Posted by anonymous | October 16, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Lawsuits & Disputes

Your worst attorney will still do better than this group

We used this group when my family was hit by a semi while sitting at a stop light. They came up as a leading law group in tractor trailer accidents, so instead of using a local, smaller law firm, we chose them. Long story short, they are hard to communicate with, the suit took over a year before we w...ere able to release them from all duties and pursue the settlement ourselves. I wouldn't recommend this either, but we didn't have much choice at the end of this. There was ALOT of miscommunication on how to move forward, how to handle medical expense etc, and one question could take 2-3 weeks to get an answer. The defendant company had accepted responsibility so it shouldn't have been so difficult. Ultimately, both accident victims received less than $8,000 which INCLUDED the funds to pay thousands of dollars in ER and ambulance bills, specialist bills etc. The incompetence of a doctor's office did play a factor in some of this, as they had sent a report that "accidentally" stated that one of the victims had surgery on a body part that was now afflicted from the accident - when they'd never had a surgery on anything before. It was just a long, drawn out mess that never got better. The attorney in our small town told us exactly what they would have done and have done in the past, with a case like ours - and it was completely different from what Grossman's office did - and they wouldn't have settled for the small amount we ended up settling for. For an open and shut, clear case where a semi driver slammed into a car sitting at a stop, this should have been a little simpler. I realize we didn't go to law school and most of the law lingo is Greek to us - but please don't talk to your clients like they should understand every word you say, then remind them that you "did tell them earlier" something legal that only a legal mind would even remember. This was a huge part of our frustration with them - I felt like I needed a legal thesaurus to understand everything they told us all the time. We mostly dealt with Keith Purdue and "Cory." Purdue told us at one point that something important hadn't been done because one of the women in his office failed to take care of it, and she was let go. Whether this was true or not, it had an impact on how things moved forward so we were very disappointed.

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Michael Grossman

Replied last October 16, 2017

We don't disclose information about clients publicly but I can offer the following general information... To anyone reading this review, just ask yourself a few simple questions: 1) Does the law firm this person maligns have a long and well-established track record of winning truck accident cases? The answer is very clearly "yes," which can be verified with numerous sources. This case wasn't our first trip to the rodeo. 2) Did the person leaving the above review acknowledge that they didn't fully understand the details of their case? Again, the answer would appear to be "yes." 3) Did the reviewer mention a tremendous problem baked into their medical records that they seem to not fully appreciate the severity of? Again, the answer is "yes." 4) What are the odds that a great case fell into the lap of a firm that knows how to make the most of said case, yet that firm just decided "Even though we're a bunch of greedy lawyers, today we don't just don't feel like making money on this really great case"? Folks, a lawyer works with evidence, and medical records are the most important kind of evidence in an injury case. If, for instance, a client claims that their injury was caused by a negligent truck driver but the medical records show that the injury was actually caused by something else a long time ago, game over. You can't speak of such a factor as being a trivial part of the case. On the contrary, a medical record which says that there is a preexisting injury (or something similar) is only about as trivial as an atom bomb. Concerning the timeline, commercial vehicle accident cases typically take about a year and a half. Any of our clients should expect this because we tell them as much and because our welcome packet explains it in writing. While there is plenty of work to be done on a client's case while the client is receiving medical attention, lawyers can't start talking numbers with the trucking company until they have a good understanding of the full extent of the client's injuries. A lawyer cannot put a dollar figure to it until he knows what the medical records look like. So, hypothetically, let's say you have a client who claims that the walls are closing in, that their every waking moment is pure agony, and they therefore treat with a doctor for 9 months. When the doctor releases them from treatment, the medical records get sent to their lawyer. It is not altogether uncommon for a lawyer to wait for a client to be released from treatment only to discover that the life-altering injuries the client complained of were in fact very minor, weren't caused by the wreck in question, or were otherwise exaggerated, over-billed, etc. When such an event occurs, ethical lawyers don't encourage those clients to continue their case. Period. As for the claim that we only communicate in complex legalese, I'm not sure what to say other than: how complicated is what I wrote above? I speak like I write. In many respects, ending an attorney-client relationship is a little like a breakup. And just the same way that you'd reserve a little skepticism when hearing a guy at a bar talk about how he was a perfect husband yet his evil wife left him anyway, I would encourage all reasonable-minded people to extend that same skepticism to any review of a law firm stemming from an attorney-client breakup.

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