Rideshare Accident Attorney
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Daniel J. Gerl

Nextlaw PLLC · 949 Market St, Tacoma, WA
✓ Bar verified · Aug 2026Mixed practice
20 yrs
Licensed in Washington
Admitted 19 Oct 2005
Active
Bar status
Eligible to practise · #36586
Discipline statement
None given — WSBA prints none
Not Seattle
Address of record
Tacoma — about thirty-four miles south

Registered in Tacoma, about thirty-four miles south — the same distance we accepted for Ken Gerber in the Phoenix metro. His register practice areas are Criminal, Litigation, Personal Injury and Traffic Offenses, a mixed practice rather than an injury-only one. Almost everything else on this page comes from the firm's rideshare page, because his own biography is barely more than a job title.

The bar record

We read Daniel J. Gerl in the Washington State Bar Association’s legal directory. Rows shaded below the line are the ones WSBA labels as coming from the lawyer, not from the Bar.

WSBA · Legal Directory Record read 11 August 2026
Name
Daniel Joseph Gerl
License number
WSBA record
36586
License type
Lawyer
License status
Active
Eligible to practice
Yes
WSBA admit date
19 October 2005
Professional liability insurance
Private practice: Yes · Has insurance: Yes · last updated 30 January 2026
Volunteer service
None
Disciplinary history
No entries displayed — see below
Judicial service
Unknown — the register’s own answer
Public / mailing address
Nextlaw PLLC, 949 Market St Ste 701, Tacoma, WA 98402-3693 · Tel (253) 238-2558 · Fax (253) 319-5508
Email
dan@calldannext.com
Firm or employer
Self-reported
Nextlaw PLLC
Office type and size
Self-reported
Law firm with 2-5 WSBA members
Practice areas
Self-reported
Criminal, Litigation, Personal Injury, Traffic Offenses
Languages other than English
Self-reported
Spanish

Washington never says “none”, so neither do we. The Disciplinary History section carries no entries and no statement — only a warning that in some cases discipline search results will not reveal all disciplinary action relating to a Washington licensed legal professional, and may not display links to the official decision documents. So what we can report is narrow: no disciplinary entries are displayed, and WSBA warns its search may not display everything. That is not the sentence “this lawyer has no discipline”, and we will not write the second when the register only supports the first. Every other state we use answers out loud; this one does not.

And the shaded rows might be wrong. Above that block WSBA states that the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date. Texas calls its equivalent “self-reported”. Washington says it might be wrong. Note also the Judicial Service line: asked whether this lawyer has ever served as a judge, the register answers Unknown. A register that will print its own ignorance is rarer than it should be.

What the record shows

His register practice areas are Criminal, Litigation, Personal Injury and Traffic Offenses. That is a mixed practice, and the register says so in the self-reported block.Verified

His firm’s rideshare page is Lyft-specific and sits under a Seattle path, while his address of record is in Tacoma. The page cites RCW 4.16.080 for Washington’s three-year limitation period.Verified

The biography his firm publishes gives his name and the words Founder | Managing Attorney and little else. There is less about him on his own site than on almost any listing here.Verified

What the firm says

The firm says consultations are free and that clients pay nothing unless the case is won.Reported

His register entry reports Spanish as a language other than English.Reported

Rideshare

Rideshare content — checked 11 Aug 2026
Lyft
calldannext.com — a Seattle Lyft accident page; returns 200 from our network
This is the firm’s own marketing. It shows they hold themselves out as taking rideshare cases — it is not evidence that they have run one, and we have not verified any rideshare case they have handled.

What we haven’t checked

Not established. The WSBA Discipline Notice Directory, a separate search we have not run. His education, admissions and career history — his firm biography does not give them and WSBA does not publish them. We have not reviewed court records for case outcomes, we print no settlement or verdict figures, and we have no basis for judging quality of representation. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
NextLaw949 Market St Ste 701, Tacoma, WA 98402-3693

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