Similar personal injury attorneys in Virginia Beach
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Jim Hurley
Jim Hurley is a partner at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers in Virginia, with over 30 years in personal injury law. His practice covers automobile accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, pedestrian injuries, catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury, premises liability, slip and fall, dog bites, boating accidents, and hit-and-run cases.
Hurley earned his B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1982 and his Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1990.
He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar (1990), the Florida Bar (1998), and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Hurley is a member of the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Beach Bar Association, and the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association.
His recognitions include Super Lawyer for personal injury (2014-2024), AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, Top 100 National Trial Lawyers (2019, 2021), Best Lawyers recognition (2025), Coastal Virginia Magazine Top Lawyer (2019-2023), Virginia Business Legal Elite: Civil Litigation (2025), and Lawyers of Distinction (2021-2024).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A 23-year-old grain truck driver was killed when an electrical arc jumped from an overhead high-voltage power line to the portable auger he was using at a commercial silo, and his family recovered $12 million from the power company and property owner.
A 40-year-old motorcyclist whose foot was traumatically amputated after an oncoming driver cut across his lane recovered $7 million in a settlement reached one month before trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
