Wrongful Death Attorneys
30,932 verified wrongful death attorneys across the United States. Representation for families who lost a loved one due to negligence or wrongful act. Compare verified wrongful death attorneys nationwide by experience, peer ratings, and client reviews — get matched with counsel in any state, free for clients.
My name is Humberto Tijerina, and before we go any further, I want to personally thank you for viewing my website. Most likely you have fallen victim ...
Michael Shemtoub is a lawyer practicing auto accidents, personal injury, wrongful death and 2 other areas of law. Michael received a B.A. degree from ...
For more than 20 years, John B. Shook has gone to battle for injured children and adults.
Philip L. Arnel practices at Law Office of Philip L.
Mr. Jesus Gonzalez is a lawyer practicing personal injury, oil field explosions, wrongful death cases and 22 other areas of law.
Scott L. Anderson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1982.
Michael M. Raheb has years of experience as a litigator and a track record of successful verdicts and case results.
Adjunct Professor, Criminal Law, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, Florida, 1998—. Hearing Officer, Charlotte County School Board, 2000—.
Arsen founded the Law Offices of Arsen Sarapinian, P.C. after years of litigating cases throughout Southern and Northern California while working with...
Mr. George Leroy Powell is a lawyer practicing criminal law, dui/dwi, sex crimes and 109 other areas of law.
Sandy Van practices at Van Law Firm Injury and Accident Attorneys Read Full Bio
Mr. Evan Kyle Guthrie is a lawyer practicing marriage & prenuptials, trusts, power of attorney and 20 other areas of law.
Sam Tabibian practices at Century Park Law Group Read Full Bio
Originally from rural South Dakota, Justin Bice spent eight years in the United States Army working in the Military Intelligence Detachment of the 3rd...
Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas W. Cooper, Jr., Circuit Judge, 3rd Judicial Circuit, 2001-2002.
Legal matters can be emotionally difficult unless one has an aggressive, intelligent, and vigilant lawyer who understands the legal system and who can...
Michael Mehrdad Garagozlo is a lawyer practicing personal injury, products liability, medical malpractice and 6 other areas of law. Michael received a...
J. Todd Tenge has been practicing personal injury law for over 25 years.
Ryan L. Thompson is the managing partner of Thompson Law Injury Lawyers.
Jerry Knafo is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Villanova University where he ranked third in his Business Administration major. He obtained his law degr...
Mr. Scott Andrew Ferris is a lawyer practicing personal injury, criminal law, family and divorce and 3 other areas of law.
Craig Swapp has committed his career to helping people who have been injured or killed because of someone else’s wrongdoing or negligence. As a Person...
Bobby Saadian, Esq., a renowned attorney and nationally recognized law firm business operator, is the Founder of Wilshire Law Firm, one of California'...
Morris & Morris Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers and U.S. News and World Report "Best Law Firms" for 8 consecutive years.
Mr. Fine was born in New York, New York and was raised in the northeast, where he studied sociology at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Hebern W. Sanderson, Jr. is a lawyer practicing personal injury, workers compensation, social security disability and 3 other areas of law.
Charles Sanders is a lawyer practicing personal injury, wrongful death, slip and fall and 7 other areas of law. Charles has been licensed for 7 years.
Atty. Jerome W Perry is a lawyer practicing personal injury, products liability, wrongful death and 30 other areas of law.
I was born in Busan, a large port city in South Korea, in a working class neighborhood. Busan was one of only two cities in Korea not captured by the ...
Mr. Kenneth Ray Bernard, Jr. is a lawyer practicing wrongful death, personal injury, government and 3 other areas of law.
Tricia A. Spivey is a Partner with Spivey Law Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.A. and practices exclusively personal injury and wrongful death law.
Mr. Jonathan Wesley Johnson is a lawyer practicing personal injury, products liability, airplane crash litigation and 11 other areas of law.
Tom Pope III graduated from The University of Georgia in 1990 and received his law degree from Mercer University in 1998. Before beginning his legal c...
William Melton is a lawyer practicing criminal law, dui/dwi, misdemeanors and 21 other areas of law. William has been licensed for 6 years.
I am an attorney who represents hurt people. Whether it is an injury on the roadways (18-wheeler, car wreck, motorcycle) or in the workplace.
Jason Jonathan Liss is a lawyer practicing personal injury, fire and explosion, insurance litigation and 5 other areas of law. Jason received a B.A. d...
Marc Evan Reisman is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, civil rights, family law and 8 other areas of law. Marc received a B.S. degree from Unive...
Marc A. Wites is a founding shareholder of Wites & Rogers Attorneys at Law and brings 28 years of trial and litigation experience to his practice.
Bill Bone has dedicated his law practice, and a lot of his spare time, to helping people. From his service work in college as a member of the exclusiv...
Ryan Scott Perlin is a lawyer practicing medical malpractice, birth trauma, cosmetic surgery malpractice and 17 other areas of law. Ryan received a B....
Bill Bone has dedicated his law practice and much of his spare time to helping people in need. From his service work in college as a member of the exc...
Araly Herrera is a lawyer practicing medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death and 1 other area of law. Araly received a B.B.A. degree from...
Jonathan Stephen Burns is a lawyer practicing general liability, products liability, personal injury and 8 other areas of law. Jonathan Stephen receiv...
Andrew Burton Pickett is a lawyer practicing advocacy, civil trial, litigation and 7 other areas of law. Andrew received a degree from University of V...
Mr. Jonathan Stephen Burns is a lawyer practicing general liability, products liability, personal injury and 9 other areas of law.
Mr. John David Hadden is a lawyer practicing personal injury, car accidents, motorcycle accidents and 10 other areas of law.
Recipient: Ann Q. Lynch Award, University of Florida, 1998, for Dedication and Achievement Benefiting
Andrew Abel is an AV Preeminent Rated trial attorney at The Spivey Law Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.A. His entire practice is devoted to assisti...
Timothy William Combs practices at Law Offices of Timothy Combs Read Full Bio
David Scott Farber is a lawyer practicing personal injury, insurance coverage claims and disputes, intellectual property and 10 other areas of law. Da...
Listed: Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America, Law Dragon 3000 (2012); Florida Super Lawyers, 2016; Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite, 2010. Member, ...
Dmitry Gorin is Of Counsel at Injury Justice Law Firm and a seasoned trial lawyer. During his decade as the Senior Deputy District Attorney in Los Ang...
Christy Thompson is a lawyer practicing phoenix auto accident, nursing home abuse, wrongful death and 7 other areas of law. Christy has been licensed ...
Nick M. Bajalia, Sr. is a native of Valdosta, Georgia.
Blaine Morgan Brown is a lawyer practicing litigation, trusts and estates, personal injury and 4 other areas of law. Blaine received a degree from Wes...
Rocky learned many of the life lessons he now uses to help his clients while growing up near Buffalo Trail, in Morristown Tennessee, a small town abou...
Matthew H. Bligh graduated from Brooklyn Law School, cum laude and the United States Merchant Marine Academy, magna cum laude.
Peter Wesley Hansen is a lawyer practicing car accidents, dui & dwi, chapter 7 bankruptcy and 21 other areas of law. Peter received a B.A. degree from...
Over two decades of practicing law, Robert F. Goings has earned a reputation as one of the leading trial lawyers in South Carolina, known for taking o...
I was born in Chicago and have been a South Florida resident since the age of 4. I fondly recall many weekends spent with my Dad, fishing the clear wa...
What is Wrongful Death?
Wrongful Death is the branch of law that governs the rights, obligations, and disputes that arise within its subject matter. In the United States, wrongful death sits at the intersection of statutes enacted by Congress, the regulations issued by federal agencies, the laws passed by all fifty state legislatures, and the body of judge-made decisions known as the common law. Because every state writes its own version of the rules, the way wrongful death works in one jurisdiction can look noticeably different from how it works in another, and that is one of the main reasons attorneys in this area focus their practice geographically — to stay fluent in the local statutes, court rules, and judicial preferences that shape outcomes.
At a practical level, Wrongful Death attorneys spend their time on three categories of work. The first is advice and prevention: counselling clients on how to structure transactions, draft documents, and conduct business so that legal risk is minimised before a dispute ever begins. The second is transactional execution: producing the contracts, filings, notices, and registrations that the law actually requires to make a decision legally binding. The third is contested representation: defending or pursuing a client's interests when a dispute escalates to negotiation, regulatory enforcement, arbitration, or litigation in court.
The clients who hire Wrongful Death lawyers range from individuals navigating a single life event to multinational corporations with complex regulatory exposure. What unifies them is the need for an experienced lawyer who knows the relevant code sections, has appeared in the relevant courts, and can translate the strategic options into language a client can act on. AttorneyQnA currently lists 30,932 verified wrongful death attorneys across the United States, each with a public profile showing their bar admissions, years in practice, and the kinds of matters they have handled — with the deepest concentration of practitioners in Florida.
When do you need a Wrongful Death attorney?
Most people contact a wrongful death lawyer for one of two reasons: something is about to happen that they want done correctly the first time, or something has gone wrong and they need it fixed before it gets worse. The earlier you involve counsel, the more options you usually have, and the lower the cost of getting to a resolution tends to be. The scenarios below are the ones we see most often on AttorneyQnA from prospective clients searching for wrongful death representation.
Once your signature is on a contract, settlement, lease, or release, your bargaining leverage drops sharply. A short pre-signature review by a wrongful death lawyer is the cheapest insurance you can buy.
Cease-and-desist letters, regulatory notices, and demand letters all start clocks. Missing the response window can convert a manageable problem into a default judgment or formal enforcement action.
Statutes of limitations, filing windows, and appeal periods are jurisdictional — courts cannot extend them as a favour. If you can identify a date that matters, you need a lawyer before that date arrives.
The moment opposing counsel appears, the conversation moves out of normal English and into procedural language. Continuing unrepresented usually means losing ground you cannot recover later.
Forming an entity, choosing a venue, structuring a deal, or selecting a remedy each has long-term consequences. A consultation at the planning stage is far cheaper than redoing it after the fact.
Multi-state matters bring conflict-of-laws questions that change which statutes apply and which court has authority. An attorney licensed in the right jurisdiction is not optional.
If any of the situations above describes where you are right now, the next step is a focused consultation. Use the Ask a Lawyer tool for short written questions, or browse the 30,932 wrongful death attorneys listed above to book a paid consultation directly.
How to choose a Wrongful Death attorney
The single biggest factor in choosing a wrongful death lawyer is fit with your specific matter. A lawyer with twenty years of wrongful death experience but no exposure to your particular sub-issue can easily be a worse choice than a five-year associate who has handled the same problem repeatedly. We recommend running every prospective lawyer through the same five-step checklist before signing an engagement letter.
- Bar admission in the correct jurisdiction. Confirm the lawyer is admitted in the state — and where relevant, the federal district — where your matter sits. The lawyer's profile on AttorneyQnA shows every bar admission on file, and the underlying state bar's "lawyer lookup" tool will confirm active standing in under a minute.
- Direct experience with your fact pattern. Ask plainly: "How many matters like mine have you handled in the last three years, and how did they resolve?" An honest answer reveals more than years-in-practice alone.
- A written fee agreement. Whether hourly, flat fee, contingent, or hybrid, the engagement letter should specify what is included, what triggers additional charges, and how disputes are handled. Avoid lawyers who resist writing the terms down.
- Communication cadence. Decide upfront how often you expect updates, who your day-to-day contact will be, and what response time is reasonable. The number-one complaint filed with state bar grievance committees is not malpractice — it is non-communication.
- Conflict check + reputation pulse. Make sure the lawyer has run a formal conflict check, then spend ten minutes reading independent reviews and any public disciplinary history. The state bar's website is authoritative for the second; the lawyer's AttorneyQnA profile collects the first.
Once you have a shortlist, schedule consultations with two or three. Lawyers vary widely in temperament, and the right strategic match for your case is sometimes the second or third lawyer you meet — not the first.
How much does a Wrongful Death lawyer cost?
Legal fees in the United States are not regulated by a uniform schedule, so what you pay a wrongful death lawyer depends on the billing model the lawyer offers, the complexity of your matter, and the local market. There are four billing structures used in this practice area; most engagements use one, but hybrid arrangements are increasingly common.
1. Hourly billing
The default model for most non-contingent matters. Rates for wrongful death attorneys in the U.S. typically range from $150–$250/hour in smaller markets to $400–$700/hour in major metropolitan areas, with senior partners at large firms commanding $900/hour and above. Hourly billing is fairest when the scope of work is genuinely unpredictable, but it creates an incentive structure that the client has to monitor.
2. Flat fee
Increasingly used for well-defined transactions — incorporations, will drafting, single-issue filings, uncontested matters. A flat fee tells you exactly what the deliverable will cost, and the lawyer absorbs the risk of unexpected complexity. Ask whether the flat fee includes filing fees, third-party costs, and any post-filing follow-up.
3. Contingency
Where it is permitted by the rules of professional conduct — most often in plaintiff-side wrongful death work involving monetary recovery — the lawyer is paid a percentage of the proceeds, typically 33% before suit is filed and 40% after. The client pays nothing if there is no recovery. Contingency fees align the lawyer's economics with yours, but the percentage compounds across time, so very strong cases sometimes do better on hourly billing.
4. Retainer / subscription
A monthly fee that buys a defined block of access or hours. This is common for businesses with ongoing wrongful death needs — contract review, employee questions, regulatory check-ins. A subscription smooths out spending and gives the lawyer a reason to know your operation in depth.
Whichever model you choose, ask for an itemised written estimate before the engagement begins, and ask explicitly what is not covered. Surprise expenses are the most common source of attorney-client friction.
Frequently asked questions about wrongful death
How quickly can a wrongful death lawyer review my matter?
Most lawyers can schedule an initial consultation within 1–3 business days. Urgent matters — pending deadlines, time-sensitive notices, court-ordered hearings — should be flagged in your first message; many lawyers reserve emergency consultation slots for that reason. If you need a written answer faster, the Ask a Lawyer tool typically returns answers in under 24 hours.
Do I need a wrongful death lawyer in my exact city, or anywhere in my state?
Bar admission is the controlling rule: any attorney licensed in your state can represent you in that state's courts and agencies, regardless of which city they're based in. Practical proximity still matters for in-person meetings, local court familiarity, and access to the local bench and bar. For state-level filings and remote-friendly matters, an attorney elsewhere in the same state often works fine.
Will an initial consultation cost me anything?
Many wrongful death attorneys offer a free 15- to 30-minute initial consultation; others charge a flat consultation fee that may be credited against the engagement if you hire them. The lawyer's profile lists the consultation policy. Free does not always mean better — a fee-based consultation is sometimes the sign of a lawyer who treats their time, and yours, seriously.
What documents should I bring to the first meeting?
Bring every contract, notice, letter, filing, or written communication connected to the matter; a written timeline of events with dates; the names and contact details of every other party involved; and any deadlines or hearing dates you are already aware of. Even an incomplete file is more useful than a verbal summary alone.
Can I change lawyers if I am not happy with mine?
Yes. Clients can discharge their lawyer at any time, for any reason, by written notice. Your case file belongs to you and must be transferred to your new counsel. Any unpaid fees through the date of discharge remain owed; any unearned advance must be refunded. If you are mid-litigation, the court typically must approve the substitution, but approval is routine.
How long does a typical wrongful death matter take?
It depends almost entirely on whether the matter is transactional or contested. A transactional matter — a contract, a filing, a single-step transaction — can resolve in days to weeks. A contested matter — anything involving disputed facts, court intervention, or regulatory action — typically takes months at minimum, and complex cases can run multiple years. Your lawyer should give you a realistic outside estimate at intake.
Are wrongful death lawyer fees tax-deductible?
It depends on the nature of the matter and current tax law. Fees connected to producing or collecting taxable income, managing investment property, or operating a business are often deductible; fees for personal matters generally are not. Because rules change, confirm deductibility with a tax professional for the year in which the fees are paid.
What is the difference between wrongful death and the related practice areas?
Wrongful Death overlaps with several adjacent areas — see the related-practice-area grid below for direct links. Choosing the right lawyer often means picking the one whose primary focus matches the heart of your problem, even if multiple labels could technically apply. When you are unsure, list your situation in your own words to two lawyers from neighbouring areas and ask which one of them is the better fit; honest lawyers will tell you.
Find wrongful death attorneys by state
Each state link below opens the wrongful death roster for that jurisdiction, with the local statute of limitations, court-system overview, and verified attorneys.
Wrongful Death Law Firms
Main Law Firm
Winter Park
Walton Law Firm
San Marcos
Bruner Law Firm
Fort Walton Beach
J&Y Law Firm
Los Angeles
West Law Firm
Charleston
John T. Floyd Law Firm
Houston
Wrongful Death by State
All states →Find wrongful death attorneys in every US state. Each state link opens a hub with verified attorneys, the state filing deadline, and a free attorney match.