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© Russell C. Hall 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part may be used without express written permission. What Makes A Good Personal Injury Lawyer? As with any professional, a good personal injury lawyer needs to be able to empathize with his or her clients. The main reason for this is that quite often it’s difficult for clients to be able to clearly express themselves fully, and in a way that would best suit their own objectives. Therefore, a personal injury lawyer that is able to empathize with and offer understanding to the overall situation of the client will be more likely to gain the trust of the client, which always helps with the preparation for the case and which in turn translates to a better outcome, and in the case of personal injury litigation often can be the difference between a mediocre result and a very good result. A good personal injury lawyer will thoroughly investigate all aspects of the circumstances surrounding the incident of the injury in order to ascertain whether the injury was sustained as a result of a pure accident or misfortune, or whether there is a case of negligence or something even more sinister such as an orchestrated disaster intended to happen. All of these factors would determine the eventual compensation settlement that the defendant (offending party) would have to pay out to the victim. In many cases, there are serious and lifelong effects that are prevalent in personal injury cases such as when the victim has become disabled in some way such as that it has prevented the victim from returning to work or even rendered them incapable of performing basic daily tasks that they used to perform freely and easily. Injuries that may require special housing, care, transport and special aids in order to help the victim pursue as respectful and independent life as possible. Therefore the personal injury lawyer needs to be very well versed in being able to research and liaise with medical and psychological specialists as well as other specialists that would be able to submit detailed reports on the likely needs of the victim and the impact and cost of those needs over the victim’s lifetime. In this regard the best personal injury lawyer needs to be very diligent and also needs to posses excellent communication skills in order to obtain and collate © Russell C. Hall 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part may be used without express written permission. © Russell C. Hall 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part may be used without express written permission. all of the relevant information that will form the client’s case ready for it to go to court. A poor communicator and/or a poor coordinator and less than fully diligent personal injury lawyer is not going to be able to optimize their client’s eventual financial outcome and so therefore it really pays to go for the best attorney that you can find and that your money can buy. In circumstances where you haven’t got access to the kind of finances that the best personal injury lawyer would demand, then if you have an excellent case and the defendant is well insured, you may be able to secure an attorney that will work on a no-win/no-fee basis and who is willing to accept payment of their fees at settlement. Often, those fees can be negotiated to be paid by the defendant as part of a settlement deal or even in circumstances where the court has decided that the victim’s court costs are to be paid by the defendant at settlement. As you can appreciate, there are many things to take into consideration when seeking out a good personal injury lawyer. It’s not something to rush into and it is definitely something that you should investigate as to their credentials and inquire as to other cases perhaps similar to yours where the personal injury lawyer has achieved successful outcomes on behalf of their clients. This is something that the more experienced and successful personal injury lawyer will be quite willing to share with you, and so you shouldn’t at all feel embarrassed or nervous about asking about their track record because many of them are very proud of their excellent performance and results which they will be equally enthusiastic about achieving for you also. [keyword focus: personal injury lawyer] © Russell C. Hall 2016. All Rights Reserved. No part may be used without express written permission.