Practice of Joseph Younes
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Trial Attorney · Los Angeles · California
Est. 2019
When the trucking company’s lawyers are already at the scene, you need yours there too. You need a trial-ready advocate prepared to fight for you from day one.
A commercial truck collision differs from a typical car accident. It involves litigation against a company, one that often has insurers, defense counsel, and investigators responding soon after an incident to begin building its own record of what happened.
The records that determine liability in these cases don’t stay available indefinitely. Electronic logging data, the engine control module, dispatch and hours-of-service logs, maintenance histories, and driver qualification files are all subject to retention windows, and some are routinely overwritten unless a preservation demand is filed in time.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations govern hours of service, driver qualification, inspection, and maintenance. A violation is often the clearest route to liability, and to holding the carrier, not just the driver, responsible.
ELD records, engine-control-module data, dispatch logs, and GPS history tell the truth about speed, hours, and fatigue when the driver’s account doesn’t, provided they’re preserved in time.
These defendants are typically well-resourced and litigate hard from the first call. The case is documented to a standard built to hold up under aggressive motion practice and trial, since that is where it may end up.
Interstate carriers frequently place these cases in U.S. federal court. Discovery there has its own rules and deadlines, and benefits from counsel who has tried cases to verdict in that venue, not only settled them.
