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While my practice is solely limited to plaintiffs personal injury cases, which encompasses injuries incurred due to medical malpractice, car accidents, slip and falls, defective products, mo ...

In reading various San Diego injury attorney advertisements it soon becomes apparent that many injury lawyers seek to market their expertise as specialists in certain areas of personal injury law. For example, it is common to see attorneys label themselves as an auto accident attorney or a products liability attorney or slip and fall attorney or wrongful death attorney, etc. The fact is, however, that most personal injury attorneys can and will handle a wide variety of personal injury cases ...

The words free initial consultation are literally trumpeted in virtually all San Diego personal injury lawyer advertising, as well as in personal injury lawyer advertising in virtually all parts of the nation. While it is true that many lawyers see this as an effective marketing tool for their prospective injury clients who may be somewhat reticent about speaking with an attorney about their personal injury case lest they incur significant attorneys fees, the fact remains that the free ...

San Diego is fortunate to have an active and respected Better Business Bureau . The San Diego BBB according to the mission statement on their website states that their primary goal is to advance trust in the marketplace. They do this by: "creating a community of trustworthy businesses, setting standards for marketplace trust, encouraging and supporting best practices, celebrating marketplace role models, and denouncing substandard marketplace practices."

As a San Di ...

Ok, let's face facts...lawyers are not held in the highest regard by the public at large! Although I think that this is largely a "bum rap" based upon misinformation, a fact that is also true is that many clients are dissatisfied with the representation they are receiving from their personal injury attorney. Part of this dissatisfaction with their personal injury lawyer is due in part, I think, to the fact that injury victims are largely dissatisfied with their general life situat ...

In speaking with other personal injury attorneys and clients, as well as reading professional legal publications, it's clear that the biggest complaints clients have with their personal injury attorney is their lawyers failure to keep them informed about progress in the case as well as the personal injury attorney failing to return the clients telephone calls.

I can recall having a prospective personal injury client in my San Diego office some years back who wanted to drop her curr ...

By way of introduction to those of you who have not yet had the opportunity to review my website, my name is Jeffrey R. Frank. I'm an attorney in San Diego, California and my practice is devoted almost exclusively to the practice of personal injury law. I have had this blog as a part of my website for an extended length of time and have finally decided to begin to use it! I hope this blog is both informative but informal. My vision for these pages is to publish my thoughts on recent devel ...