San Francisco Personal Injury Lawyer
We are a San Francisco personal injury law firm with a staffed office on 3rd Street and the resources of three additional offices behind it, which matters because an injury claim gets settled cheaply when the firm handling it cannot afford to litigate.
You need someone who will answer the phone and who has the depth to take the case the distance. Both, not one.
Our San Francisco Office
95 3rd Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 888-5111
This is a working office with our own attorneys and staff, not a mail drop or a shared suite rented to put a city name on a website. If you were injured in San Francisco, your case is handled here, and you can come in and sit down with the people working on it.
Results We Have Recovered for Injured Clients
$1,600,000
Disputed auto versus truck collision
$750,000
Bicycle versus truck, liability denied, settled after litigation
$650,000
Rideshare accident
$225,000
Slip and fall, liability denied, paid after litigation
Notice how many of those involved a defendant who refused to accept fault. That is the pattern that matters when you are choosing a firm, because an insurer that disputes liability is betting your lawyer will discount the claim rather than file. Our complete case results are worth reading before you sign with anyone.
Why San Franciscans Hire Our Firm
David Kashani handles each client's case personally, the way he would if a member of his own family had been injured.
Our four offices across California and Washington operate as one team, so a case that grows or crosses state lines never gets referred out.
We work on contingency, meaning no attorney's fee unless we win your case.
We serve clients in English, Spanish, and Farsi.
We prepare every case for trial, which is what gives an insurer a reason to pay a fair number before one becomes necessary.
That last point is the one people underestimate. Claims are valued on what the other side thinks will happen if they refuse to pay, and a firm without the capacity to litigate has no answer to that question. Our clients describe the experience in their own words on our testimonials page.
The San Francisco Injury Cases We Handle
We represent people injured in vehicle collisions, as pedestrians and cyclists, in rideshare vehicles, on unsafe property, and on construction sites, along with families pursuing wrongful death claims. Our statewide guidance on car accident claims and truck accident claims covers how motor vehicle cases are built, and our catastrophic injury practice explains how claims involving permanent injuries are valued. Everything we handle across California is set out in our personal injury practice.
California gives most injury victims two years from the date of the injury to file suit, under
California Code of Civil Procedure Section 335.1. Shorter deadlines apply when a public entity is involved, and in San Francisco that covers a meaningful share of cases, including collisions with Muni vehicles and injuries caused by dangerous conditions on public property. Those claims can require a formal administrative claim within six months, so the practical deadline is often much sooner than two years.
How Much Time You Have to File in California
About the Attorney Handling Your Case
David Kashani worked in personal injury firms for several years before law school, then began his legal career as a securities and compliance lawyer. He left that work for injury law, partly because he found he would rather represent people than institutions, and partly because he lost someone close to him in an accident. He opened this firm to represent individuals and families harmed by someone else's negligence, and he takes every client's case personally, as though a member of his own family had been injured. His practice has recovered millions of dollars for injured clients.
He is admitted to practice in five states, California, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, and Arizona, which is unusual for a plaintiff's injury lawyer and reflects a practice built to follow cases rather than hand them off. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles and his law degree at Whittier Law School, and he is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
- National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, 2019 and 2020
- National Trial Lawyers Top 100, 2020 to present
- Lawyers of Distinction, 2018 to present
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel, 2021 to present
There is more on his background on our
About page.
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Questions We Hear From Injured San Franciscans
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Is the consultation free, and what does it cost to hire you?
The consultation is free and carries no obligation. If you hire us, we work on a contingency fee, so our fee comes out of a recovery and you owe no attorney's fee if we do not win. Case costs are advanced by the firm and reimbursed from a settlement or verdict.
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How do I compare personal injury lawyers in San Francisco?
Ask who will personally handle your file rather than who signs you up. Ask whether the firm litigates or only settles, since insurers price claims differently depending on the answer. And ask for specific recoveries in cases resembling yours.
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Do I have a claim if I was partly at fault?
Usually yes. California follows pure comparative negligence, so partial fault reduces your recovery by your percentage of responsibility but does not eliminate it, and there is no cutoff percentage. Adjusters routinely overstate a claimant's share of fault, and that assessment is negotiable.
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I was hit by a Muni bus. Is that different from an ordinary collision?
Yes, significantly. Claims against a public transit agency run on a much shorter timeline and generally require a formal administrative claim within six months of the incident before a lawsuit can be filed. If a public vehicle or public property was involved, get the case reviewed immediately rather than waiting.
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Do I need to come to the San Francisco office?
No. We can open your case by phone and handle documents electronically. The office at 95 3rd Street is there if you would rather meet in person, and we can come to you if your injuries make travel difficult.
Talk to a San Francisco Injury Lawyer Today
Evidence gets harder to find every week, and the other side's insurer is already building its version of what happened. A conversation costs nothing.
