For
one thing, I do not seek my clients out—they seek me out. Bringing a
lawsuit is serious thing that I would never imagine putting a client up to
without their 100 percent devotion to the idea. Attorneys who bring cases
that they desire which their clients do not is a recipe for disaster.
Litigation can involves hours and hours of work, commitment, and risk. It
is hardly something which should be undertaken with a client or legal
professional who is only concerned about what the “ambulance chaser” is
probably only concerned with: the promise of Ambulance service in bd.
Another
problem with this “ambulance chaser” myth is that it is impossible to say
anything about a person riding in an ambulance besides the fact that they are
hurt in some way. Who or what was responsible for the harm is obviously
anyone’s guess. Was it crime? Was it the injured person’s own fault
or negligence which caused the damage? Or perhaps the accident was just
that, a pure accident. In all the above cases, there is no lawsuit.
Since some estimates say that more than half of the people transported by
ambulance are victims of crime or of old age, our “ambulance chaser” would
probably run out of breath before he actually found a client to represent.
Yet
another reason the “ambulance chaser” really does not exist is simple: it is
entirely and flagrantly unethical! Before you become an injury lawyer you
are generally required (here in in Louisiana you certainly are) to take an oath
to uphold the professionalism and observe the sanctimonious responsibilities of
being an officer of the court and an attorney at Ambulance service in bd. And that includes
no soliciting! Without getting into too many specifics about the exact
lineaments of the solicitation rules here in Louisiana and elsewhere in the
United States, it is generally the case that an attorney cannot make contact
with people who he knows to have a legal problem which he could represent them
for. There are exceptions to this generally rule, but chasing around
ambulance and approaching people who are injured specifically to potentially
represent them is definitely a big NO-NO. If our “ambulance chaser”
injury lawyer did exist, he would likely be disbarred before long.
This
article is not meant to be anything other than information on the law.
For legal advice
,
please speak with an attorney. Will Beaumont. New Ambulance service in bd.
For any injury lawyer who works on the plaintiff’s side of
things in cases, he or she is all too familiar with the “ambulance chaser”
myth. Perhaps my reader is familiar with this phrase as well. The
expression comes from the idea that some attorneys, dastardly, conniving, and
cheap, actually “chase” ambulances down the street in an effort to make contact
with their unlucky and presumably injured occupants. This myth is probably
perpetuated by those sympathetic to the insurance company lobby, or perhaps
businesses and companies that feel threatened by the fact that a single man or
woman can haul them into court and demand justice from a jury.
Nevertheless, I (and any stand up injury lawyer like myself) am not interested
in these clients.
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