Gates Law Firm, PLLC
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About Gates Law Firm, PLLC
Gates Law Firm, PLLC is a plaintiffs' personal injury firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, built around founder and trial lawyer Joseph Gates. The firm handles major and catastrophic injury cases across Arkansas, including car wrecks, truck and 18-wheeler collisions, defective product claims, traumatic brain injury, child injury and daycare negligence, sexual abuse, school bus and trampoline park injuries, third-party workers' injury claims, and wrongful death. The firm reports recovering more than $162 million for clients, including a $110 million Polk County jury verdict in November 2025 for the family of an infant permanently blinded and brain injured at an unlicensed Mena daycare, believed to be among the largest personal injury verdicts in Arkansas history. The firm has also brought civil child sexual abuse cases against Arkansas institutions, including lawsuits against Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Gates Law Firm, PLLC
On February 16, 2016 Daniel Ryals dropped his healthy 9-month-old son at Wendy Jo Strother's unlicensed in-home daycare in Mena, Arkansas. That afternoon Strother's daughter carried the baby into the local hospital with multiple skull fractures and bleeding in his brain. He is permanently blind and brain-damaged. Strother pleaded no contest to permitting child abuse and got probation. In November 2025 a Polk County jury awarded the family $110,000,000 plus $40,000 in punitive damages.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
