This is a question that we get several times a month. Someone will have ordered our free book on Virginia Car Accidents read it but hire another lawyer. Sometimes they read it after hiring another lawyer.

Then they want to switch lawyers.

We have a strict criteria. We will not accept any case where you have already hired another lawyer to represent you.

Why?

1. We like to do things “our way.” In the past, when we did accept these sort of cases, we usually had to clean up a mess.

2. It’s a headache. Usually the lawyer you are firing wants to charge you some sort of a “lien” for her time. That’s fair, but its a headache. People were expecting that we would reduce our fee to account for the money to be paid the fired lawyer.

3. We don’t need to. Each day we field inquiries from many people who want to read our books, find out more about us, or hire us. We like to get cases when they are ‘fresh.’ Taking over someone else’s case is just not something that we need to do.

What’s the exception? We do accept cases that have been referred by other lawyers. The other lawyer may have done some work collecting records, etc, or that lawyer may be from out of state. The exception to this rule is that we don’t accept any cases last minute. If the reason for the referral is that the lawyer can’t settle the case and is panicking all of a sudden because Virginia’s 2-year statute of limitations is upon them, we don’t get involved.

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