Legal Services & Lawyers

As a Chico and California personal injury lawyer and attorney, I have more than 17 years experience obtaining large settlements and winning trials for my clients. I have been lead counsel in more than 25 trials. I have tried and won cases in both State and Federal Court, against some of the largest businesses and insurance companies around. At the Law Offices of Adam Sorrells, we strive to provide excellence and personalized service to our clients. All phone calls are taken or promptly returned, and we keep you informed at all times of the status of your case.
Call me at 530-893-9900, or on the web at www.chicopersonalinjury.com.

Born March 25, 1964; admitted to the bar: California (1990). Mr. Galbraith received his B.A., with honors, from California State University at Sacramento in 1987. He graduated from California Western School of Law in 1990, Cum Laude, where he served as an editor and staff writer for the California Western Law Review.

Mr. Galbraith received the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Writing and interned at the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District. Following law school, Mr. Galbraith worked for eight years with a Sacramento insurance defense law firm, defending personal injury cases.

In 1998, he began his employment with Penney & Associates in Roseville, specializing in personal injury law. In July of 1999, he opened and began managing the Penney & Associates satellite office in Chico, California, limiting his practice to personal injury cases on behalf of the injured party. Mr. Galbraith lives in Durham, CA with his wife and three children.

Michael R. Deems has been practicing law in California since 1985 and is admitted to the bar for the State of California, the United States District Court for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California and the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Mr. Deems obtained his degree in mathematics in 1976 at California Lutheran College and his juris doctorate degree in 1985 at the University of San Francisco. In 1999, Mr. Deems was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Sacramento Chapter, the Butte County Bar Association and the State Bar of California. Areas of practice: Mr. Deems spent the first 13 years of his practice representing insurance companies handling personal injury disputes and insurance policy matters. Since 1998, his practice has broadened to include virtually all aspects of civil litigation including the representation of people seriously injured in all types of accidents, the representation of employees and employers in discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination disputes, and the representation of small to medium sized businesses in the prosecution or defense of business litigation.