Brooklyn Personal Injury Lawyers
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The law firm of Reibman & Weiner is a Brooklyn based personal injury law firm, located at 26 Court Street, Suite 1005, Brooklyn, New York. We are often asked personal injury means? A personal injury lawyer represents people who have been physically or emotionally injured due to some kind of physical incident, most often an accident. There are different kinds of incidents that cause injuries to people who seek our legal services. For example, people can be injured by car accidents, slip and fall events, construction site accidents, medical malpractice, the use of defective products or drugs, or by civil rights violation by the police.
Clients coming to our Brooklyn office for the first time will meet with one of our experienced attorneys. We will take a detailed statement from the client to obtain as much information about the facts of the incident as possible at the first visit. After considering the facts, as stated by our client, we are then able to discuss the kind of lawsuit that may be possible and to answer any questions.
During the first visit to our Brooklyn location, the new client will hire the law firm of Reibman & Weiner to work for them. Hiring a lawyer or law firm is referred to as a retainer or retaining the firm. We are retained when the new client signs a standard retainer agreement naming the law firm of Reibman & Weiner as their lawyers.
In personal injury lawsuits, the lawyer or law firm usually works on a contingency fee, as we do in all personal injury cases. That typically means the lawyer works without any payment by the client and only collects a fee if there is a successful outcome and collection of money on behalf of the injured client. In New York State, the fee for a contingency fee lawsuit is one-third (33 1/3%) of the amount recovered, after the case expenses are deducted. In New York, the contingency fee for a medical malpractice case is less than one-third. The amount of the fee is listed on a special retainer agreement used in medical malpractice cases and the amount of the fee actually goes down as more money is recovered.
In order to have a successful personal injury lawsuit it is necessary to spend money to prosecute the case. Personal injury lawyers pay those expenses as the case progresses and expect to be reimbursed at the conclusion of a successful case. For example, there are Court fees that are paid to start a lawsuit. Expert testimony may be necessary to prove parts of the case and expert witnesses charge for their time in reviewing the materials, writing reports and coming to court to testify. All personal injury lawsuits will have an injured person who was treated at a hospital or by private doctors. The personal injury law firm must obtain all medical and treatment records and the medical providers charge fees to supply those records. There are other costs in bringing a lawsuit and even the most basic type of accident case may cost about $2,000.00 in expenses paid by the personal injury law firm as the case progresses. It is the practice of Reibman & Weiner to pay those costs without any contribution from the client, so that a personal injury client of Reibman & Weiner will not have to pay any money at all to have their case brought into court and litigated until there is a final determination. Once a case is settled and money collected, the amount of money spent by Reibman & Weiner is first deducted from the total settlement and then the one-third fee is calculated from the remaining amount.
Sometimes people ask if the one-third fee agreement is unfair to the client. To answer that you should understand it is expensive to hire a lawyer. In New York City, including Brooklyn, it can cost hundreds of dollars an hour if you were to pay for a lawyer’s time. Some law firms who defend large corporations that we bring lawsuits against have lawyers who charge over $500.00 per hour when defending a personal injury lawsuit. Those are expensive lawyers with years of experience and expertise in trying to make you lose your case. Our job is to win your case. When the time and expertise of the lawyers at Reibman & Weiner is considered, it is a very fair deal to hire an experienced team and not have to pay anything unless there is a successful outcome. The personal injury lawyers at Reibman & Weiner have more than 50 years combined experience in pursuing justice for injured people. Our efforts have recovered millions of dollars for our personal injury clients.
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