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.

• Car, Boat, Truck, Motorcycle and Pedestrian Accidents
• Vaccine Injury

• 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

California

Since 1983

Nevada

Since 1981

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

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

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

Nevada Justice Association

Member

2009 - Current

State Bar of Nevada

Chair, Publications and CLE, Probate Section

2009 - Current

Las Vegas Rotary West

Member

2008 - Current

Clark County District Court

Court Appointed Part-Time Arbitrator

2008 - Current

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

Q. Need proba need a probate attorney for administrator of will in Fallon Nevada Churchill county

January 22, 2024

A: You should state the value of the estate. For real estate the value is what it would sell for--the Court accepts Zillow.com--minus the mortgage. The reason the value is important is because there are different probate procedures for different values estates. (If no real estate and value under $25,000 you can handle this by affidavit w/o a lawyer, if under $100,000 estate value with or without real estate, there is one procedure (Set Aside W/O Administration), if under $300,000, Summary Administration, if over $300,000 General Administration. Also, you state that you are an Administrator under the Will. Technically if the Will names you to serve, you are an Executor, not an Administrator. This matters because an Executor does not need to be a NV resident but an Administrator needs either to be a NV resident OR to work with a NV resident Co-Administrator. Finally, you should state if the there is any contest to the Will for the reason that a Las Vegas based attorney such as myself will be glad to do uncontested probates in any NV county, but if the probate is contested your are better off with a local attorney in that or a neighboring county who knows the judge(s) and the likely opposing counsel. ... Read More

Q. My father died. his bank account which on all of them only assets. I’m only child. Mother dead. what to do?

January 12, 2024

A: You don't say what state your father was a resident of. The state he was a resident of when he died determines which state law controls the distribution of his assets that are NOT real estate. The details of probate law vary from state to state. If I understand your questions correctly, there is $37K which does not have a beneficiary or a joint owner. If he died a Nevada resident, you would hire a lawyer to file a Petition to Set Aside Estate Without Administration. In some other states you might be able to obtain that account by doing an Affidavit which you could probably do without hiring a lawyer.

Q. Can letters of administration in California be transferred or filed in Nevada instead of filing a new probate petition.

November 3, 2023

A: If your father owned real estate in Nevada, an ancillary Nevada probate must be opened. Real estate must always be probated in the state it is located in. If the Nevada property is bank accounts, then the California Letters will work.