Portland and Sacramento · Since 2004
We try the cases other firms settle.
- Seventy-four of our cases have gone to a jury.
- The other side knows which firms will do that.
- It is why ours are worth more before we file.
Halloran Vance takes catastrophic injury, wrongful death and defective product cases. You pay nothing unless we recover, and a lawyer reads your case the day it comes in, not a screener.
No fee unless we win. No cost to ask.
Free case review
Three questions.
A lawyer reads it the same day. No fee, no obligation.
Listed, ranked and peer-reviewed by
- The Verdict Review
- Cornice Legal 500
- Western Trial Bar
- Cascade Law Journal
- Meridian Peer Review
- Advocate Quarterly
Listings are editorial and are not a guarantee of any outcome.
The ledger
Twenty-two years, kept in one column.
- Recovered for clients
- $412M
- Cases tried to verdict
- 74
- Lawyers, two offices
- 9
Figures cover 2004 to 2026 and include settlements reached after suit was filed. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
The record
The last eight, in order.
Every case below is one we filed and staffed ourselves. We do not refer files out and then count them, and we do not list a figure we did not sign.
Filed
Exhibit 1| Amount | Matter | Venue | Stage | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14.2M | Truck collision, spinal cord injury | Multnomah County Circuit | Jury verdict | 2025 |
| $8.6M | Wrongful death, unguarded machine | Sacramento County Superior | Settled during trial | 2025 |
| $6.9M | Defective ladder, brain injury | Clackamas County Circuit | Jury verdict | 2024 |
| $5.4M | Rideshare collision, two claimants | Washington County Circuit | Settled after mediation | 2024 |
| $4.1M | Nursing home neglect, pressure injury | Yolo County Superior | Jury verdict | 2023 |
| $3.8M | Crane failure, crush injury | Multnomah County Circuit | Settled during trial | 2023 |
| $2.7M | Rear-end collision, chronic pain | Placer County Superior | Arbitration award | 2022 |
| $2.2M | Dog attack, facial scarring | Clackamas County Circuit | Jury verdict | 2022 |
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case turns on its own facts, its own injuries and its own venue. Amounts are gross recoveries before fees and costs.
What we take
Six kinds of case, and we say no to the rest.
A firm that takes everything tries nothing. If your case is not one of these, we will tell you on the first call and give you the name of someone who does take it.
Catastrophic injury
Spinal, brain, amputation, burns
Injuries that change what the rest of a life costs. These need a life-care plan and an economist before anyone talks about a number, and that work starts in the first month.
Wrongful death
Survivors and the estate
Two claims run at once and they are not the same claim. We handle the probate side as well, so a family is not managing two firms in the worst year of their life.
Truck and vehicle collisions
Commercial carriers, rideshare, uninsured
The carrier's investigator is at the scene the same day. We send ours the day you call, and we send the letter that stops the logs and the dashcam from being overwritten.
Defective products
Machinery, ladders, vehicles, medical devices
The hard part is not the injury, it is proving the design was wrong. That means a testing budget and an expert who has been cross-examined before, both of which we fund.
Workplace and construction
The claim beyond workers' compensation
Comp is capped and it is not against the party that hurt you. On most sites there is a second, larger claim against a contractor, an owner or an equipment supplier.
Nursing home neglect
Falls, pressure injuries, understaffing
Staffing records and internal incident logs decide these cases, and they are the first things to disappear. We ask for them before the facility knows there is a claim.
The year
What actually happens, and when.
Most people who call have never sued anyone. This is the whole sequence, in the order it happens, with the dates we hold ourselves to.
Day 0
You call, or you send the form
A lawyer reads it. Not a call centre, not an intake service that sells the file on. If it is not a case we take, you are told that on the first call and given a name that does.
Day 1
The free case review
Thirty minutes, on the phone or at either office. We tell you what the case looks like, what it is likely worth, what could sink it, and how long it takes.
Week 1
We take the file, and we move
Preservation letters go out the same week. Records, photographs, the vehicle, the scene, the witnesses while they still remember. Costs are ours from here.
Week 6
The demand goes out
The other side gets one clear chance to be reasonable, with the whole file attached. About half of what we take resolves at this step, and those clients pay the lower rate.
Month 4
Suit filed, discovery opens
Depositions, documents, experts on both sides. This is the part that takes the year, and it is also the part that makes an insurer's number move.
Month 14
A trial date exists
Most cases resolve once a real date is on the calendar. The ones that do not, we try, which is the whole reason the earlier numbers were what they were.
Exhibit 2Median from first call to resolution across our last forty files: eleven months. A case that goes to a jury takes closer to two years, and we will say which one yours is before you sign anything.
On the record
What clients said afterwards.
Attributed by matter and venue rather than by name and photograph. These are people who were hurt; the case is the part that is ours to publish.
On the first call they told me what the case was worth and what it would take to get there. Two other firms had signed me up without saying either.
The insurer's offer went from ninety thousand to seven figures the month after they filed. Nothing about my injury changed. Only who was on the other side.
I got a written update every fortnight for eleven months without ever asking for one.
They told me my second case was not worth bringing and explained why. I trusted the first answer more because of it.
My husband died on a Tuesday. Someone from the firm was at the plant on the Thursday, and the machine was still where it had been.
They negotiated the hospital lien down by a hundred and forty thousand at the end. Nobody had told me that was even a thing that happens.
The fee
One number, agreed before we start.
A contingency fee is the only fee we charge. There is no hourly rate, no retainer and no bill if the case does not recover, which also means we only take cases we think will.
- Resolved before suit
33⅓%of the recovery
Most cases with clear liability and an insurer that moves. We send a demand, we negotiate, you approve any figure before it is accepted.
- Investigation, records and experts advanced by the firm
- Demand package and negotiation
- Liens and medical bills negotiated down at the end
- Nothing owed if there is no recovery
- Suit filed
40%of the recovery
Once a complaint is filed the work roughly triples: discovery, depositions, motions, experts and a trial date. The rate steps once, here, and never again.
- Everything above, plus filing and service
- Depositions, discovery motions and expert workup
- Trial preparation and the trial itself
- Appeal handled by our own lawyers, at no further rate
Costs, separately
Case costs (filing fees, records, expert time, deposition transcripts) are advanced by the firm and repaid out of the recovery at the end. If there is no recovery, we absorb them. The last forty files averaged $18,400 in costs.
Exhibit 3Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Free case review
Tell us what happened.
Four fields and a paragraph. A lawyer reads it the same day, and you get a straight answer about whether you have a case, including when you do not.
- Read by a lawyer, not a screener or an intake service
- An answer within one business day, in writing
- No fee, no obligation, and nothing sold to anyone else
Exhibit 4
The call is free and it is with a lawyer.
If you would rather talk than type, this is the number. Ask anything: what your case is worth, how long it takes, whether you even need a lawyer. We will tell you when the answer is no.
Answered by a person, 7am to 9pm Pacific, seven days.
What to bring to a case review
The police or incident report, photographs, the name of every doctor you have seen, and any letter an insurer has sent you.
If you were hurt at work
Workers' compensation is not the whole story. There is often a second claim against someone who is not your employer, and it is usually the larger one.