Ten Commandments to Proceeding with Your Lawsuit

Ten Commandments to Proceeding with Your Lawsuit

1. Always keep your lawyer advised of your current address, telephone number, email and contact information, as well as that for a friend or relative who knows how to reach you.
2. Don’t sign anything and don’t talk to anyone about your case except your lawyer.
3. Don’t put anything on FaceBook, LinkedIn, or any other social media site, which can be which can be seen by the defendants, their insurance company and by their investigators and misconstrued.
4. Keep records of the time you lose from work.
5. Keep all of your photographs, videos records and emails which refer to your case, as well as diaries, hospital bills, doctor bills, etc. If you destroy anything, you may be accused of trying to hide something.
6. Let us know if you are stopping your medical treatment or receiving any new treatment, diagnostic testing or surgery as well as seeing any new doctors or any new hospitalizations.
7. It is important that you appear for your deposition and for a physical examination by the defendants’ insurance company’s doctor; if not, your case will be delayed and possibly even dismissed.
8. When you call our office, please identify yourself and tell us about your update, or question. If there are changes in your employment or your medical treatment or condition you must let your lawyer know about it.
9. If our staff cannot assist you, they will pass your call to your attorney or take a message. Someone will always get back to you.
10. If you sustain any other injury or are involved in any other accident, you must call us immediately.