About Our Firm
The Lurie, Ilchert, MacDonnell & Ryan is located in New York City and specializes in personal injury law. The law firm consists of 5 experiencedattorneys and 10 assistants, investigators, interpreters and secretaries. Established for over 50 years, our practice has concentrated on securing the highest money awards permitted by law for victims of accidents of every kind. We only handle accident cases and during our entire history we have not handled any other type of case, always representing accident victims. Million dollar final results are not rarities in our office. Eighty of our clients have received $1,000,000 or more for their personal injuries. Additionally, 203 of our clients have received $500,000. Unlike so many other attorneys, we have not included in these figures large jury verdicts which were drastically reduced by the trial judge or by an appeals court. We are straight shooters and make no misleading claims.
Backed By Years of Experience
Our outstanding record is the result of long experience, of total concentration and mastery of accident law att every phase of trial techniques. No part of your case will be handled by an inexperienced lawyer, or even by a lawyer with a moderate amount of experience. The lawyers in our firm average over 30 years experience in handling every type of injury case. There are no problems and no defense strategies that we have not met many times before and successfully overcome when humanly possible under the law. Thorough our time-tested trial skills and long experience in this field, we are able to win cases that many other attorneys would refuse to accept, or would lose, or would get a much lower result. Many clients whose cases were already rejected or dropped by other attorneys have come to us. We take pride that we accepted some of those “impossible” cases and turned them into big winners. Experience really does count.
Our experience also taught us that one of the most important keys to a successful conclusion is to undertake a prompt, thorough investigation of the facts of the accident as soon as possible. That is the time when investigation is most likely to yield positive results. Unfortunately, this is something that manyattorneys, possibly most attorneys in this field, badly neglect. Perhaps this is because of the high cost of the investigation, or their lack of knowledge of the intricacies and possibilities of a first class investigation. We spare no effort or expense in doing the most thorough investigation as soon as we have been retained.
Where applicable, we fully develop and carefully present evidence demonstrating the continuous pain and permanency of personal injuries and their effect on the quality of life, the permanent loss of the ability to work, or the drastic restrictions on the ability to work, the resulting loss of income over a lifetime, and in a appropriate cases of severe injuries, the high cost of home care, past and future medical, surgical, rehabilitation, hospital, drug and nursing expenses. These proofs, where applicable, are important elements in securing full compensation.
100% Focused on Personal Injury & Accident Law
The only clients our office has ever represented are those who sustained serious injuries in accidents. We do not now, nor have we ever, practiced in other fields of law. For example, we have never practiced criminal law, commercial law, tax law, or matrimonial law.
We believe that the best way to offer the highest quality legal services is to focus on a single area and to master that one area, rather than spreading too thin over additional areas of law. We are not a ”jack-of-all-trades and a master of none” law firm. Our results, we think, prove the wisdom of this policy.
Within the field of personal injury law, we have been, for many years, aggressively litigating more cases involving construction and demolition accidents than any other single type of accidents. These include large numbers of falls from scaffolds, ladders and roofs, slipping and tripping on dirt, debris and scattered materials on work areas and passageways. Our law firm is well-known for its technical knowledge, expertise and command of the legal intricacies in these fields. Other common accidents that we successfully handled in great numbers include falls from defective stairways, car accidents, medical malpractice, dangerous machinery, and injuries to students in schools.
You Don't Pay Unless We Win
Our fees are strictly limited in accordance with Court rules. At the end of the case, a detailed, written accounting is provided to each client showing all financial aspects of the case. It is important to remember that our clients owe no legal fee whatsoever unless we win their cases by settlement or trial and collect money for them.
Personalized, Dedicated Attention & Service You Can Count On
We restrict our practice to a relatively small number of clients, unlike the usual practice of law firms in our field. This enables us to give very personalized services - a special pride of our firm. This includes, again contrary to the usual practice of other law firms, encouraging our clients to telephone us if they have any questions regarding their case - for which we provide prompt, clear answers. We always act as interpreters, with our own staff members, who accompany our clients when necessary on doctors' visits, depositions, workers' compensation physicals and hearings and, of course, during trial preparation and trial.
We have native-born interpreters as full-time employees on our office staff, including Spanish,
Polish,
Slovak,
Czech and
Chinese. Our interpreters are always available to help when a client needs to speak to an attorney, or to obtain information about the status of his case, or to ask the many questions that a client often has about participating, for the first time, in a New York lawsuit. We believe that it is important to make a client as comfortable as possible as his case progresses. A client’s unanswered questions, which is common at other law firms, never happens in our office. Ignorance creates fear, often unjustified. We immediately answer our clients’ questions in simple, easy to understand language, which reduces or eliminates his anxieties.
Contact Our Firm Today!
After your accident, you need help and answers to your questions without any delay. And we are ready to help you. Our telephones are answered by our law firm's staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We offer a free consultation by telephone or at our office. If your injuries prevent or make it difficult for you to come to our office, we will come to your home or hospital room.
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