Should you or shouldn’t you can be a major question when it comes to hiring a personal injury lawyer. Here’s some tips to help you. Do I need a personal injury attorney at all? Sadly, no matter how fair the case, the company you’re bringing against it will likely not want to pay, or at least get you to accept the least money possible. Life, sadly, isn’t always fair. There are some cases that can successfully be handled by someone with the time, commitment and energy to devote to self-representing. Those investments are heavy, however, so if you’re in recovery or therapy and need to concentrate on that, it’s not for you. In general, minor cases with soft tissue injuries can be fairly easily self-represented. When it comes to ‘hard’ injuries, however- nerve damage, poisoning, severe burns and scars, broken bones, medical malpractice and more- it’s absolutely essential to have the right...

Whether or not to hire a personal injury lawyer is a question faced any time you attempt litigation. Lawyers can be expensive, and it may be tempting to represent yourself. However, there are some types of claim better suited to professional representation. Here we look at what a personal injury attorney can do with what claims. Tissue injuries or hard injuries? Most personal injury claims don’t physically require legal representation or the filing of a lawsuit. They’re mostly related to soft tissue injuries like Minor vehicle and bicycle collisions, bites from pets, falls, abuse and neglect in care homes and defective products. They’re generally simple things like whiplash, contusions or blurred vision of a temporary nature. Liability is often clear, so the insurance company will merely ask you to submit your damages and you’ll work out a settlement you can mutually agree on. Of...

The price of hiring a personal injury lawyer may be putting you off, but it’s essential for most of the more serious categories of personal injury that you have proper legal representation. Here’s some tips to minimize the damage to your pocket. How do personal injury attorneys get paid? Unlike most other legal professionals, personal injury lawyers mostly work on contingency- they get paid when they either negotiate a settlement you accept, or win at trial. As there’s a risk of losing the case- where the lawyer takes the hit- they do tend to get a hefty portion of the settlement when you win- between 33% and 40%. The good news is, there’s some room for negotiation. You can try: • Negotiated reduced contingency fees. • Be sure to count the intimidation factor in your agreement. • Paying by the hour. (http://www.theguardian.com/travel) Negotiated reduced contingency fees. Depending on...

Do you always need a personal injury lawyer? It’s a question your pocketbook wishes could always be answered ‘no’, that’s for sure- but the fact remains that there are many cases where you do. Here are some tips: • When might I not need a personal injury attorney? • When should I consider a personal injury lawyer? • How would I pay a personal injury attorney? When might I not need a personal injury attorney? You can divide personal injury claims along a rough line- soft tissue and hard injuries. There are some soft tissue injuries that don’t need the intervention of representation. These are simple things, like contusions, simple slips, and other mild injuries without long lasting repercussions, and cases in which the facts are simple, clear and obvious and require no complicated medical explanation. Remember, though, that even in these case you need to be careful about the...

The Right DUI Lawyer Tips for Hiring. By consideration of a serious charge a driving under influence or usually abbreviated DUI may cause, hiring the right dui lawyer is mostly important when you are on the defendant seat of a DUI case in the court. The future implication of a serious charge brought by DUI case is very severe. It may affect the future in career, social life, and even suspension of driving license. This is an article about how to hiring Miami DUI Lawyers. The way attorney helps is mostly determined by reputation alone. A well-known attorney whose way of handling DUI case is great may bail out a person for a lesser charge through a DUI case court. However, as being dependent on this factor, it is perhaps true to say that the right dui lawyer or attorneys may help, not will—in absolute sense, help. Still, it will not hurt to try hiring the right dui lawyer. Since, by...

This has to start somewhere, right? The purpose of this post is to lay out my complete financial condition at the present as I am about embark on this challenge. It is to create a road map that I will follow to achieve my goal or, at the very least, lay the foundation that other, more detailed, plans can be built upon. First, I will run through my current finances; then present the law school debt repayment plan that I intend to follow in as much detail as I can know at this point; and finally address some thoughts and concerns regarding the whole project as I’m seeing it. Current Finances Let’s take a look at the various resources I have at my disposal and how I can use them to say goodbye to my law school debt. Assets are divided into liquid and non-liquid. My liquid assets are those that can immediately be applied to meet my obligations, like my checking account. My non-liquid...