subject: Considerations for Choosing Medical Malpractice Lawyers [print this page] Considerations for Choosing Medical Malpractice Lawyers
If you or your dear one suffered personal injury or death (in extreme cases) due to negligent healthcare or a malpractice, it is time you seek support from medical malpractice attorney. There are many medical malpractice lawyers spread across US who could represent victims of medical negligence and malpractice.
Picking a good medical malpractice attorney is one important decision and has to be made with some amount of consideration. Knowing some facts surrounding medical malpractice and neglect and trying to find an attorney will help in the choice and your search and eliminate a lot of frustration during the process.
Steps in choosing process
With the help of the Internet search engines for instance use keywords such as medical malpractice attorneys or medical malpractice lawyers and you would have gotten several of results. Now narrow down the number of attorneys by searching for New Hampshire medical malpractice attorneys (for example if you are looking for attorneys in the state of NH), as the attorneys will be familiar with the specific state rules and local legal procedures.
Further weed out those lawyers that do not represent medical malpractice defense in NH. Take time to read about expertise and focus areas of the attorneys and you would have ended up with not more than 5-7 to contact.
Call the attorneys you have figured from your search to get initial feel of mutual compatibility. Ask for his/her experience in handling cases that are similar to yours and ask for his success rate. Ask for the fee structure, ask if he is okay with the proposition of no money up-front but some share from the damages recovered (the usual standard is 25% to 30%) once the case gets settled. Also ask for the hourly charges of the attorney and fees for one time pay.
What questions you need to ask the medical malpractice attorney before you hire his/her services
Does he/she practice the medical malpractice law?
For how long he/she has been practicing the medical malpractice law?
Is the attorney an associate of any law institutions/associations?
If he/she has experience of successful representation of medical malpractice cases similar to yours
How many cases has he/she settled on behalf of clients?
If he/she has any positive statements or testimonials given by clients
If the attorney charges for initial consultation
If the attorney could explain legal processes and braspects of your case
Is the attorney very busy or has adequate time to spend on your case
After speaking over phone you would have further reduced down the number of attorneys to four or five, fix a personal appointment with each one of them. Talk to them to make sure you have found appropriate attorney to represent your case.
The last thing you'd want is waste your money and time in finding one competent attorney that could represent you/your case. Knowing the aforementioned considerations could take you long way in picking the attorney and remove your frustration too.
