Two qualifications your personal injury lawyer should have
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It is not
easy to find a good personal injury lawyer.
Certainly there are a lot of lawyers out there. It seems as though there is a lawyer under
every rock.
However, if
you are looking for a personal injury lawyer, you need to be sure that you have
a good one.
It is
important to understand that not all lawyers who claim to be personal injury
lawyers are the same. Some are very
good, others are not.
How do you
tell the difference?
Among the
most important qualifications of a good trial lawyer is experience. It is important that you have a lawyer who
has actually tried a good number of personal injury lawsuits.
It is
always better to settle your case without going to court. However, in order to get a good settlement,
it is necessary for the insurance company to know that you are represented by a
lawyer who is ready, willing and able to file your lawsuit and try your case
before a jury if necessary.
There is a
truism recognized by experienced personal injury lawyers that if you want to
obtain a good settlement, it is necessary to prepare the case for trial. In the vast majority of the time, if a case
is prepared for trial, if the claimant’s lawyer is ready to go to trial, then
the insurance company will recognize that fact and will offer a good
settlement.
There are
law firms who operate what is commonly known as “settlement mills”. These law firms take in a large volume of
cases and, in order to avoid going to court, settle their client’s cases for
less than fair value. Insurance
companies know who these “settlement mill” lawyers are and lower the
evaluations of their cases accordingly.
If you are
represented by one of these lawyers, you can expect that your settlement will,
on average, be less than you would expect from a lawyer who tries personal
injury cases on a regular basis.
A second
important attribute of a good personal injury lawyer is that he or she actually
cares about you and your case. President
Theodore Roosevelt once said that you should not care how much a person knows
until you first know how much they care.
This caution is especially true for your selection of a personal injury
lawyer.
You need a lawyer who takes a personal
interest in your case, gives you individualized custom service and cares more
about your welfare than the fee they may obtain or how much work they have to
do in order to achieve your goals.