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How to Become a Personal Injury Lawyer

How to become a personal injury lawyer

July 15, 2021

As a personal injury lawyer, you’ll focus your law practice on cases related to physical and psychological injury. Typically, this involves car accidents with drunk or otherwise negligent drivers. You’ll work to protect client’s rights and ensure they receive a fair settlement from insurance companies to compensate

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Should law students consider becoming personal injury lawyers?

December 18, 2017

Back in 1995, when I graduated from law school, the common approach to finding a job after law school went something like this: Examine job board.  Submit resume. Wait for requests for interviews from participating law firms.  Attend numerous interviews.  Receive several job offers.  Select

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5 questions every personal injury lawyer must know how to answer

July 11, 2017

While law school likely prepared you to answer questions on substantive law, there are certain practicalities that often go ignored. Many law schools now emphasize legal skills and the practice of law, your exposure to client interactions likely came through externships, internships, clinics, or clerkships. If you plan to practice

Do you have the right stuff to succeed in PI work

December 01, 2015

By Jared Staver JARED STAVER is managing partner of the Staver Law Group, a personal-injury firm he launched 15 years ago in Chicago. Do personal injury work, they said! It’s Exciting, and you’ll make gobs of money! You’ve probably heard that advice, and it can be true. Personal injury law is a highly