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You should never settle for less than you deserve. The price for pain is infinite, and that’s why we will fight for full and fair compensation for you.
Relentless. Fierce. Passionate.
Havens Injury Law has a proven reputation for never settling for a penny less than the full value of your case. The insurance companies - and their attorneys - know this. Our firm was founded on the principle that the client always comes first. We work with you to fully understand your story, communicate your story, so that the insurance company effectively understands your harm, and how your injury affects every aspect of your life. We know that personalized representation yields extraordinary results.
We understand that this can be a stressful time both financially and mentally. However, rest assured that you are in good hands with our team. At Havens Injury Law, we believe in bringing compassion, humanity and understanding to this difficult and stressful process. You focus on your recovery…we’ll handle the rest.
Sarah Havens
Managing Partner & Trial Lawyer
Sarah Havens is an experienced first chair trial lawyer, law firm partner and CEO, with a proven track record for obtaining exceptional results for thousands of accident injury victims. From day one, Sarah’s sole legal work has been to fight for the rights of injured victims against insurance companies, corporations, and governmental entities.
Sarah is constantly recognized as one of the top lawyers in her field and regularly receives awards for her work. Sarah has been published numerous times in a variety of legal publications, regularly speaks at legal seminars on Personal Injury topics, and teaches other attorneys how to try personal injury cases. Sarah is a faculty teacher for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). She is on the Board of Directors and the Education Chair for the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (San Diego’s Plaintiff’s Trial Lawyers Bar), and a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College. Sarah is well recognized and respected in San Diego’s legal community. Notable results include $1,000,000.00 (low speed rear-end auto accident/neck injury); $1,300,000.00 (staircase fall/spine & brain injury); $1,550,000.00 (bike accident/brain injury); $1,300,000.00 (auto accident/brain injury); $1,000,000.00 (trucking case/subsequent stroke).
Sarah brings her energy and excitement for life to her cases to help understand her clients’ loss of enjoyment of life. Sarah is a wife, mother, trial lawyer and businesswoman. Prior to becoming a trial lawyer, Sarah competed on the professional snowboard contest circuit in Slopestyle. (Then Sarah Mose.) Today Sarah is an avid runner, surfer, snowboarder, hiker. She enjoys family desert trips in the RV where they enjoy riding dirt bikes, quads, RZRs (Side by Side) and the outdoors. She also enjoys mountain trips and skiing with her husband and 4-year-old son.
I'd like to say that Sarah Havens and her team went above and beyond to get my Car accident and medical stuff handled with little to no work on my part. I had so many problems with my insurance company settlement it was a disaster but Sarah took care of everything for me and she would really dig deep, make calls and and find any way to help me threw the difficult times of the Pandemic, she had a baby and still got my case settled and i’m very happy and thankful for everything she did for me.
— David K.
Awards & Accolades
• The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, August 2022
• San Diego Top Attorneys – Personal Injury, San Diego Reader Magazine, May 2021
• Lawyers of Distinction, 2021
• Super Lawyer Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2017- Present
• CASD Past Presidents Award, 2020
• Master Advocate Delegation, National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), 2020
• Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers, 2016
• Best of the Bar, San Diego Business Journal, March 2016
• Top 10 San Diego Attorney Award, Personal Injury, San Diego Daily Transcript, July 2015
• 10.0 “Superb” Avvo Rating, 2015- Present
Publications & Speaking Engagements
• “Motions in Limine,” Wallace In of Court, November 2022
• “Ownership, Control and Trivial Defects in Pedestrian Cases,” FORUM Publication, January 2022
• “Trial Skills Workshop; Mini Opening & Voir Dire,” CAOC Sonoma Conference, March 2022
• “Everything You Should Know to Win Sidewalk Cases,” TBI Med Legal, September 2022
• “Masters Roundtable,” CASD Law Pain Bone & Brain Conference, October 2022
• “Winning Your TBI Case at Intake,” TBI Med Legal, September 2021
• “Jury Trials, Voir Dire, and Damages in a Post-Covid World,” CASD, June 2021
• Bar Bites with Sarah Allison Havens,” Bar Bites Podcast, March 2021
• “Remote Mediations: Covid and Beyond,” Wallace Inn of Court, January 2021
• Obtaining High Value Settlements in Quarantine,” CASD, December 2020
• Suing Public Entities; Legal Twists & Turns,” CASD, June 2020
• “Spy the Lie – Body Language Secrets for Trial Lawyers,” CASD, March 2020
• Demonstrative Evidence,” CASD, February 2019
• “Owning Your Practice; Business Development,” Wallace Inn of Court, October 2019
• “Blazing Your Own Trail,” CASD Convention Conference, November 2018
• “Trial Experience for New Lawyers,” Consumer Attorneys of San Diego Panelist, September 2017
• “Experts in Opening Statements,” Enright Inn of Court Panelist, December 2015
• “Tips for CCP 998 Offers,” FORUM Magazine publication, May 2015
• “Post-Trial Motions,” Enright Inn of Court Panelist, April 2015
• “Opening Statements,” Wallace Inn of Court Panelist, May 2014
• “Trial Lawyer Careers,” University of San Diego School of Law, November 2014 & 2015
• “Effective Uses of Motions in Limine,” FORUM Magazine publication, May 2012
Education & Experience
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRIAL ADVOCACY
NITA Faculty Instructor and Lecturer, January 2017 – Present
Lectures include: “Opening Statements,” “Impeachment & Refreshing Recollection,”
“Theory Testing,” “Cross Examination,”
Articulate Advocate, Bolder, CA, November 2017
Teacher Training Certification; San Francisco, November 2016
Pacific Regional 8 Day Trial Workshop Seminar, October 2012
University of San Diego 6 Week Post Graduate Oral Advocacy Seminar, September 2012
Pacific Deposition Skills, January 2013 & April 2013
SAN DIEGO INN OF COURT
Annual College of Trial Advocacy, 5 Week Trial Practice Program, Faculty, October 2022
Evidence Advocacy Workshop, Faculty, September 2022
GERRY SPENCE’S TRIAL LAWYERS COLLEGE
Graduate II, August 2016
Three Week Graduate Course, July 2015
California Regional: Voir Dire, Direct, Cross Examination, Opening, 2013 - 2017
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW, San Diego, CA
Juris Doctor with Civil Litigation Concentration, May 2011
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Diego, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, May 2007
