Our only requirement is that you have a case we believe in and think we can win. We are proud to work for honest people who have been seriously hurt by others’ bad behavior, without regard to labels. We do not take worker’s compensation cases but are happy to refer you to someone we trust who does.

Serious Physical or Emotional Harm

Some law firms take “settlement only” cases, where the lawyer doesn’t plan on filing a lawsuit, but we don’t work that way. We are trial lawyers and, in our mind, if your injuries are serious enough for us to take the case, we usually expect to file suit and settle or try the case. We limit ourselves to cases involving serious physical or emotional harm, like injuries that affect the client’s ability to work, help their family or enjoy life – injuries like fractures, abuse, brain damage, bad burns, sexual assaults, bad bedsores, amputations, death, or injuries that require surgeries or long hospitalizations. We often have to tell people who call that we need to decline their case because we don’t think the injury involved is serious enough to warrant a lawsuit. If we think that there won’t be enough money in the end to make a difference in your life, we will tell you and may decline your case.

Caused by Irresponsible Actions of Others

We are used to suing, and winning against, corporations, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies, health care providers, and others. We chose this line of work because we wanted to help people, not companies. But harm alone is not enough for liability. There also has to be irresponsible conduct by the person or company you are trying to sue. The irresponsible conduct may be putting a dangerous product on the market, or someone not being as careful as they should have been, but we have to be able to show unreasonable actions that caused you harm. Sometimes you don’t know at the beginning if there was unreasonable behavior, but we have ways to find out.

Evidence to Support the Claim

Under the law, people who bring personal injury claims have the burden of proof. That means in order to get a settlement, or have a jury decide your case, we have to have evidence that there was unreasonable conduct by the person or company we are suing that caused your injuries.

In many cases, that evidence will come in the form of expert testimony from a consultant we hire. Or it may come in the form of your own testimony, or the testimony of witnesses or the contents of documents.

If you would have been harmed even if things were done right, there is not a case. For instance, if a doctor delayed one month in diagnosing cancer, the delay of only one month may not have made difference and there may not be a case. If you were almost hit by another car, there is probably not a case. If no one knows why you were harmed, there may not be a case. If you fell down while you were on someone else’s property, but have no idea what made you fall, there may not be case.

The Statute of Limitations Has Not Run Out

On every injury case there are time limits to sue. If the deadline is missed, you automatically lose. In general, in Missouri, the deadlines for injury claims are as follows, but there are exceptions that may apply to your case. For the statute of limitations applicable to your particular injury, ask us or another lawyer to make sure.

And We Believe It’s Worth the Risk

We get paid only if you do. Although we settle or win most of our cases, there are some we don’t. To take your case, we have to believe that the chance of winning is high enough, and the amount will be big enough, to be acceptable to you and to pay us our fee and expenses. And the party we sue, unless they are a huge corporation with huge assets, normally has to be insured, or the chance of collecting anything is slim.