Hutchinson has handled hundreds of insurance bad faith claims arising from the Northridge earthquake and has been at the forefront of significant property-casualty litigation against insurance carriers and public utilities — most recently in cases stemming from the 2025 Eaton Fire.

Mr. Hutchinson is an active member of the legal community, participating in the State Bar of California's Solo and Small Firm Section, the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, and the Consumer Attorneys of California.