About Manoukian Law Firm

Manoukian Law Firm, P.C. is a California personal injury firm with its office in Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley. The firm represents people injured in car, truck, motorcycle, rideshare, pedestrian and bicycle collisions, in falls on unsafe property, in dog attacks, and families in wrongful death cases, throughout the state. Cases are taken by phone, by video and in person, and clients are served in English, Spanish and Armenian.

Vaheh Manoukian, Esq., founding attorney

Vaheh Manoukian is the first lawyer in his family. He grew up in Glendale’s Armenian community, graduated from UCLA and the USC Gould School of Law, and began his career at a larger firm, where he handled depositions and trials early and learned how serious injury, wrongful death and abuse cases are built. He also saw the other side up close: to a large corporation or an insurance company, an injured person is a number on a spreadsheet. He started Manoukian Law Firm to represent the people for whom it is personal, and to run a firm where the client deals with a lawyer, not a case manager.

He is a member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California and the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, and was selected to the Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for 2027.

What being a client here is like

You will always know where your case stands. An attorney is on your case from the first conversation and stays on it. You hear from the firm at every milestone, records in, demand sent, offer received, suit filed, and every few weeks in between even when nothing has changed. You have a direct line. You get the fee in writing before you sign anything. No fee unless we win.

• Free consultation
• No fee unless we win; the fee agreement is explained in writing before any work begins
• An attorney on your case from the first conversation, and updates at every milestone
• Cases taken statewide, in English, Spanish and Armenian

As a retired attorney, I feel qualified to evaluate Mr. Manoukian’s representation of me in an injury lawsuit. He was responsive to all of my communications; he was an excellent draftsman in all correspondence and pleadings; he analyzed the matter precisely; he demonstrated great knowledge of the issues; and he did an excellent job in preparing me for my deposition.

How the firm handles a case

Every case is prepared from the first day as if it will be tried, because that is what produces a fair result. Evidence is secured before it disappears: preservation letters, camera footage, vehicle and phone data, scene photographs and witness statements. Treating physicians document the injuries, and accident reconstruction, medical and economic experts and investigators are retained when the case calls for it. Every loss is recorded, from the hospital bill to the missed paycheck to the long-term picture. When an offer does not reflect the harm, suit is filed.

Cases of every size get the same preparation, from a rear-end collision on Topanga Canyon Boulevard to a catastrophic injury. The firm has handled catastrophic injury cases, claims against commercial trucking and bus companies, and claims against public entities through the six-month government claim process and into litigation. The results page shows how that plays out, with the first offer listed where the file records one.

Where and how we meet

The office is at 9520 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Suite 102, in Chatsworth, with meetings by appointment. Most first conversations happen by phone or video, and the firm meets clients at the hospital or a rehabilitation facility when getting out is hard.

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