| *Most recent Jury Verdict or Settlement: $2,500,000.00 Settlement in Contested Liability Motorcycle Accident. Motorcycle pulled out from between to left turn lanes. Below knee amputation, broken ribs and clavical. |
| *The results obtained in the cases listed were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts |
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AUTO ACCIDENT LAWYERS
What Should The Seriously Injured Auto Accident Victim Look for In a Lawyer?
You Have the Right to Inquire About Your Prospective Auto Accident Attorneys Qualifications And Should Do So.
And any good auto accident lawyer should see the logic of your wanting to assure that you will be properly represented in your automobile accident case, and should be willing and happy to answer any questions you may have about his or her legal qualifications.
Below Mr. Henke will affirmatively provide a number of questions that you should consider asking in determining which auto accident lawyers are the best attorneys to represent you in your auto accident case.
Mr. Henke will also provide specific, straightforward answers each of the questions. For more of Mr. Henke's qualifications, see Mr. Henke, The Trial Lawyer.
Call Mr. Henke Toll Free, with regard to your Auto Accident, or Fill Out the Easy to Submit Questionnaire, And Mr. Henke will Call You Within 24 Hours, Guaranteed.
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Attorney Legal Qualification Questions: What You Should Ask Any Auto Accident Lawyer Who You Would Consider for Your Auto Accident Case About His Qualities And Experience As A Trial Attorney:
QUESTION:
Is the auto accident lawyer rated by Martindale and Hubble? And if so, what is his "Legal Ability" rating and "General Ethical Standards" rating?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke's answer is that he has the very highest Martindale & Hubbell "legal ability" rating, "A" [from Very High to Preeminent]; and the very highest "General Ethical Standards" rating, "V" [Very High]. It is a rating that Mr. Henke has received for all of the past decade of his career.
QUESTION:
Have the auto accident lawyers served as prosecuting counsel in litigation involving substantial injuries, and then obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has served as counsel in many serious injury cases over the course of his career and has obtained numerous substantial settlements and jury verdicts, including million dollar settlements and million dollar jury verdicts.
Most Recent Example
$2.5 Million Settlement in a Contested Liability Motorcycle Accident Case. The motorcycle pulled out from between two left turn lanes. The motorcyclist suffered a below knee amputation, and broken Ribs and clavicle in the accident.
Required Disclaimer. The results obtained in those cases were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts.
QUESTION:
Have the auto accident lawyers been recognized by their peers as established, superior trial lawyers?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke was first an invited, and then elected, and then reelected again and again Governor of LATLA, the fifth largest trial lawyers association in the United States.
Mr. Henke was also nominated by the LATLA Board for the most highly coveted "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award.
Mr. Henke invited to serve and served for years in the prestigious position of the Editor-in-Chief of LATLA's legal journal, "THE ADVOCATE."
QUESTION:
Has the auto accident attorney obtained positive recognition in and outside the legal profession?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has a national reputation as an effective, successful, aggressive and determined trial attorney as reflected in scores of newspaper articles about Mr. Henke and his work, published in legitimate national legal periodicals, legitimate national newspapers, magazines, and national television. Mr. Henke also testified before Congress at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives on his legal work in several cases, including his use of claims for punitive damages to set examples of Defendants who consciously disregard the safety, health and rights of others. Punitive damages can be awarded in auto accident cases, for example, where an another driver operates his vehicle in conscious disregard of the safety of others and causes a auto accident.
QUESTION:
Can the lawyer verify that he is an effective legal advocate, by citation to important published appellate victories he has achieved? A lawyer's appellate success matters because it is a good measure of the attorney's vitally important general ability to argue and persuade on legal issues, and this is important for any auto accident case. It is an ability that is not just essential on appeals. It is an ability essential to the auto accident attorney's effectiveness in meeting all the big and small challenges presented at every stage of auto accident litigation, e.g., by pretrial motions, which can seriously affect settlement posture of the auto accident case as well as the respective parties' important advantages or disadvantages at trial. Your attorney's willingness to ask the appellate court to immediately reverse a bad pretrial decision that guts the auto accident case may also be essential to achieve the quickest and best result. Legal advocacy is also a talent essential during trial, as the trial lawyer must be able to effectively argue legal issues, e.g., the admissibility of the defendant's admission of fault for the auto accident or the inadmissibility of prejudicial medical or character evidence, or the permissibility of expert opinion testimony, etc. Then, if you "hit big" at trial in your auto accident case, the defendant is almost certain to appeal, and you may then require superior legal advocacy to hold on to your victory.
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has had extraordinary published and verifiable appellate victories. As one example, on behalf of a single aggrieved client Mr. Henke obtained the reversal of a $120,000,000 Ohio Federal District Court approved settlement purporting to bind 1000 product liability claimants joined in the Ohio Court and all others injured by the product nationwide. On a petition for writ of mandate to the United States Court of Appals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Henke also obtained the reversal of the Ohio Federal District Court's certification of a national mandatory product liability class action. Mr. Henke's argument, accepted by the Court of Appeals as requiring both decisions was that Mr. Henke's client was denied his right to counsel of his choice and control over his individual litigation. The appellate decision effected an important and enduring change in the law severely restricting the availability of mandatory, as opposed to voluntary class actions in "mass disaster" litigation. This decision could also in auto product liability cases.
As another example, when a trial judge applied newly enacted tort reform legislation to deprive Mr. Henke's client of his punitive damage claims, Mr. Henke obtained a stay of the trial and filed in the Court of Appeals an "extraordinary writ" seeking an immediate reversal of the trial court's order. The Court granted the writ of mandamus, ordering the trial court to reverse its order and permit Henke's client to pursue his punitive damage claim. It also rendered an important published appellate opinion reinterpreting the repressive tort reform legislation to deprive it of most of its negative force and effect.
Mr. Henke has also obtained extraordinary unpublished appellate victories, including the reversal of a judge's summary judgment order denying a paraplegic accident victim his day in court. The young, teenage plaintiff, had been riding home from school in the back of his friend's pick up truck. Suit was originally brought by a very highly qualified New Jersey lawyer, appearing pro hac vice in California, on the theories of negligent and strict product liability "failure to warn"against the foreign truck manufacturer. The manufacturer argued and the trial court agreed that the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck are "open and obvious" as a matter of law, rendering "failure to warn" theory untenable, and "threw the case out of court." The New Jersey attorney contacted Mr. Henke for help in overturning the trial court's ruling. Mr. Henke prosecuted the appeal from the trial court's ruling and judgment, in which Mr. Henke cited not only to the evidence of the dangers, but to the legislative history, pointing out that in the year prior to the accident, then Governor Wilson had vetoed legislation which would have made it illegal to ride in the back of pick up trucks, and quoted the Governor's remarks. If the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck were not "open and obvious" to Governor Wilson, Mr. Henke argued, then the trial court was out of line in ruling that the dangers were "open and obvious" as a matter of law. The Court of Appeals overturned the trial court's summary judgment and ordered that the young plaintiff be allowed his day in court.
Your Auto Accident Lawyers Legal Qualifications, Are Matters That You Should Consider In Selection An Attorney for your Auto Accident Case.
The auto accident lawyer's recognition by Martindale Hubbell, his recognition by his peers, his local and national reputation, his trial successes, and his appellate successes, are all matters, that you should want to inquire about in selecting the right auto accident lawyers for your serious injury case.
Additional of Mr. Henke's credentials are set forth on the separate page "Mr. Henke, the Trial Lawyer" page.
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