Deborah Song
Deborah Song is the founder of Empire Attorneys (doing business as Inland Injury), a personal injury law firm based in Eastvale, California, serving the Inland Empire and clients across California. Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Deborah earned her B.A. from UC Riverside and her J.D. from Western State University College of Law in Irvine while working full-time at Orange County personal injury trial firms. She is admitted to the State Bar of California (Bar No. 337172) and has helped recover over $50 million for clients across her career.
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Meet Deborah Song
Deborah Song is the founder of Empire Attorneys (doing business as Inland Injury), a personal injury law firm based in Eastvale, California, serving the Inland Empire and clients across California. Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Deborah earned her B.A. from UC Riverside and her J.D. from Western State University College of Law in Irvine while working full-time at Orange County personal injury trial firms. She is admitted to the State Bar of California (Bar No. 337172) and has helped recover over $50 million for clients across her career.
Deborah Song founded Empire Attorneys to bring Orange County–style personal injury representation back to the Inland Empire — the community she grew up in. The firm handles personal injury matters across California, primarily car, truck, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, plus premises liability, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, and construction injury cases, from offices in Eastvale and Norco. Deborah is, by her own count, the only full-time personal injury attorney practicing in Norco and Eastvale. She is a Super Lawyers Rising Star (peer-nominated, 2022 and 2023), a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of the Inland Empire and the Mexican Bar Association, and Secretary of the Norco Rotary Club. Empire Attorneys is unusual in how aggressively it pursues property-damage damages most personal injury firms ignore — diminution in value, loss of use, and GAP-insurance coordination — through a dedicated property-damage department. Phillip B. Nghiem (Of Counsel, CA Bar #291525) joins Deborah on select trial matters; Phillip was part of the team that secured a $52.9 million verdict in 2022 and is also a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2022–2023).
What Inspired Deborah?
Deborah Song's path to personal injury law began with watching insurance adjusters undervalue working families in her own Inland Empire community. She trained in Orange County trial firms specifically because she wanted to bring that level of advocacy back home — to clients who deserve more than a settlement-mill phone tree. Every case Empire Attorneys takes is built around a simple question: what does it actually take to make this client whole? That mindset is why the firm fights for diminution-in-value and loss-of-use damages most attorneys quietly waive away.
Mission & Vision
Empire Attorneys exists to give Inland Empire residents personal-injury representation that matches the resources of any Orange County or Los Angeles firm — with attorneys who actually know the local courts, insurance carriers, and adjusters. The firm operates on a contingency fee basis, so clients pay nothing unless Empire Attorneys recovers compensation. Deborah Song's mission is to recover not just medical bills and lost wages, but every dollar a client is owed — including the property-damage and consumer-protection damages most firms skip.
Career History
Deborah Song built her trial skills at Orange County personal injury firms while finishing her J.D. at Western State University College of Law in Irvine. She trained at the OCBA College of Trial Advocacy and Trial Lawyers University before founding Empire Attorneys to serve the Inland Empire community where she grew up. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star by peer nomination and helped recover over $50 million for clients across her career. Today Deborah leads Empire Attorneys (dba Inland Injury) from offices in Eastvale and Norco, working with Of-Counsel Phillip B. Nghiem on select trial matters.
Education & Career
Deborah Song built her trial skills at Orange County personal injury firms while finishing her J.D. at Western State University College of Law in Irvine. She trained at the OCBA College of Trial Advocacy and Trial Lawyers University before founding Empire Attorneys to serve the Inland Empire community where she grew up. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star by peer nomination and helped recover over $50 million for clients across her career. Today Deborah leads Empire Attorneys (dba Inland Injury) from offices in Eastvale and Norco, working with Of-Counsel Phillip B. Nghiem on select trial matters.
Guiding Principles
The core values that drive Deborah Song and Empire Attorneys in every case they handle.
Client Interest First
Every strategy decision — settle or try, push or accept — is made with the client, not for the client. Empire Attorneys keeps caseloads intentionally small so attorneys, not gatekeepers, handle each case.
Make the Client Whole
Recovery has to include the categories most firms skip — diminution in value, loss of use, GAP coordination, and consumer-protection damages. The firm runs a dedicated property-damage department for that reason.
Local Knowledge
Deborah Song is, by her own count, the only full-time personal injury attorney practicing in Norco and Eastvale. Knowing the local courts, judges, adjusters, and carriers is a structural advantage over out-of-area firms.
Trial-Ready Preparation
Empire Attorneys prepares every case as if it will go to trial — medical records, expert work-up, accident reconstruction, property damage documentation — even when the goal is settlement.
Bilingual & Community-Rooted
The firm provides bilingual representation and is grounded in the Inland Empire community through the Hispanic Bar Association of the Inland Empire, the Mexican Bar Association, and the Norco Rotary Club.
Client Interest First
Every strategy decision — settle or try, push or accept — is made with the client, not for the client. Empire Attorneys keeps caseloads intentionally small so attorneys, not gatekeepers, handle each case.
Make the Client Whole
Recovery has to include the categories most firms skip — diminution in value, loss of use, GAP coordination, and consumer-protection damages. The firm runs a dedicated property-damage department for that reason.
Local Knowledge
Deborah Song is, by her own count, the only full-time personal injury attorney practicing in Norco and Eastvale. Knowing the local courts, judges, adjusters, and carriers is a structural advantage over out-of-area firms.
“Making a client whole has to include the market value the car loses the moment it's reported in a collision — that's why we built a dedicated property-damage department.”
Practice Areas
Deborah Song and Empire Attorneys specialize in personal injury cases where another party caused the harm.
Car Accidents
Empire Attorneys represents drivers, passengers, and families injured in car accidents on Inland Empire freeways including the 15, 91, 60, and 215 — and on local arterials in Eastvale, Norco, Riverside, and Corona.
Truck Accidents
Deborah Song handles complex truck and big-rig collision cases on Inland Empire freight corridors, holding trucking companies and insurers accountable for catastrophic injuries.
Motorcycle Accidents
The firm advocates for motorcyclists injured by negligent drivers across Riverside County, fighting bias and securing full compensation for serious and catastrophic injuries.
Pedestrian Accidents
Empire Attorneys represents pedestrians struck by vehicles in Eastvale, Norco, Corona, and across the Inland Empire — pursuing every available source of recovery under California law.
Premises Liability
Slip-and-fall, negligent security, and other dangerous-property cases against landlords, businesses, and public entities throughout California.
Wrongful Death
Compassionate, aggressive representation for Inland Empire families who have lost a loved one to negligence, drunk driving, or unsafe property conditions.
Catastrophic Injuries
Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord, amputation, and other life-altering injury cases — built with medical experts and life-care planners to capture lifetime damages.
Construction Injury
Worksite and construction accident cases against general contractors, subcontractors, and equipment manufacturers — coordinating with workers' compensation and third-party claims.
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Empire Attorneys offers free, no-obligation consultations by phone, video, or in person at the Eastvale office. Call (951) 456-3891 or visit inlandinjury.com to schedule. Cases are handled on a contingency fee basis — no attorney fees unless the firm recovers compensation.