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Attorney Referrals from Ziff Law

Ear­lier this year Ziff Law Firm partner Jim Reed headed out of the firm’s Elmira, NY office on a happy errand. He was deliv­ering two checks — one for $38,000 and another for $10,000 — to attor­neys who had done nothing more than refer per­sonal injury clients to the Ziff Law Firm. This was just one of many “happy errands” Ziff Law injury and mal­prac­tice attor­neys reg­u­larly make to lawyers in their Refer­ring Attorney Network.

Most attor­neys rec­og­nize per­sonal injury and mal­prac­tice are very dis­tinct areas of law and they acknowl­edge clients are best rep­re­sented by attor­neys who spe­cialize in these areas. At the Ziff Law Firm, Carl Hayden, Jim Reed, Adam Gee and Christina Bruner limit their prac­tices to per­sonal injury and mal­prac­tice cases only. Carl is the only plaintiff’s lawyer in the Twin Tiers to be named a pres­ti­gious Fellow in the Amer­ican Col­lege of Trial Lawyers. Jim and Carl are the only Plain­tiff Lawyers in our area to be des­ig­nated as New York Super Lawyers. Jim Reed was selected for mem­ber­ship in the Multi Mil­lion Dollar Advo­cates Forum. Carl, Jim, Adam and Christina are all active in the N.Y.S. Trial Lawyer Asso­ci­a­tion and the N.Y. Academy of Trial Lawyers. If you do not have a track record of trying — and win­ning — these kinds of cases, you do not want to try to handle them yourself!

Per­haps the single greatest dif­fer­ence between these prac­tice areas and other legal spe­cial­ties is the finan­cial arrange­ment. Per­sonal Injury cases typ­i­cally use con­tin­gency fees, where lawyers only get paid by win­ning com­pen­sa­tion for their clients. In other words, the law firm risks every­thing — the attorney’s time, travel,
research, prepa­ra­tion of exhibits, expenses of expert wit­nesses, and on and on — and fronts all costs of pur­suing a set­tle­ment or vic­tory in court.

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