QUESTION: How can a trusted lawyer help me?
ANSWER: If you have hired a trusted lawyer, you can tell him anything. You can ask him anything. You can expect him to help you in every way with your claim against the persons or company responsible for your injuries. Depending on the particular issues of your claim, your trusted lawyer from our firm will do many or all of these things for you:
- Negotiate getting your vehicle repaired or replaced (or an interim rental vehicle) to the full extent permitted by law
- Ask you everything you know about your injury and how it happened
- Answer ALL of your questions in a way you can understand
- Listen to your full account of the incident
- Locate witnesses to the incident
- Interview all witnesses to the incident
- Obtain all important police reports
- Evaluate all important police reports
- Obtain ambulance reports related to you
- Evaluate ambulance reports related to you
- Locate witnesses regarding your injuries
- Interview witnesses regarding your injuries
- Subpoena witnesses for depositions
- Diagram the scene of the accident
- Make a model of the accident scene
- Photograph the scene of the accident
- Photograph you and your injuries
- Photograph all damage done to your property
- Facilitate your taking medical tests ordered by your doctor
- Interview medical laboratory personnel who conducted tests related to your medical condition
- Facilitate your working with a physical therapist if your doctor prescribes such treatment
- Interview nurses who tended to you
- Facilitate your working with an occupational therapist if your doctor prescribes such treatment
- Locate medical texts and treatises relevant to your injuries
- Evaluate medical texts and treatises relevant to your injuries
- Issue subpoenas for the deposition of witnesses
- Issue subpoenas for the production of relevant medical records
- Issue subpoenas for the production of things and objects relevant to your case
- Depose witnesses
- Depose those accused of hurting you
- Make summaries of depositions
- Analyze depositions
- Locate all important hospital records and emergency room reports
- Obtain all important hospital records and emergency room reports
- Evaluate all important hospital records and emergency room reports
- Locate weather and lighting condition reports regarding the accident scene
- Evaluate weather and lighting condition reports regarding the accident scene
- Hire artists for technical diagrams
- Locate all important doctors’ and nurses’ reports
- Obtain all important doctors’ and nurses’ reports
- Examine all important doctors’ and nurses’ reports
- Analyze all important doctors’ and nurses’ reports
- Represent you in pre-trial conferences with the judge
- Represent you in settlement conferences
- Voir dire potential jurors in your case
- Write briefs supporting pre-trial motions on your behalf
- Research the law on jury instructions related to your case
- Challenge jurors who might be prejudiced against you
- Write briefs opposing pre-trial motions made against you by the defendant
- Collect all documents which might be used in evidence
- File claims with insurance companies
- Locate medical laboratory reports
- Obtain medical laboratory reports
- Examine medical laboratory reports
- Analyze medical laboratory reports
- Locate medical X-rays and other internal body images
- Examine medical X-rays and other internal body images
- Find the precise objects and persons which hurt you
- Obtain access to the precise objects and persons which hurt you
- Analyze the precise objects and persons which hurt you
- Consult case law books to find the newest and best case law which supports our claim
- Consult statutory law books to find the newest and best laws which support your claim
- Consult regulatory law books to find the newest and best regulations which support your claim
- Study weekly case law advance sheets to find the newest and best case law which supports your claim
- Study weekly serials reporting services to find the newest and best laws which support your claim
- Attend regular legal seminars to keep up-to-date on the latest aspects of the law related to your case
- Photograph all available vehicles involved in the incident resulting in your injury
- File questions which the persons who injured you must answer
- Investigate the background and circumstances of the persons who injured you
- Interview, in the presence of an official court reporter, key participants in the incident which resulted in your injury
- Interview, in the presence of an official court reporter, key witnesses to the incident which resulted in your injury
- Make court exhibit diagrams to explain technical items to jurors, judges, and other decision-makers
- Protect you from making inaccurate or incomplete statements which may hurt your case
- Document claims to insurance companies
- Negotiate with insurance companies
- Index all evidence
- Identify experts who can testify about complex medical and technical issues related to your claim
- Interview experts who can testify about complex medical and technical issues related to your claim
- Identify and study books, texts, and journals which contain vital information about complex medical and technical issues related to your claim
- Prepare subpoenas forcing witnesses to appear in official court proceedings
- Prepare subpoenas forcing persons to produce documents or things in official proceedings
- Write formal demands for inspections issued to the persons responsible for your injuries
- Utilize all court-sanctioned discovery procedures on your behalf
- Draft formal court complaints detailing your claims and asking the court to award you money as compensation for your injuries
- Use Motions and Offers of Settlement to encourage those who injured you to pay you without going to trial
- Obtain wage-loss information
- Assist in relating lost wages to medical injuries
- Coordinate payment of medical bills with private health insurance
- Discuss and negotiate private health insurance subrogation claims
- Obtain prescription records and bills
- Assist in scheduling medical appointments for you
- Identify the appropriate insurance company and/or policies under which your claim can be made
- Keep in regular contact with health care providers
- Assist in obtaining estimates for automobile damage repair
- Assist with lien holders
- Evaluate the fair market value/replacement cost of vehicle and other damaged property
- Negotiate your property damage claims promptly
- Document permanent injuries
- Gather/assist in obtaining prior tax information necessary to support lost earnings claims
- Control authorizations for release of medical information to all parties
- Keep in regular contact with insurance adjusters
- Draft and file court motions
- Appear in court and advocate your rights there
- Catalog exhibits which might be introduced as evidence at trial
- Cross-examine witnesses who testify against you
- Object to improper evidence and procedures which might harm your case at trial
- Videotape a typical day in your life living with the injuries you received
- Interview your pre-injury employer
- Interview members of your family and friends regarding the effect of your injury on you
- Prepare witnesses for appearances in court
- File motions asking the court to take actions in your favor
- Prepare an opening trial statement which forcefully tells the jury your side of the evidence
- Prepare a closing trial argument which persuasively argues to the jury the evidence in your favor
- Prepare you for testifying in court
- Prepare you for testifying in depositions
- Consult with you about key issues and options in your case
- Explain to you key issues and options in your case
- Advise you of the probable consequences of your choosing various options open to you in your case
- Prepare all of the paper work and lead you through the entire process of making your claim
- Prepare evidence to support your claim
- Present evidence and witnesses in Court to support your claim
- Defend you against unjust and untruthful assertions made by the opposing side
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