Best Portland Personal Injury Attorneys

Phillip Gilbert worked for two insurance defense firms in downtown Portland before opening his own practice in March 1995. That inside view shapes how this Portland personal injury lawyer builds a claim against an insurer today.

The Gresham office handles auto, truck, and motorcycle crashes, plus defective product and hospital negligence cases. Gilbert is admitted in Oregon and Washington and has argued before the United States Supreme Court.

He has held the AV Preeminent peer rating since 2012 and was named a Super Lawyer for ten straight years. The first consultation costs nothing, and most cases run on a contingent fee. Clients come from Gresham, Troutdale, Sandy, Clackamas, and the wider metro area.

More than 20,000 cases since 1994 put Goldberg & Loren among the busiest injury practices in the state. Settlements and awards top half a billion dollars. Recent Oregon results include a $4.5 million pedestrian settlement in 2025.

Senior partners George Goldberg and James Loren each bring over 30 years of trial work. The team handles car and truck wrecks, dog bites, birth injuries, clergy abuse claims, and wrongful death.

The South Macadam office answers calls every day of the year and serves clients in Spanish. Fees are contingent, so you owe nothing unless the firm wins. It is a solid fit if you want a large, well-resourced personal injury attorney in Portland behind your claim.

Knox Law is a small Clackamas practice with 20 years of work in injury, family, and criminal cases. Attorney William Knox III handles files himself and is licensed in both Oregon and Washington.

Injury work covers automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, and semi-truck collisions, along with slip and fall and dog bite claims. Many clients meet an injury lawyer in Portland the same day they call here.

The firm serves Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington, and Clark counties from offices in Clackamas and Tigard. First consultations cost nothing. Reviewers repeatedly mention direct communication and steady updates through the claim.

Travis Mayor once defended insurance carriers, and he now uses that background to counter their tactics for injured Oregonians. He graduated first in his class and has recovered tens of millions of dollars.

Case results include a $1,025,000 motorcycle settlement and a $1 million policy limit recovery after a semi-truck crash on Interstate 5. Colleague Lance Brooks won a $924,287 jury verdict in 2025.

Mayor Law works from Portland and Tigard on a contingency basis, and clients deal with an attorney rather than a case manager.

Founded in 2001, Rizk Law has spent more than 20 years representing accident victims across Oregon and southwest Washington. Richard Rizk spent a decade authorizing payouts for national insurers, including the state's largest workers' compensation carrier.

Verdicts and settlements include $1.25 million for a pedestrian struck by a car and $900,000 after a commercial delivery truck collision. The team leans on accident reconstruction and medical experts to prove damages.

Cases run on a contingent fee with no upfront costs. Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, and Vancouver clients are also welcome.

A $58 million burn and fatal accident settlement sits near the top of this firm's record. So does a $49 million verdict against PacifiCorp for survivors of the 2020 Labor Day fires. A truck crash settlement reached $48 million.

Jane Paulson and John Coletti lead a boutique team with more than 50 years of combined courtroom experience. They take a limited number of files, focused on serious harm, medical malpractice, and fatal crashes.

The Lake Oswego office serves both Oregon and Washington. Case reviews are free, and the firm advances litigation costs.

Bottini, Bottini & Oswald has helped Oregonians and Washingtonians since 1980, splitting its practice between injury claims and workers' compensation.

Its attorneys are admitted in Oregon, Washington, and federal court, with roughly 40 years of combined experience and more than 45 five-star client ratings. Spanish-speaking clients are served directly.

Claim reviews cost nothing, by phone, text, or email.

Few Oregon attorneys can say they have never once represented an insurer or a corporation. Matthew Kaplan has spent nearly three decades on the plaintiff side only, since 1998.

His record includes an $11.194 million jury verdict in a defective machinery case that cost a worker three fingers. He also handles spinal cord injuries, amputations, burns, and jail medical neglect claims for grieving families.

Kaplan has held an AV Preeminent rating since 2013 and a Super Lawyers selection since 2012. The downtown office sits a block from the SW Oak MAX stop. There is no fee unless he wins.

From a Gresham office just east of the city, Todd Peterson has handled Oregon injury claims since 1991 and Washington claims since 1994. He recovered over $35 million for clients between 2005 and 2015.

The practice covers car crashes, dog bite attacks, bicycle wrecks, slip and fall, and fatal accident claims. No fees are owed until you win and collect.

Bart Herron made the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 and its top 25 brain injury list from 2018 through 2024. He started out in Clackamas County Circuit Court in 1998.

His Lake Oswego firm has served over 2,000 clients in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. Herron is also an affiliate partner of Morgan & Morgan. Herron takes one case at a time and never passes a file to another lawyer. Case reviews cost nothing.

Peton Law is a Keizer practice serving the Salem area, led by attorney Neal Peton. He handles auto and trucking crashes, bicycle and pedestrian claims, nursing home neglect, and wrongful death.

The office is open weekdays and consultations are free.

Founded in 2005, this downtown Portland firm mixes injury representation with insurance coverage fights, debtor-creditor matters, and business litigation.

Clay McCaslin takes people hurt through no fault of their own as well as small business owners in contract disputes. Reviewers describe patient, detailed attention.

An $11.4 million recovery for a family whose mother was killed by a drunk driver anchors three decades of results here. A pedestrian struck by a shuttle bus recovered $5 million.

Hala Gores has practiced since 1989, holds an AV rating, and is a past president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association. She takes catastrophic injury, dram shop, and fatal crash cases only.

Sean Bannon spent the first stretch of his career at Portland defense firm Hart Wagner before switching to represent hurt people. He has more than 20 years in practice and grew up in the city.

Bannon caps his caseload so clients work with him directly, never a paralegal. Injury files run on a contingent fee.

Neal Weingart brings close to two decades in the courtroom, first defending the accused and now representing the injured. He prepares each claim for trial, which tends to move insurers off low offers.

Beyond crash cases, he takes civil rights claims against police, jail neglect, brain injury, and e-scooter matters.

More than $30 million recovered since 1999 includes a $3 million prison death settlement and $2.3 million after a trucking crash.

Bryan Dawson has tried over 100 cases and was named a Super Lawyer from 2018 through 2025. Ben Larson has handled injury and death claims since 2009. A second office sits in West Linn, and there is no fee unless they win.