Where every other firm in this series is built primarily around accident and injury cases, JacksonWhite is a 1983-founded, full-service East Valley institution where personal injury is one of more than a dozen practice areas — led by a single named attorney rather than a dedicated PI partnership.
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At a Glance
| FIRM | JacksonWhite Law, P.C. |
| FOUNDED | 1983 (per the firm) |
| LEADERSHIP | Personal injury team led by Jared E. Everton; broader firm includes 17+ named attorneys across departments |
| OFFICES | Mesa (40 N. Center St., Suite 200) · Scottsdale (5635 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 170) · Peoria (16165 N 83rd Ave, Suite 200A) |
| PRACTICE FOCUS | Full-service: elder law, criminal defense, family law, real estate, tax, employment law, bankruptcy, probate, personal injury, and more than 20 total practice areas (per the firm) |
| SIGNATURE EDGE | One of the largest law firms in Phoenix’s East Valley, giving personal injury clients access to a much broader in-house bench (elder law, employment, real estate) than a PI-exclusive boutique |
| PI TEAM LEAD | Jared E. Everton — 20+ years representing personal injury and car accident victims; Super Lawyers Rising Star; licensed in Arizona, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court |
| REVIEWS | 919 reviews aggregated on Birdeye; 83 reviews on Yelp (firm-wide, not personal-injury-specific) |
| CONTACT | (480) 464-1111 · jacksonwhitelaw.com |
Every firm profiled so far in this series is built primarily around personal injury work. JacksonWhite inverts that structure: it is a personal injury law firm only in the sense that personal injury is one of the more than twenty practice areas offered by one of the East Valley’s largest full-service law firms, alongside elder law, criminal defense, family law, and real estate. This profile examines what that structure means for an injury client specifically — and who actually handles those cases inside a firm this large.
Origin: Four Decades as a Full-Service East Valley Firm
JacksonWhite was founded in 1983 and has, per the firm’s own account, “grown steadily” to become one of the largest law firms in Phoenix’s East Valley, expanding from its original Mesa office to additional locations in Scottsdale and Peoria. The firm’s practice areas span criminal defense, elder law, bankruptcy, personal injury, real estate law, tax law, labor and employment law, appellate services, business and corporate law, commercial litigation, eminent domain, fair debt collection, family law, health care law, and probate — more than 20 distinct areas, per the firm’s own LinkedIn profile, supported by a roster of at least 17 named attorneys.
Leadership: A Named Personal Injury Team Inside a Larger Firm
Unlike the sole practitioners and small partnerships profiled elsewhere in this series, JacksonWhite organizes its personal injury work as one department among several, each led by a specific named attorney. “JacksonWhite’s personal injury team is led by Jared Everton,” per the firm’s own marketing, “who has amassed over 20 years of experience representing personal injury and car accident victims.” Everton joined the firm in 2001 and now holds the title of Managing Shareholder and a seat on JacksonWhite’s executive leadership, per his own firm biography. Before joining JacksonWhite, Everton interned for U.S. Senator John McCain in Washington, D.C., per the same biography — a detail distinct from the origin stories of any other attorney profiled in this series. He is licensed to practice in Arizona, before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and before the United States Supreme Court, and is a member of the Arizona Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. Everton was named to the Super Lawyers Arizona Rising Stars list for 2012 and 2013 — a distinction the firm notes goes to no more than 2.5 percent of Arizona lawyers annually — and holds a five-star peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, per his own biography. He has, per the firm, “secured millions of dollars in compensation for clients” handling car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, dog bites, wrongful death, and medical malpractice matters. The firm’s separate Employment Law department, by contrast, is led by attorney Mike Pruitt — illustrating the departmental structure that distinguishes JacksonWhite from every PI-exclusive firm in this series.
The Differentiator: Scale and Breadth, Not a Single Case-Type Specialty
Where other firms in this series differentiate on a fee model, a founding story, or a narrow case-type niche, JacksonWhite’s differentiator is structural breadth. A personal injury client at JacksonWhite is, by the firm’s own description, a client of “one of the largest law firms in Phoenix’s East Valley” — meaning in-house access to elder law, family law, real estate, and tax attorneys under the same roof, which can matter for injury clients whose accident intersects with a divorce, an estate, or an eligibility question for long-term care benefits. That breadth is a trade-off as much as an advantage: personal injury is one department’s focus, led by one named attorney, rather than the firm’s sole organizing purpose.
What JacksonWhite’s Personal Injury Team Handles
- Car accidents and truck accidents (per the firm; led by Jared Everton)
- Motorcycle accidents (per the firm)
- Dog bites and premises liability/slip-and-fall claims (per the firm)
- Wrongful death and medical malpractice (per the firm)
Outside the personal injury department, the broader firm handles criminal defense, elder law (including Arizona Long Term Care System, or ALTCS, planning), family law, eminent domain and condemnation, bankruptcy, real estate, tax, and employment law, per the firm’s own practice-area list.
Track Record
The firm’s own materials state that Jared Everton has “secured millions of dollars in compensation for clients” as a personal injury attorney in Mesa and throughout Arizona, without an itemized, dollar-specific breakdown in the sources reviewed for this profile. One published client account offers a more concrete illustration: grandparents whose grandson was seriously injured by an impaired driver with, in their words, “zero assets,” describe Everton obtaining “a significant insurance settlement” for the young man despite the at-fault driver’s own lack of resources — a result that depended on identifying available insurance coverage rather than pursuing the driver personally, per the firm’s published testimonial. The firm’s published case-result examples elsewhere on its site — a dismissed criminal case following a blood-lab evidentiary challenge, a successful ALTCS gifting strategy for an elder-law client, and a favorable eminent-domain judgment — illustrate outcomes in the firm’s other departments rather than the personal injury practice specifically.
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
Personal injury clients quoted on JacksonWhite’s own site describe Jared Everton and his team in terms consistent across several separate testimonials. “Jared Everton and his team worked tirelessly to negotiate with medical providers and insurance company to reach a satisfactory settlement regarding my automobile accident,” wrote a reviewer identified as Lynn J., adding that “the end result was much better than I expected.” Another reviewer, Greg H., described a smaller case involving his son, who has full-spectrum autism, writing that Everton “represented us with all the professional acumen that has made Jackson White one of the premier law firms in the East Valley.” A third reviewer, Sophie, credited Everton and staff member Daisy as “amazing people” who “were super-efficient and worked very quickly,” per the firm’s published reviews.
Beyond the Courtroom
JacksonWhite supports a number of East Valley nonprofit organizations, including Mesa United Way, statewide Chambers of Commerce, East Valley Senior Services, the United Food Bank, and the Alzheimer’s Association Desert Southwest Chapter, per the firm’s own site, with attorneys serving on boards and committees throughout the state.
Recognition
Jared Everton: Super Lawyers Arizona Rising Stars, 2012 and 2013 (a distinction limited to roughly the top 2.5 percent of Arizona attorneys selected annually, per the firm); five-star peer-review rating, Martindale-Hubbell. Several JacksonWhite colleagues have posted public professional endorsements of Everton on Avvo, describing him as having “an in depth understanding of each client’s case,” a “natural knack for identifying key issues,” and a “deep understanding of the law,” per those endorsements — peer commentary from fellow attorneys rather than independent third-party awards. The broader firm cites recognition from organizations including The National Trial Lawyers and Best Lawyers, per its Super Lawyers directory listing, though a complete, current list of firm-wide or department-specific awards was not independently compiled for this profile.
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), reducing rather than barring a partly-at-fault claimant’s recovery. Dog-bite claims — a case type the firm’s personal injury team specifically handles — are governed by Arizona’s strict-liability dog-bite statute (A.R.S. § 11-1025), which holds owners responsible regardless of the animal’s history, subject to a shorter one-year limitations period on that specific statutory claim. Because JacksonWhite’s other departments include elder law and ALTCS planning, it’s worth noting that Arizona’s Adult Protective Services Act (A.R.S. §§ 46-451 et seq., 46-455) separately provides a civil cause of action for abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults — a statute that can intersect with both the firm’s elder law and personal injury practices in a nursing-home injury case.
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 Arizona attorney promptly.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
JacksonWhite’s honest positioning within this series is as the opposite structural model from a boutique PI firm: forty-plus years of institutional depth, more than twenty practice areas, and a personal injury department led by one well-credentialed attorney rather than a firm built around him. That structure is a genuine advantage for a client whose accident intersects with another legal need — an elderly parent’s care planning, a small business’s tax exposure, a pending divorce — since those departments sit under the same roof. It is a less obvious advantage for a client whose sole need is a dedicated, PI-exclusive trial team; JacksonWhite’s own materials describe car-accident representation in general terms rather than the itemized, dollar-specific results tables this series has documented at some PI-focused peers. For a Mesa-area reader who values one-stop-shop breadth over PI specialization, JacksonWhite is a fundamentally different kind of firm than most others in this series.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched from JacksonWhite Law’s own website (jacksonwhitelaw.com), its personal injury and Mesa-location landing pages, Jared Everton’s attorney biography and client-testimonial pages, its LinkedIn company profile, its Super Lawyers firm directory listing, and its Birdeye and Yelp review pages. 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 attorney roster, office locations, and recognition status directly with the firm before relying on them.
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