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__________________, 2000 _______________________________________________________________, AL RE: ______________ vs. Date of Consultation: Dear _______________________:You have asked our firm to represent you in the above-referred matter. As I am sure you remember, you executed a contract employing this firm to represent you when you were in our office initially. On behalf of our firm, let me take this opportunity to thank you for allowing us to represent you in this matter. The purpose of this letter is to provide you with an outline of how we intend to handle your case. 1. CONFIRM REPRESENTATION: First, it is the entire firm which is representing you, although I will be primarily responsible for your case. My partners may represent you from time to time. In the event that I am out of town on business or vacation, I will ask another attorney from this office to assist me with your case. 2. KEEPING YOU INFORMED: We will keep you informed of the status of your case and will send you copies of all correspondence which we initiate here, along with copies of all letters we receive from others regarding your case. Most of the time, all you will need to do with the information you receive is read it so you will be aware of what is taking place. We suggest you maintain a file to hold these copies. In the event that we need for you to respond to the information or need additional information from you, we will send you a personal letter along with the copies explaining exactly what we need for you to do. If there is no personal letter from me, you should not be concerned about the legal terminology or any other matter relating to the copies, but be assured that we have taken care of any action that needs to be taken in order to protect your legal rights and your case. 3. THE TELEPHONE: There will be times when we will be unable to speak on the phone because of court appearances and other pressing matters. Please speak openly to my secretary and ask her whatever questions or give her whatever information which you have. She will be familiar with your file and will be able to answer some of your basic questions, and thus free me up to work on your case, and hopefully resolve it at the earliest possible moment. If you must speak with me, I will make every effort to try and return the call to you by 10:00 a.m. the next day. Again, unless court appearances or other conflicts arise. However, if you do not hear from me or my secretary, please call again. Please remember that my not returning your call immediately does not signify giving your case any less importance than any of my other cases, or that I have any desire not to talk to you. It merely signifies that I am unable to return your call. 4. RECOVERY OF MEDICAL EXPENSES: Please obtain and keep duplicate copies of all medical, hospital and drug bills. You should periodically bring these bills to us for your file. Also, keep records of any other expenses that you may have in connection with your accident. All your bills should be paid by check or you should obtain and keep receipts. Have your own health insurance pay as many hospital and doctor bills under the medical payments provision of your policy as possible. Keep copies of checks that your health insurance company reimburses you on your accident. 5. TALK TO NO ONE: Please do not talk to anyone about any aspect of your accident and/or case, except one of your lawyers. Do not even talk to your own insurance company or any lawyers hired by your own insurance company without first notifying us. 6. YOUR ADDRESS: Be sure to keep us advised of any change in your address or telephone number. If you are going to be out of town or in any way unavailable in excess of one week, please notify us in advance and leave us information as to how we can reach you. 7. HEARINGS: If you are arrested or summoned as a witness in connection with this accident, call one of the lawyers in this office immediately. 8. WITNESSES: Furnish to us immediately the names, addresses and telephone numbers of any and all witnesses that you may learn of, and also if you see another doctor. 9. YOUR DOCTOR: You should return to each of your doctors as often as is necessary and cooperate with their treatment. Tell them about all of your complaints. While no one is impressed by a perpetual complainer, it is very damaging in the trial of a case for a doctor to say, "Well, I assumed that her neck was alright because she didn't say anything about it after such and such a date.", when the truth of the matter is that the reason she didn't say anything about her neck was because her lower back was bothering her so badly that her neck was far down the list of her complaints. (For example.) 10. SAVE YOUR CAST: If your injury requires a cast, brace, traction, or other appliance, save it so that we will have it in the event of a trial. 11. RECORD OF COMPLAINTS: Please keep a daily or weekly record of your complaints and progress. This can be very helpful when, a year later, you may be called upon to relate your pain and difficulties. This is very important and you should go into as much detail as you can. This will be treated very confidentially. 12. QUESTIONS: We will probably not contact you until we have something definite to report. If you have any questions at any time in regard to your case or any other matter, please feel free to call. 13. TIME: Cases in Montgomery County, more often than not, can take more than a year to finally go to trial. This is something that is beyond our control so please remain patient knowing that we are moving your case along as fast as we possibly can.Finally, it is the policy of this law firm to forward to the client copies of everything that the lawyer sends out and receives pertaining to the client's case. It is also the policy of this law firm to keep the client's informed of the developments in the case. However, because there will be occasions when there is nothing to report, the client will not hear from the lawyer handling the case. This does not mean that the case has been forgotten, only that there is no development in the case to report to the client. Thank you again for the opportunity to represent you in this matter. With warm personal regards, I am Very truly yours, _______________________________