DO YOU AND YOUR CASE MEET BILL TURLEY'S STRICT CASE ACCEPTANCE RULES?

Case acceptance "Rules"

We realize almost all law firms (99 %) will take just about any case. We are different. We only take cases that we believe in. We are extremely selective. Why? The short answer - - because we want you to have the best representation possible. This is the way we chose to practice law. The long answer - - we have Case Acceptance Rules that are highly selective:

Case acceptance Rule #1: You have to be a good, straightforward person.

Savvy trial attorneys know the most important part of any case are the people in the lawsuit. So it’s simple. We only take cases where the clients are good, straightforward folks. Not to suggest that there can’t be issues and problems. Every case and everyone has issues and problems that need to be addressed. We know all of that. But it’s about heart.

It’s simple. We only take cases if the folks involved are good people. People ask all the time, “Bill, why do you have this ‘good people’ requirement?”

First, these are the type of people that juries are going to like and identify with. Let me explain. When you are injured and bring a lawsuit, jurors think both you and your lawyer are lying before you even walk into court. Every time. Because everyone on the jury thinks you and your lawyer are lying, you better be honest with them. You are asking these people to award you money. Do you suppose these 12 strangers on your jury that come into the trial thinking you are lying are going to give you any money if it turns out, they were right all along; you really are lying? It’s only human nature. You lie to someone; they are going to burn you. Depend on it.

Second, every time we walk into court we are putting our credibility on the line. You can take this to the bank: we are not going to tell the judge and jury anything we don’t know to be true.

Third, we will be spending a lot of time together working on the case. We want to work with people that we enjoy being around. Life is too short. Some people are liars, cheats, thugs, and the like - - we don’t need to be around these people.

All that being said, every case has its own issues, contentions, etc. We know bad things happen to good people. Truth be known, we are a sucker for a sad story. If you can move us, we figure you can move a jury also.

Case acceptance Rule # 2: We only accept serious injury cases and wrongful death cases.

We don’t handle soft tissue cases, sore-neck cases, emotional distress cases, and solely property damage cases. Generally speaking, if you don’t have significant economic damages (damages that you can document - such as medical bills, or wage loss); then we probably will not accept the case. While there may be exceptions to that rule (such a in a wrongful death case of a child or a homemaker without an earnings history). Remember, jurors start the case thinking your case is bogus. You have to prove otherwise. And it is a lot easier to prove a case is legitimate if there are significant damages and injuries.

Why? The insurance companies have waged war on the hearts and minds of prospective jurors. The insurance companies have tried to convince people that personal injury lawsuits are bad and people don’t deserve money compensation for damages. They try and sell “jack-pot justice.” Serious injuries, understandably, help folks put this nonsense aside.

Also, lawsuits are very expensive. You have to have significant injuries to justify the costs of proving your case in court.

Case acceptance Rule # 3: We have to be able to prove liability.

Some folks think that just because they get seriously hurt, they are going to be able to recover money for their injuries. And, apparently some attorneys hope the same thing. Truth is, you are only going to be able to recover money damages if you are able to prove that someone else is legally responsible for your injuries.

Trials are won with persuasive admissible evidence. If the evidence is deemed inadmissible, it doesn’t matter how “truthful” it is. And you can expect the court to admit evidence that is far from “truthful.” That is why trials are not about truth. Because if they were really about truth, the law wouldn’t allow defendants to parade fraudulent defense after fraudulent defense in front of juries.

That being said, few lawyers know how to prove liability. We have won many cases that other lawyers turned down. We try and stick to the practice areas that we specialize. Because of this, we are more attuned to what facts and evidence will support a finding of legal liability. So, if you meet our other case acceptance criteria, don’t think that, just because some other lawyers turned down your case, we will. We judge each case on our criteria.

Case acceptance Rule # 4: There has to be a way to collect money damages at the end of the case.

Look folks, lawsuits are really expensive. They take a huge emotional toll on everyone involved. Anybody that tells you different is not being honest with you. The last thing you need and want is to go through the rigors of a lawsuit only to find out at the end that you can’t collect any money. So it’s simple, there has to be a way to collect damages at the end of the case. Usually that means insurance, a corporation or collectable assets.

That being said, we have found insurance and strategies to prevail on cases that other lawyers told the client that there was no way to collect at the end of the case.

Case acceptance Rule #5: We don’t take frivolous cases.

Please understand we use our own standard for this. What does that mean? Just because you may be entitled to money damages under the law and even if the law says you may have a valid case, we will not take the case if we feel, “You should not win the case.” In other words, your case must be “the right thing to do.” This is our standard, not the law’s standard. But, it is who we are. We are not going to tell a Judge or a Jury that you should win your case unless we really believe that you should win.

Just because you meet all the Case Acceptance Rules doesn't mean we will accept your case

These Case Acceptance Rules are our minimum standards for acceptance of personal injury/ death cases. Even if you meet these Case Acceptance Rules, we may not accept your case. This may not be a reflection on you or your case. We chose to practice law differently. Our "business model" is to only accept a small number of cases. This is so we can provide you the same outstanding representation as our clients are accustomed.

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The Turley Law Firm has a “State-wide” practice and accepts cases in the following California counties: Alameda County, Alpine County, Amador County, Butte County, Calaveras County, Colusa County, Contra Costa County, Del Norte County, El Dorado County, Fresno County, Glenn County, Humboldt County, Imperial County, Inyo County, Kern County, Kings County, Lake County, Lassen County, Los Angeles County, Madera County, Marin County, Mariposa County, Mendocino County, Merced County, Modoc County, Mono County, Monterey County, Napa County, Nevada County, Orange County, Placer County, Plumas County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Benito County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, San Francisco County, San Joaquin County, San Luis Obispo County, San Mateo County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, Solano County, Sonoma County, Stanislaus County, Sutter County, Tehama County, Trinity County, Tulare County, Tuolumne County, Ventura County, Yolo County, Yuba County. The Turley Law Firm accepts cases in the following California cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Long Beach, Sacramento, Oakland, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Riverside, Stockton, Chula Vista, Fremont, Irvine, Modesto, Glendale, San Bernardino, Huntington Beach, Oxnard, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Oceanside, Rancho Cucamonga, Santa Clarita, Garden Grove, Ontario, Pomona, Santa Rosa, Salinas, Palmdale, Hayward, Pasadena, Torrance, Corona, Lancaster, Escondido, Orange, Elk Grove, Sunnyvale, Fullerton, Thousand Oaks, El Monte, Simi Valley, Concord, Visalia, Vallejo, Inglewood, and Santa Clara.

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