If you've been involved in a personal injury accident and you're uninjured or able to help collect the necessary evidence for your case, here are a few ways you can help your personal injury lawyer:
How You Can Help Your Attorney
Take Action to Protect Your Legal Rights Before You Hire a Lawyer
If you or a member of your family is the victim of a personal injury, you usually are not going to have an opportunity to hire an attorney immediately after the incident, so it is important that you take steps to immediately protect your legal rights:
Do Not Accept Medical Treatment From a Telemarketing Doctor
If you are involved in a car wreck, chances are good that the very next day you will be flooded with unsolicited phone calls from telemarketers who are all urging you to go to their doctors or chiropractors for medical treatment. Some of these shysters use official sounding names like "Tennessee Advocacy Board" in an attempt to purposefully confuse you into thinking that they are calling from some agency or your insurance company in order to provide you with legitimate medical treatment. DO NOT FALL VICTIM TO THIS SCHEME.
Galilee Memorial Gardens Class Action Lawsuit by the Blount Law Firm
On December 31, 2010, Galilee Memorial Gardens, a cemetery located on Ellis road in Bartlett, Tennessee, lost its license to operate. Despite this fact, Jemar Lambert, the cemetery's owner, did not allow such an inconvenient legal requirement to stop his lucrative business. After all, his company received on average $1,000 per burial. Nor did Mr. Lambert want to halt operations simply because his cemetery no longer had space available for burials. Instead, Mr. Lambert decided to stack multiple caskets into single burial plots, crush caskets with heavy equipment, bury bodies in the woods neighboring the cemetery on land he did not own, and whatever else it took for him to continue the profitable operation of his illegal cemetery.
Personal Injury Memphis
Personal Injury Attorney Here are a few tips to consider when selecting a personal injury attorney in Memphis, from local attorney Jimmy Blount, of the Blount Law Firm in Collierville, Tennessee
