
Jonathan Craig Reed
Call about discount on probate and personal injury feesWe represent people hurt in car accidents, boat accidents, truck accidents, and motorcycle accidents. Four years ago we began a policy of charging only 25% instead of the usual one third (33.33%) or 35% or 40% to represent accident victims if there was a police report that blamed the other side and not them. This discount fee, which you don't pay unless you recover, has been a big success for us and our clients and results in them putting more money in their pockets than they would if they had signed up with a lawyer for the traditional higher fee. You save because we are not spending part of your fee on expensive billboards and tv ads. This discount fee does not increase if we have to file suit or try your case to get you fair compensation. We also represent victims in other injury cases such as defective products, fall cases, and swimming pool drownings or near drownings; however, in those cases we charge a 40% fee. We also offer low cost, discount fees for uncontested probate through out the state of Nevada. See our probate website, www.probatenevada.net for a detailed discussion of fees we charge for uncontested probates.
- University of Wyoming College of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Graduated with Honors, Land Editor of the Land and Water Law Review
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- University of Wyoming
- M.S. | Zoology
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- 25% fee if police cite other driver and not you
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- Reed & Mansfield
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- Four person Las Vegas law firm handling a variety of matters; I handle primarily car, boat, truck and motorcycle accidents, legal malpractice and probate.
- Solo Practitioner
- Law Offices of Jonathan C. Reed
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- Las Vegas law practice with heavy emphasis on personal injury, but also wrote a large number of trusts.
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- Monsey, Andrews & Reed
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- General practice of law with emphasis on Personal Injury at this Las Vegas law firm.
- Associate Attorney
- Crockett & Myers
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- Practice limited to personal injury at this Las Vegas law firm.
- Associate Attorney
- Rogers, Monsey, Woodbury & Bergreen
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- General practice of Law in Las Vegas, NV, with emphasis on personal injury
- Judicial Law Clerk
- Supreme Court of Wyoming
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- Law Clerk to Justice Robert Rose
- Medical Malpractice in Nevada
- Nevada Lawyer (State Bar Journal)
- TMJ Syndrome: The Cryptic Injury You and Your Client May Overlook
- Texas Trial Lawyers Forum
- Administrative Searches and Seizures After Barlow's and Tyler
- 14 Land and Water Law Review 207
- Admissibility of Polygraph Data When Both Parties Have Stipulated that it Will be Admissible
- 13 Land and Water Law Review 613
- 10 Best Client Satisfaction Award
- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys
- Top Car Accident Attorney
- Desert Companion Magazine (KNPR)
- Top 100 Lawyers
- ASLA
- Top Lawyers in Nevada
- Greenspun Media Group
- Highest Rating: 10/10
- Avvo.com
- State Bar of Nevada, Trust and Probate Section
- Chair, Publication Committee
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- State Bar of Nevada
- Chair, Publications and CLE, Probate Section
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- Nevada Justice Association
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- Clark County District Court
- Court Appointed Part-Time Arbitrator
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- Las Vegas Rotary West
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- California
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- Nevada
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Free Consultation
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Contingent Fees
For personal injury, legal malpractice, products liability, boating accidents, wrongful death and brain injury. We offer a low discount 25% contingency fee for favorable police report accident cases (car, boat, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, etc. Favorable police report means that a police report cites someone else for causing the injury and does not cite you for being careless or violating a law that contributed to the accident). For all other personal injury cases, including legal malpractice, our fees are either 33.33% or 40%. -
Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
See our website www.probatenevada.net for probate fees. We consider our firm the high quality, low cost, discount, affordable, Nevada law firm for uncontested probates and we do uncontested probates throughout the State of Nevada. We selectively accept some will or trust contests on a contingency fee basis; otherwise we handle such cases on an hourly rate. See www.probatenevada.net
- Maritime Law
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Car, Boat, Truck, Motorcycle and Pedestrian Accidents
- Vaccine Injury
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. In Nevada under NRS statues my mom owns property .Has dementia for 5 yrs no will .when she dies what paper do I file?
- A: If your mother dies before her boyfriend, he will end up owning the property they hold in joint tenancy. If you are an only child and your mother dies without a will you will have to probate the house solely in her name but you will get it unless creditors have a claim. Even if she had willed the house to you it would still have to go thru probate. Because she has dementia I do not think a lawyer can ethically write a will for her or write a deed for her to sign the house you live in over to you.
You could start a guardianship proceeding to have a guardian--you--under court supervision handle her financial affairs. However, you would have to discuss the pros and cons of this with a guardianship ... Read More
- Q. My uncle recently passed I am the only living next of kin, how do I find out if he had a will.
- A: A person having an original Will (not just a photocopy) is required by law to file it within 10 days after the Will writer dies. This is not strictly enforced. Some people are slow to file a Will or begin probate. However, you can search for filed Wills by name on the Clark County Court website. You can also check by name to see if anyone has begun a probate in Clark County for a decedent.
As next of kin w/ no knowledge of a Will you could file to be appointed Administrator. Worst case scenario is that after you file someone with an original valid Will files and you might be out your attorneys' fees and filing fee or you might have a claim to be reimbursed based on the failure of the ... Read More
- Q. In Nevada, if quitclaim deed (adding spouse) does not specify JTWROS, is it assumed right of survivorship?
- A: In order for the surviving spouse to obtain full title w/o probate the deed to both spouses must say as joint tenants or with rights of survivorship. Then, in order to be able to get title insurance for a sale, the new deed must have been recorded BEFORE the first to die spouse dies.
If all of these conditions are met then for the surviving spouse to get sole title he/she will have to file an Affidavit of Death of Joint Tenant along with the death certificate.
If the deed to the spouses simply says to "Jack and Jill as husband and wife" the surviving spouse will have to probate the dead spouse's half.