Durham Injury Attorneys
Any Carolina fan can tell you: Durham is a strange place. College rivalries aside, the town is interesting for several reasons. One thing that sets Durham apart, and is interesting to me in particular, is the number of attorneys that practice there. But it makes sense when you think about it. There are four law schools within 30 minutes: NCCU, UNC, Campbell, and some other private school whose mascot is named after a French military unit (because those guys are famous for winning, right?). Regardless, there are TONS of attorneys in Durham, so people searching for counsel in Durham have no shortage of options. So how do you narrow your choices?
In many small cities you find attorneys that are general practitioners. They may not say that explicitly, but when they are handling many varied types of cases, then that’s probably a fair label. Law school does give you a somewhat well-rounded knowledge of different topics, so I suppose it makes sense to dabble in this and that to keep the doors open.
When you’re talking run of the mill stuff, most attorneys can handle whatever. But when it comes to injury claims, do you really want a general practitioner to handle it? Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t.
With very minimal injury auto accident claims, you might get similar outcomes with someone who doesn’t focus mostly on injury claims. However, if you’re talking about complex injury claims there are more “moving pieces,” so to speak (or write), in the claim and for every moving piece there is a potential mistake to be made.
If you’re not handling injury claims every day like I do, you just may not have the time to stay –up-to-date on Medicaid and Medicare subrogation, lien law, Med Pay, liability coverage UM and UIM coverage, and premises liability claim law. Each of these issues – and this list is not exhaustive – presents a potential challenge for claim, and if the attorney who’s handling it doesn’t have a strong grasp of the concepts and law involved, they could do irreparable harm to your claim.
Take a look at my website: www.jeffreyhowardlaw.com (which you already are looking at since you’re reading this). What does it tell you?
It tells you I handle Personal Injury claims, Workers’ Compensation claims, Mediation, and Traffic Tickets. The first two things are injury law, so they make sense to go together. Mediation is conflict resolution in general, but it can be used in the injury law context. The only thing I do that isn’t injury-law-related is traffic tickets, but what small town attorney doesn’t do traffic tickets?
To the point: I am not a general practitioner. I handle injury claims, and I do traffic tickets locally. I will mediate cases as called upon, but that’s it. This is essentially all I do.
So if you’ve got an injury claim and are looking for an attorney, do yourself a favor and hire one that handles injury claims frequently. Check out their website and examine their practice areas. If they have several unrelated practice areas, you’re dealing with a generalist. Is that bad? No, not necessarily. But think of it this way: If you have a heart defect, do you want your family doc to treat it exclusively, or do you think the cardiologist might be better suited to that?
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