The Henke Law Group

The Henke Law Group is an informal association of some of the very most highly regarded trial lawyers and law firms serving California and most states of the United States. The Group is made up of lawyers who have distinguished ourselves in personal injury litigation and as the result have become highly respected in our legal communities and among the lawyer members of our state and local and national trial lawyers associations. Most of the lawyers in the Group are present and former Presidents of their state trial lawyers associations, and the others are either present or former Presidents or governors of their state or local or national trial lawyers associations, many of them distinguished in particular areas of trial practice. The Henke Law Group attorneys consider that we can most effectively serve those with serious injury claims by doing our best to assure that the potential clients who contact the Henke Law Group are referred to attorneys who are very highly qualified, experienced and respected among the lawyers and trial lawyer associations in the state or community in which the clients injuries have occurred. To achieve this goal, the attorneys of the Henke Law Group commonly refer cases to others in the Group where the particular client's case arises outside their preferred geographic area or subject matter of their practice or to other highly qualified attorneys who we may consider uniquely experienced in a particular legal subject matter.

We are not a "lawyer referral service" or state or county bar association approved referral service, nor otherwise do we represent ourselves as a lawyer referral service or consider our legal practice properly characterized by the term "lawyer referral service," notwithstanding that where members of the Group consider that other attorneys may be more appropriately located or qualified in a particular subject matter we will attempt to assure that the prospective clients who contact us are referred to appropriately qualified legal counsel. The Henke Law Office is a law firm headed by California trial attorney, Ray Henke, whose legal qualifications are described on the substantive practice areas pages of this web site, and the Henke Law Office will consider representing clients within our practice areas throughout the state of California. We will also consider representing clients in some cases which fall within certain of our areas of practice, such as pharmaceutical product liability litigation and food poisoning outbreak litigation, in other states, including in class action litigation, when we are contacted by out of state attorneys seeking our association as trial attorneys, subject to the state laws and State Bar rules of the particular state, and where we are permitted by the state courts to appear as trial counsel pro hac vice. We have, in certain cases, served as counsel in class actions and and have successfully opposed class action, including federal class actions certified in other states. However, we do not invite potential clients with individual cases or cases potentially falling within certified class actions to contact us, nor will we accept the responsibility as trial lawyers or to refer cases to other lawyers in states where to do so would be in violation of any state law or any state bar rules of professional conduct. We make an effort to remain current on the sometimes quickly evolving state laws and state bar rules pertaining to Internet advertising, and we provide specific disclaimers relative to the particular attorney advertising laws applicable in many states, set forth on our Henke Law Office Legal Notices page, including the recommendation required according to the laws of many states, and certainly also the recommendation of the Henke Law Office, that decisions to chose to engage any particular attorney to represent a client should not be made upon the basis of attorney advertisements but on the basis of a comparison of the credentials of all the attorneys whom the particular client would consider to represent him or her. This is indeed our most important Henke Law Group philosophy, and we strongly encourage potential clients to consider our Henke Law Office credentials and the credentials of Mr. Henke, along with the credentials of all other lawyers and law firms which would be available to represent the client, in arriving at the client's decision to contract for representation in his or her particular case.