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Palm Springs office

Coachella Valley

777 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 200
Palm Springs, CA 92262

(760) 636-2196

Client meetings by appointment only

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Our Palm Springs office serves clients across the Coachella Valley, from Palm Springs and Cathedral City out to Indio and the surrounding desert communities. Meetings are scheduled in advance.

Communities served

  • Palm Springs
  • Cathedral City
  • Rancho Mirage
  • Palm Desert
  • La Quinta
  • Indio
  • Desert Hot Springs
Our three offices: La Jolla in San Diego County, Hemet and Palm Springs in Riverside County Map of San Diego and Riverside counties with the La Jolla office at 888 Prospect Street, the Hemet office at 145 S. Carmalita Street and the Palm Springs office at 777 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, and the communities each office serves. Boundaries from US Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary files, public domain. San Diego County Riverside County Orange County Pacific Ocean San Jacinto Moreno Valley Menifee Temecula Perris Riverside Cathedral City Rancho Mirage Palm Desert La Quinta Indio Desert Hot Springs The Village Bird Rock La Jolla Shores Windansea Muirlands La Jolla Farms Torrey Pines University City Pacific Beach La Jolla Hemet Palm Springs 20 miles N
Boundaries: US Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary files (public domain). Office positions from the Census geocoder.

Courts, claims offices and roads that matter from Palm Springs

Coachella Valley injury lawsuits are filed with the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside. The court's desert region includes the Palm Springs Courthouse on East Tahquitz Canyon Way and the Larson Justice Center in Indio; which courthouse takes a filing depends on the court's current filing-location order, which we check for each case.

Claims against public bodies go to their own offices, generally within six months for an injury (Government Code section 911.2): the City of Palm Springs City Clerk, the clerks of the other valley cities for their streets and parks, the County of Riverside's Clerk of the Board of Supervisors for County property, and Caltrans or the State's Government Claims Program for Interstate 10, Highway 111 and State Route 74. General information only; confirm the deadline for your situation with an attorney.

The roads behind most desert matters are Palm Canyon Drive and East Palm Canyon Drive, Indian Canyon Drive, Tahquitz Canyon Way, Ramon Road, Vista Chino, Gene Autry Trail, Dinah Shore Drive and Bob Hope Drive, Highway 111 through Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, La Quinta and Indio, and the Interstate 10 interchanges. Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs is the Coachella Valley's Level I trauma center; Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio are Level IV.

Questions

Palm Springs meetings are scheduled in advance. If travel is hard, ask about meeting by phone; all three offices work the same files.

Yes. A claim generally follows where the injury happened, so a California claim can proceed while you are home. Deadlines still apply, including six months to present a claim to a public entity (Government Code section 911.2).

In the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, at the desert-region courthouse the court designates for that kind of case. We confirm the current location before filing.

Sources

  1. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside: Palm Springs Courthouse (verify in a browser; the site blocked automated fetches), read
  2. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside: Larson Justice Center, Indio (verify in a browser), read
  3. City of Palm Springs, City Clerk: claims against the City (verify in a browser; the site blocked automated fetches), read
  4. County of Riverside claim form (Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Claims Division), read
  5. Caltrans, submit a damage claim, read
  6. Government Code section 911.2 (six months to present a claim to a public entity), read
  7. California EMS Authority, California Designated / ACS Verified Trauma Centers (list dated 2025-08-22), read

Meet us at the Palm Springs office

Meetings here are by appointment, so an attorney's time is set aside for you. All three offices work the same files.

Request a consultation

(760) 636-2196
By appointment only