Eugene P. Ramirez is a Founding Partner in the Los Angeles office of Manning Kass. He is the leader of the Constitutional Policing and Governmental Entity Liability teams, and a member of the Military and Veterans Law team.

Mr. Ramirez graduated from Whittier College School of Law, where he was Notes & Comments Editor of the Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Honors Board and President of the Student Bar Association. At Whittier, he received an award as the Best Oral Advocate and the Outstanding Moot Court Graduate Award. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach, where he minored in both Criminal Justice & Public Policy.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Ramirez worked as a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, where he conducted numerous misdemeanor and felony jury trials, including murder trials. He has also worked as a reserve police officer for the Whittier Police Department and the Monterey Park Police Department.

Mr. Ramirez serves as an advisor to several public entities on the issues of use of force, canine and SWAT issues, supervisor liability, and policies and procedures. He has provided training to thousands of police officers and supervisors, from around the country and Canada, over the past 30 years, and he is an instructor on liability issues for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Basic SWAT School. Mr. Ramirez is the former General Counsel for the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO), an instructor for the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA), and is currently the General Counsel for the United States Police Canine Association (USPCA). He was a member of the State Attorney General’s Blue Ribbon SWAT Committee, and he was a member of POST’s Executive Advisory Committee for SWAT Teams. He was a member of the LAPD Board of Inquiry, which examined LAPD SWAT operations. He is an approved California POST instructor, and he is currently an Adjunct Instructor at the Rio Hondo Police Academy where he teaches in the FTO School, the New Supervisor School and at the Basic Academy.

Mr. Ramirez has been profiled in the California Lawyer Magazine for his work in defending law enforcement and has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS). He has also been named as a 2005-2011 and 2014-2017 Super Lawyer for Southern California. This award only goes to the top 5% of attorneys in the Los Angeles/Orange County Bar. He was named to the distinguished American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an award only bestowed upon proven trial attorneys. He is also an Associate Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America.

Mr. Ramirez was selected as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department’s Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1993 and 2006, by two different Sheriffs. He was selected as the 2009 Alumni Attorney of the Year for Whittier School of Law, and he has been selected twice as one of the Top 25 Municipal Attorneys in California by the Daily Journal. He has been awarded Certificates of Appreciation from the United States Army Special Operations Command (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) and from the United States Secret Service.