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bamieherickson
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Bio
In 1993, Ron joined the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office and became the youngest attorney ever promoted to Senior Deputy District Attorney. Ron was awarded the Prosecutor of the Year Award in 1996 and 2000. During his career at the District Attorney’s Office, he tried over eighty cases to verdict, earning the reputation of having never lost a felony case as a prosecutor. Ron handled some of Ventura County’s most complex and high profile criminal cases as a prosecutor in the Major Crimes Unit. From 1997 through 2001, Ron and his team of investigators, solved and prosecuted four unsolved murders in Ventura County. In the process, Ron helped end the reign of terror of one of Ventura’s most violent street gangs, convicting over twenty members of serious and violent felonies. In 2002, Ron was featured on Dateline NBC for his innovative use of wiretaps and informants in both prosecuting a violent skinhead gang and solving old murder cases.
In December 2002, Ron founded Bamieh & Erickson with his good friend, Philip Erickson (1959-2005). Under Ron’s leadership, Bamieh & Erickson represents people injured in accidents, due to sexual abuse, or in civil rights actions, in addition the firm represents businesses in a variety of civil matters, including contract disputes and civil defense cases. The firm maintains a thriving criminal law practice, and also handles family law cases. Bamieh & Erickson, PLC has grown every year since its inception and now has over ten employees. The firm represents interests in some of Ventura and Santa Barbara County’s most high profile cases. In 2006, Bamieh and Erickson, PLC purchased a historic building in downtown Ventura, which has housed the firm since the summer of 2007. In 2003, the Pacific Coast Business Times named Ron one of the “40 Under 40 Top Businessmen in Ventura County.” Ron received the “Positive Image for Action in the Community Award” from Baseballers Against Drugs in 2004. Bamieh & Erickson, PLC was awarded “Small Business of the Year” in 2006 by the Ventura Chamber of Commerce. In 2008, Ron was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow Award by Downtown Ventura Rotary Club for his tangible and significant assistance to furthering friendly relations among the nations. In 2009, Bamieh & Erickson, PLC was given a Circle of Excellence Award in recognition of the firm’s achievement of attaining “The Best of the Best” in small law firm business.
In 2011, the Ventura County Criminal Bar Association awarded Ron the Richard Erwin Award as Ventura County Defense Attorney of the Year. The award symbolizes excellence in advocacy and a dedication to clients. Ron is now the only individual in Ventura County history to be named both Prosecutor of the Year (1996, 2000) and Defense Attorney of the Year (2011).
Ron consistently remains active in his community. He has taught law as a professor at the Ventura College of Law; teaching Advanced Evidence and Criminal Procedure. Ron volunteers his time at La Reina High School coaching his daughter’s mock trial team. Over the last three years Ron has coached La Reina Mock Trial they have won 3 Ventura County Championships, 3 California State Championships (first time in history of State Competition one school has won in 3 consecutive years), two Empire World High School Mock Trial Championships in New York, and they finished second in the country at the National Championships in Indiana in 2013. He was a board member of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, he was on the Board of the Rubicon Theater, and he is actively involved in Downtown Rotary and the Ventura Chamber of Commerce. Ron is also a key fundraiser for the Children’s Cancer and Blood Disease Program and Resource Library at the Ventura County Hospital.
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