You need an attorney to protect your rights, to prevent you from making statements that might inadvertently harm your case, and to ensure that you receive the damages to which you are entitled under the law. You need an attorney to make sure that key evidence is timely recorded and preserved. You need an attorney to defend you in a rear-end collision because there are defenses even to rear-end collisions such as the sudden emergency defense or claimed defects in the other driver's car.

You need an attorney because the insurance company will often claim (even if inaccurate) that your injuries preceded the collision, or could not have been caused by the collision given the amount of property damage, or that your treatment for the injuries was too costly or inappropriate. You need an attorney so that you do not resolve your case too early. Far too often, we hear stories about individuals who have settled their cases directly with an insurance carrier before the full extent of their injuries could be known. As a result, the ability to obtain the funds needed for further medical treatment was foreclosed. Some settle for too little, because they did not understand the various types of damages to which they are entitled. Others have inadvertently given away their rights to pursue certain types of claims by signing a broad general release. A family which settles an auto claim may discover that the automobile in which their relative was killed had defects without which the accident may have been survivable; if the family entered into a general release, such a release might bar any claim against the auto manufacturer; it might likewise bar any claim for any injuries that occurred as a result of any medical negligence in connection with any treatment necessitated by the collision.

Why Otway Russo?

You should choose Otway Russo because we understand that personal injuries require personal attention, the highest professional competence and adherence to the highest ethical standards. We will explain and prepare you for each step of the litigation process. To assess our winning track record, please read the biographies and representative case summaries of this web site.

Problem Solving - We are called upon regularly by business clients to assist them in resolving disputes between co-owners, customers, contractors or others with whom they have a working relationship. Our goal is to define the best and most realistic outcome for the client and to achieve it with the smallest expenditure of resources and money while striving to preserve those aspects of the relationship valued by the client. We have had considerable success in this area.

What will it cost me?

Initial consultations are free. We take most personal injury cases on a "contingent" basis, meaning that we recover attorney's fees only if our client makes a recovery; our fee is the customary one-third of the net total recovery by way of settlement or verdict. Our firm advances all costs to obtain medical records, investigative reports, and experts, as needed. At the conclusion of the case, our firm will be reimbursed for the costs it has expended.

Our business clients are billed on an hourly or other basis.