Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer
Civil Litigation Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer is built on the core values of absolute integrity, relationships, client success over profits, unrelenting pursuit of legal and business excellence, and our constant availability to our clients.

Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer
Civil Litigation Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer is built on the core values of absolute integrity, relationships, client success over profits, unrelenting pursuit of legal and business excellence, and our constant availability to our clients.

Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer
Civil Litigation Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer is built on the core values of absolute integrity, relationships, client success over profits, unrelenting pursuit of legal and business excellence, and our constant availability to our clients.

Your Trusted Partners
We are a team of legal professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional legal services to our clients through experience, effective communication, hard work, and unwavering commitment. We constantly adapt to evolving business and legal trends while maintaining our client-centered focus. We are a law firm family that works hard, solves problems, and enjoys our careers, our clients, and each other.

Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer's highly-skilled litigators take a team approach to each case, providing clients with attention, compassion, solutions, and results. Every client receives the highest level of legal services, professionalism, and communication.
Your Trusted Partners
We are a team of legal professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional legal services to our clients through experience, effective communication, hard work, and unwavering commitment. We constantly adapt to evolving business and legal trends while maintaining our client-centered focus. We are a law firm family that works hard, solves problems, and enjoys our careers, our clients, and each other.

Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer's highly-skilled litigators take a team approach to each case, providing clients with attention, compassion, solutions, and results. Every client receives the highest level of legal services, professionalism, and communication.
Your Trusted Partners
We are a team of legal professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional legal services to our clients through experience, effective communication, hard work, and unwavering commitment. We constantly adapt to evolving business and legal trends while maintaining our client-centered focus. We are a law firm family that works hard, solves problems, and enjoys our careers, our clients, and each other.

Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer's highly-skilled litigators take a team approach to each case, providing clients with attention, compassion, solutions, and results. Every client receives the highest level of legal services, professionalism, and communication.
Areas of Expertise
Our practice areas include defending cases involving general liability and torts, as well as human and social services, construction defects, healthcare professionals, and architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Our legal team focuses on a wide variety of litigation matters throughout California.

General Liability & Tort Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer provides a wide range of legal counsel in general liability and tort matters. Our clients include individuals, businesses, and insurance companies facing potential or actual litigation involving alleged personal injury, property damage, and economic losses. Learn More

Human & Social Services Liability
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer defends companies and individuals that are in the business of helping others. We defend clients confronted with emotionally-charged claims such as sexual misconduct, sexual abuse, human trafficking, elder abuse, wrongful death of youth and the elderly, and AWOL youth. These claims often involve our clients' reputations. Learn More

Design Professionals
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer has helped architects, engineers, surveyors, and other design professionals manage their risk and legal hazards for over 25 years, from contract review and negotiation to litigation and trial. Learn More

Construction Defect
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer provides defense and representation for construction defect litigation in California involving legal actions by property owners against builders, developers, contractors, architects, engineers, or material suppliers for flaws in construction that impact a property's integrity, safety, or value. Learn More

Healthcare Professionals
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer balances compassion and understanding of professional reputations to develop strategic solutions for a wide range of legal challenges facing licensed healthcare professionals, serving both insurance defense and private pay clients. Learn More
Areas of Expertise
Our practice areas include defending cases involving general liability and torts, as well as human and social services, construction defects, healthcare professionals, and architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Our legal team focuses on a wide variety of litigation matters throughout California.

General Liability & Tort Defense
SLB continues to successfully represent clients involving minor personal injuries, general liability, and catastrophic property and traumatic personal injury cases. Learn More

Human & Social Services Liability
SLB defends companies and individuals that are in the business of helping others and/or providing social services to those in need. Learn More

Design Professionals
For more than 25 years, SLB has helped architects, surveyors, and other design professionals manage their risk and legal hazards.
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Construction Defect
SLB provides defense and representation for construction defect litigation in California involving legal actions brought by property owners against those responsible for building or developing faulty structures. Learn More

Healthcare Professionals
SLB proudly represent numerous licensed medical, dental, and mental health providers in all aspects of risk management.
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Areas of Expertise
Our practice areas include defending cases involving general liability and torts, as well as human and social services, construction defects, healthcare professionals, and architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Our legal team focuses on a wide variety of litigation matters throughout California.

General Liability & Tort Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer provides a wide range of legal counsel in general liability and tort matters. Our clients include individuals, businesses, and insurance companies facing potential or actual litigation involving alleged personal injury, property damage, and economic losses. Learn More

Human & Social Services Liability
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer defends companies and individuals that are in the business of helping others. We defend clients confronted with emotionally-charged claims such as sexual misconduct, sexual abuse, human trafficking, elder abuse, wrongful death of youth and the elderly, and AWOL youth. These claims often involve our clients' reputations. Learn More

Design Professionals
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer has helped architects, engineers, surveyors, and other design professionals manage their risk and legal hazards for over 25 years, from contract review and negotiation to litigation and trial. Learn More

Construction Defect
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer provides defense and representation for construction defect litigation in California involving legal actions by property owners against builders, developers, contractors, architects, engineers, or material suppliers for flaws in construction that impact a property's integrity, safety, or value. Learn More

Healthcare Professionals
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer balances compassion and understanding of professional reputations to develop strategic solutions for a wide range of legal challenges facing licensed healthcare professionals, serving both insurance defense and private pay clients. Learn More
Who We Represent
We represent individuals and organizations that have a claim or law suit made against them by others claiming injury or damages. Our clients include insurance carriers, businesses (large and small), licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Clients come to us either by referral from their insurance carrier or we are sought out directly by a client. The work is the same either way: understand the claim and allegations early, provide the client with a clear and complete evaluation of the claim(s) against them, and collaborate with the client concerning a strategy on how best to protect their interests whether through early resolution or trial.
Who We Represent
We represent individuals and organizations that have a claim or law suit made against them by others claiming injury or damages. Our clients include insurance carriers, businesses (large and small), licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Clients come to us either by referral from their insurance carrier or we are sought out directly by a client. The work is the same either way: understand the claim and allegations early, provide the client with a clear and complete evaluation of the claim(s) against them, and collaborate with the client concerning a strategy on how best to protect their interests whether through early resolution or trial.
Who We Represent
We represent individuals and organizations that have a claim or law suit made against them by others claiming injury or damages. Our clients include insurance carriers, businesses (large and small), licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Clients come to us either by referral from their insurance carrier or we are sought out directly by a client. The work is the same either way: understand the claim and allegations early, provide the client with a clear and complete evaluation of the claim(s) against them, and collaborate with the client concerning a strategy on how best to protect their interests whether through early resolution or trial.
How We Work
Most cases are resolved before trial, and the outcome usually turns on the work done early. As a famous coach once said: “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” We assess liability, exposure, and the realistic range of results at the outset, so clients can make informed decisions about whether to resolve a matter or fight it. When early resolution is the better outcome, we pursue it through direct negotiation, mediation, or arbitration. When a case needs to be tried, it is handled by attorneys who have experience in the courtroom. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
How We Work
Most cases are resolved before trial, and the outcome usually turns on the work done early. As a famous coach once said: “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” We assess liability, exposure, and the realistic range of results at the outset, so clients can make informed decisions about whether to resolve a matter or fight it. When early resolution is the better outcome, we pursue it through direct negotiation, mediation, or arbitration. When a case needs to be tried, it is handled by attorneys who have experience in the courtroom. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
How We Work
Most cases are resolved before trial, and the outcome usually turns on the work done early. As a famous coach once said: “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” We assess liability, exposure, and the realistic range of results at the outset, so clients can make informed decisions about whether to resolve a matter or fight it. When early resolution is the better outcome, we pursue it through direct negotiation, mediation, or arbitration. When a case needs to be tried, it is handled by attorneys who have experience in the courtroom. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
Built for the Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer has experience defending against a wide assortment of claims. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we read a complaint, how we coordinate with carriers and insureds, and how we keep the defense strategy proportional to what is actually at stake. We serve as panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and also represent clients who retain us directly, and we hold the work to the same standard in both. We are members of The Gavel and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Built for the Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer has experience defending against a wide assortment of claims. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we read a complaint, how we coordinate with carriers and insureds, and how we keep the defense strategy proportional to what is actually at stake. We serve as panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and also represent clients who retain us directly, and we hold the work to the same standard in both. We are members of The Gavel and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Built for the Defense
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer has experience defending against a wide assortment of claims. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we read a complaint, how we coordinate with carriers and insureds, and how we keep the defense strategy proportional to what is actually at stake. We serve as panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and also represent clients who retain us directly, and we hold the work to the same standard in both. We are members of The Gavel and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Locations We Serve
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer proudly represents clients across California, serving the Sacramento Region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and throughout Southern California.
Locations We Serve
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer proudly represents clients across California, serving the Sacramento Region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and throughout Southern California.
Locations We Serve
Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer proudly represents clients across California, serving the Sacramento Region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and throughout Southern California.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to call.
What kinds of clients does Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer represent?
SLB represents insurance carriers, businesses of all sizes, licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Some clients are referred to us by their insurance carrier, and others retain the firm directly.
Is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer a plaintiff's firm or a defense firm?
We are a civil litigation defense firm. We defend individuals and organizations against claims and lawsuits. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we evaluate a case, strategize, work with clients, and manage the cost of a matter.
Does the firm serve as panel counsel for insurance carriers?
Yes. SLB is panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and works regularly with claims professionals and brokers. We also represent private-pay clients who hire the firm directly. We apply the same superior strategies and professionalism to all cases.
Does Sims Lawrence & Broghammer settle cases or take cases to trial?
Both, depending on what best serves the clients’ interests and needs. We work toward early resolution through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration when that is the better outcome, and we are prepared to try a case when it needs to be tried. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
What areas of California does the firm serve?
Our main office is in Roseville, in the Sacramento area, and we handle matters throughout California, including the Sacramento region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and Southern California.
What professional organizations is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer part of?
SLB is a member of The Gavel (thegavel.net) and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Need more answers?
Drop us a line or email and we will follow up immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to call.
What kinds of clients does Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer represent?
SLB represents insurance carriers, businesses of all sizes, licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Some clients are referred to us by their insurance carrier, and others retain the firm directly.
Is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer a plaintiff's firm or a defense firm?
We are a civil litigation defense firm. We defend individuals and organizations against claims and lawsuits. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we evaluate a case, strategize, work with clients, and manage the cost of a matter.
Does the firm serve as panel counsel for insurance carriers?
Yes. SLB is panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and works regularly with claims professionals and brokers. We also represent private-pay clients who hire the firm directly. We apply the same superior strategies and professionalism to all cases.
Does Sims Lawrence & Broghammer settle cases or take cases to trial?
Both, depending on what best serves the clients’ interests and needs. We work toward early resolution through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration when that is the better outcome, and we are prepared to try a case when it needs to be tried. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
What areas of California does the firm serve?
Our main office is in Roseville, in the Sacramento area, and we handle matters throughout California, including the Sacramento region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and Southern California.
What professional organizations is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer part of?
SLB is a member of The Gavel (thegavel.net) and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Need more answers?
Drop us a line or email and we will follow up immediately.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to call.
What kinds of clients does Sims, Lawrence & Broghammer represent?
SLB represents insurance carriers, businesses of all sizes, licensed professionals, nonprofits, schools and care providers, contractors, property owners, and individuals. Some clients are referred to us by their insurance carrier, and others retain the firm directly.
Is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer a plaintiff's firm or a defense firm?
We are a civil litigation defense firm. We defend individuals and organizations against claims and lawsuits. Our defense-oriented focus shapes how we evaluate a case, strategize, work with clients, and manage the cost of a matter.
Does the firm serve as panel counsel for insurance carriers?
Yes. SLB is panel counsel for dozens of insurance carriers and works regularly with claims professionals and brokers. We also represent private-pay clients who hire the firm directly. We apply the same superior strategies and professionalism to all cases.
Does Sims Lawrence & Broghammer settle cases or take cases to trial?
Both, depending on what best serves the clients’ interests and needs. We work toward early resolution through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration when that is the better outcome, and we are prepared to try a case when it needs to be tried. Collectively, the firm has taken hundreds of cases to verdict.
What areas of California does the firm serve?
Our main office is in Roseville, in the Sacramento area, and we handle matters throughout California, including the Sacramento region, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and Southern California.
What professional organizations is Sims Lawrence & Broghammer part of?
SLB is a member of The Gavel (thegavel.net) and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
Need more answers?
Drop us a line or email and we will follow up immediately.

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