Jared J. Pehrson built Impact Legal in 2018 after his own car accident, and the Phoenix firm he founded is now the youngest in this series — a direct contrast to the 40-to-90-year-old institutions that dominate the rest of the profiles.
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At a Glance
| FIRM | Impact Legal Car Accident Attorneys |
| FOUNDED | 2018, Phoenix; founding attorney Jared J. Pehrson (per the firm) |
| LEADERSHIP | Jared J. Pehrson, Founding Attorney |
| OFFICES | 16202 N. Cave Creek Road, Suite D, Phoenix, AZ 85032 |
| PRACTICE FOCUS | Personal injury: car, truck, and motorcycle accidents; dog bites; wrongful death; pedestrian accidents |
| SIGNATURE EDGE | A recently-founded, single-attorney-led firm whose founder was himself injured in a car accident — and a direct-access model where the same attorney handles a client’s file throughout |
| LICENSED IN | Arizona and New Mexico (per the firm) |
| TRACK RECORD | Firm reports having “recovered millions of dollars” for clients since 2019 (per the firm) |
| AREAS SERVED | Phoenix, Peoria, Avondale, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, AZ, and Albuquerque, NM (per the firm) |
| CONTACT | (602) 345-1818 · impact-legal.com |
Most firms in this series were founded decades ago by attorneys who spent years on the defense side before switching to plaintiff’s work. Impact Legal inverts that pattern twice over: it is the newest firm profiled in this project, founded in 2018, and its founder’s motivation traces not to a defense-side career but to his own experience as an injured accident victim. This profile examines a Phoenix personal injury practice built at a fraction of the age of its peers in this series.
Origin: A Founder Who Needed the Service He Now Provides
Jared J. Pehrson founded Impact Legal Car Accident Attorneys in Phoenix, describing the firm’s purpose as being built “to help those injured and their families through tragedy,” per his own biography. What distinguishes Pehrson’s origin story from every other founder profiled in this series is a detail he volunteers in his own words on the firm’s “About” page: “Not long after graduating high school, I was involved in a car accident that ended in a lawsuit,” he writes — the experience that, per the firm’s marketing elsewhere, gave its founding attorney “firsthand knowledge about what you’re going through.” Rather than building the firm around a defense-side pivot or an inherited caseload, Pehrson built it around that personal experience, and the firm’s site continues to lead with it as its central credibility claim, framed in first-person, direct-address copy: “I’ll go ahead and say it: I want to be your lawyer,” his own bio states.
Leadership: A Single Attorney, By Design
Impact Legal is structured around direct access to Pehrson himself rather than a larger partnership or associate bench. “You talk to the attorney who actually works your file,” the firm states on its car-accident practice page. “No bouncing between paralegals. No volume-driven intake.” That structure is explicit in the firm’s marketing across multiple practice pages: “Founding attorney Jared J. Pehrson built this firm to help real people, not corporations or insurance companies,” one page states, framing the firm’s small size as a deliberate client-service choice rather than a limitation. The firm is licensed to practice throughout Arizona and New Mexico, per its own materials, and serves clients by phone, text, in-office meetings, or video call.
The Differentiator: The Youngest Firm in This Series, By Design
Every other firm profiled so far in this series was founded between 1979 and 2003 — a 24-year span with real internal variation, but nothing as recent as 2018. Impact Legal’s youth is not incidental to its pitch: the firm markets itself explicitly as “accident lawyers of the digital age,” offering text-message intake and Zoom or Google Meet consultations rather than requiring an in-person visit, and organizing its practice around motorcycle, boating, and “dirt biking” accidents alongside standard car-accident work — language aimed at a more recreation-oriented client base than the older, more institutional firms elsewhere in this series.
What Impact Legal Handles
- Car accidents, including DUI-related collisions (per the firm)
- Motorcycle accidents (per the firm)
- Truck accidents (per the firm)
- Dog bites (per the firm)
- Pedestrian accidents and wrongful death claims (per the firm)
Track Record
Impact Legal’s own site states that the firm has “recovered millions of dollars for our clients – and counting” since launching active client representation, without a dollar-specific, case-by-case breakdown in the sources reviewed for this profile. The firm does maintain a dedicated “Case Results” page organized by outcome theme rather than dollar figure — categories visible in the site’s navigation include “Back on the Road” (car accident), “Full Recovery” (motorcycle accident), “Justice Served” (truck accident), “Fully Compensated” (rideshare accident), and “Walking Again” (pedestrian accident) — though the specific narrative or dollar detail behind each named result was not captured in this research pass. As a firm founded roughly in 2018, Impact Legal’s public track record is necessarily shorter than that of the 40-to-90-year-old institutions elsewhere in this series; its own marketing does not claim otherwise, and its “over half a decade of experience” framing on newer location pages is consistent with that timeline.
Past-Results Disclaimer. Every case is different, and results depend on each matter’s specific facts and circumstances. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any other matter. Figures above are reported by the firm on its own published materials and have not been independently audited by Awesome Attorneys.
In Their Clients’ Words
Impact Legal maintains a dedicated testimonials page on its own site. One client review captured during this research pass reads in full: “Jared was extremely helpful with my case and got me the result I had hoped for. Professional and caring. Highly recommend Jared and the firm!” — posted without a full name or platform label in the version reviewed. Beyond that example, Awesome Attorneys did not extract additional individually attributed, dated client quotes from the firm’s testimonials page during this research pass, and this section is limited accordingly rather than reconstructing quotes it cannot verify. Readers can review the firm’s full testimonials directly at impact-legal.com.
Beyond the Courtroom
Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published record of dedicated pro bono programs, scholarships, or named charitable initiatives at Impact Legal in the sources reviewed for this profile — consistent with a firm founded in 2018 that may not yet have built out the kind of long-running community programs documented at some older firms in this series.
Recognition
Awesome Attorneys did not identify third-party awards, Super Lawyers or Best Lawyers listings, or peer-review ratings for Impact Legal or Jared Pehrson in the sources reviewed for this profile. The firm’s own marketing emphasizes its founder’s personal accident history and direct-access practice model rather than third-party accolades.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information about Arizona law, not legal advice. Arizona’s general statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims is two years (A.R.S. § 12-542). Arizona is a pure comparative negligence state (A.R.S. § 12-2505): an injured person who was partly at fault can still recover, with damages reduced by their percentage of fault. Dog-bite claims — one of the firm’s listed practice areas — are governed by Arizona’s strict-liability statute (A.R.S. § 11-1025), which holds owners responsible regardless of the animal’s history, subject to a one-year limitations period on that specific claim rather than the standard two years. Because the firm is also licensed in New Mexico, it’s worth noting for any cross-border client that New Mexico’s personal injury statute of limitations and comparative-fault rules differ from Arizona’s; everything in this section describes Arizona law only.
This section is general legal information about Arizona statutes, not legal advice, and may not reflect changes after July 2026. Anyone with a potential injury claim should consult a licensed attorney promptly in the state where the accident occurred.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Impact Legal’s position in this series is defined by contrast: the youngest firm profiled, founded by an attorney whose stated motivation was his own injury rather than a defense-side career, built around single-attorney direct access rather than a larger partnership. That personal framing is a genuine differentiator, and the digital-native intake model (text, Zoom, Google Meet) fits a younger client base the older firms in this series don’t specifically target. The trade-off is a shorter public track record and a thinner recognition and community-involvement record than firms with decades more history — there is simply less publicly documented material to evaluate, through no evident fault of the firm’s own execution. For a reader who values talking directly and consistently to the one attorney handling their case, rather than a larger team, Impact Legal is built specifically around that preference.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched from Impact Legal’s own website (impact-legal.com), including its car-accident, motorcycle-accident, wrongful-death, pedestrian-accident, and DUI-accident practice pages, an about.me biography page for Jared Pehrson, a third-party attorney profile on localinjurylawyers.org, and a Yelp business listing. Facts are attributed to the firm or the cited third party throughout and were not independently re-verified against bar or court records beyond the public listings cited. Readers should confirm current practice details and recognition status directly with the firm before relying on them.
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