Irvine Personal Injury Attorney Wins Millions for the Injured

In Southern California, thousands of people are regularly injured through no fault of their own, instantly turning their lives upside down. 

When tragedy strikes, the injured turn to Ed Flores, an Irvine personal injury attorney who gives them the one thing they need above all: hope. 

Whether it’s an accident or injury, when people dial Ed at 714-769-1200, they hear the sound of hope coming through the other line.  

Having won millions of dollars for his injured clients, Ed knows how to right a wrong, and thrives on helping those that have become helpless, all for one good reason: he can relate to your story. 

Indeed, it’s his own history that made Flores thrive on working so hard for injury victims. His father was paralyzed for more than thirty years.  

Flores grew up riding motorcycles. He had inherited this love for a bike and the open road from his father. Like any biker, Flores’s dad was involved in a few crashes.  

Then the last crash came. Flores still remembers his family gathering up all of their resources, what little there was at the time, to visit a hospital in Wyoming and find out if his dad was going to make it.  

Flores’s dad survived, but at the cost of his mobility. He would never walk again. At first, Flores was simply happy that his dad had pulled through.  

Then he and his family discovered the reality of paralysis. His father could no longer do any of the things he loved. He couldn’t even go to the bathroom by himself. 

Flores stayed at home to help his family during the earliest stages of this adjustment. They did it with no financial help and no disability insurance. With few resources before the accident, and even fewer after, the family was completely on their own. 

Flores saw his family in all of the families he came across while practicing at a high-powered law firm. He wanted to be on the other side of the table. He wanted to make a difference. It was time to make a change.  

From personal experience, he knew that living your best life with paralysis or other injuries was expensive and time-consuming. Families like his own would have to remodel their home, buy specialized vehicles, and get the best medical care, all of which was prohibitively expensive without help from insurance or a settlement. He wanted to help people receive the compensation that could go toward their best possible life.  

At the time, Flores assessed his skills and realized he didn’t have the trial experience to make his client’s get the justice they deserved. He knew the best place to gain that experience would be in criminal law. When he received an offer from the Orange County District Attorney’s office, he leaped at the chance. 

Flores loved working as a prosecutor. He was regularly in trial, directly helping the most vulnerable members of our society get justice. He had initially planned to stay in criminal law for three years, but as his cases became more challenging, he realized there was more to learn. 

He rose to top-level prosecutor, taking the toughest cases, helping those hit hardest by unfair circumstances. He saw himself as a true defender of the victims of society’s worst crimes. In his desire to defend the voiceless, he also became a criminal defense attorney, helping the falsely accused or those whose alleged crime has been overcharged.  

But his real dream never went away. He wanted to help those who had been injured by others start their new life on the best possible footing. He took everything he had learned on the other side of the table and in criminal law and brought that into his true calling.  

As an Orange County personal injury attorney, Flores has recovered millions for his clients across cities like Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Huntington Beach. But he doesn’t focus on the numbers like it’s some kind of scoreboard.  

Flores says, “The truth is that every client victory is big, because it is big for the client.” Even a $15,000 win can be the difference between homelessness and security for a client. Flores understands that he has the privilege of representing people and helping them during one of the most difficult challenges they will ever face. 

Flores believes in the dignity of the individual, and because of that, he’s taken on cases others thought were hopeless. One of his most treasured client victories was after a client’s devastating injury due to a car collision.  

There was a big question that threatened to destroy the case: was it the car crash that caused the injury, or was it a pre-existing condition? Before filing the case, Flores sent the information to a renowned expert in the field who he usually worked with. 

The expert told him, “Don’t file. You don’t have a case.” 

He told Flores to walk away. But Flores couldn’t do it.  

Flores was tempted to reject the case, but he felt that if he could not secure justice for his client, no one else would take the case, and they would be left to suffer alone. He knew his client and his client’s wife, who had both suffered greatly from the accident. He knew they were good people who deserved a chance.  

For a year and a half, Flores educated himself on his client’s condition and spoke with experts on a national scale. His effort paid off.  

He filed the case, prepared for trial, but the defendant settled. His client went from a hopeless struggle to millions of dollars.  

Flores understood these clients because his family had been in their shoes. He knows how frightening it can be to struggle against a life-changing injury, and how a lack of financial resources can make it feel even more impossible. He understands his clients because he’s seen poverty first-hand, as well as financial security, and he knows from personal experience what a difference it makes to have funds. 

“At the end of the day, the practice of law is about people.” Flores’s diverse life experience, as well as superb legal career, helps him communicate not only with clients of any background, but jurors as well. He takes pride in being real with jurors when making his case. 

“This is what I most want them to know: I am not there to lie, to cheat, to take advantage. I am there to make an honest difference in my client’s life, and I am asking them to do the same.”