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About Joseph Gates
Joseph Gates is the founder and trial lawyer at Gates Law Firm PLLC in Little Rock, Arkansas. He leads the firm with a principle centered on accountability: if someone's negligence causes harm, they should make it right. Joseph handles major personal injury cases, including car wrecks, truck and 18-wheeler collisions, defective product claims, traumatic brain injuries, and wrongful death, building each case with precision and persistence. Joseph works closely with medical and forensic professionals, negotiates strategically with insurance companies, and is prepared to take cases to trial when a fair resolution cannot be reached through settlement.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Arkansas Bar Association, the Pulaski County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association. Joseph has been recognized by The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 and as a Super Lawyers Rising Star. He is also a member of the Attorney Information Exchange Group (AIEG) and the AAJ President's Club.
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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.
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