UCLA Law Trained Injury Lawyers in Westwood
If you were injured in Westwood, the insurance company on the other side of your claim isn't neutral. They assigned an adjuster before you left the hospital. Their job, specifically, is to pay as little as possible: questioning your injuries, disputing who was at fault, or making a fast offer before you know what your case is actually worth.
The attorney you hire in the next few days matters more than most people realize, not just for your settlement amount, but for whether critical evidence gets preserved, whether all responsible parties get named, and whether the medical record supporting your claim gets built correctly from the start.
Three Years of Law School in This Neighborhood
I spent three years at UCLA Law, which sits at the north end of Westwood, and I am back here every week now that our office is on Glendon. This is the rare neighborhood where I am not learning the area from a map. I know what the Village is like when school is in session and what it is like in August, and I know the difference matters when you are trying to work out what a street looked like on the day someone got hurt.
Why Your Case Is Different
This is the local knowledge that shapes how we approach your case from day one: the courts where it will be heard, the roads where it happened, the properties with prior incident history. Most firms would need to look this up.
The overwhelming majority of recorded collisions here happen at San Diego Freeway interchanges rather than on Village streets. Wilshire, Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevard all cross the 405 inside this neighborhood, and those crossings account for most of the injury crashes on record.
Wilshire Boulevard carries Westside commuter traffic alongside hospital and university trips. That mix produces a different collision pattern than a purely residential corridor, and it affects which insurers and which commercial policies end up involved.
Pedestrian and cyclist volume in Westwood rises and falls with the UCLA term. A claim arising near the campus in October looks different from the same intersection in July, and that difference is worth documenting early.
Westwood Accident Statistics
Crash Types
Most Dangerous Intersections
2 of 10 top crash intersections are on streets the City of Los Angeles designated as part of the High Injury Network — the 6% of city streets responsible for roughly 70% of all traffic deaths and severe injuries.
Recent Crashes
View all crash reports in Westwood →Most Firms Will Take Your Case.
Few Will Actually Fight For It.
From the moment a claim is filed, the other side is building a case against yours. Adjusters document inconsistencies, make early offers designed to be accepted, and count on injured people to take less than they deserve. Most personal injury firms respond by loading up their docket: you get assigned to a paralegal, your calls go unanswered, and your case settles fast because the firm needs to move on.
We built Westwood Law differently.
- You talk to a founding partner. Not intake staff, not a junior associate. A UCLA-trained attorney who handles your case personally from first call to resolution.
- We limit our caseload on purpose. More cases means less attention. We take fewer so every client gets the time and resources their case actually requires.
- We don't settle until the number is right. Insurance companies know which firms fold early. We're not one of them, and they know it.
Evidence fades. Deadlines are real. The sooner you have an attorney building your case, the better your position. This is our personal commitment to every client we take on.
What We Know About Westwood That Affects Your Case
- UCLA and its medical centers:A campus population in the tens of thousands plus two major hospitals means heavy pedestrian, cyclist and rideshare volume concentrated in a small area. Claims here frequently involve institutional defendants and commercial policies rather than individual drivers.
- The Wilshire high-rise corridor:One of the densest concentrations of residential towers in Los Angeles, with the parking structures, driveways and valet operations that come with them. Premises and backing-collision claims in this corridor usually involve professional property management and their insurers.
- Westwood Village:A 1920s planned commercial district built for the campus, with short blocks, heavy foot traffic and constant loading activity. Right-of-way and visibility are the recurring disputes in pedestrian claims here.
"Arya and Aja helped get closure for my family. Arya guided us through a stressful time in my family's life. I would highly recommend Arya's law firm."
Where Crashes Concentrate in Westwood
Local road patterns determine what evidence we seek, which defendants we name, and how we frame fault. These are the corridors in Westwood where crashes concentrate.
- highI-405 & Wilshire Boulevard
The single highest collision count in Westwood on current CHP records. A full interchange carrying freeway ramp movements across a major commuter boulevard, with a meaningful share of the crashes producing injuries.
- highI-405 & Sunset Boulevard
Northbound and southbound ramps meeting a curving arterial with limited sightlines. Consistently among the highest crash counts in the neighborhood.
- highI-405 & Santa Monica Boulevard
A high proportion of the collisions recorded at this interchange involve reported injuries, higher than the neighborhood average.
- moderateSepulveda Boulevard & Wilshire Boulevard
The busiest surface-street intersection in the area, carrying traffic that parallels the 405 and feeds the Wilshire corridor.
Types of Injury Cases We Handle in Westwood
Every case type below requires different evidence, different defendants, and a different legal strategy. Select yours for a page built specifically around your situation in Westwood.
Car Accidents
Freeway interchange collisions along the 405 and surface-street crashes on Wilshire, Sepulveda and Santa Monica Boulevard
Pedestrian Accidents
Right-of-way and visibility disputes in Westwood Village and along the Wilshire corridor
Bicycle Accidents
Campus-adjacent cycling volume meeting arterial traffic, particularly during the academic year
Uber & Lyft Accidents
Heavy rideshare volume serving the campus, the Village and the medical centers
What Happens After You Contact Us
An attorney who knows this neighborhood can handle the insurance company so you can concentrate on recovering.
Tell us what happened
A short conversation, free, with an attorney rather than an intake screener.
We preserve the evidence
Interchange collisions often turn on ramp signage, sightlines and vehicle positions that stop being documentable within weeks.
We build the medical record
We make sure your treatment is documented in a way that supports the claim rather than undercutting it.
Contact Westwood Law
The sooner we're involved, the better we can preserve evidence and protect your claim.
Recent Results
Past outcomes don't guarantee future results, but they show what's possible when evidence is preserved and all defendants are pursued.
Auto versus government entity settlement.
Slip and fall at major retailer.
Slip and fall at major retailer.
Complex auto vs auto case.
Mr. Arya Firoozmand and his team are excellent personal injury attorneys. They handled my motor vehicle accident case professionally, coordinated my medical care, and dealt with the at-fault driver's insurance efficiently.
Helped now on three different occasions, recently for my brother who broke his arm in a car accident. Have referred Curt to at least three other people.
We turned to Westwood Law for assistance in resolving a wrongful termination dispute, and we are exceedingly pleased with the level of professionalism, expertise, and compassion.
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