Vantry & Hale has carried 1,847 California injury and employment matters through to resolution, and $2.1 billion back to the people who earned it. Insurers keep a list of the firms that will actually pick a jury. We have been on it since 1998.
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Most firms will quietly take the first offer an adjuster puts on the table. We build every file as though a jury in Los Angeles will read it out loud, because roughly one in sixteen of them does.
Every figure below is a real matter handled by our trial team. Past results do not guarantee a future outcome, but they do tell you who we are.
$47.2M
Jury verdict for fourteen refinery workers burned in a 2021 hydrocarbon release. The operator had offered $3.1 million across all plaintiffs. We refused and tried it for nine weeks.
$18.6M
Traumatic brain injury, rideshare collision, Oakland
$12.9M
Whistleblower retaliation against a semiconductor employer
$2.1B
Recovered for California clients since the firm opened its Los Angeles office in 1998.
$9.4M
Confidential settlement on the eve of trial for a defective spinal implant that required three revision surgeries.
$6.1M
Wrongful death, commercial trucking, Riverside County
Spinal cord, burn, amputation and traumatic brain injury claims. We retain life-care planners and economists in the first thirty days, not the last thirty.
Lead: Elena Hale · 22 years
Commercial trucking, construction site and premises fatalities. One partner handles the family from intake to verdict, and takes their calls personally.
Lead: Marcus Vantry · 28 years
FEHA discrimination, Labor Code 1102.5 whistleblower claims, wage-and-hour class actions. Filed against employers from Fresno packing houses to Palo Alto boardrooms.
Lead: Priya Raghunathan · 14 years
Defective medical devices, industrial equipment and vehicle systems. We fund our own engineering experts rather than waiting for a plaintiffs' steering committee.
Lead: Desmond Okafor · 16 years
Thirty-one published opinions in the California Courts of Appeal. We also take appeals from verdicts other firms won and are now at risk of losing.
Lead: Julian Boyd · 9 years
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Not a call centre and not a settlement mill. Every matter at Vantry & Hale is assigned to one named partner on day one, and that partner is the person who tries it if it goes to a jury.
80
years of combined practice
3
California offices
FOUNDING PARTNER · 28 YEARS
Former Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County. Has tried 63 cases to verdict, including the firm's $47.2M refinery result.
MANAGING PARTNER · 22 YEARS
Certified Legal Specialist in personal injury, State Bar of California. Named to Northern California Super Lawyers every year since 2014.
PARTNER · 16 YEARS
Mechanical engineer before he was a lawyer. Leads the firm's product liability group and deposes defence experts in their own language.
PARTNER · 14 YEARS
Built the employment practice from a single file to 240 active matters. Secured the firm's $12.9M Santa Clara whistleblower verdict in 2023.
Call us and one of the four named partners reviews your matter within twenty-four hours. If we are not the right firm for it, we will tell you that on the first call and point you somewhere better. There is no charge for any of this.
Preservation letters go out the same week. Our investigators photograph the scene, pull vehicle telematics and secure witness statements while memories are still fresh. Insurers count on delay. We remove it as a strategy.
Experts retained, damages modelled, complaint drafted. By the time a demand reaches the carrier, they are looking at a package that is ready for a courtroom. That is the single reason our settlement numbers look different.
Contingency, always. No hourly billing, no retainer, no costs advanced by you at any stage of the case.
Three firms told me the case was worth about eighty thousand dollars. Marcus read the file over a weekend, called me on Sunday night, and said he thought a jury would see it very differently. Fourteen months later they did.
Ramona Delgado
Bakersfield · refinery burn claim · 2023
A partner reviews every submission personally, usually the same day. The consultation is free, the conversation is confidential, and there is no obligation of any kind.
No fee unless we win. Costs are advanced by the firm, never by you.
Answered within one business day, and inside two hours for injuries in the last 72 hours.
Statutes run quickly in California. Most injury claims expire two years from the date of harm.
Choose a slot that suits you and it goes onto a partner's calendar there and then. No intake queue, no waiting on a call back.
Twenty minutes with a named partner, not an intake screener.
Phone or video, your choice. A meeting link arrives with the confirmation.
Free, and under no obligation — the same terms as the written case review.
Twenty minutes,
at a time you choose.
The calendar shows live availability across all four partners. Pick a slot and the invitation reaches you straight away.
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Nothing on the calendar works for you? We answer the phone around the clock, weekends included.
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