Most people who find themselves in need of a civil litigation attorney have one thing in common: they are overwhelmed. In addition to facing immediate financial burdens as a result of malpractice, personal injury, or losing a loved one, they are engulfed in feelings of fear and uncertainty, or even intense grief. Amid all that …
The Boundaries of Civil Litigation: What Lawyers Can and Can’t Do
All civil litigation starts with a victim, one who has suffered due to another’s misjudgment, malice, or negligence. It’s the job of civil litigation attorneys to facilitate the victim’s healing, physically and emotionally, through compensation, which may or may not involve a monetary settlement. Due to certain limitations of the legal system, there are some …
Ohio Wrongful Death Lawyers Protect a Widow’s Claim and Dignity
This is a story about a tragic accident resulting from negligence. It’s also a story about how safeguards built into the legal process to protect the innocent are abused by those looking to avoid responsibility—and damages—resulting from their own negligence. And finally, it’s a story about our determination to protect our client despite the responsible …
A Tragic Past Nurtures a Young Man’s Bright Future
By Rex H. Elliott, Partner So many times, jobs are measured by mundane things; by the hours people invest in their work, by their productivity, by how much they get paid. and in our profession, by the cases we win. Yet sometimes, something about your job grips your heart and reminds you why you chose …
Construction Errors, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, and the Death of an Unborn Child
Few things in life are more joyous than the arrival of a healthy newborn baby. But that feeling of joy quickly dissipates when parents learn the awaited day of birth will never arrive. In this case, our clients experienced that grief firsthand. Their despair was only compounded when they learned there was evidence—strong evidence—that the …
Keep the Jury Out: Why Settlements Are Often Better Than Verdicts
It’s a suspenseful moment. The jury members file into the jurors’ box. The judge asks the defendant to rise. and then the jury’s foreman reads the verdict. The revelation of the jury’s verdict has been a staple of television courtroom dramas from “Perry Mason” to “Law & Order.” It can make for gripping television. But …
A Conditional Settlement Helps One Family Heal
As Ohio civil litigation attorneys, our focus is always on one thing: to help our clients find justice and hold the wrongdoers accountable. That means taking the time to understand our clients’ point of view and the extent of their pain. It means digging for the facts and going beyond the obvious to uncover what’s critical. …
Seeing is Believing: The Benefits of Forensic Animation
In a personal injury or wrongful death case, the jury must understand the difference between what happened and what should have happened in order to deliver a just verdict. It’s our job to make sure jurors understand the evidence so they can sort out the truth about a case. Our success hinges on establishing a …
A Child’s Wrongful Death Leaves a Legacy of Hope
The death of a small child is a tragedy no family should have to endure. But sometimes it happens, and the family members must carry the grief with them for the rest of their lives. In a wrongful death case, a family sues the party responsible for the death of their loved one. If during …
Catching Up with CSI: Medically Demonstrative Technology
We have tried many personal injury and wrongful death cases over the years, and there have been plenty of instances where we’ve asked medical experts to testify about what did or didn’t happen to the plaintiff. Jurors have enough information to process throughout a trial as it is, and expecting them to comprehend in just …
Positioning the Jury as the Protagonist
For personal injury and wrongful death attorneys, clear, effective communication is a vital element of any successful case. A key theme we’ve discussed before is how good communication with our clients enables us to seek justice and healing on their behalf. In this post, we’re going to examine effective communication from another perspective: that of …
Placing a Dollar Amount on Human Life
If a person dies because of someone else’s negligence— a wrongful death—it’s the victim’s family that is left to suffer the grief and loss. So what is the remedy? Determining the value of a human life is no easy task, but it’s one that we, as wrongful death attorneys, often face. One thing is certain—people …
