About Ardmore & Vance
Two trial lawyers, and the files they build.
A two-partner trial firm representing people hurt by carelessness across Los Angeles County, from the first call through verdict.
- Established
- 2009, Pasadena
- Practice
- Plaintiff injury and wrongful death, exclusively
- Partners
- Two, and both try cases
- Fee
- Contingency. Nothing up front, ever
Our approach
Two trial lawyers. No hand-offs.
You will speak to the attorney handling your case, not to an intake service that passes you along. That is the whole reason this firm is two lawyers and not twenty.
We build every file as though a jury will read it, because insurers pay differently when they can see what trial would look like. Most cases still settle. They settle for more.
Preparation is the whole argument.
Talk to an attorney before you talk to the adjuster.
How We Practise
Three commitments, and they are the whole of it.
No hand-offs
The attorney you meet is the attorney on your case. Nothing is passed to an intake service after you sign, and nobody at this firm will ask you to tell the story twice.
Prepared for trial
Records, experts, and a filed case where filing helps. Insurers pay differently when they can see what a trial would look like, which is why most of our cases settle and settle for more.
Nothing up front
Our fee comes out of the recovery, and only if we win. Case costs are advanced by the firm rather than billed to you while you are out of work.
Since 2009
$12M+
Recovered for clients since 2009, across settlements, arbitration awards, and jury verdicts.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different.
The Partners
Who will actually be on your case.
Founding Partner
Daniel Ardmore
Former defense counsel for the carriers he now takes to verdict. He spent nine years learning how a claim gets valued from the inside, and he has spent the seventeen since using it.
JD, Loyola Law School. California Bar 2001. Super Lawyers 2024, ABOTA member.
Partner
Maya Vance
Lead counsel on the firm's largest verdict. She tries the cases other firms in the county refer out, and she takes the first meeting in whichever language the family is most comfortable speaking.
JD, USC Gould School of Law. California Bar 2007. Top 40 Under 40, Trial.
Litigation Associate
Colin Reyes
Handles discovery and keeps the file trial-ready from week one, which is why the firm rarely asks for a continuance.
JD, UC Irvine School of Law. California Bar 2019.
Senior Paralegal
Grace Ibarra
Nineteen years in plaintiff injury practice. She returns calls the same day, every time, and clients name her in reviews more often than they name the lawyers.
The firm appears in Los Angeles Superior Court, California Court of Appeal, U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal., Ninth Circuit.
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