How Brauns Law Handles Cases
The Brauns Law Advantage & Lead Counsel
One of the challenges you face in finding a nursing home attorney is finding a good one. The advantage of bringing your case to Brauns Law is that we identify and bring in the best attorneys we know to take the lead in your case. I am dedicated to helping people in need get answers to their questions. I know who to talk to, what the issues are, where the answers lie, and what steps need to be taken to position your case for success. Brauns Law evaluates your case and gets you to the right attorney for your specific needs.
The attorney you decide to let represent you can dramatically change the value of your case. As I discussed in my article on litigation, the way an attorney litigates your case (this is much different than from actual trial - read the article) has the opportunity to add tremendous value to your case. By keeping the pressure on the Defendants you cause them to constantly adjust their value of the case upwards for settlement purposes. This is for a couple of reasons. First you are running up their defense costs. Defense attorneys charge by the hour whereas plaintiff attorneys work on contingency and not by the hour. Second, the more documents you go after and the more you fight to get those documents (such as manuals, policies, internal memos, financial statements of the nursing home, etc.) the stronger your case gets because the nursing home realizes your attorney is doing their job intensely. They also become fearful you are going to get to damaging evidence. Finally, if your attorney is organized and executing in litigation, chances are they are going to do the same at trial. Now that you appreciate what a good attorney can do for your case let’s talk about your challenges in finding a great attorney.
People usually find an attorney by a couple of ways. First, they may know an attorney, but one who does not handle nursing home cases, such as a divorce lawyer, or they may have a friend who had an attorney for something other than a nursing home case, like a DUI or divorce. In either case you are relying on someone else’s judgment in giving you the name of a good attorney. The truth of the matter is nursing home litigation is extremely complex and you do not want an attorney who does “personal injury” or handles a bunch of different kind of cases. Is your friend or lawyer-friend going to know who that is? Is that lawyer-friend, say who handles bankruptcy, just going to send you to his law school classmate who he remembers hearing at a cocktail party handled personal injury cases? Nursing home cases, both litigating and keeping tabs on the nursing home industry, is what I do. Furthermore, when I bring in lead counsel I get copied on all the work on your file so I can see the work-product and what they are doing.
The second way people find their attorney is through advertising. Most people immediately think about TV and Yellow Pages. The client is usually responding to either visual images, the photo of the attorney (good looking/trustworthy, etc.), or some emotional words that create urgency to pick up the phone and call that attorney. But do they really know anything about him or her? Of course not. Besides, most of the heavy advertising attorneys operate settlement mills where they do the bare minimum and then try to settle your case for less than the value had you gone the distance. I have even heard of these attorneys trying to settle nursing home cases the same way the would a car accident case. And those that don’t normally just refer them out to other attorneys in a different firm and do it in a bait-and-switch way. Next time you see a lawyer commercial on television pause your TiVo and read the fine print.
I take pride in not hiding important details in the fine print. You deserve to know how you case is going to handled before you hire your attorney. I truly believe the way Brauns Law works represents a revolution in legal services and would welcome any questions or comments you may have.
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