Saturday, December 12, 2009

What You Need to Know About Personal Injury Attorneys

By Tony Garrudo

A PI Attorney, or Personal Injury Attorney, is someone who can provide legal advice to someone that was injured physically or psychologically, caused by negligence of a business, government organization, or an individual person. These lawyers specialize in "tort law" or more commonly known as injury law. This law includes damage (monetary or non-monetary) to a person' property, reputation, rights, business, or body. Injury attorneys are licensed and trained in all areas of the law; they will typically only handle cases dealing with injury law. Normally, the most common cases involve injuries, medical malpractice, auto accidents, slip and falls, and defective products.

Personal injury attorneys are also experienced trial lawyers, but for the most part, injury cases will never go to trial, opting instead to be settled out of court. The bar association publishes a standard of ethical and professional codes that all lawyers must adhere to and this of course includes injury lawyers. Injury attorneys can file legal complaints, argue cases, draft legal documents, and offer legal advice to clients amongst other things.

Injury lawyers will conduct interviews with clients and witnesses, evaluate the merits of the case, cite the large and small aspects of the case, and use their resources to plead the case in the best possible way; injury lawyers may also be referred to as "plaintiff lawyers." Their chief goal is to obtain compensation for the injustices their client has undergone, and in so doing helping to ease the client's burden from the injury.

One of their primary responsibilities is to keep their client's best interest always in mind and to keep all personal information completely confidential. Before an attorney can begin taking cases, he must pass a long written exam given by the bar association, including lengthy sections on ethics. Before they can even take this exam, they must have a four-year degree from an accredited law university or college.

Once all exams are passed, they can be admitted to the bar but they must keep up with legal developements within their field to keep their licensure. In order to stay current they must continue their education with regular courses.

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