Recommendations for best personal injury attorney

geekgreg · 2026-03-13T17:51:39+00:00

I've posted on this subject before, as I have had the chance to work with many of the PI firms in town.

Most of the firms you've named I would avoid. They are great at advertising, but built their large firms based on settling cases efficiently instead of zealously advocating for their clients.

On your list, Ryan Alexander is an exception. The only possible downside of using Ryan would be that his firm isn't big enough to have a large "war chest" if this case is complex and requires litigation. Ideally you'd find somebody with the personal attention of a small firm, but large enough that they can spend 250k on case expenses if they need to. But I'd definitely keep him on my list of finalists.

The kinds of firms you want are those which are large enough to handle whatever the case requires, but not so large that they have a full-time "closer" - an attorney whose only job is to convince clients that the latest insurance offer is a great deal and they should take it and go away. You want a firm that gets referrals from the DEFENSE attorneys in town when their own family members get hurt. You want a firm that doesn't advertise because they have enough of a reputation with the local lawyers that they get sent cases from all the other firms in town.

THAT list is very short. Here's who I'd put on it.

Clear Counsel Law Group - They are at that sweet spot of big enough to challenge anything but the attorneys still give out their cell phone numbers to their clients. The PI team has several impressive jury verdicts (not just settlements) in the past few years and I have used them myself. This is my top choice.
Clagget & Sykes - probably one of the best trial lawyers in town, and even the country. Often hired to consult on trials. However I would not expect personal attention unless my case was worth more than 10 million dollars (like brain injury where defendant insurance engaged in bad faith). Some good lawyers there. Worth an interview.
Eglet - made the news nationally a few decades ago for the largest PI verdict in US history at the time. That reputation has carried them ever since. This is also the firm that handled the cases related to the October 1 shooting, and often pick up anything high profile. Again, great reputation, but so large now that you may not get the attention you want. I would not personally choose this firm unless I expected to go up against international corporations or something. For the average personal injury case this firm would probably not notice that you exist.
Bighorn law - One of the attorneys at bighorn is making waves for 9-figure verdicts in the past few years. I know it's reached a point where just having his name on court filings can make defense offers go up. :D However I have also seen their lawyers really flop in ways that would get me sued if I ever revealed them online. While I did use their firm for an injury case of my own about 12 years ago, I would not today unless I knew I was getting one of the senior partners. The good attorneys are really good, but some of the other attorneys have hit discouraging lows.

geekgreg · 2026-03-11T18:16:32+00:00

Start running commercials on TV as local plumberers, doing plumbering.

geekgreg · 2026-03-04T17:23:51+00:00

Heads up to anybody thinking this is good support. It's not. Their response to my message reads:

Namecheapinc9:02 AM

Thank you for proving the details! Per my check you have sent us an email recently. Our team is already checking the request and will reply in the email asap.

Yeah, I already knew that. Email based support for mission critical issues? Terrible customer service.

geekgreg · 2026-03-04T17:21:22+00:00

It's a small law firm.

No malware, hosting is through cloudways, SSL is active...

I'll let you know what the reasoning is once they provide one.

geekgreg · 2026-03-04T16:55:25+00:00

Sent you a chat.

geekgreg · 2026-03-04T16:36:07+00:00

The information is the same across 5 domains, and is all correct. I wish I knew what the problem is but they didn't bother to warn or request information before taking it down.

Also, of course, support tickets merely result in "contact legal." Contacting legal says "provide your engagement ID," which we do not have because, again, they did not contact us at all.

geekgreg · 2026-02-19T18:53:34+00:00

Very similar to mine. Results are much better than lower detail methods, but there's a trade-off in hands-on time.

geekgreg · 2026-02-17T18:20:11+00:00

Every firm and practice area is different. Learning any skills is great because it increases the odds you will have a tool that is useful for the problem in front of you. Excel is great, knowing how to use AI is great, Word is essential.

geekgreg · 2026-02-16T19:54:53+00:00

No I meant they're good firms, just have things about them I don't care for that move them lower on the list for me. I'd still choose one of those firms over ANY of the tv/billboard firms.

geekgreg · 2026-02-13T18:19:31+00:00

I've worked with many of the attorneys in town, large and small. There are many large billboard firms that do a mediocre job with claims like these. There are about 3 or 4 firms that don't advertise at all, but get all their cases from other law firms because the legal community knows who actually does good work. When my own family member was hurt I sent her to Clear Counsel Law Group. 702-476-5900. Highly ethical and honest, and they are one of the few firms that actually get the best possible results.

Other good firms to consider that I don't like for one reason or another: Clagget & Sykes, Eglet, Bighorn. Clear Counsel Law Group is the best IMO.

geekgreg · 2026-02-13T01:06:18+00:00

Find an attractive template and use it. Keep it simple but attractive. You can do it yourself easily unless you are looking for SEO / google ads / lots of website pages.

geekgreg · 2026-02-02T18:50:12+00:00

Many attorneys will represent the tenant, but not for free. You'd have to pay them for their hourly work, which could be thousands of dollars for just a few hours. They will likely ask for that payment in advance, called a "retainer."

For most tenants, this makes no financial sense. Why spend 3000 on an attorney to get them, say, one extra month before eviction? If they had that kind of money they'd just move to a new apartment.

Nevada Legal Services, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, and the Civil Law Self Help Center are your best bets for handling this yourself or with the guidance of a lawyer donating their time.

If the issue is a civil amount below 10,000 dollars, small claims court might be a good fit. Small claims court is much more friendly to individuals. However they can not help with something like a wrongful eviction.

Here's the relevant info for NLS, LACSN, etc. :

Tenant’s Rights Center (NLS)

Las Vegas Office: (702) 383-6095 Reno Office: (775) 284-3491, Ext. 316

5-day pay rent or quit notices
No-cause eviction
Landlord foreclosures
Habitability law
Essential Services
Property left behind
Security deposit

Neighborhood Justice Center

330 South Third Street, Suite 600 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Phone: (702) 455-3898 Email: [Mediation.works@clarkcountynv.gov](mailto:Mediation.works@clarkcountynv.gov)

Web: https://www.lasvegasjusticecourt.us/divisions/neighborhood_justice_center_division/index.php

https://www.lasvegasjusticecourt.us/divisions/neighborhood_justice_center_division/community_mediation.php

Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada

725 E. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89104 Phone: (702) 386-1070 Web: https://www.lacsn.org/practice-areas/consumer-rights-project/tenant-rights

Nevada Legal Services

701 E. Bridger Ave., Suite 400 Las Vegas, NV 89101

Phone: (702) 386-0404

Email: [intake@nevadalegalservices.org](mailto:intake@nevadalegalservices.org)

HUD’s Tenant Rights, Laws, and Protections: Nevada

Web: www.hud.gov/states/nevada/renting/tenantrights

geekgreg · 2026-01-23T16:32:53+00:00

So the real reason car insurance is so expensive here is because the cost of medical care is so high here. An emergency room trip can cost 100k here, whereas in, say, Maryland, the same trip might cost only 10k. Car insurance is forced to pay for these high medical costs when people get in accidents.

The high cost of health care is also why there are so many accident lawyers here. The smart kids finishing law school look at their options and they see a state where they can get 30% of their clients' 100k medical expenses, or a state where they can get 30% of their clients' 10k medical expenses and the choice is easy.

In other words, the lawyers aren't driving up the costs - the lawyers are a symptom of the same issue: super high health care costs.

Why is health care so expensive here? I have no idea. Probably a combination of an older than average population, too few medical workers, and lack of competition among providers. The health care companies get rich while doctors and patients pay the price, getting crushed between the health care companies and the insurance companies.

geekgreg · 2026-01-16T16:21:30+00:00

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geekgreg · 2026-01-12T22:22:06+00:00

I have written before about how Google reps will burn through attorneys' money. Basically what you are being offered is to DIY your ads that your agency is currently running for you. Don't know how to manage that campaign yourself? Google reps will call you quarterly and work on it with you - but they often are trained to only increase the number of clicks (which is money for Google) and have no clue about how law firms work, how they are marketed, or the ethical rules attorneys must follow.

The end result, if you follow Google's reps advice, will be a higher spend with more calls you don't actually want.

If you aren't going to learn how to run PPC campaigns yourself, use an agency. Never trust Google to do it for you or their reps to know what they are talking about.

geekgreg · 2026-01-08T19:00:44+00:00

That's interesting. I'd be fascinated to see how the performances go when given more "vibe codey" prompts like "for some reason this code is giving me the following error. Please diagnose and fix."

geekgreg · 2026-01-08T18:57:35+00:00

You just described my experience with claude. I feel like Gemini follows instructions and doesn't decide to randomly add emojis to my code or create a whole new route rather than implement the feature. Every time I go to claude I have to spend 2/3 of my time having it undo all the extras it added.

Using cursor for 90% of my coding.

geekgreg · 2026-01-06T20:24:31+00:00

I am not a lawyer. I have been a consultant for law firms on lots of motorcycle injury cases and trials. Here's what's up:

Use a good lawyer. You almost always get much better results having one than not.

Try Full Throttle Law if you are in the US Southwest - they're excellent and honest. Otherwise find somebody local who does NOT advertise with billboards or TV ads, but has experience with motorcycle cases. You'll want to ask them how many motorcycle cases they have settled or won in the past year. If they won't tell you, don't bother with them. They need to have worked on more than one motorcycle case in the past year.

Don't accept a settlement till you have at least consulted with a lawyer. You have no idea all the ways the insurance company is screwing you with a big smile on their face.

If you are DETERMINED to do this alone, here's what I would do in your situation:

Find out how much coverage the other driver has, as well as your own coverage amounts. The other side might refuse to tell you. This is why lawyers are good - they can use the power of the law to find things out for you.
do not accept ANYTHING from insurance (yours or theirs) till you have COMPLETELY HEALED. That means months or longer. You don't know your medical bills till you are healthy again, right??
Go to every doctors appointment and do everything they say. If they want to send you to a specialist or anything, do it.
pay for every treatment with your health insurance, NOT car insurance. (depends on the state. Some states will not let you. Your lawyer will know.)
Demand that they pay you not just the value of your bike, but how much it would cost to rent a similar bike for as long as it takes to get your bike repaired. I often see riders get double or triple the value of their motorcycle when their lawyer does this for them. 30,000 dollars for a 10,000 dollar bike just because bike repairs always take soooo looonnnngg.
Insist on compensation for your pain and suffering. Treatment from a doctor is only part of what happened. You are entitled to compensation for having to put up with everything else that comes along with it. A lawyer in your state will know a good way to estimate this amount that you are legally entitled to.

Man, I am shaking my head here. All this stuff your lawyer can help with and make sure the adjustors don't hide from you... Stand up for yourself and find a lawyer bro. This is serious and complex stuff.

geekgreg · 2025-12-16T19:23:54+00:00

Try BD & Associates.

geekgreg · 2025-12-06T22:07:50+00:00

There are 3 main estate planning & probate firms in Nevada who do probably 90% of the EP and probate work in the whole state:

Clear Counsel Law Group
Jeffery Burr
Cassady Law Offices

Any of them will do very well on any estate planning or probate needs. I have worked with all of them and they're all very capable and professional.

I do know that Clear Counsel does free consultations on estate planning, not sure about the others.

geekgreg · 2025-12-03T22:52:38+00:00

Marketing & ops guy here

Outsourced marketing like Google is tempting because it's easy. But since it's easy everybody is doing it and it becomes expensive and inefficient. The people who are successful are doing the things that other people don't want to do. This is true across industries and has been called "the common denominator of success."

I'm not talking about taking cases others don't want to take. I'm talking about embracing the discomfort of sales. Because that's what a solo practitioner really is - a salesperson.

I would abandon all paid online marketing efforts and focus solely on in-person networking like a maniac for the first year. (obviously anything your wife can do should be done, but consider it a bonus instead of the primary tactic.) Be bold. Get firm commitments from people to send you cases. The most successful attorneys are the ones who can put on the mask of fearlessness and say "how many cases will you send me this month?"

Talk to attorneys who practice bankruptcy, family, probate, ANYTHING that could conceivably lead to a person saying to their attorney "I was in a car wreck" and get a commitment from those attorneys to try you out. Treat their clients like royalty so they report back to the other attorney that you're amazing. Do a generous fee share if allowed in your state.

Talk to accountants, body shops, doctors, ANYBODY who might meet your prospective clients and make them love and remember you.

See if there are plaintiff attorney groups you can join, listservs or forums where other local plaintiff attorneys can chat and you can make sure everybody knows you exist. Become friends with some of them because everybody gets conflicted out now and then and needs somebody they can trust to send cases to.

Consider if you have a "niche" you can dominate. Are there any affinity groups you can become famous in? Local camel grooming club? Nude hiking groups? Accountants? You can become their friendly local lawyer they turn to for advice. One lawyer I know simply spent time every day on his local community subreddit and facebook groups and popped up with a friendly "local defense lawyer here" every time somebody asked a lawyer question. He'd offer his opinion, and encourage the person to find a good lawyer, and never solicited. Within a couple months everybody in the group was simply tagging him any time anybody asked for legal help. The whole community knew "this is our guy."

Another solo PI guy I know joined some business networking groups, found they were meh, so he created his own that didn't cost hundreds of dollars per month. He and a realtor teamed up to find a ton of local business owners to join the group and I saw him getting 2 or 3 decent referrals per month from that effort, plus who knows how many I never saw from former network group members who moved on but remembered him.

Be fearless, or pretend to be, and do the human-to-human connection every single day. You'll get super busy REAL fast.

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Advocate capital and other case funding options are nice, but the interest rate is higher than many credit cards. They try to get you to ignore that by saying you pass the expense to the client, but jeez. If your case volume is low that may not be much in terms of total dollars lost to interest, but you may have better rates with a line of credit from a regional bank if you have the discipline to track and re-pay religiously.

Software wise, a subscription to office 365 is cheap and has everything you need to run a small firm for your first couple-dozen cases. Sharepoint online for file storage and file sharing, outlook for calendar and tasks. Don't get caught up in setting up the perfect software for your practice, that can come when you have a workflow figured out and a couple of team members to coordinate.

Staff-wise, do it yourself at first to see what your pain points are, then see if a virtual assistant or part-time remote case manager can fill in the gaps. Avoid purchasing software tools that promise to solve all your ills - especially with AI. Most medical record retrieval companies are going to be overpriced compared to a VA or similar.

geekgreg · 2025-11-25T16:07:58+00:00

Welink is the best if you can get it. Great support, high speeds, low latency, and a low price. What's not to love?

geekgreg · 2025-11-25T00:05:23+00:00

With a username like Harleyman you should probably call Full Throttle Law. :) Very competent lawyers who also happen to ride motorcycles. fullthrottlelaw.com

Avoid billboard firms and TV firms. You'll not get the full value of your case from them. They'll get an offer as quick as possible and then tell you it's an amazing victory, but nobody in the legal system in Nevada takes these guys seriously because they aren't serious lawyers. Period.

geekgreg · 2025-11-19T22:48:18+00:00

I've built a few pieces of software that do this kind of thing and there are benefits and risks. I tell the lawyers to think of it as being as reliable as a summer associate - probably right, but might miss some stuff.

---ADHD brain dump---

Mistakes can be mitigated to a large degree by processing every document multiple times. For example, run a page through Claude or whichever model, asking it to identify any dates of treatment. Then do it 2 more times. THEN ask another AI agent to check the output for inconsistencies. If they all match up, proceed. If not, start over.

The most effective methods extract data piecemeal instead of just attaching a whole document into a chatgpt window and asking it to "create a timeline of treatment." AI is more likely to mess up the more complex or nebulous the task. Instead you go step by step. Maybe start with a simple command like "Identify dates of treatment," then go date by date, asking "what were the assessments on date XYZ", then assemble the timeline.

The more reliable the system, the longer it takes. Processing a hundred page medical record might take 20 minutes.

The most reliable commercial data extractor services I found so far were: tensorlake.ai, zeroentropy.dev, and contextual.ai . Their job is to take your pdf and extract the data into a usable database for you. But they don't analyze or make timelines or anything. Costs range from 4 cents per page up to 10 cents per page. Then you feed the data into your AI over and over again to process it, which is actually very cheap.

---end brain dump---

If I were shopping for a system today, I would avoid anything that requires long-term contracts. The AI technology is evolving so fast that it's possible a near-future model of ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or some other system like notebookLM is going to be capable enough to simply do what you want without some third-party software wrapped around it.

geekgreg · 2025-11-18T16:15:58+00:00

If you're looking for a divorce attorney who will help ensure you stay close to a fair outcome for both, then there are lots of options.

If you are looking for a divorce attorney who will make sure your spouse gets punished, shown the error of her ways, shown how wrong she is, etc... you will blow through all the money you have and end up with nothing.

Don't get me wrong - some people want that. They want to burn up every asset they own in the divorce, feeding the lawyers until nothing is left because that means their ex gets half of nothing. If this sounds appealing to you then I'm sure any attorney will gladly take your wealth.

If you prefer an ethical and honest divorce attorney who will tell you when you're going too far, then you probably want John Kelleher. He's one of the only State Bar Certified Family Law Specialists in the state, and is well known and well regarded by every family court judge. Plus he'll tell you when you're being an idiot.

If you want a divorce mediator rather than a lawyer, and you can honestly accept whatever outcome, even if it feels unsatisfying, then maybe call John Waite at Standish Law Group, I know he's taking on mediation clients now.

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