The structure surprises most families Georgia splits a death claim in two. One recovers the full value of the life of the deceased, measured from the perspective of the person who died rather than the economic loss to survivors. The other belongs to the estate and covers medical expenses, funeral...
Who Actually Works Your File at a Small Firm Caseload per lawyer tells you more than headcount A firm with forty lawyers and four thousand open files gives each case less attention than a firm with three lawyers and ninety. Total size is a vanity number that appears in advertising. The ratio is...
Why Injury Cases Are Not Interchangeable The category on the intake form changes almost everything People tend to think of personal injury as one thing with one process. In practice a rear end collision, a tractor trailer case, a premises claim and a wrongful death run on different evidence,...
When To Call a Lawyer After an Injury Earlier than most people think, and not for the reason they assume People delay because they are not sure the injury is serious enough, or because calling a lawyer feels like escalation. The practical reason to call early has nothing to do with either. It is...
Federal Trucking Records and the Preservation Window A trucking case is a documents case A collision with a tractor trailer looks like a larger car wreck and is legally a different animal. Interstate motor carriers operate under federal regulations requiring them to generate and retain records...
