When You Are Injured

If you have been hurt due to the fault of another, sound legal advice is as important to your total recovery as good medical treatment.

When selecting an attorney, you owe it to yourself to find a lawyer who knows how to protect the rights of injury victims. You and your loved ones will not get a second chance to recover for an injury.

An injury can be devastating on you and your family. Along with the pain and discomfort comes medical expense that you can’t control.

You can’t go to work and make a living, but the bills don’t stop. Neither does the worry. To make sure you get fair treatment hire a qualified, experienced lawyer.

How to Find a Lawyer

The question becomes how to find this lawyer! If you have narrowed your search to lawyers who focus their practice on helping injury victims, you are looking in the right direction, just like you would look to a medical specialist if you had a specific problem.

You can research lawyers on the internet and in the newspapers. You can read about their credentials, what they say about experience, the organizations they belong to, and even some of the verdicts they may have won. News about big verdicts and settlements are not a promise of a good result in your case, however. An experienced trial lawyer should have credentials and a good track record.

Past that, look for an attorney who is focused on your needs. One who realizes that your injury case is the ONLY case you may ever have, and it is your biggest concern. The moment a candidate to be your lawyer talks to you about your injury case as a "file," you should hang up and interview another lawyer!

Our Practice

At The S.E. Farris Law Firm, our practice focuses on the needs of injury victims. We guarantee our clients that our dedication is more than just a Motto. At the end of your case, we measure our success not by the amount of money we recover for you, but whether you would give our name to others as a lawyer to choose.

Most of our clients have catastrophic injuries. The injury may also be due to the neglect of others in many areas including:

• Defective or dangerous products
• Dangerous property (premises liability)
• Road and highway use (automobile, semi-truck and motorcycle accidents) and
• Medical malpractice (doctor, hospital or nursing home malpractice)

The injury may be work related:

• Workers' compensation
• Riverboat injury/Jones Act or
• Railroad injury/FELA

CLIENT BILL OF RIGHTS

Our Motto is more than Just a slogan- it is our goal for our clients!

1. We will return your phone calls and emails promptly and without legalese.
2. We will get your medical payment coverage if you were in a car wreck and help you resolve your automobile damage claim quickly - for free! We can often get you a FREE loaner car while your car is in the shop!
3. We will advise you of settlement offers and recommend the best options.
4. We will settle your case when you are ready - never before.
5. We will treat your case as our top priority.
6. We will keep you updated on the progress of your case and we promise to thoroughly research your questions and advise you.
7. We will advise you on every step of the process, and ultimately, if we go to trial, we guarantee you will be prepared.

While we hope this Web site is helpful and informative, it should not be considered a substitute for legal advice. The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely on advertisements. Please contact us or a free consultation on your injury claim - there is never a fee unless we collect money for you.