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Filed under: Family Law, Lawyers | Tags: attorney, attorneys, divorce, filing for divorce, find, finding, law, laws, lawyer, lawyers, separation
How to Find a Caring but Tough Attorney
Legal counsel that meets your needs
Finding the right attorney to suit your legal needs and professional standards is very important to the outcome of your case. Legal relationships between an attorney and a client require a certain amount of openness and trust in order to fully address the legal issues at hand.
Caring and tough is an excellent combination for a legal counselor. On the one hand, you know that your lawyer has the interpersonal skills to empathize with your situation but you can also feel confident this person will not let that empathy cloud his or her legal judgments.
Steps to find the right lawyer for your case
It can take some initial work in the form of research and interviewing to find an attorney with whom you feel comfortable. A few simple steps can make this process much easier:
- Start online. A simple search will return dozens of lawyers and firms in your area that handle cases in your field. Try a keyword phrase like “family law in Tucson” that is applicable to your legal needs.
- Evaluate the firm’s website. Does it meet your standards? Are you comfortable with their marketing messages? A law firm’s online image is closely intertwined with their representation style, and you should feel comfortable with this aspect of the firm you hire.
- Make initial contact. Call or email the office and discuss your legal needs with the support staff, or, if available, the lawyers at the firm.
- Ask tough questions. You want to know they can handle your case, and this requires a little bit of digging. Have they had a case like yours? How long have they been practicing law? If caring and tough is what you are after, ask them how they handle a difficult situation.
- Explore your options. Chances are there are several lawyers in your area that handle cases like yours. Make it your goal to find the one firm that best supports your legal needs in terms of cost, experience, friendliness, and professionalism.
- Retain counsel. This last step you can make with the confidence of an informed consumer. You have done your research and considered all available options.
Filed under: General Law, Malpractice | Tags: health care, healthcare, law, Legal, medical malpractice
This is a question on many people’s minds, and there seems to be a lot of disagreement. The issue of medical malpractice lawsuits is a very sensitive one in the debate over rising health-care costs according to Politico.com. Senator Max Baucus wants to discuss malpractice suits in his health-reform plan.
In order to improve health care and reduce costs, The American Medical Association says tort-reform measures need to be considered. On the other side, The American Academy of Family Physicians understands the importance of coalitions. Tes Epperly, president said, “With Congress the way it is right now, liability reform could be a bit of a deal breaker if we got sidetracked into that. I would hate to put it in the package and have the whole thing break apart.”
Are doctors over-burdened by expensive malpractice insurance? Some say yes. Attorneys, of course, indicate that protecting patient’s rights is first and foremost and if it takes a lawsuit to do that, then so be it. Trial lawyers plan to distribute a 29-page research piece indicating that lawsuits aren’t causing the cost of care to rise.
President Obama seems open to some changes, but has a “wait and see” attitude. Insight into his opinion came in the New England Journal of Medicine a few years ago where he (along with Hillary Clinton) said, “Instead of focusing on the few areas of intense disagreement, such as the possibility of mandating caps on the financial damages awarded to patients, we believe that the discussion should center on a more fundamental issue: the need to improve patient safety.”
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