Have you suffered an accident and need personal injury advice ?
It’s tempting and understandable in such circumstances to simply pick up the phone in response to one of the national tv adverts you see for personal injury solicitors, but is this necessarily a good option ?
Also, it may not always be the best idea to respond to one of the many injury law firms now offering inducements, such as a free iPad or cashback. Whilst this may be clever marketing, with anything legally related, the key point is to get the right advice.
Personal injury is like any other area of law – some cases are straightforward, particularly whiplash claims, and others are highly complex and difficult, such as many types of accident in the workplace, which can involve complicated health and safety issues, many different statutes or difficult issues relating to witnesses not wanting to get involved as they are also employees. In short, with legal matters, it simply isn’t a good idea to make a decision who to use based on who has the best tv advert or offers the biggest inducement. Legal matters are important, and if you ask yourself the question, would you go to a divorce solicitor who offered you money back or a solicitor for selling your business based on those criteria ? probably not, so it’s best to think about who you use.
In finding the right solicitor, we always think it’s important to speak with and if at all possible go and meet with at least 2 solicitors. To do this, it makes sense to use someone local to you of at all possible, and there are no shortage of solicitors in England & Wales so this isn’t a problem. With due respect to sole practitioners also, of which there are thousands, we would suggest you always find a solicitor who only does one type of work, and with some forms of personal injury case, it’s often worth finding a specialist in that type of claim.
Withe personal injury advice, it’s very easy to find a specialist firm which has been around for many years in almost all parts of the country. As a few examples, Lloyd Green are a specialist firm of injury solicitors in Essex and in Wales you may choose Patrick Blackmore.
As always, getting the right advice, not just any advice is the way to go.