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En resumen
| Despacho | Khalidi Law Firm, PLLC |
| Fundada | 1994, in Tucson’s Barrio Historico (per the firm) |
| Fundador | Thabet Khalidi — University of Arizona (B.S., 1988ish per bio timeline); University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1994) |
| Enfoque de práctica | Personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect and abuse; no longer accepts family law matters, per the attorney’s current Avvo profile |
| Reconocimientos | Named to U.S. News – Best Lawyers in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice since 2019, per the firm; named a Top Pro Bono Attorney in Arizona (2003) |
| Sample result | $400,000 auto-accident settlement following a contested-liability left-turn collision (firm’s published case summary) |
| Contacto | tnklaw.com · (520) 629-9909 |
From Family Law to a Focused Injury Practice
Thabet Khalidi first came to Tucson in 1979 at age thirteen and returned in 1984 to study business administration at the University of Arizona before heading to the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he graduated cum laude in 1994. He established Khalidi Law Firm in downtown Tucson’s Barrio Historico (also referred to in firm materials as the Barrio Viejo) that same year, and has practiced from the same historic downtown district for three decades.
For most of that history, the firm marketed itself as a combined family law and personal injury practice — and much of its older marketing copy, including its own “About” page, still describes it that way. But Khalidi’s current Avvo attorney profile states plainly that he no longer practices family law, explaining that the years spent on those cases gave him “a deep understanding of how personal injuries can ripple through an entire family” — language the firm uses to explain the pivot rather than treat it as a footnote. Readers relying on the firm’s static marketing pages should know the practice has narrowed since much of that copy was written; Awesome Attorneys treats the attorney’s own current profile as the more reliable signal of where the practice stands today.
Áreas de práctica
The firm’s current focus is personal injury litigation across the categories common to this series — car, motorcycle, truck, and bicycle accidents, premises liability and slip-and-fall claims, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse and neglect — along with insurance bad faith and negligence claims more broadly. The firm states it prepares every case as though it will go to trial rather than defaulting to early settlement, while still pursuing negotiated resolutions when that serves the client’s interest. Khalidi has tried cases across Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Pinal, and Gila counties and in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, per his firm biography.
Historial
The firm’s published case summaries include a $400,000 settlement for a client injured when another driver made a left turn into her vehicle at a busy intersection; the case involved $87,000 in medical bills for a fractured ankle requiring surgery, a liability dispute over pre-existing conditions, and litigation that produced the other driver’s medical and prescription records before resolution. The firm states it maintains a fuller verdicts-and-settlements list on its own site. Beyond this detailed example, Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify additional case-specific dollar figures, and the amounts above are reproduced from the firm’s own published account.
ABOUT THIS RESULT. This case description is drawn from Khalidi Law Firm’s own published materials and has not been independently confirmed against court records. Past results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict the outcome of any future case; every matter turns on its own facts and law.
En palabras de los clientes
Client reviews on Avvo describe outcomes across both the firm’s injury and (historical) family law practice. One reviewer, a combat veteran who spent more than a year searching for an attorney willing to pursue a federal tort claim against the VA for medical malpractice after losing an initial tort action and appeal, wrote that Khalidi took the case when other firms declined and that the six-year fight ended in what the client called “a very nice settlement.” A separate reviewer, injured in a fall from an unlit stage at a restaurant, described Khalidi as patient and thorough, noting he “never pressured me” and let the client take the time needed to make difficult decisions.
Más allá de la sala del tribunal
Khalidi was named one of the Top Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona in 2003, per his firm biography, and the firm describes a long-standing commitment to representing labor unions and working people in Southern Arizona, including a 2005 defense of several schoolteachers and a law professor sued for defamation by a defeated city council candidate. The firm also serves English- and Spanish-speaking clients across Southern Arizona.
Reconocimientos
The firm states Khalidi has been recognized by U.S. News – Best Lawyers in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice every year since 2019, a peer-reviewed ranking also featured in Tucson Lifestyle magazine, per the firm. Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify the Best Lawyers listing against U.S. News’s own published directory as of the research date, and readers should treat this as the firm’s reported credential pending that confirmation. No State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization certification was identified for this attorney.
Contexto legal de Arizona
| A.R.S. § 12-542 | Two-year statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims |
| A.R.S. § 12-821.01 | 180-day notice of claim requirement before suing a public entity or employee |
| A.R.S. § 12-821 | One-year statute of limitations for suits against public entities |
| A.R.S. § 12-2505 | Arizona’s pure comparative negligence rule — recovery is reduced, not barred, by the injured person’s own share of fault |
| A.R.S. § 12-502 | Tolling of limitations periods for minors and persons under a legal disability |
Khalidi’s featured VA case is a reminder that claims against the federal government follow an entirely separate track from the state deadlines above — the Federal Tort Claims Act, not Arizona’s notice-of-claim statute, governs malpractice claims against VA hospitals, and its administrative-claim deadlines run on a different clock than § 12-821.01.
La evaluación de Awesome Attorneys
Khalidi Law Firm’s thirty-year run in the same downtown Tucson neighborhood, its willingness to take on a federal tort claim against the VA that multiple other firms had already declined, and a detailed, verifiable settlement example give this profile real substance. The client reviews are specific and consistent in describing patience and persistence on hard cases.
The honest caveat is a housekeeping one: the firm’s marketing materials are inconsistent about whether family law remains part of the practice, with older pages still describing it as a family-law-and-injury firm while the attorney’s own current profile says otherwise. Prospective clients should confirm current practice scope directly, and the Best Lawyers recognition described above should be treated as the firm’s reported credential pending independent confirmation. Neither issue undercuts the substance of the injury practice itself.
Metodología & fuentes
This profile was researched using tnklaw.com (firm site, attorney biography, and published case summaries), Avvo (attorney profile and client reviews), Yelp, Facebook, and LawTally. All statutory citations were checked against the Arizona Revised Statutes as published by the Arizona State Legislature. No compensation was sought or received from the firm, and the firm was not contacted prior to publication of this profile.
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