Archive for December, 2010

Law firms are facing many of the same challenges a small business or consultant faces. There is more competition and it is more difficult to practice law AND go out and find new clients. Clients seem to be harder to win as they do more comparison shopping and seek out more value from their vendors.

We already know from enough studies that email marketing is one of the most effective marketing channels out there but it’s one area I see lacking in many small law firms. From our experience one obstacle that prevents law firms from using this channel is the fear of annoying their current clients with too frequent emails. It’s not a strong enough reason not to use the powerful tool.

Here’s three key ingredients to making email marketing work for your law practice.

. Get all email addresses and get them now. Here’s a question. How many clients have you done business with in the past five years? Do you have the current email address for each of them? If not, why not? How many people have you met in the past five years that you told you were a lawyer? Do you have THEIR email addresses? You should start right now by putting every new contact you meet on an email list. Try this question. “Do you mind if I put you on my email list?” Most people will say yes.

You’re missing an opportunity by not maximizing this marketing method.

. Offer guidelines and helpful information. These people, that are on your client and potential client list, will be receptive to hearing from you if you send them helpful information. Don’t give legal advice of course but remind them them 3 reasons to have a living will, point out why Trademarks and Patents are important, or show them where they might be facing liabilities. Send something relevant. Don’t tell them about you. They just won’t be interested.

  • . Send the right level of frequency. It might seem like a good practice to send one great-looking newsletter each month. It isn’t. Instead send two or three short one-topic emails with information your reader can read and file (or delete). Your clients or prospects will come to appreciate your helpful nature and your respect for their time.

    By doing this you’ll be sending a gentle reminder of who you are such that your name and contact information will be easy to find when the DO need legal counsel four months from now.

    Get on it.

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  • Personal Injury Claims – How To Make One

    Being involved in an accident can be a painful and traumatic experience, but as long as you didn’t cause the accident, you may be at liberty to issue a claim. If you’re considering this, there are two general ways to go about. The first and most familiar way is to enlist the services of an attorney and take the insurance company to court, but unless your case is extremely intricate or complicated this may be wholly unnecessary and ultimately quite expensive. The second strategy is to file a claim yourself, a route few people take, yet because of the manner in which these cases are handled, perhaps more people should. A large percentage of personal injury claims are handled outside the parameters of a court and by following a few simple steps you may be able to “go it alone.” In this article we have outlined a simple strategy to follow if you decide to take that path.

    The notification process is the first step in filing an independent personal injury claim. At this point you’ll need to send written notice out to everyone and anyone whose actions may have caused the accident and your subsequent injuries. Taking care of this before you file the actual claim is not only courteous; it will also help to protect you legally down the road.

    The next step is one you may have heard of before and it’s called the “demand letter.” The demand letter is a document in which you detail the amount of monetary damages you are asking for. You will certainly need to provide written and valid documentation of the monetary items for which you are seeking reimbursement, but some costs such as pain and suffering and future medical costs will be impossible to prove with figures. This, however, should not prevent you from filing the demand letter, as long as you categorize the reimbursements and provide a realistic figure even for the items you cannot prove.

    Once you’ve indicated a dollar amount, and usually after you have fully recovered from your injuries, the nest step is the negotiations process. This process is more akin to an “ordeal,” than a process, but rarely do insurance companies immediately settle any claim for the full amount demanded. If they do, congratulations, but then again this usually means your demand was too low to begin with. The negotiations process will take time as they offer and you counter offer and could end up in court if an agreement cannot be forged.

    Hiring a lawyer to handle your personal injury case may sound like the easy thing to do, but keep in mind that you’ll usually wind up paying up to a third of your award in legal fees. To avoid this, follow the steps above and see if you can’t navigate the process on your own. It could save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars in the long run.

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    The Top Symptoms Of Whiplash

    When you are involved in a road traffic accident it is pretty standard to be examined for whiplash symptoms. Whiplash is not a life threatening condition and it usually disappears without any specific treatment.

    Whiplash is often contracted as the result of a road traffic accident. Inflammation and swelling in the neck muscles will usually not be obvious straight after the accident.

    Doctors are still uncertain as to the cause of whiplash exactly but it is thought to be caused by the snapping back of the head in an unexpected and faced pace, like when you are hit by another car from behind.

    It may take between six and twelve hours for the symptoms of whiplash to become obvious. The stiffness and discomfort whiplash causes can often be worse the next day on. The pain may get worse in the days after the accident occurred.

    The five most common whiplash symptoms are considered to be; swelling in the neck muscles, neck pain and stiffness, headaches and tenderness in the back of the neck along with a general achy feeling.

    Other symptoms of whiplash include pain in the back, pins and needles or numbness in the arms and hands, muscular cramps and spasms, blurred eyesight and tinnitus (ringing in the ears.) Doctors often give painkillers to people suffering from whiplash and in extreme cases a course of physiotherapy may be needed.

    The above listed symptoms should not last for a long time. If you still experience discomfort such as dizziness, blurred vision and headaches after a week has passed you should certainly visit your doctor again.

    In some cases whiplash can result in poor concentration, irritability and memory loss. Symptoms like this should be short lived if they are present at all. Most people do not take too long to recover from whiplash.

    There are many routes for whiplash claims and compensation payments can help you recover any loss of earnings you have suffered.

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    Draft Plans Background
    In June 2010, the Prime Minister commissioned Lord Young of Graffham to conduct a Whitehall-wide review the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the perceived compensation culture in England & Wales. His terms of reference were;
    ‘To investigate and report back to the Prime Minister on the rise of the compensation culture over the last decade coupled with the current low standing that health and safety legislation now enjoys and to suggest solutions. Following the agreement of the report, to work with appropriate departments across government to bring the proposals into effect’.
    In his report published on 15th October 2010 entitled Common Sense – Common Safety Lord Young raised a number of concerns and made recommendations for improvement of the current regulatory system. Lord Young also wrote to the head of Claims Management Regulation to elaborate on his specific concerns relating to the role played by claims management businesses. Lord Young identified that the promotion of inducements to encourage consumers to make a claim were particularly problematic, should be stopped and that the current rules do not go far enough.

    Impact of proposed change
    It is considered that this proposal will go some way in contributing to the Government’s aim to reduce the perception of a compensation culture in England & Wales and would improve the quality of marketing and advertising throughout the industry. Research suggests that around 5% of currently regulated claims management businesses offer these types of inducements. These businesses operate with a higher risk of encouraging frivolous claims that would not otherwise occur had it not been for a lucrative reward being offered initially. Under the proposed amendment, any business that currently offers these inducements would need to alter their advertising accordingly ensuring that they comply with the new rule which may involve some cost to these particular businesses. As compliance with the rules is a condition of authorisation, any subsequent breach of the amended rule would be investigated and dealt with under the current legislative framework provided by the Compensation (Claims Management Services) Regulations 2006 and could ultimately lead to the suspension, variation or even cancellation of a businesses authorisation.

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    Can STDs Be A Personal Injury Claim?

    Personal injury is a legal term that refers to the injury to the mind, the body, or the emotions which is the opposite of damage to property. Road traffic accidents, medical & dental accidents, industrial disease, sexually transmitted disease are some of the most common types of personal injury.

    In our society nowadays, a major legal standard is that it is our responsibility to keep from causing irrational chance of harm to our fellow citizens. Thus, you are not supposed to do something that you know will hurt somebody. In majority of the states this responsibility includes sexual partners. A partner who is aware that he is carrying a sexually transmitted disease is deemed responsible for passing the infection to an ignorant partner. These include crabs, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts, herpes, AIDS, etc.

    Sexually transmitted diseases are still prevalent in the United States today. Centers for Disease Control calculate approximately that 19 million new STD infections are cropping up each year. Almost 50 percent of these cases are the youth from 15 to 24 years of age. The expenditure of STDs to the health care system of the U.S. will, more or less, reach as high as $15.9 billion annually.

    So many cases of STDs are not diagnosed because common viral infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus are manageable without professional help. Thus, reported cases of STDs compose only a fraction of the actual number of incidence. There are more than 1.1 million people who are infected with AIDS.

    Since HIV and STDs are for the most part transmitted via sexual activity, further spreading of these diseases can be prevented through individual choices. Therefore, many state laws have been enacted calling for HIV or STD carriers to abstain from sex or inform their partners earlier before having sex.

    Only a few states entail the petitioner to substantiate that the defendant intended to pass on the disease to them so that they would be liable. The petitioner must prove that the defendant had an idea or should have realized they were carriers yet did not tell the former before they did the act. This can be through a medical history about symptoms, a test thats positive, or a visible outbreak of symptoms.

    The legal cases about liability for passing on a sexually transmitted disease are not only relating to sex. One case about a wrestling pro who developed herpes sores on exposed skin, the Court of Appeals in New York ruled that he is to avoid flesh to flesh contact with anybody, not limited to sexual partners.

    Do you need a Tulsa attorney for potential personal injuy claims? Visit us at Antinoro Law Firm, we have lawyers who specialize in a wide range of cases including Tulsa defense lawyers.

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