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Are Lawyers Who Advertise on TV Good Lawyers?

Some personal injury lawyer websites warn people to stay away from personal injury lawyers who advertise on TV. They claim that personal injury lawyers who advertise don’t do trials and just settle personal injury cases cheaply.

That is simply not true.

Why Do Those Websites Warn Against Personal Injury Lawyers Who Advertise?

Simply because those lawyers don’t advertise on TV and are trying to get people who found their website to call them instead of a lawyer who advertises on TV.

This article is written to provide the truth about personal injury lawyers who advertise.

Interestingly, lawyer websites warning people to stay away from personal injury lawyers who advertise are themselves advertising. If they have business cards or a website, that’s advertising, and it’s regulated as advertising by attorney ethics rules.

They usually rail against personal injury lawyers on TV and billboards because they don’t have the money for advertising. But while they’re not advertising on TV, they’re probably also advertising for personal injury cases with Google Ads, which can be done with a much smaller advertising budget.

Do Lawyers Who Advertise on TV Do Trials?

Yes. Whether a personal injury lawyer advertises on TV doesn’t mean that the lawyer does trials or not, nor does it mean the lawyer is a good lawyer or not.

I know many personal injury lawyers who advertise on TV, and all, except one, do trials.

The one law firm I know that advertises on TV and does not do trials doesn’t do any of the daily work on personal injury cases. They immediately refer their cases to a top-notch personal injury law firm that does all the casework and trials. The law firm that advertises acts as a liaison for the client.

Of the personal injury law firms that I know that advertise, they are all excellent personal injury law firms.

See more personal injury lawyer TV commercials.

Are Lawyers Who Advertise on TV Experienced?

An interesting fact about personal injury lawyers who advertise on TV is that TV advertising makes them highly experienced. Why? Because when a lawyer advertises on TV, two things happen.

TV brings a high volume of clients to a lawyer who advertises on TV. A high volume of clients results in more experience.

Because TV creates so many calls and a high volume of clients, lawyers who advertise on TV have to advertise for only one type of case. They have to specialize.

The reason is money, like so many other things. It’s just not financially lucrative to advertise for different types of clients or to maintain a law firm with lawyers and paralegals experienced in different types of cases.

Additionally, a law firm that handles only one type of case, like personal injury, can handle many more cases and earn more money while spending less on advertising and overhead.

Is There a Reason Not to Hire a Personal Injury Lawyer Who Advertises?

Lack of personal service. Because personal injury lawyers who advertise have a high volume of cases, you may not get the same level of personal service that a small law firm can provide.

Large personal injury law firms are typically very busy and may have a protocol to follow for all similar case types so mistakes aren’t made.

You may speak with a lawyer when you have a free consultation. After that, you’ll usually speak with a secretary or paralegal. The next time you speak with your lawyer will be to prepare you for a deposition.

But that doesn’t mean a small law firm that doesn’t advertise will provide personal service. Small law firms are usually less efficient and can be even busier than large personal injury law firms, and we frequently hear people complain that they don’t get to speak with their lawyer in a small law firm. Many of these people have switched their lawyers to us.

The most common complaint people have about their lawyer is a lack of personal service, no matter whether it’s a large personal injury law firm or a small law firm.

Which Are Better, Lawyers Who Advertise or Lawyers Who Don’t Advertise?

Whether a lawyer advertises or not shouldn’t affect your decision about hiring a lawyer. However, advertising makes lawyers better at their job.

Lawyers who advertise get a lot of business, which forces them to specialize in only one area of law practice. For instance, my law practice does only personal injury. Criminal defense pays well and has great cash flow because lawyers get paid upfront. But we’re too busy to do anything other than personal injury.

Both the fields of personal injury and criminal defense are highly specialized fields that constantly change and require substantial knowledge.

While small law firms may practice in several fields of law, larger law firms that advertise usually practice in only one field of law. These lawyers get very good at what they do.

See more personal injury lawyer billboards.

Should You Believe Claims in TV Advertising?

No. Just because a personal injury lawyer advertises that they got millions of dollars for their clients, that doesn’t mean they will be able to do the same for you.

Many TV commercials and websites for personal injury lawyers show millions of dollars in settlements they got for their clients, but every case is different.

Additionally, just because a lawyer gets $3,00,000 for a client doesn’t mean it was a good result. You would have to be a personal injury lawyer and see the case file to know if it was. Any inexperienced lawyer can get $3,00,000 for someone who became a paraplegic when the case is worth as much as $50,000,000.

Interview two or three lawyers and speak to friends who had a personal injury case. Read about how to choose a personal injury lawyer to hire.

Disclosure

I’m a personal injury lawyer who owns and advertises 1-800-HURT-911® for my own law practice. I also license 1-800-HURT-911® to other personal injury lawyers for advertising. I advertised on TV for one year in 2002 and currently advertise 1-800-HURT-911® with Google Ads for my own personal injury law firm in New York. We are also one of the premier motorcycle accident lawyers in New York.

$7.5M Settlement In Golf Cart Accident For Death Of Autistic 15-year-old

This golf cart accident did not happen at a golf course but at a school where the 15-year-old Manny Perez attended special education classes.

The golf cart was used by school employees, yet Manny Perez, who was autistic, was able to get on the golf cart, start it, and operate it. Unfortunately, he crashed the golf cart causing his death.

Manny’s mother Micaela Sanchez CoronA lawsuit was filed against the Orange Unified School District in California by Attorney Robert Glassman, Esq.

The school district agreed to pay a $7.5M settlement to improve golf cart safety and remove older dangerous golf carts.

We congratulate Manny’s mother, Micaela Sanchez Corona, and her attorney Robert Glassman, Esq., for making the school district agree to improve golf cart safety at the school.

$9 Million For 22-yo Killed By DUI Driver On Marijuana

$9 million was awarded by a jury to the family of 22-year-old Pedro Pasillas-Delgado, who was killed by a driver under the influence of marijuana (cannabis).

Pedro Pasillas-Delgado’s car was hit by a Ford F550 being driven by, Corey Lee, an employee of Consolidated Materials. Corey Lee cause the car accident when he ran a stop sign driving the Ford F550 through the intersection and colliding with Pedro Pasillas-Delgado’s car.

Corey Lee was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and driving under the influence of cannabis in a crash resulting in death.

Consolidated Materials admitted that their driver caused the accident and offered a settlement of $3 million, which was rejected, resulting in the trial with a jury verdict of $9 million.

According to the family’s attorneys, Brian L. Salvi and Eirene N. Salvi of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard in Chicago, $9 million is the highest jury verdict on record in Boone County.

What’s The Difference Between Marijuana and Cannabis?

The word “marijuana” refers to parts of or products from the plant Cannabis sativa that contain substantial amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

$5.5M Settlement For School Principal Who Died When He Donated Bone Marrow

When Westfield High School Principal Derrick Nelson died during bone marrow surgery, it was national news. He was donating his bone marrow to a 14-year-old teenager in France he never even met.

The lawsuit brought by attorney David A. Mazie alleged that medical malpractice was committed by the anesthesiologist during surgery by failing to monitor oxygen saturation which led to Nelson suffering brain damage. His death came several weeks later, after going into a coma.

This is a very substantial settlement considering that Derrick Nelson did not experience any conscious pain and suffering, and although engaged, he was not married at the time of his death. Because he was not married, damages were only available for his elderly parents and his one child.

How Cities Pay For Police Misconduct

When rogue police officers cause serious injuries and personal injury lawsuits are settled, cities sometimes have to come up with a lot of money. Just where do these cities get the millions of dollars needed to settle these personal injury cases?

According to CNBC, they get the money by borrowing from municipal bond markets.

This CNBC video tells how that was done by the Village of Hempstead, NY, to pay the $4.5 million personal injury settlement of a police misconduct case where a Hempstead, NY, police officer allegedly ruptured a man’s colon during an arrest.

$1 Million Settlement for Pre-Existing Neck Surgery

New York accident lawyers of The Personal Injury Dream Team™ at 1-800-HURT-911® obtained a $1,000,000 settlement years before trial for a woman who was knocked off balance and fell when struck in the leg by a forklift in a warehouse store in New York.

The insurance company denied the claim arguing that the accident never happened, the plaintiff was not taken to the hospital by ambulance from the accident scene, and she had similar prior neck surgery from a previous accident approximately ten years earlier.

In this slip and fall case, she had anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4/5/6 at the same level as she did 10 years earlier. We argued that the prior neck surgery made her worse than she would have been.

The Personal Injury Dream Team™ lawyers working on this million-dollar injury case included Multi-Million Dollar Trial Lawyers™ Philip L. Franckel, Esq. and Robert T. Plevy, Esq.

$1 Million Jury Verdict – Insurance Offer $150,000

Concussion Injury & 4 Ribs Broken

The Personal Injury Dream Team™ lawyers in New York at 1-800-HURT-911® turned down a $150,000 settlement offer made at a mediation years after our client’s motorcycle accident and just before trial. The Personal Injury Dream Team™ consists of several personal injury lawyers, including Multi-Million Dollar Trial Lawyers™ Marvin Salenger, Esq., Joeseph P. Donnelly, Esq., Robert T. Plevy, Esq., and Philip L. Franckel, Esq.

The motorcyclist struck a car making a left turn. He broke four ribs, and his helmet hit the ground, causing a concussion resulting in memory difficulties.

Before trial, Kemper Auto & Home Insurance requested a mediation where they offered to settle for $150,000.

A neuropsychologist testified for the defense that our client’s memory loss was caused by years of smoking marijuana and taking medication. The insurance company lawyer asked the jury to give our client $100,000 for his broken ribs. The jury gave our client $1,000,000.

The Personal Injury Dream Team™ also has a website exclusively for motorcycle lawyers in New York

Talc Lawsuits

More well-known are the recent multi-million dollar and billion-dollar talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson. Yes, there are billion-dollar lawyers!

The lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson alleged that the company knew its baby powder caused ovarian cancer due to asbestos particles in the talc powder.

A court in Missouri ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay more than $4 billion in damages to 22 women who filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. According to The New York Times, the Missouri appellate court upheld $2.1 billion in damages, finding Johnson & Johnson knew asbestos was in its baby powder. There are approximately 11,700 talcum powder lawsuits.

After more than 100 years, Johnson & Johnson stopped selling its talcum powder baby powder.

$32M Verdict for Truck Driver on Marijuana Who Killed Nurse

Congratulations to Louisville, KY, Personal Injury Attorney Steve Romines for turning down all settlement offers.

Personal Injury Attorney Steve Romines said Atlas Excavating hired dump truck driver Eric D. Jenkins without a pre-employment drug screen, as required under federal law.

The truck driver caused a crash while driving a dump truck on Sept. 7, 2012. The dump truck hit Nurse Marie Garmon head-on, causing a broken leg and hip and killing her. Nurse Marie Garmon, 43, died five days later.

Million dollar verdict for dump truck accident

Another crazy dump truck accident

When tests showed he had marijuana in his bloodstream, the truck driver was charged with murder and DUI. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

In the personal injury trial, the Anderson County, KY, jury gave a verdict of $32 million against the driver and his employer, including $5 million for pain and suffering and $10 million in punitive damages.

Attorney Romines said, “We wanted a trial,” and the Garmons turned down all offers to settle. Attorney Romines asked the jury to send a message to trucking companies that breaking the law is not worth the risk.

Another Verdict Against Monsanto for Roundup

This time, a jury awarded $2 billion in punitive damages and $55 million for pain and suffering and medical expenses. The verdict was in favor of a couple who sustained cancer allegedly by using Roundup for 30 years.

This is the third large verdict against Monsanto. In a short jury deliberation of less than two days, the jury believed that internal company documents showed Monsanto spent millions of dollars to attack studies that showed Roundup is dangerous.

Bayer, the parent company which owns Monsanto, said it will file an appeal. That’s no surprise with a large verdict. Both the punitive damage award and the amount for pain and suffering will likely be substantially reduced by an appellate court if the case isn’t settled for substantially less before the appeal.

See the Monsanto Roundup & Dicamba Trial Tracker

The plaintiff’s attorney was R. Brent Wisner, Esq. of Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman.