| *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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NEGLIGENCE & PREMISES LIABILITY LAWYERS
Mr. Henke is a highly qualified lawyer for any negligence or premises liability case. If you were injured as the result of the negligence of another, or by faulty premises, you may call attorney Henke toll free, or fill out the easy to submit contact "Questionnaire" for a free consultation. You will speak to attorney Henke personally.
Attorney Henke is a Qualified Lawyer for Your Negligence or Premises Liability Case.
Attorney Henke is a negligence and premises liability lawyer who has represented seriously injured women and men, children, and even new born babies in negligence cases; and he has represented the families of those killed as the result of the negligence or wrongful conduct of others. Mr. Henke has successfully represented the seriously injured in medical malpractice, medical fraud, auto and machine product liability, and pharmaceutical and medical device product liability cases. Mr. Henke will represent clients in premises liability cases, sometimes called slip and fall or trip and fall cases; cases against a landlord, commercial building owners or public entity for defective conditions . Negligence has many forms and attorney Henke is well qualified to represent thos seriously injured by the negligence of another in whatever form the negligence arose. He has successfully prosecuted cases as varied as suits against physicians for negligent failure to diagnose rare heart tumors to suits against pharmaceutical companies for defective drugs that caused severe birth defects. Attorney Henke has successfully represented the family of a world class polo player, against the United States Polo Association, and the manufacturer of his negligently constructed polo helmet, arising out of his death in a Chicago Polo match. And Mr. Henke has represented Playboy centerfolds against Playboy, for setting up supposedly legitimate photo shoots with pornographers who used their names and likenesses to advertise pornographic movies. And Attorney Henke has successfully represented AIDS patients in litigation against the quacks and snake oil salesmen who exploited their desperation and vulnerability with phony drugs, misrepresented by these physicians as "cures" for their patients' sad disease, and against the hospitals which negligently permitted these corrupt doctors staff privileges to practice their quackery on their immune suppressed units.
The Negligence Lawyer Will Often Win the Case By His Selection of the Most Highly Qualified Experts to Testify On his Client's Behalf.
Most commonly in negligence cases the attorney must call expert witnesses to establish that the defendant's conduct was negligent and that his negligent conduct was the legal cause of the plaintiff's injuries. And it will often be the qualify of the expert testimony that will determine the outcome of the negligence case.
In the cases cited above, attorney Henke engaged some of the very finest experts in the world to testify in his clients' cases. In the last mentioned case, Mr. Henke's experts included Luc Montagnier, the head of France's National AIDS Laboratories, and the discoverer of HIV, Michael Gotlieb, the physician who discovered AIDS, and co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Don Francis, the head of the CDC's first AIDS task force, the epidemiologist who discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease; John Curnutte, the head of the largest and most promising AIDS vaccine research project in the world; Roger Detels, Chairman of the Epidemiology Department at the UCLA School of Health, and senior investigator on the largest and longest running epidemiological study in the world on AIDS patients and the efficacy of AIDS drugs; and a dozen others of the most highly regarded AIDS scientists in the world.
Attorney Henke is a Negligence Lawyer with a National Reputation.
Attorney Henke has a national reputation, his prosecution of these cases having been covered not only in legal journals but in the legitimate national press, from front page articles in the New York Times to front page articles in the Los Angeles Times, in feature and cover magazine articles, in legitimate national television news, e.g., Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News and CNN, and in book chapters. Indeed, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Henke has testified before Congress about his prosecution of 10 of these cases, and his use of punitive damages as a means to punish the defendants and to "send a message," to society of the reprehensibility of their conduct.
If You Were Seriously Injured As the Result of the Negligent or Wrongful Conduct of Another, Contact Negligence Attorney Henke for a Free Consultation.
Attorney Henke provides free consultation to victims of negligent conduct. If you were seriously injured, and know or suspect your injuries were caused by the negligence or wrongful conduct of another, call Attorney Henke, or fill out the easy to submit "Accident Questionnaire." Mr. Henke is pleased to have the opportunity to help you evaluate your case negligence or premises liability case at no charge, and without any obligation whatsoever. You will speak directly to attorney Henke. If you submit the "Accident Questionnaire" Mr. Henke will call you back personally, within 24 hours.
You Have the Right to Inquire About Your Prospective Negligence or Premises Liability Attorney's Qualifications And Should Do So.
If you were injured as the result of another's negligent conduct, then you should want the best lawyer for your case that you can obtain. And any good negligence lawyer should see the logic of your wanting to assure that you will be properly represented in your negligence or premises liability case, and the lawyer should be willing and happy to answer any questions you may have about his or her qualifications.
Attorney Henke affirmatively provides a number of questions below that you may wish to consider asking prospective negligence and premises liability lawyers in determining which lawyer is best for you.
Mr. Henke also provides specific, straightforward answers to each of the questions. For more of Mr. Henke's qualifications, please see Mr. Henke, The Trial Lawyer.
Call Mr. Henke Toll Free, or Fill Out the Easy to Submit Questionnaire, And Mr. Henke will Call You Within 24 Hours, Guaranteed.
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Negligence or Premises LiabilityAttorney Qualification Questions And Answers:
In order to evaluate the qualifications of the negligence attorneys who you would consider to represent you in your negligence or premises liability case, you should consider asking the following questions:
QUESTION:
Is the negligence or premises liability lawyer rated by Martindale and Hubbell? 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:
Has the negligence attorney served as prosecuting counsel in litigation involving substantial injuries, and then obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts?
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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.
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:
Has the negligence or premises liability lawyer been recognized by his peers as an established, superior trial lawyer?
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Attorney 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.
Attorney Henke served for years in the prestigious position of the Editor-in-Chief of LATLA's legal journal, "THE ADVOCATE."
QUESTION:
Has the negligence or premises liability attorney obtained positive recognition in and outside the legal profession?
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Mr. Henke has a national reputation as an effective, successful and determined negligence trial attorney as reflected in scores of newspaper articles about Mr. Henke and his work 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.
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Can the negligence or premises liability lawyer verify that he is an effective legal advocate, by citation to important published appellate victories he has achieved? A negligence or premises liability 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. It is an ability that is not just essential for the negligence attorney on appeals. It is an ability essential to the negligence attorney's effectiveness in meeting all the big and small challenges presented at every stage of negligence and premises liability litigation, e.g., by pretrial motions, which can seriously affect settlement posture of a negligence or premises liability case as well as the respective parties' important advantages or disadvantages at trial. Your negligence or premises liability attorney's willingness to ask the appellate court to immediately reverse a bad pretrial decision that guts the case may also be essential to achieve the quickest and best result in the negligence or premises liability case. Legal advocacy is also a talent essential during trial, as the negligence or premises liability lawyer must be able to effectively argue legal issues, e.g., the admissibility of the defendant's admission of fault or the inadmissibility of prejudicial medical or character evidence, or the permissibility of expert opinion testimony, etc. Then, if you "hit big" at your negligence or premises liability trial, the defendant is almost certain to appeal, and you may then require superior legal advocacy to hold on to your victory.
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Negligence Attorney 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 $120,000,000.00 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.
As another example, when a trial judge applied newly enacted medical negligence 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. This decision also has been cited in numerous subsequent appellate decisions, including, to Henke's delight, for the proposition that "legislation must be interpreted to avoid absurd results."
Attorney Henke has also obtained extraordinary unpublished appellate victories in negligence and strict liability cases, 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 negligence and strict liability "failure to warn" theories 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.
You Deserve the Best Negligence Lawyer for Your Negligence or Premises Liability Case.
The negligence or premises liability lawyer's recognition by Martindale Hubble, the attorney's recognition by his peers, his local and national reputation, his trial successes, and his appellate successes are all matters, among others, perhaps, that you may want to inquire about in selecting the right negligence or premises liability lawyer for your serious injury case.
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