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How do you choose the right Attorney for your Tennesssee Workers' Compensation Case? (Part 3)
Once You Have Decided On an Attorney, Make Sure You Both Understand Your Goals and How Your Relationship Will Work
Selecting the right attorney is the first step. Once you find that person, you then need to make sure that you are both on the same page in terms of what you expect to achieve, and how you will work together to achieve it. Here are a couple of important factors to discuss with your attorney to make sure your case proceeds smoothly toward a final resolution.
1. How Will You And Your Attorney Keep In Touch?
Make sure you and your attorney are clear on how you will be informed about the progress of your case. Be sure to discuss
how frequently you will be updated, how you will be contacted (for example, by phone, letter, or e-mail), and what topics will be discussed or will require an update.
For example, in most “on the ball” workers compensation firms, the clients are followed through their medical treatment. In our practice, we have a full time employee who does nothing but keep track of our clients’ medical treatment visits. We keep a calendar of when our clients’ medical treatments are scheduled, and every day our employee calls those clients who were scheduled to see a doctor in order to get an update on their medical status. This way, as soon as the client is finished with treatment, we know and can start pushing the case toward settlement mediation and/or trial.
2. Who Will Actually Be Working On Your Case?
Find out who will actually be working on your workers compensation claim. Make sure you have a commitment from the attorney you hire as to who will be in charge of managing your case. Some of the “high volume” workers compensation firms have paralegals opening, negotiating and settling claim. In my opinion this is practicing law without a license. That is a crime in Tennessee, not to mention a gift for the Workers Compensation insurance
company who wants to pay you less than the fair value of the claim. Only an experienced workers compensation attorney should be in charge of your case.
At our firm, a paralegal is in charge of tracking the client’s medical treatment, answering routine questions, and gathering all pertinent medical records—all traditional paralegal tasks that do not require a law license. All cases we take in are managed directly by one of our experienced workers compensation attorneys. Our attorneys are the ones who directly deal with the insurance company and the other side’s lawyers, manage the case and develop legal strategy, negotiate settlement of the claim, and ultimately prepare for and try the case if it does not settle. Only our attorneys experienced in the practice of workers compensation law—not a paralegal—is in charge of our clients’ cases! You should make sure this is also true of the attorney you hire for your workers compensation claim.
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