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Legal FAQs,
Disclosures, and Notices
Regarding the Cases Our Law Offices Handle
Dispute Mediation
Call Alternative Disputes
Center in Calabasas, California, for assistance with all your legal needs. We
offer Mediation as an alternative to litigation and our reputation
within our community for getting cases resolved is
outstanding. We also represent plaintiffs and defendants in
family law, aviation, personal injury cases, and can help with
landlord-tenant and business disputes as well. When you're having
trouble, contact us and we'll represent your best
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FAQs How Do I
Know Whether I Really Have a Case?
If you have been injured by someone else, you have a
case. This applies in such situations as those involving vehicles,
trains, airplanes, power equipment, and other devices, if the
person who was operating the equipment acted carelessly.
Carelessness is often defined in terms of negligence, which
essentially means that one has failed to act reasonably under a
certain set of circumstances. For example, if a driver failed to
yield the right-of-way, and in turned caused an accident, that
person would be negligent and therefore responsible for the injured
party's damages. These responsibilities would include compensation
for pain and suffering, disfigurement, permanent disability,
amputation, paralysis, and death. Should I
Hire an Attorney?
It is strongly advised that you hire an attorney if you've been
injured, because you are likely to receive a larger settlement than
you would without representation. Not all attorneys, however, have
the same qualifications; just because someone graduated law school,
they are not necessarily capable of dealing with all cases that
come their way. It's wise to hire an attorney who specializes in
handling the type of case you've presented.
What's
the Best Way to Choose a Lawyer?
Several factors should be considered when deciding which
attorney will represent you. These include, but are not limited to,
the following: The attorney's
length of experience, or the amount of time the firm has been
practicing The ways in which
similar cases (to yours) have been handled by the
attorney The attorney's
success rate with cases similar to yours, and the amount of
compensation that has been agreed upon in each case The financial
resources of the firm, relevant to field and research expenses
involved in proving a case The attorney's
reputation with the Bar as well as the judge(s) before whom the
case will be tried The attorney's
passion and commitment to realizing justice for your
case The attorney's
disposition toward contingency-based compensation (whether he or
she will waive their fee is the case is not fought
successfully)
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What Does it Cost to Hire an
Attorney?For those who've been injured, they
should reasonably expect that their attorney will only be paid if a
recovery is made. This type of agreement is referred to as a
"Contingency Fee Contract," in which the attorney receives a
percentage of the recovery amount. The approved amounts for these
fees vary from 33.3% to 50%, based upon the intensity and scope of
the case. However, a lot of matters are paid on an "hourly
basis". The hourly fee will vary depending on your attorneys
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Disclosures and
Notices The information at
this site is subject to change without notice. Although we try to
keep this site current and accurate, you should not rely on this
information or its applicability to any specific circumstances
without first speaking with an attorney. We cannot promise that the
information on this site is applicable to your circumstances,
correct, complete, and up-to-date, that your access will be
uninterrupted, or that material accessible from this site is free
of viruses. Persons who
contact our law offices through the Internet email facility
provided through this site should not send confidential,
privileged, or sensitive information, and should not ask specific
legal questions by email without first speaking to an attorney in
our law office. To be contacted by us, you may provide information
about the general nature of your inquiry, without providing any
confidential specifics, or if the matter is very time-sensitive,
please telephone us directly. Please do not
consider there to be any attorney-client relationship between you
and us unless or until: (i) you have sought to retain us; (ii) we
have had the opportunity to check and clear any conflicts; and
(iii) you have received a letter from us confirming the retention
and its scope. Privacy Policy
Statement
We have adopted the following privacy policy statement applicable
to our website. We do not
currently collect personal identifying information (the
"information") through our website except:
for information
that your Internet service provider automatically provides to our
web server, such as its website address and possibly your email
address. for information
that you send to us in an email message, and for information
that you submit to us in a CGI form (for example, when you submit a
search request on our web page).
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Email sent to us may not be secure.
If you choose to send us an email message, we may retain the
content of the email, your email address and our response, and it
becomes our property. In order to better
serve you and better facilitate the use of this website so that you
are not required to enter a user name or password each time you
visit our site, our website may place a small file, known as a
"cookie," to be accessed by your browser during subsequent visits
to this site. We will use
Information for our own proper purposes, but we will not sell
Information to third parties. We encourage you
to review our Privacy Policy Statement periodically for updates
that will be posted on this website. |
Contact our law offices
in Calabasas, California, for dispute mediation, legal
assistance,
personal injury representation, civil litigation, and
assistance
with real estate, landlord, or tenant disputes. |
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