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The personal injury attorneys at the Walston
Legal Group have successfully litigated hundreds
of injury and accident cases, including cases
of assaults and batteries!
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We will aggressively litigate your case, through
trial if necessary, until we get you the best
result possible.
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Our lawyers can help you recover money for damage
to your property, injuries to your body, and
wrongful death.
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Whether you were injured in a car, in a business,
on the street, or somewhere else, no accident
is too big or too small.
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Our lawyers have never lost a jury trial!
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We will represent you for FREE until you recover.
If you don’t win, we don’t charge!
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Attorney
Representation in San Francisco, California since
1989
SAN
FRANCISCO INJURY ATTORNEY
Assault
and Battery Injuries
 "Intentional
Tort" cases are legal disputes when one
person suffers harm that was intentionally caused
by someone else. The most common intentional
tort cases involves one person seeking compensation
because he or she was intentionally and physically
harmed by someone else. This is known as a battery,
and in order to present a successful case for
battery, one must show that another person made
contact with him with the intent of causing
harm or offense. If you have injured by someone
else, contact the San Francisco personal injury
attorneys at the Walston Legal Group.
Intentional
Tort Process
An
intentional tort case is a court proceeding
that seeks to find someone legally responsible
for paying for the injuries of the person he
or she intentionally injured. This may be brought
against a private person, or, when
your claim is against the police, against
the individual officers involved in the assault.
There are several stages of these proceedings,
and it is important to have excellent San Francisco
personal injury attorneys representing you.
The
First Step in a Personal Injury Case
First,
a lawsuit is filed. A formal personal injury
case begins when a private individual (the plaintiff)
files complaint against another person, business,
corporation, or government agency (the defendant)
alleging that the defendant caused the injury.
Early
Settlement in Personal Injury
Next,
the parties may consider early settlement. In
reality, most disputes over fault for an injury
are resolved through informal early settlement,
usually among those personally involved in the
dispute, their insurers, and personal injury
attorneys representing both sides. A settlement
commonly takes the form of negotiation, followed
by a written agreement in which both sides forgo
any further action (such as a lawsuit), choosing
instead to resolve the matter through payment
of an agreeable amount of money.
Personal
Injury Pretrial Litigation
If
the case is not resolved by early settlement,
it goes through pretrial litigation. This involves
“discovery” (the process of each
party asserting their rights to relevant information
and evidence in possession of the other party),
and “motions practice” (the process
of parties making arguments to the court about
how the case should proceed). This phase will
generally last approximately six months to a
year, and may be longer.
Taking
Your Personal Injury Case to Trial
After
discovery and motions (and if the case still
has not settled by now), the case will go to
“trial.” This is the time when the
parties will present the facts of their case
to a judge and jury, who will decide whether
plaintiff is entitled to the compensation he
or she seeks.
Steps
You Can Take Now
There
are several steps immediate steps you should
take immediately:
writing down as much as you can about the
circumstances of the assault and battery- making
notes of conversations that you have with
people involved in the assault and battery
- preserving
any evidence you have concerning the circumstances
of the assault and battery
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locating any witnesses to the events of the
assault and battery
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GET A SAN FRANCISCO PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY!
When
you're injured, you need all the help you
can get, and you need it as soon as possible.
If you do not assert your rights within the
time set by law, you will lose your ability
to assert them at all. Your time to assert
your rights is even shorter when
your claim is against the police. Unfortunately,
that means that some injury victims pick the
first personal injury attorney they find,
rather than making an informed choice. It's
important to educate yourself and find the
right fit for you and your case.
Practice
Areas:
Criminal
law: including San
Francisco criminal attorney representation
for Drunk
Driving, DUI, DWI,
White Collar Crimes, Drug
Crimes, Computer
Crimes, Identity
Theft. Violent
Crimes, Weapons Charge
Injuries
& Accidents: including San
Francisco attorney representation for Cars,
Trucks & Bike accidents, Wrongful
Death, Assault & Battery, Premises
Liability, Animal
Attacks, Medical
Malpractice, Dangerous
Products
Civil
Rights:
including attorney representation for
Constitutional Law, Police
Misconduct, Discrimination
Litigation
Defense: including San Francisco
attorney representation for Insurance
Defense,
Personal Injury, Premises
Liability, and Medical
Malpractice
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