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Mitch Vilos is a prominent Utah personal injury trial lawyer.
He has the notable distinction of being a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for having obtained numerous six and seven figure recoveries for his injured clients involving tractor-trailer accidents, car and motorcycle accidents, birth injuries, medical malpractice, product liability, and on-the-job injuries. His focus has been on brain, spinal cord, burns and other serious injuries, including those caused by firearms.

He has been nominated by his peers (attorneys, judges) as one of Utah's Top Lawyers for 2008 & 2009 as reported in Utah Business Magazine.

Mr. Vilos is a graduate of J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. He has practiced law since 1978.

Mr. Vilos' law practice focuses on primarily two areas of law, representing accident victims and handling criminal cases involving self-defense and weapons charges.

He has authored and co-authored articles relating to personal injury litigation and insurance law in legal publications such as the Utah State Bar Journal and Utah Trial Lawyers Journal.

He is the author of Utah Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly, Utah Gun Law II: Pancho's Wisdom, Utah Gun Law, 3rd ed. and the Self-Defense Laws of All 50 States.

 





A member of the Million Dollar
Advocates Forum

Free initial legal consultation
in all personal injury cases.

Personal injury cases accepted
on contingency basis
(no recovery/no fee).

Access to a vast network
of resources available through
trial lawyer's organizations*

A member of the Utah
Association for Justice (UAJ).**

Call toll free
1-800-530-0222.



*Some cases involve associating with other nationally recognized law firms. ** The UAJ is formerly the
Utah Trial Lawyers Association (UTLA).


Mr. Vilos has participated in educating the public, including on radio and television, about legal topics such as negligence law, medical malpractice, insurance law, representing people with traumatic brain injuries, constitutional law, self-defense and firearms law.


 

Extensive Case Experience Involving...

  • Car, semi-truck, and motorcycle.
  • Medical malpractice including birth injuries, breast cancer, failure to resuscitate newborn, failure to timely diagnose pneumonia, failure to diagnose an aneurysm, failure to heart monitor, leaving surgical sponges in a patient and negligent chiropractic treatment.
  • Product liability including defective vehicle design, failure to warn of dangerous conditions such as carbon monoxide in boats, defective boat shower, flammable fabrics, inadequate guarding on industrial equipment.
  • Industrial accidents, inadequate scaffolding, defective equipment, dangerous building design.
  • Failure to maintain rental premises in a safe condition.
  • Domestic animal attacks.
  • Negligent security.
  • Negligent handling of firearms.

 

 

Representative Verdicts & Settlements

  • 5.5 Million wrongful death, truck accident.
  • 2.1 Million for back injury caused by sheet rock collapse.
  • 2.4 Million against federal government for infant improperly resuscitated shortly after birth.
  • Million dollar birth injury cases.
  • Many six figure recoveries in medical malpractice, product liability, and vehicle accident cases.

 

 

Extensive Research Resources

  • Extensive experience researching and presenting medical evidence.
  • Medical issues illustrated with state-of-the-art computer-aided graphics.
  • Years of experience working with police investigators and medical professionals who are vital in the preparation of medical-legal cases.
  • Limited caseload as a result of stringent acceptance standards assures more time devoted to your case. This, in turn, increases the chances of a maximum recovery.

 

 

James D. "Mitch" Vilos

Attorney at LawPersonal InjuryAuthor
Call (801) 295-3340, M-F, 9-5, MST
Toll Free 1-800-530-0222
P.O. Box 1148, Centerville, UT 84014

"After I had a serious injury, I made the mistake of going to one of the huge law firms that advertise on TV. After they collected the small liability limit of the person who injured me and collected an easy fee, the case against the next level of insurance became much more challenging.

They suggested I settle for an amount I felt was unfairly small. Eventually, they would not return my phone calls.

I fired them and hired Mr. Vilos. By filing suit and working hard he was able to obtain NINE TIMES what the insurance company
had previously
offered the
TV advertisers!"

- Greg D.

This is the
most important book
ever written for
anyone who might
be forced to defend
him or herself.

If you violate a firearm possession law, you might be charged with a low-level felony. But, if you kill or injure someone WITHOUT LEGAL JUSTIFICATION, you could lose everything or end up doing life in prison like the hapless neighborhood watchman whose plight is described in shocking detail in Chapter 2. Don't let this happen to you!