We Welcome Lawyer Referrals For Cases Involving Personal Injury or Loss of Life

Because our firm handles many types of significant multi-state personal injury cases, as well as wrongful death cases, we foster and welcome co-counsel relationships with other personal injury lawyers or lawyers who do not specialize in personal injury or wrongful death, or who require local counsel/local lawyers in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky and Washington, D.C., as well as many federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Under each state's professional responsibility rules, it is permissible to enter into a co-counsel contingent legal fee relationship, so long as the relationship is clearly spelled out to the client in writing.

Typically, on receiving a potential referral, we discuss with the referring attorney the percentage of the co-counsel fee split to the referring lawyer or law firm, and agree on this at the beginning. Then, either on a conference call or however the referring attorney wants to handle this, the client is apprised of the relationship of the referring lawyer and our law firm. Later, a fee agreement is provided to the client, which sets forth the respective attorney responsibilities and relationships.

At the time of resolution of the case, where the legal fee earned is set forth for the client on the settlement statement, the relationship between the referring law firm and our law firm is stated. That’s all there is to it.

The costs and expenses to properly mount a successful medical malpractice case can be considerable, and this also goes for product liability and other major litigation. Depending upon the case, we are willing to advance the court costs and expert fees so long as this is the desired relationship with the referring lawyer or law firm and our law firm.

Because we have handled so many types of significant personal injury litigation cases, we have developed many relationships with not only medical experts, but with liability related experts throughout the eastern United States. Also, we work with medical illustrators in many cases to help present evidence of anatomy and surgical procedures to support medical damages.

We are proud of our ongoing co-counsel relationships and actually obtained , what was then, the largest verdict ever in the history of Virginia for an individual in a personal injury case, due to a referral from a lawyer who did not have extensive experience in railroad injury matters. The $46,000,000 verdict, with interest, was $60,000,000 and the case was appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court by the defendant and was confidentially settled while the appeal was pending. The record verdict was a direct result of combining the forces of two law firms with a united mission of helping our injured client. If we can work with you as co-counsel on a potential personal injury case please contact us today.

Here is some more informatio about our Virginia personal injury law firm:

We are "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell, two attorneys are listed as the "Best Lawyers in America" (2010), three lawyers have been selected as "Virginia Super Lawyers" (2010, Law & Politics Magazine) and we are members by invitation of the Million Dollars Advocates Forum.