Personal Injury Attorneys in Winter Garden, Florida

At Tina Willis Law, we are Winter Garden personal injury attorneys who can handle serious personal injury, and wrongful death cases in Winter Garden and throughout Central Florida.  We are able to travel throughout Florida and Georgia for serious cases.  We never charge fees for Winter Garden personal injury attorney work unless you recover.

What is a Personal Injury Case?

Personal injury constitutes a wide variety of claims.  But the essence is that you have been physically injured by some other person, company, organization, or governmental body (sometimes also emotionally but the emotional injury usually needs to coincide with a physical injury).  Very often these are auto accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, bus accidents, airplane crashes, and even bicycle accidents (think West Orange Trail meets tractor trailer).   But car accidents are not the only types of personal injury claims.  You can also be injured in a store, hotel, nursing home, hospital, office, gym, rental property, private property (like someone’s house), theme park, or just about any property owned by someone else.  In these types of claims,  basically something on the property causes you injury.  For example, a loose railing on a stair-step, in certain cases, can be the source of a good personal injury claim in Winter Garden.

What is a “Good” Personal Injury Case, in the Eyes of a Winter Garden Personal Injury Attorney?

Well, the first point is that a personal injury case is never “good” from the eyes of the Plaintiff.  These claims are often based on accidents or events that were some of the most traumatizing of the person’s life.  In the case of serious injuries or wrongful death, obviously the person’s or their family’s entire world was turned upside down, through no fault of their own.  That being said, personal injury attorneys evaluate whether a personal injury case is “good’ (from the perspective of potential damages) because they are taking the cases on a contingency, which means that you do not pay their fees unless they recover money for you.

So a “good” personal injury case, from a damages perspective, is one where the physical injuries are serious and permanent.  This often cannot be determined by your Winter Garden personal injury attorney until after you have finished your medical treatment (in the case of personal injuries).  Your Winter Garden personal injury lawyer needs to know whether your injuries will be resolved or become permanent.  The best case scenario for you is that they resolve, obviously.  But in those cases where you have been injured by someone else’s negligence, and those injuries are serious and long-lasting, you really should consider hiring a Winter Garden personal injury attorney to pursue a legal claim against those who have injured you.

At Tina Willis Law, We are Winter Garden Florida Attorneys Who Accept the Following Types of Personal Injury Cases:[br][raw]

Auto/Car Accidents

Slip & Fall Accidents

Premises Liability / Negligent Security

Brain & Spinal Cord Injury

Burn Injury

Dog Bite

Insurance Disputes

Wrongful Death

Motorcycle Accidents

Trucking Accidents

Commercial Vehicle & Construction Accidents

How Can You Select the Best Winter Garden Personal Injury Attorney?

First of all, you should really know and trust that some of the best Winter Garden personal injury attorneys do not have billboards.  Billboards and big ads mean big budgets and a high volume of cases to fund those ads, not necessarily quality attorneys (although some big firms certainly have good lawyers).  Still, how can you select the best personal injury attorney in Winter Garden or anywhere in Florida?

Well, in my opinion anyway, any personal injury attorney with a high volume of cases is not a good choice.  “We’ve handled 100,000 cases” may sound really impressive, but what does that really mean?  Think about this for a second.  I mean, do the math.  Take the number of attorneys in the firm, divided by the number of years they have each been practicing, and then divide however many thousands of cases they have handled.  How much time could they possibly have given each case?

Personal Injury Attorneys Don’t Do Magic Tricks

Winter Garden personal injury lawyers are not magicians.  And cases are absolutely not simple.  Indeed, as a former law professor, I can tell you that the law is exceedingly complex.  So any attorney in any practice area, to handle each case in an ideal fashion, simply must have a fairly significant amount of time to devote to each case.  In personal injury cases, they sometimes need to carefully review many hundreds or even thousands of pages of documents, which contain both the law and facts relevant or potentially relevant to your case.  They also need time to talk to you and any potential witnesses, including expert witnesses.  Sometimes they even have to learn a whole new topic so that they can converse intelligently with relevant experts (or effectively depose and cross-examine opposing experts).  They need to think about which witnesses (and documents) would be the best evidence for your case.  Then they need time to think about what to ask those witnesses, how to contact them, what to ask them, and whether the evidence will be admissible in court.  Then they need to seek to have that evidence admitted in court, which involves a long pre-trial process from discovery through motions in court asking for various permissions from the court.  In bigger personal injury cases, this can involve literally years of exchanging documents and fighting (by written argument, questions and depositions) before any trial ever occurs (smaller cases generally settle faster).  Ideally, they also need to read literally hundreds of pages of relevant law on a regular basis to stay abreast of relevant new case opinions and statutory developments.  How can all of those things possibly happen if each Winter Garden personal injury attorney is handling 100+, 200+, or 300+ cases annually? The answer is that they can’t, at least not for all of that high number of cases, not one attorney.  No way.  So the attorney either has to decide which cases will get the most attention or he has to give all of them an equal amount of lesser attention. Either way, you are taking a gamble with a high volume practice.

I have not previously handled and do not currently handle a high volume of cases as the primary or lead attorney.  When it would help you more, I sometimes refer personal injury cases to other attorneys and stay on the case only in an oversight and/or joint counsel capacity.  In those cases, you never pay more than you would pay for one attorney, although both attorneys assume responsibility for the case.  I stay involved in significant cases from start to finish and also work with another personal injury attorney (which costs you nothing more) per your approval.

Is the Attorney Really Listening and Thinking?

I guess the final question should be what your gut tells you when you talk to the Winter Garden personal injury attorney.  Do they seem to really consider your questions?  Do they perform a long interview where they want to know all of the details of your case?  Do you spend time talking to the lead attorney or a paralegal or case manager instead?  Do you generally feel like the attorney is listening to you?  Ask them what they do to prepare for a case.

Lawsuits Are Not Cookie-Cutter Activities

Handling a lawsuit is not a cut and paste or cookie cutter activity.  Quite the contrary.  The law involves and requires creativity, extensive thought, analysis, and planning, careful study, design of unique arguments and ideas, and a whole host of other factors that generally boil down to requiring someone who is going to THINK about your case, long and hard, and who has the ability to put those thoughts to effective work when preparing for your case.

Call Us Today Regarding Your Winter Garden Personal Injury Case

If you need a Winter Garden personal injury attorney (or anywhere throughout Florida or Georgia), we hope that you will give us a call, and let our attorneys talk to you about your personal injury case.  If a case is outside our expertise, we might be able to help you find another personal injury attorney.    You will speak to attorneys if you call us.  Think of calling us like calling a friend, just for some thoughts on personal injury law, and whether you might have a case.  We will not pressure you.  Our goal is to inform our clients and then have them make their own choices regarding who might best handle their personal injury or other case, in any and all practice areas in which we work.

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