Brian Turner has spent his entire life showing up for people when it mattered most. Long before he was an attorney, he was the kid who fought through adversity and became a resilient human. It also made him a guardian figure for the people he cared about most, and that instinct never left.
“I’m really bad at taking money from people. Very good at taking money from insurance companies.”
That instinct lives in the way Brian shows up for his community every day — through Single Mom Strong, the Shaping Sacramento Scholarship, Leadership Sacramento, coaching, the Crocker Riverside Parent Teacher Organization, and Social Venture Partners. And it lives in every case he has ever taken on: to be a voice for someone. To listen. To tell their story. To fight hard and stand up for them.
The missed appointments. The invisible injuries. The choices that look imperfect on paper. Brian does not see those as problems. He sees them as the truth. And the truth, no matter how messy, is always worth fighting for.
Brian’s clients describe him as someone who actually listens. He calls empathy and listening the superpowers of his practice. He will give clients the hard truth — what’s strong about a case, what’s complicated, what the realistic path looks like — and then he and the client craft the game plan together to get the care and the outcome the client deserves.
Brian focuses his practice on serious injury — trucking accidents, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and the personal injury cases that change the course of a family’s life. He has obtained favorable results for his clients in state and federal courts, in front of both bench and jury trials. Recent results include a $1.5 million policy limits recovery in a wrongful death case involving a pedestrian struck by a vehicle, a $1.25 million settlement on behalf of a client seriously injured in a dog attack, a $1.25 million settlement for a client injured in a t-bone collision, and a confidential seven-figure settlement for a worker severely burned in a cannabis extraction facility explosion. The cases are different. The thread connecting them is the same: clients who came to Brian after another firm turned them down or after they tried to handle things alone, and who deserved more than they were originally offered.
Brian once represented an elderly woman whose daily ritual was a five-mile walk. Every. Single. Day. On one of those walks, an elderly man made a right turn and failed to see her in the crosswalk. He was driving slowly, but he knocked her over and fractured her tibia. She couldn’t walk for months. She felt ongoing pain. The case wasn’t large in dollar terms. But Brian met with her every month — drove to her house, sat on her couch, had tea, and listened. The recovery she received mattered. But what she still talks about is the lifelong friendship that came out of a hard year. That’s what this firm tries to be.
“I’ll tell you the hard truth. I’ll tell you the problems and together we craft the game plan to get the care that you deserve.”
That track record is one reason other attorneys — in personal injury and outside of it — consistently refer their hardest cases to Brian. He has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022) for his work in personal injury.
Trial readiness is the foundation of Brian’s practice — not a sales line, but a year-round commitment. He trains regularly at small-group trial intensives with Sari de la Motte, a nationally recognized trial communication expert whose work focuses specifically on how plaintiff lawyers connect with juries. The training is rigorous: multi-day sessions, video review of his own performance, direct feedback from peers, and deliberate work on the parts of trial practice most lawyers avoid. He does this work because the settlement value of any case is set by whether the lawyer behind it can actually try it. When one of his clients needs a courtroom, he is ready.
Brian is a native Californian, a third-generation attorney, and a graduate of Chapman University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude in the top 10% of his class. While at Chapman, he earned CALI Awards for the highest grade in Legal Research and Writing I, Legal Research and Writing II, and Contracts. He served as Managing Editor of the Nexus Journal of Law and Policy and as a member of the Moot Court Board, and was a founding member of the Chapman Trial Attorney Group. He earned his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz, where he continues to help both current and future banana slugs.
He lives in Sacramento with his wife Meredith, an advocate for public higher education, and their son Liam. In his spare time you’ll find him spending time with his wife and son, or on a Pilates mat. He cherishes watching his kid play sports. He loves eating food and being outdoors. He is a proud fan of the 49ers, the Giants, and the UCLA Bruins. He also now loves the Sacramento Kings, because his son loves them.
Brian Turner has spent his entire life showing up for people when it mattered most. Long before he was an attorney, he was the kid who fought through adversity and became a resilient human. It also made him a guardian figure for the people he cared about most, and that instinct never left.
“I’m really bad at taking money from people. Very good at taking money from insurance companies.”
That instinct lives in the way Brian shows up for his community every day — through Single Mom Strong, the Shaping Sacramento Scholarship, Leadership Sacramento, coaching, the Crocker Riverside Parent Teacher Organization, and Social Venture Partners. And it lives in every case he has ever taken on: to be a voice for someone. To listen. To tell their story. To fight hard and stand up for them.
The missed appointments. The invisible injuries. The choices that look imperfect on paper. Brian does not see those as problems. He sees them as the truth. And the truth, no matter how messy, is always worth fighting for.
Brian’s clients describe him as someone who actually listens. He calls empathy and listening the superpowers of his practice. He will give clients the hard truth — what’s strong about a case, what’s complicated, what the realistic path looks like — and then he and the client craft the game plan together to get the care and the outcome the client deserves.
Brian focuses his practice on serious injury — trucking accidents, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and the personal injury cases that change the course of a family’s life. He has obtained favorable results for his clients in state and federal courts, in front of both bench and jury trials. Recent results include a $1.5 million policy limits recovery in a wrongful death case involving a pedestrian struck by a vehicle, a $1.25 million settlement on behalf of a client seriously injured in a dog attack, a $1.25 million settlement for a client injured in a t-bone collision, and a confidential seven-figure settlement for a worker severely burned in a cannabis extraction facility explosion. The cases are different. The thread connecting them is the same: clients who came to Brian after another firm turned them down or after they tried to handle things alone, and who deserved more than they were originally offered.
Brian once represented an elderly woman whose daily ritual was a five-mile walk. Every. Single. Day. On one of those walks, an elderly man made a right turn and failed to see her in the crosswalk. He was driving slowly, but he knocked her over and fractured her tibia. She couldn’t walk for months. She felt ongoing pain. The case wasn’t large in dollar terms. But Brian met with her every month — drove to her house, sat on her couch, had tea, and listened. The recovery she received mattered. But what she still talks about is the lifelong friendship that came out of a hard year. That’s what this firm tries to be.
“I’ll tell you the hard truth. I’ll tell you the problems and together we craft the game plan to get the care that you deserve.”
That track record is one reason other attorneys — in personal injury and outside of it — consistently refer their hardest cases to Brian. He has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022) for his work in personal injury.
Trial readiness is the foundation of Brian’s practice — not a sales line, but a year-round commitment. He trains regularly at small-group trial intensives with Sari de la Motte, a nationally recognized trial communication expert whose work focuses specifically on how plaintiff lawyers connect with juries. The training is rigorous: multi-day sessions, video review of his own performance, direct feedback from peers, and deliberate work on the parts of trial practice most lawyers avoid. He does this work because the settlement value of any case is set by whether the lawyer behind it can actually try it. When one of his clients needs a courtroom, he is ready.
Brian is a native Californian, a third-generation attorney, and a graduate of Chapman University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude in the top 10% of his class. While at Chapman, he earned CALI Awards for the highest grade in Legal Research and Writing I, Legal Research and Writing II, and Contracts. He served as Managing Editor of the Nexus Journal of Law and Policy and as a member of the Moot Court Board, and was a founding member of the Chapman Trial Attorney Group. He earned his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz, where he continues to help both current and future banana slugs.
He lives in Sacramento with his wife Meredith, an advocate for public higher education, and their son Liam. In his spare time you’ll find him spending time with his wife and son, or on a Pilates mat. He cherishes watching his kid play sports. He loves eating food and being outdoors. He is a proud fan of the 49ers, the Giants, and the UCLA Bruins. He also now loves the Sacramento Kings, because his son loves them.
Brian has been privileged to represent plaintiffs in a wide variety of personal injury cases, including wrongful death, premises liability, slip and fall, auto accident, bicycle accident, motorcycle accident, trucking accident, and governmental tort liability. He has obtained favorable results for his clients in both state and federal courts and in front of both bench and jury trials. He focuses his practice on serious injury.
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