Jonathan Craig Reed

We 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

1976 - 1979

Honors: Graduated with Honors, Land Editor of the Land and Water Law Review

University of Wyoming

M.S. | Zoology

1974 - 1976

25% fee if police cite other driver and not you

Current

Partner

Reed & Mansfield

2008 - Current

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

1987 - 2008

Las Vegas law practice with heavy emphasis on personal injury, but also wrote a large number of trusts.

Partner

Monsey, Andrews & Reed

1985 - 1987

General practice of law with emphasis on Personal Injury at this Las Vegas law firm.

Associate Attorney

Crockett & Myers

1983 - 1985

Practice limited to personal injury at this Las Vegas law firm.

Associate Attorney

Rogers, Monsey, Woodbury & Bergreen

1981 - 1983

General practice of Law in Las Vegas, NV, with emphasis on personal injury

Judicial Law Clerk

Supreme Court of Wyoming

1979 - 1981

Law Clerk to Justice Robert Rose

Medical Malpractice in Nevada

Nevada Lawyer (State Bar Journal)

February, 1993

TMJ Syndrome: The Cryptic Injury You and Your Client May Overlook

Texas Trial Lawyers Forum

January, 1985

Administrative Searches and Seizures After Barlow's and Tyler

14 Land and Water Law Review 207

1979

Admissibility of Polygraph Data When Both Parties Have Stipulated that it Will be Admissible

13 Land and Water Law Review 613

1978

10 Best Client Satisfaction Award

American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys

2014

Top Car Accident Attorney

Desert Companion Magazine (KNPR)

2014

Top 100 Lawyers

ASLA

2014

Top Lawyers in Nevada

Greenspun Media Group

2012

Highest Rating: 10/10

Avvo.com

2010

State Bar of Nevada, Trust and Probate Section

Chair, Publication Committee

2010 - Current

State Bar of Nevada

Chair, Publications and CLE, Probate Section

2009 - Current

Nevada Justice Association

Member

2009 - Current

Clark County District Court

Court Appointed Part-Time Arbitrator

2008 - Current

Las Vegas Rotary West

Member

2008 - Current

California

Since 1983

Nevada

Since 1981

• Free Consultation
  Call me and I'll tell you if I think I can be of help.
• 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

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?

August 22, 2023

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 lawyer--I do not do guardianships, ... 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.

May 17, 2022

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 holder of the original Will to timely file it with the Clerk of Court. ... Read More

Q. In Nevada, if quitclaim deed (adding spouse) does not specify JTWROS, is it assumed right of survivorship?

May 12, 2022

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.