Preparation is the leverage.
A carrier does not raise its number because you asked nicely. It raises the number when its own valuation model says a jury is a worse outcome than paying you. Everything this office does is aimed at that calculation.
We know how
the other side
values you.
Marisol Rivera spent four years defending insurance carriers before she opened this office. That is where she learned exactly how a claim gets devalued, and by whom.
$418.6M Recovered for clients
Recovered for clients
Settlements and verdicts since 1999
214 Cases tried to verdict
Cases tried to verdict
Across Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties
4 Attorneys, by choice
Attorneys, by choice
Fewer files, more preparation per file
27 Years on injury work
Years on injury work
And nothing else
Four things this office believes
Not a values page. These are the four decisions that actually change what happens to a file here, and every one of them costs us something.
The client decides.
We give you a number, an honest read on the risk and a recommendation. Then it is your call. We have gone to trial on cases we advised settling, and we have settled cases we would have loved to try.
Nobody is billed while they are hurt.
No retainer, no hourly rate, no invoice arriving during physical therapy. We front the case costs. If there is no recovery, we absorb them.
Volume is the enemy of outcome.
We take a fraction of the cases that call us. A firm running 900 open files is a settlement mill with a marketing budget, and every carrier in Arizona knows exactly which firms those are.
No fee unless we winAnswered 24 hours
Twenty-seven years, in five moments
- 1999
Rivera Trial Group opens
Marisol Rivera leaves insurance defence work and opens a two-person office on North Central Avenue.
- 2007
First eight-figure verdict
A $12.1M product liability verdict changes what carriers open at across the practice.
- 2014
Commercial vehicle practice
Rafael Ocampo joins and builds the truck and carrier practice around federal safety regulations.
- 2021
Catastrophic injury unit
Danielle Okonkwo brings a clinical background and the life care planning practice in-house.
- 2026
Where it stands
$418.6M recovered, 214 cases tried, and still four attorneys by choice rather than by circumstance.
Marisol Rivera
Rafael Ocampo
Danielle Okonkwo
Grant MihalekTwenty minutes, and you will know where you stand
Free, confidential, and about twenty minutes. No fee unless we win.