Free Case Review
Tell us what happened.
A free case review with an attorney, not an intake screener. Nothing up front, and no fee unless we win.
Or call, which is faster
(626) 555-0130Seven days a week. An attorney takes the call, not a screening service, and there is no charge whether or not you hire us.
- Trial lawyers since 2009, 40 jury trials
- 5.0 across 120 Google reviews
- No fee unless we win
- Free case review within 24 hours
- Se habla espanol
Bring whatever you already have: the police report number, the adjuster's name, photographs from the scene. If you have none of it, call anyway. Gathering it is our job.
The Deadline
There is a clock, and it started the day you were hurt.
2 years
Most injury claims
From the date you were hurt, for a claim against a private person or business. Miss it and the claim is gone whatever its merits were.
6 months
Against a public entity
A city, a county, a transit agency, or a school district. The claim has to be presented to the entity itself first, and six months is the usual window.
1 year
Medical negligence
One year from when you discovered the injury, and no more than three from when it happened, whichever arrives first.
Those are the general California periods and they are not the whole law. Exceptions shorten some of them and extend others, and which one governs your case is a question for the call rather than for a web page. Nothing here is legal advice.
Before the first meeting
Bring what you have. Not having it is not a problem.
- The report
- The police report or the incident number, if one was taken. The number alone is enough for us to pull the rest.
- Photographs
- The scene, the vehicle, the injury, straight off your phone. Dated by the phone itself, which is why they are worth more than a description.
- Anything the insurer sent
- Especially a letter asking for a recorded statement or a signed medical release. Call before you sign either one.
- Who treated you
- Names of the hospital, the urgent care, the physical therapist, and the dates as close as you remember them.
- Or nothing at all
- If that is where you are, come anyway. Gathering the file is the job you are hiring us to do.
The Fee
No fee unless we win, and here is what that sentence means.
- What the review costs
- Nothing, whether or not you hire us, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
- What representation costs
- Our fee is a share of the recovery and it comes out of the recovery. If there is no recovery there is no fee.
- The share, in numbers
- Thirty three and a third percent if the case settles before a lawsuit is filed, forty percent after. That is the whole schedule, and it goes in the written agreement before we start.
- Case costs
- Filing fees, records, experts and depositions are advanced by the firm. They are repaid out of the recovery, and they are itemised for you at the end rather than bundled into the fee.
- What you pay out of pocket
- Nothing, at any point, whatever happens with the case.
You get the fee agreement in writing before any work starts, and nobody at this firm will ask you to sign it in the first conversation.
What Happens Next
Three things, and the first one happens today.
I
We call you back
Same day if it arrives before the evening, and inside one business day at the outside. Weekends included, because that is when most collisions happen.
II
A partner reads the file
Not an intake screener working from a script. If we are not the right firm we say so on that call and tell you who is.
III
We tell you the deadline
Before anything is signed, you leave the conversation knowing which clock is running on your case and how much of it is left.
If you would rather talk
An attorney takes the call, not a screening service.
Seven days a week, including evenings.