Thanos Simoudis
Thanos Simoudis co-founded Culver Legal with David Merabi and has been licensed in California since 2017. He is listed on the State Bar's register as an active licensee with no disciplinary or administrative history.
Culver Legal is a general personal injury practice rather than a rideshare specialist — worth knowing when you're comparing it against a firm that takes rideshare work only.
The bar record
Looked up in the public register of the State Bar of California, which — unlike Illinois — publishes each licensee's bar number.
One caveat California states itself. Some administrative suspensions are removed from an attorney's profile page automatically under the State Bar's own removal policy — these are non-disciplinary matters like unpaid licensing fees or unmet continuing education. So "none on record" means nothing is displayed, which is not identical to nothing ever having happened. We report the register as it stands.
The record cross-checks cleanly against everything else we hold: the address, the phone number and the firm name on the State Bar page all match the business listing and the firm's own site. Super Lawyers independently lists his admission year as 2017, matching the register.
Results
This is where we stop and show our working, because Culver Legal's own website makes two claims that can't both be doing the same job.
Same firm, same website. The gap between "millions" and "over $1 billion" is a factor of a thousand.
We're not calling that dishonest, and we don't know which is right. Marketing pages are often written by people who never speak to the lawyers; "$1 billion" may be cumulative across every lawyer's whole career, or a figure someone reached for. What we can say is that no audited source exists for any of it — no regulator collects recovery totals, no one checks them, and a firm can print whatever it likes.
Which is the entire reason this site doesn't put a recovery figure in a statistics box. Give a number that treatment and we're vouching for it. We aren't, because we can't.
Settlements the firm reports
Named on the firm's own pages, presented as its claims and not as verified figures:Reported
- $1,375,000 — motorcycle accident, described as a case where the defendants initially denied negligence
- $2,250,000 — motorcycle accident recovery
- $790,000 — passenger injury settlement
Past results don't predict what happens in your case, and every case turns on its own facts.
Recognition
Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2020 through 2026 — seven consecutive years.Verified Super Lawyers is a Thomson Reuters rating service whose selection is peer-influenced and research-driven; Rising Stars covers lawyers under 40 or in their first ten years of practice. It's a real third-party credential rather than a self-award, though it is a commercial product and firms can pay to upgrade their profiles. We list it because it's independently checkable, and we're telling you what it is.
Background
Simoudis co-founded Culver Legal, LLP with David Merabi.Reported Before that he ran the litigation department of a personal injury firm, and earlier worked in the legal department of Aramco.Reported
He holds an LLB from the University of London (2011) and an LLM from UCLA (2013), and was admitted in California in 2017.Verified He speaks Greek; the firm handles cases in English and Spanish.Reported
Other lawyers named on the firm's pages include David Merabi, Dario C. Gomez, Victoria Manesh, Michael Domingo and Michael B. Huynh. We haven't run bar checks on any of them.
Practice
Super Lawyers lists his practice as civil litigation (plaintiff), personal injury (general and products), and employment and labour (employee side).Verified The firm's own site describes car, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian, slip-and-fall and wrongful death work.Reported
Rideshare is not a stated speciality. Culver Legal appears in rideshare searches and third-party directories list it under rideshare accidents, but the firm's own pages don't single that work out. If the driver-status question matters to your claim — and it usually does — ask directly how often they handle it.
Free case evaluation and a contingency fee, "no fee unless we win", both firm-reported.Reported Confirm before engaging anyone.
Reviews
4.9 average across 388 Google reviews.Verified We confirm a review record exists and is consistent with the firm's location and practice. We don't audit individual reviews and nobody outside Google can.
What we haven't checked
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