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How To Find A Great personal injury attorney
If you or someone you love has suffered a personal injury, you probably feel a bit overwhelmed trying to find a Boston personal injury attorney. There are hundreds of advertisements in the yellow pages, on television, billboards and the radio. How do you find one that’s right for your situation?
Boston personal injury attorneys can be found to represent you for almost any type of personal injury case, whether it is physical, emotional or work-related. Here are a few tips to keep in mind:
1.Get professional referrals. If you have retained an attorney in the past for other issues, ask for his or her recommendation. In Boston, personal injury attorneys work frequently with other specialized attorneys, so your present lawyer should be able to recommend someone they feel is trustworthy. Also contact the local Bar Association, which can give you a list of Boston personal injury attorneys.
2.Talk to friends. You will be surprised at how many people you know who have used the services of a Boston personal injury attorney at some point in their lives, or know someone who has. Not all cases go to court, or even require settlement negotiations. A good attorney may only need to write a letter to the defendant or his insurance company to receive a settlement payment for his client, so ask everyone you know. If they were happy with their outcome, they’ll tell you!
3.Don’t hire someone outside of the area. Some law firms that are state-wide with offices outside of Suffolk County can practice in Boston, but aren’t all that familiar with the courts here. Find someone who practices primarily in Suffolk County and in Boston in particular. It makes a difference having a Boston personal injury attorney; he or she knows the courts, other attorneys and judges from working with them regularly.
4.Ask for an initial consultation. You should talk to a few different Boston personal injury lawyers to that you can compare them to each other. It’s important that you feel a rapport with the attorney as well as feeling confident that they will be doing their best for you. After all, you’ll be working closely with them for weeks, if not months.
A few questions you should ask during an initial consultation include:
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Can we drop our PI lawyer? Will this be more trouble than it’s worth?
We have had numerous issues with a “major” personal injury lawyer” since November 2007. Never returning calls, secretary’s being rude and leaving us on hold, never speaking to our actual attorney that was advertised and documented via phone recording to be “our” lawyer.
They submitted ridiculous first offer which they then dropped and countered with 75% less demand. At this point I have numerous recordings (i am in Texas, by law I am able to do so) showing cooperativeness,unprofessional,etc… behavior.
We switched from their chiropractor in the beginning due to him touching my wife inappropriately and trying to mask his charges by placing the paper on a shelf in the shadows while distracting us with conversation. At any rate this has been a nightmare!
I know I can send a letter stating I want to drop them, but because it’s contingent basis how much trouble will this be. We could really use the settlement money now as I lost my job and mortgage is past due…
You could generate a few problems if you drop them without some proper preparation.
First of all, your agreement with them may entitle them to a percentage of the settlement even if you fire them. You don’t want to owe a third of the settlement to two different firms.
Second, when you fire them unjustifiably, they may be able to demand compensation “quantum meruit”, which means that if the contingency they would have gotten had you not fired them is less than a standard hourly rate, they can demand the standard hourly rate. You could wind up giving the entire settlement to them.
Locate the state Bar association, and ask them about filing a Grievance, and see what they can tell you that’s helpful. You don’t have to be totally stuck, but if you don’t do this right, you can create more problems than you solve.
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