When it comes to maximizing outcomes for personal injury clients, co-counseling cases with an experienced trial firm like Finney Injury Law can provide tremendous value. Co-counseling allows attorneys to leverage additional resources, support, and expertise to achieve the best possible results.
3 Key Benefits of Partnering With Finney Injury Law
1. Cost Sharing
Personal injury cases, especially those that enter litigation, often require a significant financial investment to ensure they are properly worked up. Hiring experts, conducting depositions, and preparing trial exhibits can quickly drain a small firm's resources.
By co-counseling with a larger firm like Finney Injury Law, sole practitioners and small firms can access the capital needed to put their best case forward without over-extending themselves financially. This levels the playing field against deep-pocketed defendants and insurance companies.
2. Strategic Support
Preparing a personal injury case for trial is a complex undertaking that benefits from collaboration. When co-counseling with Finney Injury Law, referring attorneys gain a thought partner who is equally invested in the outcome.
While many attorneys informally consult colleagues on their cases, those individuals lack the in-depth knowledge to provide meaningful strategic guidance. Co-counseling ensures both firms are fully immersed in the details of the case and can engage in productive brainstorming sessions.
3. Comprehensive Trial Support
Co-counseling with Finney Injury Law provides referring attorneys access to a robust trial infrastructure. From drafting briefs and jury instructions to handling appeals, the Finney Injury Law team can support cases from intake through post-verdict motions.
For sole practitioners and small firms, this type of comprehensive trial support is invaluable. It allows them to take on complex, high-stakes cases while ensuring no detail is overlooked.
The Bottom Line
At Finney Injury Law, we are passionate about helping injury victims achieve justice. Co-counseling cases with referring attorneys is one of the key ways we're able to expand our impact.
If you're an attorney considering referring a case, we encourage you to reach out for a no-obligation consultation. Our team will provide an honest assessment of how we can add value to your case. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you. But if we can help, we'll put our full resources to work for you and your client.
A Recent Example of Our Co-Counsel Success
20 Million Dollar Wrongful Death – Trucking Accident Verdict
Original Offer: $0
Final Result: $20,025,000.00
Case Number: 2011-CC00821
Case Date: 08/05/2022
Type: Verdict
Insurance Company: Sentry Insurance
Schultz, et al vs. Great Plains Trucking, Inc., et al – Jury Verdict
On Friday, August 5, 2022, a St. Charles County, MO jury agreed to hold a Kansas trucking company responsible for the death of a 19-year-old, returning a verdict of $20,025,000.00.
Attorneys Toni Schlapprizzi and Craig Schlapprizzi of Schlapprizzi Attorneys at Law represented the mother while Firm attorneys Chris Finney and Alex Ledbetter co-counseled the case representing the young man’s father.
On August 6, 2019, “Junior” was traveling in the passenger seat of the family vehicle on Hwy-70 when the SUV was struck by a semi-truck causing catastrophic injury to Junior and ultimately his death.
The trucking company denied culpability in Junior’s death. They offered $0 to settle the case and an alternative explanation for the young man’s passing, blaming his mother, the SUV driver.
Three years after his death, our St. Charles truck accident attorneys stood toe-to-toe with the defense counsel in a St. Charles county courtroom. The days were long filled with expert and witness testimonies, photo and video exhibits and statements. The jury worked well into the evening on the fifth and final day; at 11 pm, they rendered their verdict: $20,025,000.00.
We cannot say enough about the people of St. Charles who served and worked on this jury. They gave of themselves to arrive at this verdict and received nothing in return. It’s incredibly selfless and humbling to watch.
Money will never replace the loss of a child, but we are incredibly grateful to the jury and couldn’t be happier for our clients, especially the mother who was blamed for her son’s death for three years by the defense.