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Jim Hurley

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Jim Hurley has been practicing for over 30 years in the field of personal injury.  During his career, he has resolved cases worth millions of dollars and helped thousands of clients obtain great results on their cases. Jim has always focused on the goal of providing exceptional client service along with representing his clients so as to compensate them for their injuries as well as all the inconvenience their injuries caused in disrupting their lives.  As managing attorney at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers, Jim encourages every attorney at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers to represent each and every client so as to provide great client service and a great result in their case.
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Jim lives in the downtown area of Norfolk VA, close by the firm’s main office so he can travel at a moment’s notice to the office to help with any client related matter, and lives with his wife, pam, a former Norfolk public school teacher in the field of special education, and has 2 wonderful children, Jimmy and Blair, who are outstanding young adults and dad is very proud of both of his children. Jim grew up in Buffalo, NY and is a huge buffalo bills fan and went west to college at the university of Arizona, bear down, and came to Virginia since his wife is from Lexington VA and settled in the Norfolk area over 30 years ago and , yes, he  still has an up north accent but he does  say “you’all” and  now has assimilated to the south and really enjoys the Virginia area. Jim also has a dog names Bodie who keeps both he and his wife quite busy now that the children are out of the house.

  • J.D., Thomas M. Cooley Law School, 1990
  • B.A., University of Arizona, 1982
  • Listed among VA “Super Lawyers” for personal injury law 2014-2024 (only 5% of lawyers get this listing)
  • Ranked 10 of 10 (“Superb”) by AVVO, a national lawyer assessment service
  • AV Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® : attorney reputation assessment system, showing the highest level of skill and ethics
  • 2019-2023 Top Lawyer by Coastal Virginia Magazine and CoVaBIZ
  • Recognized by Lawyers of Distinction for work in Personal Injury Law, 2021-2024
  • Virginia Business Legal Elite: Civil Litigation, 2023
  • National Trial Lawyers Top 100 list, 2019, 2021
  • National Trial Lawyers Motor Vehicle Membership, 2018
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
  • Florida, 1998
  • Virginia, 1990
  • American Association for Justice
  • American Bar Association
  • Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
  • Virginia Beach Bar Association
  • Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association

Accidents, Automobile Accidents, Automobile Negligence, Bicycle Accidents, Boating Accidents, Bodily Injury, Brain Injury, Bus Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Construction Accidents, Dog Bites, Head Injury, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Pedestrian Injuries, School Bus Accidents, Severe Burns, Slip and Fall, Spinal Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Truck Accidents, Unintended Acceleration, Whiplash, Premises Liability, Hit and Run

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