We wrote this book in order to give you, our clients and potential clients, a helpful guide to the process of a personal injury claim. We believe this is important information for people who have already decided to pursue a case - but also for those who want more information before they are ready to decide. As a potential client, you have the right to know what you’re committing to. And if you become a client, you truly need to know these things about your case, for your own peace of mind and to help us make the case as successful as possible.

However, we know that no book can be detailed enough to address every plaintiff’s situation. Each case, each pattern of facts and each plaintiff is unique. This is why we want to once again encourage you to meet with us, if you have not already, for more information about what you can expect if you become a plaintiff, so we can discuss the specifics of your case.

As injury lawyers, we believe that helping people is one of the most important aspects of our profession. An injury lawsuit helps clients directly by securing money to pay for health care and other costs of an accident, of course, but also by cutting through the bureaucracy of insurers, hospitals and other large organizations to get you the compensation you deserve. More indirectly, it can even help the community by alerting others to the dangers that caused your accident, including the at-fault parties’ careless or illegal behavior and the lack of oversight or accountability that allowed those behaviors. In a few cases, you may even be able to make new laws or force policy changes that better protect our community.

There is nothing more fulfilling than helping our clients recover a fair settlement or verdict. As a plaintiff, you are a partner in that work, and your participation is not just helpful - in many ways, it is essential. We hope that this book has helped you better understand what you can expect from your case, and your own role in reaching a successful resolution of it.