Roger Kirnos

Roger Kirnos is the managing partner of Knight Law Group, LLP, the firm behind Centro de Acción Legal. Since 2013 he has litigated consumer claims under the Song-Beverly Act (California's lemon law), the Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) and the Automobile Sales Finance Act (ASFA). He joined Knight Law Group as a partner in 2017 and became managing partner in 2022.

He has taken more than 30 consumer protection cases to verdict and was part of the trial team that won a record verdict of more than $8 million against Ford Motor Company. Three of those verdicts ranked among the top 50 in California in the year they were returned, according to TopVerdict. He has also briefed more than 20 appeals and served as lead counsel in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and state coordinated proceedings (JCCP).

He graduated cum laude from Southwestern University School of Law, in the top 10% of his class, and served as a judicial extern to then-Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and to Judge F. Gary Klausner of the Central District of California. He is a frequent presenter for the National Association of Consumer Advocates on auto fraud and damages, and sits on the PAC board of Consumer Attorneys of California.