Friday, June 8, 2012

Choose Your Personal Injury Solicitor With Care

By Sharapno Bondia


Choosing your personal injury solicitor requires judicious judgment as you do not want to entrust your case into the wrong hands. Without a doubt, when it comes to picking the right solicitor you will be overwhelmed by people claiming to be the best but who are in fact not very good at what they do. Therefore, you must be careful about whom you choose.

The good news is that you can pick the best solicitor and it only requires looking at a few aspects that can help you judge the quality of the solicitor. You should, for example, evaluate their qualifications which may seem to be a silly thing to worry about but the plain truth is that you need to only deal with a solicitor that specializes in personal injury cases and not some other branch of the law.

Another important aspect to picking the right solicitor to handle your personal injury claim is that you must check and see what they are going to charge you for their services. If the charges are not reasonable, you can easily overlook that particular solicitor and expand your search for one that does not charge too much. You must check the Conditional Fee Agreement to see what kind of charges they will be asking you to bear.

Furthermore, the Conditional Fee Agreement might contain a clause that states that it is you that must pay expenses incurred by your solicitor out of your own pocket. These expenses can be anything including overtime costs that need to be paid to the staff of the solicitor.

Before hiring a personal injury solicitor, you need to understand that many times these solicitors fail to agree to consider your wishes and will, on their own, go ahead and get you what they think is the right amount of compensation. You must also agree with them beforehand on whether they will object to your settling out of court.

Last but not least, be sure to get clarifications from the solicitor regarding what will happen in the event that the case is lost. Be sure to get the solicitor to take the trouble of insuring the claim against a lost case.




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