Handling Accident

When you select a personal injury attorney to meet with, there are a few things that you need to bring to your initial meeting to make the best use of your meeting. Here is what you should bring to your consultation: Pictures. If you are involved in a car accident and took pictures with your cell phone, you should bring your cell phone to your initial consultation. You will then be able to show your attorney photographs of your car and other vehicles involved in the accident. Once your personal injury attorney has seen the photographs, they will have a better understanding of the accident. You will then be asked to email those pictures to your attorney. Police Printout. If the police were called to the accident scene, you will be given a printout concerning the accident. This is not the official police report, but it called the “Traffic Collision Information” sheet. It is about the same size as a receipt. This sheet lists where and when the car accident happened, as well as who was i...

Hearsay is basically a statement that was not made in the courtroom, but that someone wants to discuss while on the witness stand. So anytime you hear someone say, “you’ll never believe what Joe told me . . .”, Joe supposed statements would be called hearsay in a court of law. Since you could be making up gossip about Joe, the court wants to make sure this information is true. However, there are a lot of exceptions to this general rule that second hand information cannot come into a trial. Chapter 51 of the Nevada Revised Statutes (“NRS”) governs hearsay and what statements are allowed to come during a trial. Including the basic hearsay rule, there are about 40 different sections to Chapter 51! Today, we are just going to go over the sections that come up frequently in personal injury cases. In an example of an auto accident case, where our driver, Joe, is sitting in his car on his way to work, stopped for a red light. Zoe, who is driving up to the intersection where Joe is sitting, d...

Depending on the type of personal injury case you have, there is certain time period in which you must file a lawsuit to protect your rights. Nevada Revised Statute 11.090(4)(e), is the law in Nevada that says if you have a personal injury action, that you must file your lawsuit within two years, otherwise you will be forever barred from doing so. It is important to note that this section of the statute only governs the negligence of regular people, such as in car accident cases. For example, if a doctor is negligent in treating a patient, he is governed by a different rule and different time period. This statute only governs acts of negligence that we encounter in our everyday lives, such as slip and falls and car and truck accidents . There are other parts of Nevada Revised Statute 11.090, which apply to different types of cases, such as contract cases. However, each type of case has it own, different, time period. Although this can be a bit confusing, it is important to note that ...

When you file a lawsuit in Las Vegas, Nevada, your case will actually take place in the Clark County, Nevada court system. As soon as you file a file lawsuit, your case will be automatically assigned to a specific trial judge. In Las Vegas , all trial dates are set by the trial judge assigned to your case.  If your lawsuit is in Las Vegas’ regular litigation channels, once the at-fault party answers the complaint, the parties’ attorneys must meet and discuss what type of information needs to be exchanged before the case can proceed to trial. This exchange of information is called “discovery”. Once the attorneys meet, they must prepare what is called a Joint Case Conference Report and submit it to the Discovery Commissioner, who rules on all discovery disputes in the first instance (appeals are then brought to your individual trial court judge).  The Discovery Commissioner then prepares an Order regarding discovery, called a Discovery Scheduling Order. Once the Discover Schedul...