Durrant & Associates Mesa: At a Glance
| Firm | Durrant & Associates, PLC |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994, by Daniel W. Durrant |
| Location | 2941 N. Power Rd. / 701 W. Southern Ave., Mesa, AZ |
| Practice Areas | Personal injury: auto accidents, premises liability, dog and animal bites, wrongful death |
| Languages | English, Spanish (per firm’s site) |
| Website | durrantlaw.com |
Origin & Founder History
Daniel W. Durrant founded Durrant & Associates, a Mesa personal injury practice, in 1994. The firm’s site describes a “small firm atmosphere” where attorneys and staff work personally with each client throughout a case. Durrant is fluent in Spanish, having spent two years living in South America, per the firm’s own biography.
Practice-Area Breakdown
Durrant & Associates is a plaintiff-side personal injury firm exclusively: auto accidents, premises liability, uninsured/underinsured motorist claims, and wrongful death, serving Mesa and the broader East Valley. Awesome Attorneys found no evidence of defense-side or unrelated practice areas.
Track Record
Awesome Attorneys did not locate a published, itemized case-results page with specific settlement or verdict figures. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; each case is decided on its own facts.
Client Voice
Client reviews are strongly positive and come from multiple independent platforms: Birdeye lists a 5-star rating across 23 reviews, and Yelp lists 12 reviews with comments like “Dan is an experienced attorney who provides excellent results.” One Birdeye reviewer wrote that staff member Vivian “fought for the maximum payout” on their behalf. This is not a one-sided record, however: a 2012 Martindale peer review — submitted by another attorney identified as opposing counsel in a medical malpractice matter — alleged that “Durrant and his paralegal play games, hide relevant evidence and their conduct is unethical in the discovery process of litigation.” Awesome Attorneys is including this because a peer allegation of discovery misconduct is the kind of adverse finding that shouldn’t be left out of an honest profile, even though it is more than a decade old, is a single unverified peer opinion rather than a bar disciplinary finding, and Awesome Attorneys found no corroborating State Bar disciplinary record.
Community & Beyond the Courtroom
Awesome Attorneys did not find independently reportable civic or charitable activity specific to this firm.
Recognition
Awesome Attorneys did not find evidence of Super Lawyers selection, Best Lawyers recognition, Martindale-Hubbell peer rating, or Arizona State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certification for this firm.
Arizona Legal Backdrop
Anyone pursuing a personal injury claim in Arizona should know a few statutory basics. Under A.R.S. § 12-542, most personal injury claims must be filed within two years of the injury. If the at-fault party is a government entity, separate and much shorter deadlines apply: A.R.S. § 12-821.01 requires a notice of claim within 180 days, and A.R.S. § 12-821 requires the lawsuit itself to be filed within one year. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence under A.R.S. § 12-2505, meaning an injured person can still recover damages even if partly at fault, with recovery reduced by their percentage of fault. For minors or people who are legally incapacitated, A.R.S. § 12-502 can toll these deadlines.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Durrant & Associates Mesa has a genuinely strong, multi-platform client review record built over three decades of a plaintiff-only Mesa practice. The honest counterweight is the 2012 peer allegation of discovery misconduct on Martindale — an old, single, unverified complaint from opposing counsel rather than a bar finding, but one Awesome Attorneys is not omitting. Beyond that, this is a firm with limited independently reportable credentials (no peer-review ratings, no published case results) — clients evaluating it are relying mostly on client testimonials rather than third-party verification of case outcomes.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was compiled from Durrant & Associates’ own website (durrantlaw.com), Yelp and Birdeye review aggregators, Martindale-Hubbell’s firm and peer-review listings, FindLaw’s attorney directory, and BBB’s business profile.
Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice
This profile is part of Awesome Attorneys’ independently researched directory of Arizona personal injury firms. Durrant & Associates did not pay for inclusion or influence its content. Awesome Attorneys periodically offers paid, clearly labeled sponsored placements as a separate product; this editorial profile is not one of them.