Jody C. Moore

Jody Moore has been a lawyer since 1997. She started working elder abuse cases in 1999, the same year Delaney v. Baker became the first published decision to interpret California's Elder Abuse Act. Back then the law was brand new. Nobody really knew yet what it would become. Jody has spent every year since finding out, one case at a time.

She opened her own practice in 2000 and has spent the 25 years since representing families whose parents and grandparents were failed by the people paid to care for them. She's tried some of California's most complex neglect and elder abuse cases, the kind involving chronic understaffing, ignored care plans, and facilities that knew about a problem long before a resident ever got hurt. Her trial work has earned her recognition as Trial Lawyer of the Year in both San Francisco and Ventura County, along with the Ventura County Women Trial Lawyers Legacy Award for her work supporting women in the profession.

A Ventura County native, Jody has watched this area of law grow up almost in step with her own career. She was in the courtroom, or reading the opinions as they came down, while judges and legislators were still figuring out what accountability was supposed to look like for nursing homes and care facilities. That history matters. It means she doesn't just cite the law. She remembers what the law looked like before certain protections existed, and she knows exactly what fights it took to get them.

In May 2026, Jody brought that experience into a new chapter, joining with longtime colleagues Joanna Hutchins and Anne Moore to form Moore Hutchins Moore. Anne trained under Ken Connor, widely regarded as the founding father of elder abuse litigation in the United States. Joanna has spent her entire career in this field as well. Together, the three of them lead a firm built on the same belief Jody started with: every person in a nursing home or care facility deserves to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have their basic needs met. When that doesn't happen, someone has to answer for it.

But two decades in this field taught Jody something else too. Litigation matters, but it usually comes after the harm is already done. She's sat across from too many families who didn't know the warning signs until it was too late, who trusted a facility because it looked clean and the staff seemed friendly, who had no idea what questions to ask or what red flags to watch for.  That's part of why she's just as committed to educating families as she is to representing them in court. That mission is deeply personal, rooted in her own family's experience caring for her grandmother, Ruth, a story that continues to shape every case she takes on. Read Grandma Ruth's Story.

If sharing what Jody's learned over 25 years can help even one family catch a problem early, or choose a safer facility, or know when something is wrong, that's a win long before any lawsuit is filed.

Jody lectures nationally on long-term care litigation and is regarded by her peers as a leading voice on trial strategy, not just in elder abuse but across plaintiff's practice broadly. She lives by a simple rule, the same one she's carried since her first case back in 1999: take every case seriously, treat every client like a person and not a file number, and never stop fighting for the ones who can't fight for themselves.

Pursuing Justice. Protecting the Vulnerable.

Memberships & Awards: 

• California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform — William F. Taylor Memorial Award

• Trial Lawyer of the Year, San Francisco - Trial Lawyers Association

• Trial Lawyer of the Year, Ventura County - Trial Lawyers Association

• Sisterhood of the 8 - Education Chair (2025-present)

• Women Lawyers of Ventura County Legacy Award - 2023 (https://www.wlvc.org/wlvc-awards)

The WLVC Legacy Award is given to a member of the community at large who has significantly contributed to the advancement of the aims and rights of women and girls in society.