Since our firm was founded in 1972, GJEL Accident Attorneys have won or successfully settled over 99% of our clients’ cases against insurance companies and other defendants.
We are consistently rated as one of the top law firms nationwide by judges and other lawyers. Detailed information about what each distinction means and how we are rated follows below.
AV®-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
(Excerpted from the Martindale-Hubbell website)
AV® Peer Review Rating – An AV® certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment – a testament to the fact that a lawyer or law firm’s peers rank them at the highest level of professional excellence.
For over a century, lawyers have relied on the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory for authoritative information on the worldwide legal profession. The Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review RatingsTM play an integral role in this service to the legal community.
Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings attest to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics, and reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and Judiciary. The legal community respects the accuracy of ratings because it knows that its own members – the people best suited to assess their peers – are directly involved in the process.
Lawyers and consumers need to have confidence in the individual under consideration. Using ratings, they can select counsel with superior ethics, as well as the desired level of professional experience.
Northern California Super Lawyers ®
Only 5% of the total lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.
(Excerpted from SuperLawyers’ Website)
Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Polling, research and selection are performed by Law & Politics, a publication of Key Professional Media, Inc. Law & Politics has been publishing legal magazines since 1990 and Super Lawyers since 1991.
No other legal publisher goes through the unique multi-step process that Super Lawyers employs to find evidence of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Final candidates are segmented according to firm size. Those with the highest point totals from each category are selected. Only 5 percent of the total lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.
GJEL Attorneys Andy Gillin, Ralph Jacobson, Luke Ellis, and Jim Larsen were all named Northern California Super Lawyers in 2008-2009, and Kristin Lucey was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2009.
Best Lawyers in America®
(Excerpted from the Best Lawyers Website)
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For a quarter century, we have helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
Because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be included, a listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For 25 years, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.
GJEL Attorneys Andy Gillin, Ralph Jacobson, Luke Ellis, and Jim Larsen have all been named to Best Lawyers in America.
Frequent Lecturers for California Bar Associations and other Legal Organizations
GJEL Attorneys are frequently asked by our peers to lecture to other lawyers, and we’ve published a number of scholarly articles regarding California personal injury and tort law. California attorneys routinely consult us for our expertise in handling catastrophic injury cases, particularly those involving auto accidents and motorcycle accidents.
Below are just a few of these instances:
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Catastrophic Injury Cases: Handling the First 100 Days, Consumer Attorneys of California
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Civil Litigation, California Continuing Education of the Bar
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Civil Litigation, California State Bar Association Education Institute
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Civil Litigation, California Trial Lawyers Association (now CAOC)
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Civil Litigation, Women Lawyers of Alameda County
- Andy Gillin, Lecturer, Civil Litigation, Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association
- Ralph Jacobson, Author, Uninsured Motorists Cases: Notice of Action
- Ralph Jacobson, Contributing Author, Litigation in the Fast Lane
- Luke Ellis, Lecturer, Trial Practice, California Trial Lawyers Association
- Luke Ellis, “Maximizing Settlements,” Alameda Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association
- Luke Ellis, “Cross-Examination,” San Francisco Bar Association
- Luke Ellis, “The Defective Sulzer Hip Litigation,” Alameda County Superior Courts
- Luke Ellis, ”Handling Products Liability Cases,” Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB)
- Luke Ellis, “Use and Admissibility of Demonstrative Exhibits,” San Francisco Trial Lawyers’ Association
- Luke Ellis, ”Demonstrative Evidence,” California Trial Lawyers Association (now CAOC)
- Luke Ellis, “Opening Statements,” California Trial Lawyers’ Association
- Luke Ellis, “Automobile Cases,” California Trial Lawyers’ Association
- Luke Ellis, “Selected Evidentiary Issues,” California Trial Lawyers’ Association
- Luke Ellis, “Jury Selection,” California Trial Lawyers’ Association
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