Your Riverside Personal Injury Attorney
A personal injury claim is a legal request for compensation filed by someone injured due to another party’s negligence or wrongdoing. It covers medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Common claims arise from car accidents, slip-and-falls, medical malpractice, and workplace injuries and are usually handled by plaintiff’s law firms.
Derek Pakiz and Robert Reeves at the Reeves Law Group are highly-acclaimed Riverside personal injury attorneys that specialize in recovering compensation from tragic and devastating personal injury claims.
This plaintiff’s firm has successfully represented thousands of injured clients throughout Riverside and the Inland Empire for over 30 years.
Attorney Derek Pakiz and his team of legal experts have won over $250 million in settlements and jury verdicts. Feel free to browse the latest testimonials on their website from local Riverside residents or research the firm’s reputation on Google.
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Derek Pakiz at the Reeves Law Group has trial-proven experience in car accidents, brain injuries, slip and fall, workplace incidents, pedestrian accidents, wrongful deaths, and drownings – the Reeves Law Group can be your trusted advocate to help you fight for justice during this time of physical pain and emotional anguish.
Derek and his team can competently represent you and help guide you through California’s legal system with confidence. With the firm’s steadfast commitment to every client, you can be assured that your case will be dealt with the utmost care and empathy. You can rely on Reeves Law Group to deliver positive results so you can focus on your recovery and rebuilding your life.
If you or a family member has suffered a personal injury, call now at (800) 644-8000 for a free consultation. They’re available any day of the week to evaluate your case. The diligent and results-oriented team at the Reeves Law Group in Riverside will stop at nothing so you can get the compensation you deserve.
Why Hire The Reeves Law Group
Derek Pakiz at the Reeves Law Group is a multi-awarded personal injury attorney who has been practicing for over three decades. Among his accolades is his recognition as one of Newsweek’s Top 10 Trial Lawyers in the Country. He’s also acknowledged as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers nationwide by the National Trial Lawyers Association. Along with his compassionate service, Derek’s accomplishments highlight the law firm’s commitment to excellence, which has earned the respect of trial judges, his fellow lawyers and clients.
- $250,000,000+ Recovered
- Local and in the Riverside area
- Newsweek’s 10 Best Personal Injury Attorneys
- No Fee Guarantee – No Fees Unless We Win
With an outstanding 98% win rate for all injury cases, the Reeves Law Group’s most notable cases include a $32.5 million sum for a brain injury case, $12 million for a car accident, and $3 million for a slip and fall accident.
Derek and his team are passionate about getting you justice and doing their best to rectify the wrongdoings that caused your injuries. Although we can’t guarantee your lawsuit’s outcome with absolute certainty, we’ll do our best so that your case will be added to the law firm’s hundreds of success stories.
Fees And Charges: The Reeves Law Group operates on a “no fee, unless we win” basis. You only incur fees when we successfully secure just compensation for your injuries. By adhering to a contingency fee model, clients are free from any initial financial commitments.
The law firm also values transparency. You can trust that any fees or charges will be efficiently communicated and clarified to you from the outset, ensuring a clear understanding of our terms of engagement.
The Reeves Law Group
3890 11th St
Riverside
CA 92501
(951) 324-5174
A Review of The Reeves Law Group
I really appreciate how the firm would go above and beyond. Going above and beyond was very evident. Even after the firm had received their fee, our personal injury attorney, Blaise, continued to negotiate our bills down so that me and my husband could achieve maximum recovery.
Allie D. via Yelp
Review Rating: 5 / 5
Date Published: 09-09-2021
What Is Personal Injury Law?
Personal injury law is a part of our legal system that allows individuals involved in accidents to address their problems with other people or companies in court. This way, in a personal injury case, the plaintiff can be compensated for their injuries with the force of the law behind them. Injury attorneys are also known by the broader term “plaintiffs’s lawyers” or “tort lawyers.”
Proving liability and damages in personal injury cases is a matter of establishing certain elements. The word “injuries” does not just mean physical harm or physical pain.
An injury can also mean:
- Diminished quality of life
- Property damage
- Emotional suffering
- Mental anguish
- Loss of future earning capacity
What Type of Personal Injury Cases Do We Handle?
If you have been hurt in an accident, your plaintiff’s lawyer at The Reeves Law Group may be able to help you. While most personal injury claims may be small enough to settle with the insurance company, some personal injury lawsuits could be filed against the responsible party(s) to which our trial lawyer is fully prepared to represent clients in the litigation phase.
Our dedicated law firm has achieved favorable results in personal injury cases involving numerous seriously injured individuals and their families.
Our focus is to obtain compensation for victims of many types of accidents, including vehicle accidents, faulty products, and wrongful death cases that cover future medical bills for more catastrophic injuries. There are also premises liability claims that can be filed against a negligent property owner.
Our experienced team examines every detail of the case with care, engage in negotiations with the liable party’s insurance company, and litigate as needed the case on behalf of the plaintiff. After regaining stability, the focus of the injured person is to rebuild their life. For your insurance claim, our team is committed to helping our clients receive fair compensation for their losses sustained in a serious accident. It starts with a free consultation.
Common Accidents Cases We Have Experience With
An experienced negligence and accident attorney at the Reeves Law Group will be able to advise you about possible compensation after a thorough case evaluation. Below are some accidents we have successfull settlement and trial verdicts for:
Car Accidents
If you suffered an injury caused by an auto accident due to driver error, contact a qualified Riverside car accident lawyer such as our firm immediately. This includes auto accidents caused by Lyft or Uber drivers (click here if you’ve been involved in an Uber accident!). It is important to have a skilled personal injury law firm to successfully handle your car accident case evaluation.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrians are the most vulnerable parties on or near the roads. Unfortunately, it is quite easy for pedestrians to suffer severe injuries caused by a car, truck, motorcycle, or bicycle. That’s where an accident attorney specializing in pedestrian accident cases involving vehicles comes in to help an injured person build a case and seek compensation for damages accrued from the accident from lost wages to future medical treatment.
Wrongful Death
The worst thing that could happen with severe accidents is when a victim suffers fatal injuries. If you have lost a loved one or a family member due to someone else’s negligence, it is possible to file a wrongful death claim in California and get justice and fair settlement from the person responsible.
Other Common Accidents locally
- Riverside Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
- Riverside Truck Accident Attorney Derek Pakiz
- Riverside Slip and Fall Attorney
- Riverside Drowning and Wrongful Death Attorney
For injured victims of accidents, choosing the right legal professional to help your chances of receiving fair compensation is important. You will need to find a trial lawyer with the experience suited to handle a personal injury case involving serious injuries that require medical evaluation should they need to enter the litigation phase.
The law offices of The Reeves Law Group offer a free consultation with our legal team who can help assess your accident and injury, build a case to help you recover damages, and help guide you through the legal process of your claim.
Are My Injuries Someone Else’s Fault?
Personal injury law is a branch of civil law known as “tort law.” In tort law, if someone causes your injury, then they are legally liable. A tort case arises from civil wrongdoing inflicted on a person by someone else or an entity.
The different types of tort cases include:
Negligence
Negligence is a legal concept that forms the basis of a tort case. It is a concept that has a common, everyday meaning as well as a special legal definition. Normally, negligence just means carelessness. The legal definition is different. Negligence means a violation of a duty to take reasonable care. In the United States, everyone has a duty of reasonable care towards other people. That duty varies based on the situation and the parties.
For example, a doctor owes a higher duty to a patient on his operating table than to another doctor’s patient in the waiting room. However, the doctor does owe that waiting patient a duty of reasonable care. If the doctor negligently set the hospital on fire, that would be considered a violation of the doctor’s duty of reasonable care to everyone in that hospital. But, he has to take special precautions to keep his patient safe.
Intentional torts
It makes sense that if someone can be liable for accidentally injuring you, then they can be liable if they injure you on purpose. If someone assaults you, purposefully damages your property, or kills a loved one on purpose, then you have a personal injury claim against them for compensation. Contact a local 909 or 951-based personal injury lawyer if this happens to you or a family member and need representation for this specific case.
Strict liability
In California, there are some injuries that are always a certain person’s fault, no matter how careful they were in trying to prevent that accident. If these injuries happen, someone is strictly liable. For example, if a dog bites someone, then the owner is strictly liable, even if the dog was properly restrained.
Am I Entitled To Compensation After An Injury?
In order for attorneys to prove that you are owed compensation, you have to prove the following four elements:
- The defendant had a duty of reasonable care;
- The defendant breached that duty of reasonable care;
- That breach caused you an injury; and,
- Your injury caused you some kind of loss, otherwise known as “damages.”
In California, there are some cases where attorneys can help you get compensation for your injuries even if you are partially at fault for your injury.
Though an accident attorney will always fight for maximum compensation for their clients, if you are found to be partially at fault, then you may still be able to receive partial compensation.
There are a lot of nuances to personal injury law, which is why it is vital to have an experienced and skilled personal injury lawyer on your side to represent your case if you suffer an accidental injury. Find out if you have a potential case with a free case evaluation
Contact our Riverside Personal Injury LawYers for Your Accident Claim
Derek Pakiz and the Reeves Law Group has extensive experience and expertise in all types of personal injury and catastrophic accidents types and they have obtained substantial compensation for individuals that have been injured across Southern California.
If you are a victim of a major injury or accident and would like to find out how much your case may be worth, contact us or call (951) 324-5174to speak with us today!
[Written by Derek Pakiz. Article updated on March 04, 2025]
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