Portland Personal Injury Attorney
After you have been injured in an accident, the last thing you want to do is be taken advantage of by an insurance company. Your friends have told you that you need a Portland personal injury attorney to help you out with your claim.
How do you go about choosing a Portland personal injury attorney? What do you look for?
The two most important things to look for in choosing a personal injury attorney are experience and proven results.
Experience matters.
You need a lawyer who is very experienced in personal injury law. Many personal injury attorneys in Portland are not really personal injury attorneys, but rather general practice lawyers who hold themselves out as personal injury attorneys.
Many Portland attorneys practice a number of different kinds of law, but do not focus on any particular kind of law, doing criminal, personal injury, divorce, bankruptcy, etc..
It is difficult if not impossible to be a top Portland personal injury attorney if you do not limit your practice to personal injury cases.
You would not go to your dentist for a foot injury, so why would you go to a criminal or divorce lawyer for your personal injury case?
How do I know if an attorney is an experienced personal injury attorney?
Ask them.
When talking to an attorney:
- Ask them what percentage of their practice is devoted to personal injury cases.
- Ask them how long they have been practicing personal injury law.
- Ask them how many cases they filed.
- Ask them the last time they tried a case to a jury.
Then ask yourself if you would rather have an attorney who only does personal injury cases and who goes to trial often, or if you are OK with a lawyer who does not try cases and does not focus their practice on personal injury.
Proven results matter.
Any Portland personal injury attorney can pay to be members in legal organizations or have their friends review them online.
These memberships and reviews have little or nothing to do with whether or not they are an effective Portland personal injury attorney.
When hiring a personal injury attorney, you want to hire one who is most likely to succeed on your case.
If an attorney has not performed in the past, what are the odds that they will perform now?
Although nobody can guarantee success, past performance is the best indicator of future performance.
The best way to choose an attorney if by the one thing that they can't fake or buy, VERDICTS.
Many Portland personal injury attorneys have never done well in trial or are even afraid to go to trial.
- Your lawyer gets paid for making insurance companies pay more due to the threat of trial.
- If they are not willing to go to trial, then what are you paying them for?
- If a lawyer has not had a number of six figure verdicts, they are probably inexperienced, unskilled, afraid, or lazy.
- None of those are traits you want in your personal injury attorney.
Getting big verdicts takes hard work, skill, experience, and faith in your case.
You deserve a Portland personal injury attorney who has all of
the above and you should keep looking until you find one.
Michael A. Colbach.
Portland personal injury attorney with proven results.
- Experienced and effective personal injury and trial attorney.
- I offer free initial legal consultations and contingency fee agreements (no fees without a monetary recovery).
