Choosing a Medical Malpractice Attorney

We were recently contacted by a man who may have been the victim of medical malpractice at a local hospital here in Augusta. One of his first questions to us was how to go about finding a medical malpractice lawyer. If you’re reading this, you may be having a similar question – how do you find a malpractice lawyer?

Malpractice is different. It typically requires much more extensive litigation. It requires expert testimony, too, which can be expensive. When you’re looking for a malpractice attorney, you want to make sure that that attorney has prior experience in medical malpractice cases. There are procedural rules that you have to follow in order to prosecute a claim against any doctor or medical facility in the state of Georgia. You have to have an expert affidavit to attach to your lawsuit when you file it at the courthouse, otherwise it will be be immediately dismissed. Given these complexities, you want to make sure that the attorney you work with has represented people in these cases in the past.

You also want to make sure that the attorney has the resources necessary to find expert witnesses. Expert witnesses are gatekeepers in medical malpractice cases. If you don’t have a good expert witness, then you will not succeed in a medical malpractice case. You also want to make sure that the attorney has been around and has experience not only in the courtroom, but the resources that it will take to prosecute this case. Medical malpractice cases, as stated, can involve expert testimony from medical doctors, and they charge a significant amount of money for that testimony.

You want to find an attorney who maintains a focus in personal injury, who has handled malpractice cases in the past, and who has a network of experts they trust and who have proven their worth in trial. If you think that you have been the victim of malpractice, we would be more than happy to sit down and answer any questions that you have.