Not a billboard firm, and not a settlement mill

Lessing Solov founded the firm in 1965 on a premise that has not changed: that an injured worker, an immigrant who did not speak English, and a tradesperson whose body had been spent on a California construction site each deserved a lawyer. Here is what each of them would hear from us today.

The heading at the top of this page is a claim, so here is what it means. Each of these is something you can hold us to, starting with the first call.

• You talk to this office.

  The person who calls you back is from this office — the same people who would handle your case, not a call center or a referral service.

• We tell you if you do not need us.

  If there is nothing worth doing, we will say so. A case with nothing in it is not worth anyone’s time, including ours.

• We check every number in the rating.

  Permanent disabilityPD Permanent Disability. Compensation for lasting impairment. A different and much lower weekly rate — 2026 maximum $290/week. is built from a rating stringRating string The row of numbers encoding your entire permanent disability calculation. Checkable arithmetic., not a settlement conversation, and we contest apportionmentApportionment Dividing permanent disability between industrial and non-industrial causes. It is to disability, not to findings on an image. the evidence does not support.

• We explain the settlement before you sign it.

  A Compromise and ReleaseC&R — Compromise and Release A lump sum that closes future medical treatment permanently. and a Stipulated Award of the same dollar value are not the same result. One closes future medical care; the other leaves it open.

• We look past workers’ comp.

  Where someone other than the employer also caused the injury, we raise it early, because a third-party case reaches damages workers’ compensation cannot.

• A judge sets the fee, not us.

  No fee may be demanded or accepted until the appeals board has approved or set it, and a fee the work does not justify gets reduced.

A firm’s age is not a lawyer’s experience, so these are the dates that belong to a person. Both licenses can be checked against the State Bar’s own record in ten seconds.

Jamey Teitell Lessing Solov

1. KNOWING WHERE THE MONEY ACTUALLY IS

   The rating string, not the settlement conversation. The § 4656(c)(3) counter, not the demand letter. The 240 weeks nobody claimed, the automatic 10% nobody added, the § 4553 petition that expired at twelve months while everyone was managing treatment.

2. KNOWING WHEN THE ANSWER IS GENUINELY BAD

   A shoulder that rates zero rates zero. Telling someone that early is worth more than telling them late.

3. AND KNOWING THE COURTROOMS

   Which office, which parking lot, which security desk, what happens at a conference, what is remote and what is not. Each one of them.

   The courtrooms

This site is a reference work, and it is held to a stated standard.

• Every statute, regulation, case, and number is verified against a primary source before publication — Not against another law firm’s page, and not against a summary.
• Where the law is unsettled, we say so — Where an argument is contested rather than established, we label it as an argument rather than as an entitlement.
• Every substantive page carries a reviewing attorney and a review date — And the review date means the page was actually re-read on that date.
• When we get something wrong, we correct it visibly — Rather than quietly, and we leave a note saying what changed. The corrections page lists what has been changed and how to report an error.
• We do not publish unsourced ratings, unattributed testimonials, or awards we cannot link to — Three credentials are absent from the attorneys page on purpose, and each absence is explained there.

Our attorneys, with both State Bar records

Lessing Solov founded the firm in 1965. Jamey Teitell is Partner and Trial Attorney.

If getting here is the problem, do not come. The firm makes home and hospital visits. Say so when you call and someone comes to you.

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