Personal injury lawyer is a professional who helps you in dealing with cases related to personal injuries such as vehicle accidents, slip and fall, sudden temperature fluctuations at workplace, animal bites, and others. You should learn more about an injury lawyer’s duties or responsibilities before you hire one.
Let’s quickly go through the following responsibilities of a personal injury lawyer:
- Handling Insurance Companies
This is one of the prime responsibilities of an injury lawyer. It is your lawyer who communicates and negotiates with your insurance companies for your quoted compensation. Normally, when an insurance company receives a legal notice of any claim, it starts its own investigation and reaches out to a Plaintiff for counseling and claim discussion.
Once an injury lawyer is hired by you, your insurance company is not allowed to contact you directly. All the communication goes through your lawyer.
- Representing a Client During Trials
If you have trouble settling your case during the litigation process (due to lack of negotiations from the opposite side), presenting your case before a jury is the final option left for you. Here is where you need a personal injury lawyer to fearlessly present your case in such settings. He or she prepares your case accordingly and make you get ready too for further hearings.
- Representing Client at the Time of Deposition
A deposition is a process of sticking to your promise or oath. This is a very relaxed and general meeting between the plaintiff and the defendant to present the facts of their respective clients’ cases before the trial begins. One of the reasons to call for a deposition is to shorten the length of arguments before the case is presented in the courtroom. All this process is done only by a professional personal injury lawyer.
- Evidence Collection and Examination
It does not matter what injuries are you suffering from, the most important task in the initial stages for an injury lawyer is to quickly collect as much evidence about your case as possible. Your lawyer collects as much evidence (from the CCTVs, other footages, police records or reports, medical records and statements from key witnesses) as possible even if he or she has to hire an investigator to do this task.
- Preparation and Filing Pleadings
It is the duty of your injury lawyer to first prepare your case and then file a complaint at the court where it is venued. There are various pleadings and certain necessary documents that are filed by your lawyer and presented before the court. Your lawyer will contact you to confirm certain information that the court can request your lawyer to present during pleadings. All these pleadings are created and confirmed by your lawyer on your behalf.
- Provide You a Free Consultation
The duty of a lawyer does not start only in a courtroom, but it has a lot of width even outside the courtroom. He or she will first counsel you (which is mostly free by most of the professional lawyers) and make you prepared for what you can expect from the court or your settlement amount. It is the duty of an injury lawyer to learn more about the case of his client by allowing him or her to speak more.
- Provide Legal Knowledge to Clients
A personal injury lawyer helps the clients to be a little knowledgeable about the current State or Federal laws. Having known about these laws will help you to stand firm in your decision. They help you analyze and/or anticipate legal problems even before they could arise. This helps you to know your legal rights and carry your case forward.
