The cases we take.
The cases we win.

Slip, Trip & Fall

Property owners owe you a safe walk — not a hospital bill.

A wet grocery aisle with no sign. A broken stair at an apartment complex. An unlit parking lot in a Roseville strip mall. California premises liability law requires property owners to inspect, warn, and fix — and when they cut corners, the people who pay are the customers, tenants, and visitors they invited in. We move quickly to lock in surveillance footage and incident reports before they're overwritten or "lost."

• Grocery, retail, and restaurant falls
• Apartment & HOA common-area injuries
• Hotel, casino, and parking-lot incidents
• Stairway, handrail, and elevator failures

Medical & Dental Malpractice

When the people you trusted with your body cause the harm.

Med-mal and dental cases are different — different rules, different deadlines (MICRA notice, statutes of limitation that can run in as little as one year), different experts, different defense playbooks. Joe spent years on the defense side of these exact cases and knows how hospitals, insurers, and dental groups build their files. We use that against them.

Typical cases include surgical errors, anesthesia complications, missed or delayed diagnosis (especially cancer and stroke), medication and dosing errors, birth injuries, nursing-home neglect, infections from improper sterilization, and dental nerve and implant injuries.

• Surgical and anesthesia errors
• Missed or delayed diagnosis (cancer, stroke, cardiac)
• Birth injuries to mother or child
• Dental nerve damage, failed implants, sedation errors
• Nursing home and elder-care neglect
• Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs)

Dog Bites & Animal Attacks

California is a strict-liability state. The owner is on the hook — even for a 'first bite.'

Under California Civil Code § 3342, a dog owner is liable for bite injuries the moment the bite happens — no excuses about the dog "never doing that before." We pursue homeowner's and renter's policies for medical bills, scarring, plastic-surgery costs, lost wages, and the long psychological toll, especially on children.

• Dog bites and maulings (strict liability)
• Scarring and reconstructive surgery claims
• Bites to children and elderly victims
• Horse, livestock, and other animal injuries

Workplace Accidents

Workers' comp is not the whole story. There is almost always a third party.

Workers' compensation in California is no-fault but limited. What most injured workers don't realize: if anyone other than your direct employer contributed to the injury — a defective tool, a subcontractor on the jobsite, a driver who hit your work truck, a property owner — you have a separate "third-party" personal injury claim that can recover the full value of pain, suffering, and future losses comp will never pay.

We work with workers' comp counsel to make sure your benefits keep flowing while we pursue the full-value civil claim.

• Construction and trade injuries
• Defective tools and machinery (product liability)
• Warehouse, forklift, and loading-dock incidents
• Driving-for-work crashes
• Falls from heights, scaffolding, and ladders

Other Claims

Ski accidents. Government claims. Property disputes. The cases other firms turn away.

Some cases need a lawyer who knows Northern California specifically — the ski resorts in Tahoe and the unique waiver law that comes with them, the strict six-month deadlines for tort claims against cities and counties (Govt. Code § 911.2), the property-line and easement disputes that come with mountain and rural land. Joe takes the cases that don't fit a billboard ad.

• Ski and snowboard injuries (Tahoe / Sierra resorts)
• Government tort claims (cities, counties, agencies)
• Property line, easement, and nuisance disputes
• Boating and recreational injuries