Winter Garden Personal Injury Lawyer & Car & Truck Accident Attorney

I am a Winter Garden serious injury & accident attorney who thinks long and hard about my clients cases.  I have a low volume practice philosophy.  I work with a small team of other lawyers and staff, who all focus on moderate to serious / catastrophic injury & wrongful death cases.  You will never feel like a number with us.

I was born and raised in Winter Garden, and still live here.  I love Winter Garden.

Winter Garden Slip & Fall & Medical Malpractice Attorney

Ms. Willis is a former law professor, former big firm defense attorney, lifelong Winter Garden resident & Winter Garden attorney who accepts personal injury, car, truck & motorcycle accident, slip and fall accident, and medical malpractice cases.  Ms. Willis & her team focus on the most serious injury & accident cases.  However, they still accept moderate or unknown injury auto accident cases.  Non-auto accident cases (such as slip and fall, and medical malpractice) generally require more serious injuries because of limiting Florida laws.

You Need To Learn About Personal Injury Attorneys & Cases

Many aspects of personal injury practice are very unfortunate for the consumer.  Please do not be misled by billboards that do not give anyone a realistic idea about personal injury cases or law firms.  To fully protect your legal rights, you really need to call us.  There are many things you need to do after an accident to make sure you claim is settled for the highest amount possible.  High volume firms, which do not allow you to speak with a lawyer, are not in your best interest.  We provide free case evaluations and never charge any fee until we win your case.  We have many very high value multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts to our credit.  We focus our efforts on moderate to serious injury and wrongful death cases.

We Routinely Handle The Most Serious & Catastrophic Injuries, And Wrongful Death

We routinely handle cases of the highest values, such as brain injuries, paralysis, semi-truck accidents, birth injuries, wrongful death, and similarly catastrophic injuries.  These require a higher level of care and preparation, hiring experts, and usually a couple of years of hard work (unless there is a lower value insurance policy, in which case insurance companies will not fight as hard).  We also routinely handle more moderate injury cases such as broken bones, herniated discs, etc. And those can still have a high value depending on the extent of treatment, your recovery, the defendant’s insurance coverage, and what caused the accident.

Don’t Make The Mistake of Hiring A High Volume / Large Personal Injury Law Firm

Don’t make the mistake of hiring a large or high volume law firm to handle a case that needs time and attention to achieve the highest values. If you are even thinking about hiring a billboard law firm, you need to read this Standford University study, which concluded that the biggest law firms in the country, and those who heavily advertise, settle cases based on formulas related only to the injury itself. Each lawyer in bigger firms spent an average of 2-3 hours per year, per client, on most cases. The author also concluded that would leave a lot of money on the table in more serious injury cases, where the best lawyers might spend hundreds of hours per client (in serious injury cases) gathering evidence necessary to maximize the value of their client’s claims in court.

These firms often advertise that they have greater “resources,” to make you think they will spend more money on your case, or have more lawyers working for you.  That’s totally deceptive and completely untrue.  Small and large personal injury law firms all advance costs for litigation.  We have all the resources we need to fight the biggest companies.  And the more law firms spend on your case — the less money goes in your pocket at the end of the case –as these costs are all deducted from your recovery at the end of the case.  We have to spend some money to get you the most money (like on court filing fees, court reporters, deposition transcripts, and expert witnesses). But we are extremely careful with those expenditures, with a constant focus on delivering the most money to you at the end of the case.

We Also Handle Moderate or Unknown Severity Injury Auto Accident Cases

We do not want to discourage those with an injury of unknown seriousness from an auto accident, or moderate injuries, like a back or neck injury, from calling us.  We absolutely still handle those cases with the highest degree of care.  These cases just require a different workup than extremely serious injury cases, because these cases are settled without a lawsuit  unless treatment reveals that the injuries are more serious.

In these cases, we help you select an excellent doctor, if you haven’t already. Then we monitor your treatment.  After you reach maximum medical improvement, we put together a top notch demand package, which explains what happened in the accident, what treatment you have received, what medical bills you have incurred, any lost income, and how the accident has affected your life.

Sometimes injuries of unknown severity can become more serious after treatment, in which case you need a lawyer protecting your right to full financial recovery.  If the defendant has a large insurance policy, or lots of money & assets, then we might still recommend a lawsuit.

And moderate injuries can still have a high value depending on the other facts of the case.  This is especially true if your vehicle was hit hard, because in those cases, your body went through a lot of trauma.  Insurance companies are more likely to believe you suffered real injuries after a serious hit to your vehicle, as long as you receive medical treatment after your accident from the best doctors — and selecting the best doc is a key part of our advice to any new client.

If you have minor injuries and your vehicle was barely scratched in the accident, there isn’t a whole lot anyone can do to get you much money.

Call or Text Anytime: 407-383-7290

Non-Auto Accident Injuries & Accidents

Regarding non-auto cases, we require that our slip and fall clients have had surgery, and medical malpractice clients to have experienced catastrophic injuries.  We have to decline non-auto accident cases with less serious injuries (something we hate) because of highly restrictive Florida laws.

How To Maximize Your Personal Injury Settlement Or Verdict

We will tell you how to maximize your case value, if you call us ASAP.  The longer you wait, the more evidence can disappear or never be generated. This is especially true in the most serious accident cases.  There are numerous ways that your actions WILL impact how much you can recover after an auto accident or other personal injury lawsuit.

Tina’s Background

Ms. Tina Willis is the owner of the firm, but she works in teamwork style with two other exceptional attorneys who each have similar backgrounds, and a small group of highly experienced staff.

Ms. Willis was raised by her Grandparents who were grove workers in Winter Garden.  She later went away to earn her undergraduate degree at Florida State University, which she followed by earning her law degree, also at Florida State University.  She graduated second in her law school class comprised of more than 200 students.  She was hired as a tutor for other law students in two of the most difficult courses.  She became a member of the prestigious Order of the Coif and Law Review, while earning many other awards based on her scholastic attainments.  After law school, she worked at some of the most prestigious law firms in the country in Atlanta, representing large corporations and insurance companies, and also worked as a law professor (again teaching one of the most difficult courses in law school, that is, civil procedure).  Before opening her own practice, she worked for other attorneys whenever they had cases that were more complicated than they wanted to handle.

Winter Garden Auto Accident Lawyer Who Is Extremely Thorough

When representing clients, Ms. Willis and the lawyers who work with her are extremely meticulous, diligent and thorough, digging through facts and complicated law to find answers even when it seems there are not any good ones.  She is a Winter Garden personal injury attorney like no other.   She and her small team are available to handle wrongful death and personal injury cases, including car accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycling accidents, slip and fall accidents, medical malpractice cases, and other forms of personal injury.

Winter Garden Personal Injury Lawyer With A Team Approach And Mindset

In more serious personal injury or wrongful death cases, Tina is a Winter Garden personal injury lawyer who works on a team with other personal injury or wrongful death attorneys, ALL of whom have exceptional credentials.  Indeed, in the highest value cases, the best approach is to work with a team of the best lawyers.  This team approach never costs you more money (because the attorneys split the same fee normally charged by one attorney).

Please call us if you need a Winter Garden personal injury lawyer to represent you in any case involving personal injury, auto accidents (including semi-truck accidents), and wrongful death cases.

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT & BETTER

We are a small team of lawyers, who work together as a team on every case.

Our team includes:

• one lawyer who is a former law professor, has won a long list of prestigious industry awards as an injury lawyer, formerly graduated second in her law school class, and formerly worked for a couple of the biggest insurance defense law firms in the world, where she worked primarily on multi-million dollar cases for the defense;
• another lawyer who is the former President of the Florida Justice Association (the leading personal injury lawyer’s organization in the state), has had some of the highest verdicts to his credit in statewide history, and is extremely well-connected to judges, other lawyers, and medical professionals;
• another lawyer has extensive trial experience, as a former public defender who handled countless jury trials, and also a former journalist, and has many years of experience working as a personal injury lawyer with us, which helps him tell our client’s stories to any jury or mediator;
• small very experienced team of paralegals, who work closely under our daily supervision;
• other lawyers who get involved as co-counsel when their specialties would help your case (for no extra charge).

We have achieved many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and multi-million dollar recoveries for our clients (and we have worked on the defense side in many multi-million dollar cases).

But we also routinely settle cases that range from a few thousand, for less serious injury or low insurance policy cases, to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Generally the recovery depends on the extent of the injury, treatment, and the available insurance coverage, or wealth of any corporate defendant (such as a large corporation or hospital).  Importantly, we leave no stone unturned when trying to find ALL potential sources of money in serious injury cases — something many other personal injury law firms often overlook in our experience (such as when one insurance policy is available, but they fail to search for other policies or assets).

You will not feel like a number with us.

We do not operate in a high volume manner. We believe this is ESSENTIAL to any lawyer’s success, because serious injury cases take a lot of time, which is why we strongly oppose the large law firm structure.

We constantly compare notes with lawyers throughout the state, regarding case values for similar types of cases, including published and unpublished results in similar cases.
We are extremely careful about recommending settlement versus trial to our clients, and we explain in detail the pros and cons of each, based on the specific good and bad facts in their cases.

AWARDS WE HAVE WON

• selected as the “Best of the Best” Personal Injury Lawyers (an award which goes to only .05% of the 1.3 million lawyers nationwide);
• chosen as a “Top Rated Lawyer in Florida” by Lawyers of Distinction;
• named a “Ten Best Female Lawyers” in Florida, by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys;
• picked as one of the “10 Best Florida Lawyers,” by the American Institute of Legal Counsel;
• selected as a National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer;
• chosen for a “10 Best” Client Satisfaction Award, from the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys;
• member of the Million Dollar Advocates Club (fewer than 1% of attorneys nationwide are members);
• membership in The Top Trial Lawyers in America®.
• chosen by Expertise.com as one of the 20 best Orlando medical malpractice lawyers;
• named a Number One Personal Injury, Car Accident & Wrongful Death Attorney By Orlando Style Magazine, based on client and other attorney ratings;
• picked one of the “Three Best Rated” Orlando Accident Attorneys based on handpicked selection;
• achieved a “superb” perfect “10.0” AVVO rating as an auto accident attorney.
• named one of Orlando’s “Ten Best” personal injury attorneys by Thumbtack rating system.
• Accredited by the Central Florida Better Business Bureau.

Call Your Winter Garden Personal Injury Lawyer Today!

If you have a legal question in the meantime, please call and speak now directly with a Winter Garden personal injury attorney.  (407) 383-7290.

I look forward to strongly advocating for you!

Disclaimer: We may refer you to another attorney, if your case does not meet our criteria for accepting the representation, but we still think you have a case worth pursuing. We are extremely careful in deciding which attorneys to whom we should refer potential clients, and we stay involved and jointly responsible on most outbound referral cases, for the same fee, which gives you an extra layer of protection in the form of our oversight.  In those situations, of course, you would be free to decline the alternate representation prior to entering any agreement for legal services and find another attorney on your own. 

Call or Text Anytime: 407-383-7290

Or send an email & tell us a little about your case: [email protected]