Hulburt Law Firm represents people and families in Chula Vista after serious accidents, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death. We handle complex cases involving crashes on I-5, I-805, SR-54, and major South Bay streets, as well as unsafe property, defective products, dangerous roads, and corporate or government negligence.
Clients work directly with attorneys Conor and Leslie Hulburt. Our firm limits the number of cases it accepts, and our attorneys have recovered more than $150 million in verdicts and settlements for injured people and families.
555 West Beech Street, Suite 206
San Diego, CA 92101
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Hulburt Law Firm represents people and families in serious injury and wrongful death cases. We focus on complex claims requiring careful investigation, expert analysis, and preparation for trial.
We handle serious crashes caused by distracted, impaired, speeding, or otherwise negligent drivers. We investigate vehicle data, video, roadway conditions, and all available insurance coverage.
Motorcyclists can suffer catastrophic injuries when drivers turn across their path, change lanes without looking, or fail to yield. We investigate both driver negligence and unsafe roadway conditions.
Chula Vista’s busy streets, intersections, bike lanes, and growing e-bike use create serious risks for riders. Important evidence may include video, vehicle data, signal timing, visibility, and roadway design.
Pedestrian crashes often occur when drivers fail to yield or keep a proper lookout. We examine visibility, lighting, driver conduct, and roadway conditions.
Property owners and businesses may be responsible for injuries caused by unsafe walkways, stairs, lighting, security, or maintenance. These cases often turn on whether the danger was known or should have been discovered.
California generally holds dog owners strictly liable for bites occurring in public or while the injured person is lawfully on private property. We document scarring, nerve damage, and psychological harm.
Truck crashes may involve unsafe driving, poor training, inadequate maintenance, or improperly loaded cargo. We preserve electronic logs, vehicle data, inspection records, and company documents.
We handle claims involving public transit, school, charter, tour, and shuttle buses. Responsibility may extend to the driver, operator, maintenance contractor, or public agency.
Boating injuries may result from operator negligence, excessive speed, intoxication, inadequate safety equipment, or mechanical failure. We investigate every person, business, and product that may be responsible.
Workers and bystanders may have claims against contractors, property owners, equipment manufacturers, and other third parties. These claims may provide compensation beyond workers’ compensation benefits.
Aviation cases may involve pilot error, poor maintenance, defective components, operator negligence, or unsafe airport conditions. These claims often involve multiple defendants and complex regulations.
When negligence causes a death, surviving family members may seek compensation for their financial and personal losses. We investigate the incident while guiding the family through the legal process.
Brain injuries can cause lasting cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physical changes. Symptoms may be serious even when initial imaging appears normal.
Serious spine and spinal cord injuries can affect mobility, employment, independence, and future medical needs. Expert analysis may be needed to establish the full impact.
Severe burns may result from fires, explosions, electrical hazards, chemicals, defective products, or unsafe property. We document treatment, scarring, rehabilitation, and future care.
Defective tires, roofs, seats, airbags, seatbelts, and other components can cause or worsen catastrophic injuries. Preserving and inspecting the vehicle is often critical.
Manufacturers and sellers may be responsible for injuries caused by unsafe products. Claims may involve defective design, manufacturing errors, inadequate warnings, or failure to recall a known hazard.
Unsafe intersections, signals, sight lines, pavement, barriers, or warnings can contribute to serious crashes. Claims against public entities require early investigation and may have a six-month claim deadline.
Attorneys Conor Hulburt and Leslie Hulburt represent people and families in Chula Vista facing catastrophic injury and wrongful death. By accepting a limited number of serious cases, they remain directly involved in the investigation, preparation, and presentation of each claim.
Conor has recovered more than $150 million for clients and served as lead trial counsel in a $28.16 million verdict against Caltrans. His practice focuses on uncovering what happened, identifying every responsible party, and presenting the client’s story clearly and persuasively.
Leslie brings extensive experience in mediations, arbitrations, trials, and appeals. Her background in journalism and education strengthens her ability to uncover the truth, explain complex evidence, and communicate a client’s experience with clarity and impact.

Hulburt Law Firm attorneys have obtained significant verdicts and settlements for people and families in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, defective-product, and other serious cases.
Jury verdict against Caltrans for a 13-year-old boy who suffered a catastrophic brain injury after he was struck by a vehicle while using a dangerous crosswalk.
A sudden tire failure caused an SUV to fishtail and crash into a tree on the side of a San Diego County highway, killing a beloved husband and father.
A massive, improperly installed gate collapsed on a subcontracted worker who was asked by the general contractor to paint it, causing his tragic death.
A genetic testing corporation rushed a product to market, causing an oversight that changed a family's life.
A concrete block wall wasn't properly supported and fell on a construction worker in El Cajon, killing him.
An event producer’s negligence led to a participant’s death in a vehicle collision.
Call us or complete our contact form to tell us what happened. We will review the circumstances of the incident, your injuries, and the parties who may be responsible. There is no charge for the consultation, and you pay no legal fees unless we recover compensation for you.
Once retained, we move quickly to preserve evidence, obtain records, interview witnesses, and identify every responsible party and source of insurance. When needed, we work with experts in medicine, accident reconstruction, roadway design, product safety, and other specialized fields.
We document the full impact of the injury, including medical expenses, future care, lost earnings, physical limitations, and the ways the injury has changed your life. Every case is prepared with trial in mind so we can negotiate from a position of strength and take the case to a jury when the responsible parties refuse to provide fair compensation.
Chula Vista’s freeways, fast-growing eastern neighborhoods, busy surface streets, and expanding bayfront create injury risks that differ from other parts of San Diego County. These are some of the local issues that may affect how a serious injury case is investigated and pursued.
Chula Vista traffic moves through I-5, I-805, SR-125, and major streets including Telegraph Canyon Road, Olympic Parkway, East H Street, Otay Lakes Road, Broadway, Third Avenue, and Main Street. In the state’s most recent Office of Traffic Safety crash rankings, 969 people were killed or injured in Chula Vista in a single year, and the city ranked among California’s 15 largest cities for alcohol-involved and underage drinking-driver crashes.
A serious crash may involve more than the driver who caused it. Potential sources of recovery can include commercial insurance, rideshare coverage, and uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage. Learn more about what to do after a car accident, how fault is determined, the insurance claims process, or our car accident practice.
Telegraph Canyon Road illustrates the challenges created by high speeds, heavy traffic, intersections, and rapid development in eastern Chula Vista. The city has responded to serious crashes on the corridor with traffic changes and additional safety study, while its Local Road Safety Plan uses collision data to identify roads and intersections where improvements may be needed.
When roadway design, visibility, signals, barriers, or another dangerous condition contributes to a crash, a public entity may share responsibility. These cases require early investigation, and California generally requires a government claim within six months. Learn more about claims involving dangerous roads and our dangerous road conditions practice.
Development of the Chula Vista Bayfront has brought more convention visitors, hotel guests, rideshares, shuttles, rental cars, and unfamiliar drivers to the I-5 interchanges and streets around the waterfront. Serious crashes in this area may involve several layers of insurance depending on whether the vehicle was privately owned, rented, or operated through a rideshare or commercial service.
The bayfront also includes property controlled by public entities, including the Port of San Diego. When government property or infrastructure contributes to an injury, special notice requirements and shorter deadlines may apply. Identifying every potentially responsible party and every applicable deadline is an important part of the initial investigation.
Serious injury cases require careful investigation, direct attorney involvement, and preparation for trial. Hulburt Law Firm represents Chula Vista clients in complex cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death.
We limit the number of cases we accept so each client receives focused attention, clear communication, and a strategy tailored to the facts of the case.
Our attorneys have a strong track record of obtaining significant verdicts and settlements in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.
We handle complex claims involving corporations, manufacturers, contractors, insurance companies, and public entities.
Clients work directly with Conor and Leslie and receive clear guidance throughout their case.
We document the full medical, financial, and personal impact of an injury to pursue all available compensation.
Telegraph Canyon Road stands out as one of Chula Vista’s most serious traffic-safety concerns. Police data reported in 2025 showed 365 crashes on the corridor since 2020, including 17 severe injuries and eight deaths. Other heavily traveled roads where serious crashes can occur include Broadway, Main Street, Third Avenue, East H Street, Olympic Parkway, and Otay Lakes Road, along with I-5, I-805, and SR-125.
Not necessarily, but it can affect the investigation. SR-125 is a toll road operated through SANDAG, and a crash may involve not only another driver but also a roadway condition or other issue involving a public entity. If a government entity may be responsible, a formal claim generally must be presented within six months. Toll and other electronic records may also provide useful evidence, so early preservation can be important.
You can pursue a civil claim regardless of whether the driver is separately prosecuted for DUI. Depending on the evidence, an intoxicated driving case may also support punitive damages. California law can impose liability on a licensed alcohol seller that sells alcohol to an obviously intoxicated minor when that sale causes an injury. Chula Vista ranked 5th among California’s 15 largest-city group for alcohol-involved crash victims in the state’s 2023 rankings.
Often, yes. The state recorded 97 injury or fatal hit-and-run collisions in Chula Vista in 2023. If the driver cannot be identified, uninsured motorist coverage may apply, but California imposes special requirements for unknown-driver claims, including prompt reporting. Police reports, surveillance video, dashcam footage, witnesses, and vehicle debris can also help identify the driver.
Get medical care, report the incident, photograph the scene and vehicles if you can, obtain witness information, and preserve any video or other evidence. Avoid giving a recorded statement to the other side’s insurance company before understanding your rights. Our guide to what to do after a car accident explains the process in more detail.
Depending on the case, compensation may include medical expenses, lost earnings, future medical care, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering, and other economic and noneconomic losses. Our guide to compensation for personal injury victims explains the different categories of damages.
The deadline for most California personal injury lawsuits is two years from the date of injury, but important exceptions apply. Claims against cities, counties, state agencies, and other public entities generally require a formal government claim within six months. Read our guide to the personal injury statute of limitations.
Under the San Diego Superior Court’s current filing rules, ordinary limited and unlimited civil cases arising in Chula Vista are filed in the Central Division at the Hall of Justice, 330 West Broadway in downtown San Diego. Although Chula Vista has a South County courthouse at 500 Third Avenue, that location does not currently handle ordinary personal injury civil filings.
We handle personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so there is no upfront attorney fee and you do not pay an attorney fee unless we obtain a recovery for you. Our guide to contingency fees and case costs explains how the arrangement works.

Hulburt Law Firm represents seriously injured people and families throughout Chula Vista, South Bay, and communities across San Diego County.
Simply fill out the form or call 619.821.0500 to receive a free case review. We’ll evaluate what happened, your injuries, and potential defendants to determine how we can best help you.