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Personal Injury Law

Personal injury attorneys and lawyers typically represent clients (plaintiffs) who have been injured either financially or physically due to the fault of another. A personal injury lawyer is usually experienced in a wide variety of personal injury topics, ranging from automobile accidents and medical malpractice to drug litigation and defective products. Personal injury attorneys often work on a contingent basis, meaning there is no fee unless a recovery is made in a case.

Goldstein & Metzger, LLP
represents individuals involved in controversies alleging a wrong or damage to another's person, rights, reputation, or property resulting from events or activities such as automobile accidents, defective products, slip and fall, dog bites, medical malpractice, job site accidents, wrongful death, infliction of emotional distress, intentional misconduct, and negligence.

Tort
When someone or something causes an injury to another person or thing, the legal profession calls such an act a "tort." A tort is committed when one person is harmed because of the wrongful act of another. The purpose of tort law is to assign responsibility to the individual, group or company responsible for causing such harm. The term "personal injury" encompasses a wide variety of circumstances ranging from a stubbed toe, to an amputated limb, to death, and everything and anything in between.

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Lawsuit
A lawsuit is a generic term for a legal proceeding through which two or more feuding parties can settle their disagreement by following well-recognized and respected processes. The venerable Black's Law Dictionary defines a lawsuit as "an action instituted by one party to compel another to do him justice."

A lawsuit encompasses more than simply the trial before a judge or jury. Typically, both sides spend many months preparing for the actual trial. Your attorney will investigate all of the relevant facts and circumstances surrounding your incident. In addition, from time to time your attorney will likely communicate with the opposing attorney in an attempt to settle the lawsuit before the trial commences.

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