Allow me to qualify my position and relation for context.
I knew Dorothy for many years as a client, she was always incredibly kind and working with her was a pleasure.
As I read the "1 Star" reviews, a pattern emerges. "Don't Blink First"
I had been involved in an accident and not knowing anythin...g of how ANY of it works, she offered to have me come to her office for a consultation.
"Excuse me, you do this for a living??"
She replied, "Yes, and I'm very good at what I do."
I went to her office and everything was explained to me. How it works, how the opposing insurance company will try to pay nothing.
We spoke of how the timing on my side works and how the opposition attorneys for the insurance company are instructed to act to create an untenable environment for the victim.
Yes, you guessed it, the insurance companies lawyers are 100% trying to make your life hard so that you'll give up and demand that Dorothy settle your case.
If you need a quick settlement, you'll get what you get and that's not Dorothy's fault or within her power to get you a large settlement.
Call any local lawyer and ask them to get it handled quickly and you'll get a fraction of the potential settlement.
Dorothy and I spoke of this in the consultation. She asked if I were willing to wait and let her do her work her way. To let the process fully play out.
I was injured fairly significantly, rear ended in 5:00 traffic that obliterated the rear of my car. My knee was inside the dash and received a wicked whiplash as a cherry on top.
Once she explained to me how the opposition operates, I signed with her.
She put me under her letter of protection. Any doctor that I needed, any therapy or rehab that was required cost me exactly ZERO out of my pocket. I was on the mend and I didn't bother her with ANY of the "When am I getting paid?" garbage.
Dorothy is a Barracuda...The Barbie Barracuda to be specific.
When she had countered every legal maneuver they attempted and sent me to any and every specialist required to satisfy their case, she called me to her office.
Upon arrival, she greeted me with an enormous smile and her first word were, "I knocked it out of the park for you!"
She then thanked me for not giving up and for doing everything she had asked of me and explained that had I given up 1 day earlier than this particular day when they had ZERO bullets left in their gun, I would have given up my leverage.
Now.. it was her turn to dictate the terms by which to settle the case.
Knocked it out of the park?
No... She launched it into the adjacent galaxy.
I thought the check she handed me was the entirety of the settlement. That all the fees and the whatnot were to be taken from they check in my hand.
I asked, "How much of this will end up being mine?"
She said, "That's yours, all of it."
Knock me over with a feather at this point in time.
"Wait...WHAT???"
She said, "Insurance companies use very dirty methods to outwait you. If you outwait them by doing everything I need you to do, doing all the things that make you whole again, by going to every specialist, crossing every 'T' and dotting every "i", while doing all the tasks and tests 'required' of you by the insurance companies for their records.
They are now at our mercy, and they don't call me the Barbie Barracuda for nothing.
I'm your lawyer and I know exactly where to hit them."
She then again thanked me for allowing it to fully play out, again explaining that the one that blinks first gets screwed.
I never blinked...and neither did my friend, Dorothy Hyde.
I never spent 1 dime on a doctor or a rehab or a specialist.
Not even 1 penny.
PS. If you want a billion dollars on day 1, or if you are not able or capable of outwaiting the insurance companies...
You'll get what you get.
If you are going to press Dorothy to settle, you'll get what you get.
It took months to settle,
.....but don't be the one that blinks first.