Know where you stand.
Most people hurt in California never find out whether they had a claim worth bringing. Tell us what happened and we will tell you honestly — including if the answer is that you do not need a lawyer.
- No fee unless there is a recovery, and nothing up front
- Free case review, and we answer seven days a week
- Offices in Newport Beach and Orange, serving California
- We will come to you, including in the hospital
The complaint is never that the lawyer was not aggressive
Read what injured people actually say about this profession. One reports a single letter in four years. Another, three different paralegals and no contact unless they called. Another, five years and a dozen witnesses and still nothing resolved.
Not one of them says their lawyer was insufficiently fierce. The failure is always the same one: nobody told them what was happening. That is the problem this firm is built around, and it is why this site explains the things most firms make you phone to ask.
You will know who has your case
And you will be able to reach them. If you leave a message you get a call back, not a form letter in week nine.
You will hear the bad news first
If the available insurance will not cover your losses, or liability is a real problem, you are told at the start rather than at the end.
We cite the law we rely on
Every legal statement on this site names its code section, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
We will say if you do not need us
A small claim with clear liability and a full recovery is often better handled yourself. We will explain how.
Work something out right now
These run entirely in your browser. Nobody else in this market has built the first one, and it is the thing most people actually need.
Check your deadline
Two years, or six months if a government entity is involved. Enter the date and what happened, and it shows the deadline with the code section it relied on.
Open the checkerTotal your documented losses
Adds up bills, wages, mileage and out-of-pocket costs. It deliberately refuses to multiply anything or guess at a case value, because nobody can do that honestly.
Open the worksheetWork out lost earnings
Hourly, salaried or self-employed, including the paid leave you were forced to burn — which counts and is almost always left out.
Open the calculatorPractice areas
Car accidents
The ordinary crash claim, and the handful of facts that actually decide what it is worth.
Read moreMotorcycle accidents
Riders start every claim with a credibility problem. Here is how it is dismantled.
Read moreTruck accidents
Federal rules, company records and an evidence clock that starts ticking immediately.
Read morePedestrian accidents
Right of way is more complicated than people think, and the injuries are rarely minor.
Read moreSlip and fall
The most mocked claim in the category, and the most commonly under-treated.
Read moreWrongful death
Who may bring it, what the law allows, and the 2026 change that most sites still get wrong.
Read moreWhat actually happens, and roughly when
- Same day
You call, or leave a number
A conversation about what happened. No charge, no obligation, nothing to sign on that call.
- First two weeks
We preserve what is about to vanish
Camera footage overwrites in days. Commercial records run on retention schedules. This is the genuinely urgent part of any case.
- Months 1–12
You treat, we build
Nothing is demanded while you are still getting better, because nobody yet knows what the injury is. You get updates whether or not anything changed.
- After you plateau
Demand, negotiate, resolve
Most claims end here. If the gap is worth filing suit over, that is a decision you make with honest advice about what it costs.
Guides that cite the statute
Sixteen guides on the things people actually search for at 11pm: what the adjuster is doing, what comes out of a settlement, what a deposition is like, and the six-month deadline that ends more good claims than anything else in California law.
The injury library
Fifteen pages on what is actually wrong with you — brain injury, discs, rotator cuff, CRPS, scarring — written to help you read your own medical records and understand what an insurer will argue about them.
Southern California
Offices in Newport Beach and Orange. These pages name the courthouse your case would actually be heard in, the agency that writes the report, and the local conditions behind the collisions we see.
Orange County
Our home county. Both offices are here and civil cases are heard in Santa Ana.
See citiesLos Angeles County
The largest civil court system in the state, and one that recently changed how injury cases are assigned.
See citiesInland Empire
Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where freight and warehouse work dominate.
See citiesSan Diego County
Where military, federal and cross-border issues change who can be sued and under which rules.
See citiesFind out where you stand.
Tell us what happened and we will tell you honestly whether you have a claim worth bringing, what it is likely to involve, and how long it tends to take. The review is free and there is no fee unless there is a recovery.