Practice areas

Find the right review path for a serious California civil matter.

Different problems require different proof. Most first reviews start with four questions: timing, responsibility, harm, and a realistic recovery source.

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Client problem index

Choose the page closest to your facts.

Each page sets out what is at stake, the evidence that helps evaluate it, how the first review tests the matter, and the questions people ask most in that lane.

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

A collision, a fall, an unsafe property, or a preventable death has changed your health, your income, and your family's plans. The other side's insurer started building its version of the story on day one.

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Employment and Workplace Claims

You were fired, demoted, cut back, or pushed out after you raised a problem. The paycheck stopped, and the proof is sitting in an account you may lose access to.

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Civil Rights and Government Accountability

A public agency or a government actor caused harm, and the records that would prove it are held by the same institution you are questioning.

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Consumer Protection and Lemon Law

A vehicle, product, lender, or seller failed, and the company keeps routing you back into the same repair loop or the same phone queue.

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Insurance Bad Faith

You paid the premiums for years. Now the claim is delayed, underpaid, or denied, the repairs are unfinished, and the bills keep arriving.

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Catastrophic Injury

The injury changed what the next thirty years look like. Care, work, housing, and family roles all shifted at once, and decisions are being asked of you now.

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Select Civil Litigation

A business, a partner, or a professional caused serious documented loss, and the other side already has counsel drafting its version of events.

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May fit.

Specific conduct, documented harm, identifiable parties, usable evidence, and a viable recovery path support closer review.

Two paths sit outside this index. Commercial-vehicle collisions follow a separate evidence route because carriers, platforms, and telematics records are involved, and living trust planning is a distinct estate-planning service rather than a case review.

May not fit.

Minor or undocumented harm, no identifiable responsible party, no practical recovery source, or a mismatch with the firm may lead to referral or decline.

Act promptly when a deadline, government entity, disappearing evidence, release, claim notice, or pending agency process may be involved.

What to expect

What the first review actually does.

  1. Conflicts and parties first

    Everyone on every side is identified before a closer review, because a conflict controls whether the firm can look at the matter at all.

  2. A timing screen, not a deadline calculation

    Known dates, notices, and procedural steps are reviewed against your facts. No web page and no first call can promise you a filing date.

  3. A preservation list

    What may disappear first is identified early, including records held by an employer, an insurer, an agency, or a company.

  4. A next step you can act on

    Engagement discussion, a request for specific information, a referral, co-counsel review, or a decline. No acceptance, outcome, or response time is promised.

Frequently asked

Choosing a practice area.

My situation covers more than one of these categories. Which page do I use?

Use the one closest to the harm, or call and describe it plainly. Matters frequently involve more than one lane, and sorting the category is part of the review rather than something you need to solve first.

Does the firm handle every kind of California case?

No. The practice is limited to the areas listed here, and matters are accepted selectively. Possible next steps include referral or decline, but contact alone is not acceptance and no response time is promised.

What makes a matter more likely to fit?

Specific conduct, documented harm, identifiable parties, evidence that still exists, and a realistic recovery source. What is missing matters as much as what is present.

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