Serious Personal Injury Lawyers Blog

Part III: Experience and the Subject Matter

Needless to say, when searching for a lawyer to handle your personal injury case you must be certain that the lawyers you have selected are experienced in the issues that are part of your claim. For instance, if you were in a collision with a tractor trailer and left with a brain injury, or had a family member with a brain injury, you are well advised to assure that the lawyers you are considering to represent you or your family have experience in all of the relevant subjects to your case. Accordingly, you should determine if the lawyers in the law firm you are interviewing have experience suing tractor trailer companies. Most importantly, do the lawyers in the law firm you are considering have a particular interest in representing individuals with brain injuries and have a demonstrated ability to do so successfully irrespective of how the brain injury took place.

Accordingly, when you consult lawyers that you are considering to represent you,
ask whether they have significant education, experience or leadership within the personal injury lawyer’s associations in representing individuals with brain injuries. Clearly, lawyers with experience in all of the relevant subject matters would be the lawyers you would want to represent you in your time of need. Finally, when consulting lawyers to determine who will represent you after having sustained personal injury as a result of the carelessness of others, attempt to determine the success of that law firm representing other individuals under similar circumstances with similar injuries. This research may not seem as a hard to conduct as it may first appear. The law firm’s website will be a ready source of information regarding the subject matters litigated and the success regarding those subject matters. Additionally, searches of local newspapers and magazines such as the “Washingtonian” in Washington D.C. would reveal information concerning lawyers successful in areas of interest to one looking for a competent, experienced and successful personal injury lawyer and law firm.

Accordingly, when consulting with a lawyer you are considering to represent you or your family, ask them about their success and to show you examples of their success in the subject matters that are relevant to you as a result of the injuries sustained by you or your loved one.

By Ira Sherman, Esq.