This document outlines 6 signs that indicate you may need to change lawyers. These include communication problems like unreturned calls or emails, lawyers who make unrealistic promises about case outcomes, those with a rude or unprofessional attitude, attorneys who miss important deadlines, those who take a cookie-cutter approach rather than considering individual case details, and disorganized lawyers who lack proper calendaring and prioritization systems. The document concludes by suggesting contacting a specific law firm if the reader has been injured and their current lawyer displays any of these issues.

1. 6 Signs You Need
to Change Lawyers

2. Communication Problems

3. If your lawyer doesn’t call you back quickly
or doesn’t respond to your e-mails, that’s a
big problem. You may need to get a hold of
them for an emergency, and if your attor-
ney waits several days, or never responds at
all, then you are at serious risk. Profession-
al firms use phone answering services so
that they can receive calls 24 hours a day.
Wouldn’t you rather have a representative
that you can reach in a reasonable amount
of time?

4. Big Promises

5. The practice of law is built on a foundation
of hard work and insightful expertise, but
the actual outcome of any given case can
come down to the whims of a judge, magis-
trate or jury. Seasoned pros know this, often
from personal experiences where a case
that seemed predetermined went the other
way, but amateurs and newbies with little
experience can slip up and say a specific
case is a sure thing. Those aren’t the kind of
lawyers you want in your corner.

6. Bad Attitude

7. Attorneys regularly deal with delicate situ-
ations that require genuine empathy, con-
cern and compassion, such as assisting a
mother of three who just lost her husband
and doesn’t know how she’s going pay their
mortgage. If your lawyer is ever snide, con-
descending or just plain rude then drop
them immediately. If they don’t have the
professionalism to show you human cour-
tesy, then they will likely have other major
flaws in their craft.

8. Missed Deadlines

9. Meeting deadlines are essential to
representing a client and protecting their
legal rights in the court system. An attorney
that falls behind on this front is jeopardiz-
ing their own client. Even the strongest case
will fall apart if counsel can’t get paperwork
in on time. You wouldn’t keep a babysitter
who never shows up, likewise you shouldn’t
keep an attorney who fails to
meet deadlines.

10. Cookie-Cutter Approach

11. A good lawyer will look at the details of
your case, hunt down the facts and apply a
well-informed legal analysis before craft-
ing an individual strategy to help you. Some
other attorneys run their law firms like a
factory, brushing over the details and using
a common, simple approach for all cases.
Make sure your attorney is paying attention
to the details of your case, is performing
research when needed.

12. Disorganized

13. Being a lawyer is a demanding job, with
many pieces moving at once. A successful
lawyer will use a tightly-controlled calen-
daring system to make sure they can
appear in court when needed, meeting
specific deadlines and prioritize their many
obligations. Attorneys who lacks these
things are setting themselves up for failure.

14. Need to
change your
lawyer?

15. Have you been injured?
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