Why Most Medical Malpractice Victims Never Recover a Dime - Part 14

"It's so frustrating" - and how to find a lawyer on the Internet

Being a malpractice victim and looking for a malpractice lawyer in Newfoundland and Labrador - it's so frustrating!  It's frustrating because there are so few sources of reliable information out there to help consumers find the right lawyer.  Consumer frustration at trying to find good reliable information is the reason I wrote this book. 

Nowadays, consumers often don't stop their research at the Yellow Pages or by asking a friend.  They "Google" the internet.  And when consumers do that, they get frustrated all over again.

Because when you put in a search term like "Newfoundland and Labrador Injury Lawyer" you get lots of lawyer referral sites that are spending millions of dollars to get good search engine placement, you get lots of random law firm sites that don't even have an office in our province, but you don't get search results that return websites of local law firms with good reliable information on personal injury issues.  What you need is information that can really help you make what may be one of the most important decisions in your life - choosing a malpractice lawyer to help you with an injury claim that could affect the rest of your life.

The frustration caused by lack of good information is why I totally revamped our website.  Our aim is to provide injured consumers with an easy to locate web resource to help them to answer the questions that keep them up at night.  How do I find the right lawyer for my case?  Should I talk to the doctor or hospital about what I think was malpractice or sign any papers?  Am I making a terrible mistake by not contacting an experienced malpractice lawyer?

With the valuable free information you can get from this book and my website, I aim to put the consumer on an even playing field with the doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies.  Armed with this information, if you think you need a lawyer, the next step of hiring a lawyer is up to you.  I've given you the tools to make the right choice.

The internet has emerged as an indispensible tool in the injured consumer's quest to find a great lawyer.  But to get the most value from this revolutionary tool, consumers need to know how to recognize sites that are likely to lead them to a great lawyer who is perfect for their case.  Many sites are not what they appear to be.

Search engines such as Google use organic search terms.  So a search term such as "Newfoundland injury lawyer" yields many pages of hits.  If you're like me, you don't have time to view more than the first two or three pages.  Among those pages you will see two basic categories of lawyer finder websites.  They are "directory sites" and "referral sites", which are explained further on my website.  A point about these sites is that they guarantee nothing about the qualifications of the lawyers to whom the consumer is directed or referred, and tell the consumer little about them except that these lawyers want the consumer's business.

The other type of website is a site put up and maintained by an individual law firm.  Your search for "Newfoundland injury lawyer" will probably return only 2 or 3 hits for law firms with offices in Newfoundland and Labrador which claim to be experienced in injury law.  A good test to use for judging law firm sites is:  Does this website provide me with good useful information about my type of problem?  If a law firm provides information about your problem in a useful and interesting way, instead of just talking about how great the law firm and its lawyers are, then this is a good indicator that you may be on the way to finding a great lawyer who is the right lawyer for your case.