Roey Sellouk founded Sellouk Law on a straightforward premise: injured people deserve direct access to the attorney handling their case, honest advice about what their case is actually worth, and a contingency fee explained clearly before they sign anything. Every case the firm takes is one Roey personally reads, researches, and works.
After starting his career in insurance defense, Roey clerked for the Honorable James C. Mahan of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. In federal chambers he read the briefing on every dispositive motion that crossed his desk, motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions in limine, ran the underlying research, and drafted the court's orders. A meaningful share of that docket was personal injury: car accidents, slip-and-fall claims, and premises liability disputes. After his clerkship, he practiced at a national law firm in its consumer financial services group, and in February 2026 he founded Sellouk Law.
What a Year in Federal Chambers Teaches You
Reading both sides of motion practice, day after day, teaches you something no classroom and few associate roles can: why personal injury cases actually win and lose. The lesson was rarely about which side had the stronger facts. It was about which side did the work. The briefs that won were short, tightly cited, and built around the two or three authorities that actually controlled the question. They pinned every factual assertion to a specific page of a deposition or a numbered exhibit, and they anticipated the other side's argument and answered it before it was made.
The briefs that lost ran long, cited loosely, and read like closing arguments to a jury rather than legal memoranda to a federal judge. The cases underneath them were often perfectly winnable. The problem was that the lawyer had given the court no clear path to rule in the client's favor.
That same gap between disciplined and undisciplined work decides settlement negotiations, not just motions. Insurance adjusters make their strongest offers to lawyers who have visibly built the file: documented the damages, organized the evidence, and prepared the case as if it were going to trial. A case that is genuinely ready for court is a case that commands a serious number long before court is ever necessary.
Out of respect for the Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees, which imposes confidentiality obligations that survive a clerkship, Roey does not discuss any specific case or any judge's deliberations. These are pattern-level observations, the kind any attorney can draw from the publicly filed briefs and orders on the District of Nevada's docket. But living inside that process for a year left a permanent mark on how he practices.
Roey wrote more about these lessons in What I Learned About Personal Injury Cases from Clerking at the U.S. District Court.
Why Defense-Side Experience Matters for Injured Clients
Early in my career, I worked in insurance defense, on the side that receives an injury claim and decides what it is worth. That work taught me how a claim looks from the other side of the table. An adjuster or defense lawyer reads a file looking for gaps: a delay in treatment, a missing record, an inconsistent statement, a medical bill with no clear connection to the crash. Each gap becomes a reason to offer less.
Now I represent injured people, and I build each file with those questions in mind. I want the medical records complete and in order, the course of treatment explained, and the evidence of fault preserved before it disappears. I know the arguments insurers commonly raise, and I prepare for them early instead of reacting to them late.
Defense-side experience is not a promise about any result. What it gives you is an attorney who understands how your claim will be evaluated and who prepares it to hold up under that scrutiny. That is the work I do on every case at Sellouk Law, with the support of our team.
How That Shapes Sellouk Law
Sellouk Law is a new firm, and Roey is candid about that. He will not point to hundreds of past verdicts, because he has not tried hundreds of cases. What he offers instead is the discipline he watched succeed in federal court, applied to every file from the first day: motion briefing kept short, precise, and anchored to controlling law; evidence tied to the record with the same rigor insurance-defense firms use; and a caseload kept deliberately lean so no client's file is ever triaged for lack of time.
Roey earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Weber State University and his J.D. from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada (Bar No. 16623). Roey practices in English and Hebrew, and the firm serves Spanish-speaking clients throughout Las Vegas, Henderson, and Clark County through its bilingual staff. Consultations are free, and the firm collects no attorney's fee unless it recovers compensation on the client's behalf.
Practice Focus
- Car and motorcycle accidents
- Truck and commercial vehicle accidents
- Pedestrian accident injuries
- Slip, trip, and fall incidents
- Hotel and casino injuries
- Catastrophic and serious injury cases
Background
- B.A., summa cum laude, 2020 · Weber State University
- J.D., 2023 · William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Admitted to the State Bar of Nevada · Bar No. 16623
- Insurance defense · Injury litigation, early in his career
- Law clerk to the Hon. James C. Mahan · U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
- National law firm · Consumer financial services practice
- Founded Sellouk Law · February 2026
Bar Admission
- Nevada · Bar No. 16623 · State Bar of Nevada profile
Education
- J.D., 2023 · William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- B.A., 2020 · Weber State University · Summa Cum Laude
Federal Clerkship
- Hon. James C. Mahan · U.S. District Court, District of Nevada