Fort Worth Personal Injury Lawyers
Discuss Their Law Firm

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We handle all types of

personal injury cases here; that includes trucking

collisions, serious car wrecks, construction site

accidents, defective products injuring people, wrongful

deaths occurring from any of those situations.

It's work that I often

feel like we're really fighting dragons, and we're going

after the bad guys. We're trying to right a wrong.

We're trying to help people in their hour of need.

We have the experience

because we focus on these particular type of cases.

Every lawyer here is board certified in Personal Injury

Trial Law.

Board certified lawyers

have taken the time to really understand a practice just

in a very narrow field.

Some of the things that we do

a little bit differently here at Laird & Cummings that

some other firms may not do is using focus groups and

jury consultants.

In our case, oftentimes we

deal with the same defense lawyers over and over again;

we also deal with the same insurance companies over and

over again.

From the very beginning, we

anticipate that that case will probably go to trial.

You never know which cases will or will not end up in a

courtroom, but we always want to be prepared, and that's

the way that we approach each and every case that we

take.

Most of our cases come from

former clients, other lawyers. And the reason that

other lawyers frequently refer cases to us is because,

first of all, they're familiar with our results, they

consider us professional, and they know us to be

ethical, and they want the best job done for their

clients who they refer to us. They put their trust in

us to handle their clients the best way possible. We're

honored to do that, and it's very humbling to know that

so many of our colleagues refer cases to us.

We never charge for a

consultation, and any case that we take is handled on

what we call a contingency fee. That simply means that

if there's no recovery, there's no attorney's fee.

It levels the playing

field. It makes it so that an injured person can hire

qualified, competent, skilled trial lawyers to go up

against the insurance lawyers.

It shows the client that

we're going to be motivated and that we have an invested

interest and that we also take the risk. We share the

responsibility along with the client of trying to do

everything that we can to see that justice is done.

When there's a trucking

collision that seriously injures somebody or causes a

death, those are cases that we have a lot of experience

in handling. Those cases are complex. There are a lot

of rules and regulations that govern the conduct of the

truck driver and the trucking company.

I think the best time to

consult with a lawyer is early on, the earlier the

better, simply because a lawyer could give you guidance

in protecting your rights.

The answer is it's not too

soon, whatever time frame that you're talking about,

because evidence could change or disappear, witnesses

can move away, or their memories start to fade. And the

sooner that a lawyer can start putting together the

evidence, the better it's going to be for the families

involved with so much at stake.