Iain Hill
Associate Attorney
Experience & Background
Iain Hill is a litigation attorney who represents individuals and families whose lives have been altered by catastrophic injury, medical neglect, or institutional failure. His practice includes cases involving traumatic brain and spinal-cord injuries, limb loss, and insurance bad faith.
Before joining Doyle Law, Iain practiced complex intellectual-property litigation for corporate clients. That experience built the analytical precision and procedural discipline he now applies to developing liability theories in multifaceted cases involving intersecting governmental and private negligence, regulatory breaches, and systemic safety breakdowns.
Before entering law, Iain spent nearly a decade in emergency and rehabilitative medicine, including service as an EMT and involvement in the spinal-cord rehabilitation program at Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane, Washington. Working directly with patients adapting to permanent injuries gave him a practical understanding of recovery, resilience, and the long-term effects of serious trauma.
Iain’s transition from patent litigation to plaintiff’s trial work was shaped by personal experience. During law school, his younger brother was killed in a helicopter crash—a preventable tragedy driven by cascading corporate and individual negligence. Months later, Iain contracted hepatitis A from contaminated food and was hospitalized with impending liver failure after physicians misrepresented their ability to diagnose and failed to identify the cause. These experiences deepened his commitment to confronting preventable harm and institutional indifference through litigation.
He later volunteered with the Oregon Medical Reserve Corps in 2020, assisting with COVID-19 field testing in underserved communities after his law school closed for pandemic control. Earlier, he interned with the Washoe County Public Defender’s Office in Reno, Nevada, gaining courtroom and motion-practice experience while advocating for indigent defendants.
Admissions
California; Nevada; U.S. District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California, Eastern District of Texas, and District of Nevada; United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Publications
Spin Biochemistry Modulates Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Production by Radio Frequency Magnetic Fields. Usselman, R.J., Hill, I., Singel, D.J., & Martino, C.F. (2014). PLOS ONE, 9(3), e93065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093065
Inhibition of Cellular Proliferation and Enhancement of Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Fibrosarcoma Cell Line by Weak Radio Frequency Magnetic Fields. Castello, P.R., Hill, I., Sivo, F., Portelli, L., Barnes, F., Usselman, R., & Martino, C.F. (2014). Bioelectromagnetics, 35, 598–602. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.21858
Education
- Willamette University College of Law, J.D. (2020)
- University of Nevada, Reno, B.S. in Neuroscience (2012)
Community Involvement
Iain supports environmental and public-health initiatives including Keep Tahoe Blue, which protects Lake Tahoe’s clarity and ecosystem through science and policy advocacy, and Heal the Bay (Santa Monica), a nonprofit dedicated to restoring and preserving coastal water quality across the Los Angeles region.
Personal Life
Outside the courtroom, Iain enjoys all things culture and cooking—especially preparing new dishes for his wife and their overgrown chihuahua, Lucky.