I led the first jury win against Tesla’s Autopilot. I get too many inquiries on potential cases to review them all.

Brett Schreiber, a plaintiff trial lawyer who led the first jury win against Tesla involving Autopilot, said he continues to receive inquiries about potential cases involving the EV maker's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems.

Courtesy Brett Schreiber Brett Schreiber led the first Tesla Autopilot case in which a jury found the company liable.

Schreiber said he has more inquiries about potential cases related to Tesla's Autopilot and FSD.

He said he has to reject many of them because taking Tesla to court is costly.

This as-told-to essay is based on three conversations with Brett Schreiber, a California-based lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Miami Autopilot case involving Naibel Benavides Leon.

In 2025, a federal jury found Tesla partially responsible for the crash that killed Benavides Leon and seriously injured Dillon Angulo.

The jury ordered Tesla to pay more than $242.5 million in damages.

Tesla is appealing the verdict.

Tesla and its attorney did not respond to requests for comment.

The conversations have been edited for length and clarity.

I've practiced law in California since 2005.

I came up in a plaintiff civil litigation firm in San Diego and had the opportunity to work up and try serious-injury cases.

Around 2021, I started getting calls about Tesla crashes .

At the time, I had a GED-level education in autonomous vehicles, but that already put me head and shoulders above many of my contemporaries.