Thread: Personal Injury Attorneys and Lawyers

Have you experienced a personal injury? If you have you need to get in contact with an experienced attorney. The Attorneys Forum is here to help you with any of your legal issues.

If you have an injury remember you need to act quickly. The longer you wait without getting a legal representative on your side the more likely you will end up losing your case.

Feel free to post any of your personal injury questions in this forum and the attorneys and lawyers who frequent our forums will be able to help you out. Be sure to include as much information on your case as possible when posting in this forum and also include the State / Province you are living in.

A sample of important questions to ask:
1. Do you have actual experience handling my type of case?
2. Where can I read about your other cases?
3. Have you won any large verdicts or settlements? 4. Are you board certified by any state or nationally recognized organizations?
5. Do you carry malpractice insurance?
6. Have you been disciplined by your state bar association?
7. Who in your office will be working on my case?
8. What is my case worth?
9. Do you represent any insurance companies at all? (You really need to know where their interests lie. Some lawyers do most of their work for the insurance companies. This may suit you just fine. For others, the appearance of bias would be too much.)
10. Can I take a copy of the written fee agreement home with me to study? (There is no "standard" fee and no standard fee agreement. Do not assume that if you have seen one, you have seen them all.)

And the best question of all: Who else should be on my list of attorneys to consider? This is a great question because the names you see coming up time and time again are as close to a "sure bet" to be the right lawyer as you can get!

All good, competent, honest attorneys will freely share their information with you. These attorneys have as much (or more) work than they can handle. If they won't give you any other names, then leave! It may be a huge warning sign that they are starving for business-?not a good sign.

Remember, don't panic and impulsively choose a lawyer without carefully doing your homework. There is no subsitute for taking the time up front to ensure you get the right lawyer for your case.

I suggest you one more tool to find and place frank feedback about lawyers in US. Access LawyersReputation.com, a free online directory where companies check feedback on lawyers before making a decision whether to hire them or not.

Referrals from friends, family or friends of friends who have been through something similar can also be a source for finding an attorney with whom you

Originally Posted by djboom

A sample of important questions to ask:
1. Do you have actual experience handling my type of case?
2. Where can I read about your other cases?
3. Have you won any large verdicts or settlements? 4. Are you board certified by any state or nationally recognized organizations?
5. Do you carry malpractice insurance?
6. Have you been disciplined by your state bar association?
7. Who in your office will be working on my case?
8. What is my case worth?
9. Do you represent any insurance companies at all? (You really need to know where their interests lie. Some lawyers do most of their work for the insurance companies. This may suit you just fine. For others, the appearance of bias would be too much.)
10. Can I take a copy of the written fee agreement home with me to study? (There is no "standard" fee and no standard fee agreement. Do not assume that if you have seen one, you have seen them all.)

Hi,

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