Ok, you’ve been in an accident and are medically stabilized. Your insurance has paid for the immediate things that needed to be accomplished like getting you a working vehicle again, medical bills, and the like. Now, you are ready to go after the party responsible for your injuries. It’s obvious that it is time to hire an injury attorney, but which should you hire?
The simple fact of the matter is that the attorney you choose will have a direct relationship to how your case goes. Is this new attorney hard up for money? Do they love settling instantly just to cash in? Are they preoccupied with a very busy personal life, to where they cannot give you the service you deserve? These are serious questions to ask yourself when choosing an attorney.
“Read reviews online, ask your friends and family, and most of all don’t just settle on the first attorney who pops up in some advertisement,” said Angela, a personal injury attorney in Melbourne, Florida. “You want to hire an attorney who will meet you face-to-face or at the very least facetime or zoom you.”
This means read reviews from all of the major sources like FindLaw, Google, even social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. You should spend at least 30 minutes reading reviews and doing other due diligence before setting up a meeting. And don’t be afraid to bail out should the meeting not go the way you want. Use your gut instinct when it comes to retaining the services of an attorney.
There are millions of injury cases every year. Don’t be treated just like another one in the pile. Tell your potential attorney what your expectations are. Tell them how you like to be contacted and how often you expect an update. Remember, they are your employee and will either accept your demands or say that they cannot meet them, at which point you should move on to the next attorney on your list. And don’t always go for the big-name firms. They spend a lot of money and have their plates full to the brim. You will most likely be assigned to some junior attorney whose name isn’t even on the sign.
