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Coates Law Office, PLLC is a personal injury law firm in Nashua, New Hampshire, founded and led by attorney Bradford Coates. The firm represents injured clients throughout New Hampshire in car accident, motorcycle accident, and personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis.

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What Types of Cases Does Coates Law Office Handle?

Coates Law Office represents injured clients across car accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall injuries, dog bites, and premises liability matters throughout New Hampshire. Every case gets built around the specific facts involved rather than treated as a variation on a template.

Car accident claims make up the largest share of the firm’s caseload, covering everything from rear-end collisions on New Hampshire’s busiest corridors to crashes involving uninsured or underinsured drivers. Motorcycle and bicycle accident cases require a different approach, since riders and cyclists face injuries that tend to be more severe and insurance adjusters who sometimes assume fault before reviewing the actual evidence.

Wrongful death cases bring their own weight, requiring both a thorough investigation into how the crash or incident happened and a careful accounting of what the family actually lost, including lost financial support, funeral costs, and loss of companionship. Slip and fall, dog bite, and premises liability claims center on a property owner’s duty to keep visitors safe, and proving that duty was breached often requires the same kind of evidence gathering as any other negligence case, from maintenance records to prior incident reports at the property in question.

Each of these case types shares a common thread despite their differences. Establishing what a property owner, driver, or dog owner should have done differently, and connecting that failure directly to the injuries a client suffered, forms the foundation of every claim regardless of the specific facts involved. The firm approaches bicycle accident cases with particular attention to New Hampshire’s rules of the road, since cyclists frequently face the same bias from insurance adjusters that motorcyclists encounter, an assumption of fault that a thorough investigation often disproves once the actual evidence gets reviewed.

Bradford Coates: Background and Approach

Bradford H. Coates earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008 and his law degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2016. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 2016 and the Massachusetts Bar in 2019, and he remains a lifelong New Hampshire resident with the exception of the years he spent completing his education.

Before founding Coates Law Office, Bradford Coates worked as a criminal prosecutor in New Hampshire, where he trained police officers on breath tests, blood tests, and field sobriety procedures. That background gives him a working knowledge of how evidence gets built and challenged from the other side of a case, which he now applies on behalf of injured clients rather than the state.

Bradford Coates has been admitted to the New Hampshire Bar since 2016 and the Massachusetts Bar since 2019, and he handles injury matters in courts across the state.

Bradford Coates handles each case personally rather than passing clients off to a rotating team of case managers. Clients consistently describe direct communication and thorough explanations of the legal process as central to their experience working with him, a pattern reflected across the firm’s client reviews.

Why Bradford Coates Focuses on New Hampshire Injury Cases

Bradford Coates built his career prosecuting cases in New Hampshire courts before shifting his practice toward representing injured people rather than the state. That transition was deliberate. Years spent building cases against defendants gave him a detailed understanding of how evidence holds up under scrutiny, how insurance defense attorneys approach a file, and where the weak points in a poorly built case tend to show up.

Rather than spreading that experience across multiple states or practice areas, Bradford Coates has concentrated his practice on New Hampshire injury law specifically. That focus means staying current on the state’s comparative fault rules, its unique approach to auto insurance, and the procedures at courts from Hillsborough County to Cheshire County, rather than dividing attention across unrelated areas of law or jurisdictions outside the state. Clients benefit from an attorney who knows the specific legal landscape their case will move through, not a generalist applying broad principles to a state’s particular rules for the first time.

Notable Case Results

A firm’s track record says more than any description of its approach, and Coates Law Office has secured meaningful recoveries across a range of case types over the years. A few results from past cases include:

• $1,250,000 recovered for a client struck by an inattentive driver who failed to yield, resulting in severe bodily injuries
• $925,000 recovered in a wrongful death claim after a corporate tow truck crossed a yellow line and caused a fatal crash
• $450,000 recovered for a client who suffered a severe facial laceration in a dog attack
• $240,000 recovered in a premises liability claim after a corporate defendant’s failure to yield caused a catastrophic lower body injury

Individual results depend on the facts of each case, and past outcomes are not a promise of what any future case will yield. A complete record of case results, including settlements and verdicts across every practice area, is available on the firm’s case results page.

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