Personal Injury Law

At the end of any personal injury lawyer advertisement you will hear something similar to "The choice of a lawyer is an important one and should not be based on advertising alone"

By Benjamin J. Sansone, Esq.

This is disclaimer that should be taken very seriously. Think of how many personal injury lawyer advertisements there are where they claim they will get the best result for you, and some even go so far as to diminish the professionalism of our business by making juvenile advertisements and claims. Ask yourself, do they ever is back up their claims with proven experience and results with successful personal injury cases?

I was browsing the Internet recently,and a reputable lawyer in Maryland was discussing his disgust with outrageous and frankly embarrassing advertisements by injury lawyers. See Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog

This attorney cited several injury lawyer ads listed in an Esquire magazine blog showing some of the most outrageous lawyer commercials around. While they are funny, it is also very serious topic, as many people hire lawyers based on these ridiculous and exaggerated ads. If you are form the St Louis are, you should recognize the third commercial down titled "the good guys". See Outrageous Lawyer Ads Article

As stated above and at the end of many injury lawyer advertisements, the choice of a lawyer is an important one and should not be based on advertisements alone. Many of these commercials do not back their claims up with results or discuss cases that were not handled by their own firm.

All cases discussed in my blog are cases I personally handled, each and every case discussed and illustrated on my website were handled by me. Except for only a very few cases discussed on my blog, but then I specifically state it was not a case I handled.

Be careful, many websites will publish outstanding results but do not specify that the case was theirs or not, thus implying to many people that the case was theirs.

So do not decide on a lawyer based on advertising, decide on a lawyer for other reasons, including, personal injury lawyers with experience backed up by past results, not silly claims crafted by marketing managers.

Full post as published by Missouri Injury Law Blog on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).