Gates Law Firm, PLLC

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.

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$15,706,166 judgment ($5,706,166 compensatory plus $10,000,000 punitive) · She Could Not Turn Herself Over in Bed. The Bedsore That Followed Killed Her, and the Chain That Owned the Home Stopped Defending the Case Entirely.

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$122,500,000 ($17,500,000 compensatory plus $105,000,000 punitive, affirmed) · A Hand Grenade Was Taped to a Spare Tire Outside His Front Door. The Doctor Who Put It There Is Serving Life, and a Crittenden County Jury Put $122.5 Million on Him.

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