If you have suffered a brain injury, please contact us now. Delays can harm your case. Head injuries bring more than 400,000 people to hospitals every year. Approximately three-quarters are diagnosed as having suffered a mild to moderate injury – injuries that can be subtle, persistent, and potentially long term.Demographically, three quarters of the survivors […]
Understanding the Legal Fee Agreement: Consumers’ Rights in the Legal Marketplace
Finding the “right lawyer” to represent you is a challenging process described in this companion to the article, “How to Hire the ‘Right Lawyer: Consumers’ Rights in the Legal Marketplace.” Once you have found the “right lawyer,” you will want a written fee agreement explaining what you want the lawyer to do, what the lawyer […]
How to Hire the “Right Lawyer”
The United States is both the most successful economy and the most complicated legal society in the history of the world. Open any newspaper on any day and more than half of all the news concerns the law. Full time legislatures, plus Congress and numerous federal agencies, produce volumes of rules. In short, there are […]
California’s Two Year Statute of Limitations: Extended until Suspicion of Injury
On May 9, 2005 there was a significant change in California law concerning the statute of limitations and when it begins to run. In Fox v. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., number S121173, 2005 Cal. LEXIS 4911, May 9, 2005 the Supreme Court of California ruled that the bright line rule of Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court […]
Personal Injury: Do I Have To Go To Court? Can I Settle Out of Court?
Do you have to take your case to court? No, but if you do not act as if you are willing to go to trial, your claim will be worth dramatically less. As a practical matter, unless your case is filed “in court” before the two year statute of limitations for personal injuries claims, there […]
