Marietta Personal Injury Attorney Meeting
What do I bring to my first meeting at your office? That's what the staff at the Marietta personal injury firm Joel M. Baskin, P.C. gets asked all the time by new clients.
Being prepared to meet with you lawyer is important; most likely you may be a little nervous, or in pain, or distracted. At Joel M. Baskin's office, our staff has more than a decade of experience in litigating injury and accident cases, and will make you feel confident in our legal representation right from the start. Here is a list of helpful information that clients should bring to their first meeting with any personal injury lawyer:
- Any notes you have that describe the injury or accident, including the date, time, weather, person or persons involved, where the accident took place, what happened.
- Your insurance information, including your policy information (whether it be homeowner, automobile, umbrella policy, etc.), proof that your premiums are current.
- Any available insurance information from other parties involved in the injury or accident (for example, the other driver’s insurance policy number, carrier, expiration date for a motor vehicle accident).
- Police reports, if any.
- Contact information for any other parties involved in the injury or accident, those responsible for the accident or any witnesses to it.
- Any photographs you may have of the injury or accident (perhaps on a cellular telephone).
- A careful list, as thorough as you can make it, of the medical treatment you have received to date, including date of treatment, place of treatment, name of the provider, type of treatment.
- Copies of all costs you have incurred to date as the result of the injury or accident, including medical bills, property damage, and lost wages (pay stubs).
In order to make your meeting go more efficiently, it is often a good idea when making an appointment for an initial consultation to ask if there is anything particular the attorney would like you to bring. Some attorneys ask their clients to write down a brief factual statement, in their own words, about what happened so that there is less of a chance of forgetting important points.
