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Monday, July 30, 2012

What Is A Personal Injury Lawyer?

By Frank Leggors


A Charleston SC personal injury lawyer has many responsibilities in representing his or her clients. These responsibilities include both professional and ethical rules and codes of conduct set forth by the SC bar associations. Once a lawyer has passed his state's bar exam they are legally permitted to file legal complaints, argue cases in the state court, draft legal documents, and offer legal advice to victims of personal injury in South Carolina.

In order to practice personal injury law in the state of South Carolina, the candidate must pass a tough written bar examination and in a lot of cases, an additional ethics exam. These state bar exams do vary from state to state, however, excluding California, most states require the applicant have a four year college degree followed by a law degree from an accredited law school. If and when admitted to the South Carolina state bar, personal injury lawyers in Charleston, SC must remain up-to-date on many legal and non-legal developments in their chosen practice fields by attending and completing a number of required continuing legal education courses aimed to help the lawyers stay abreast of all relevant developments in their chosen fields. The total number of classes each year varies from state to state.

Many Charleston lawyers take different directions with their careers. Once they have been licensed in the state of SC, they can decide which practice areas and cases they want to take. The South Carolina legal ethics does require that if a lawyer is inexperienced, that they attain the appropriate help and guidance to learn more about the issues in order to represent their client effectively. Many lawyers tend to stick to one practice area of SC law in order to gain the knowledge and experience needed to be successful.

Personal injury litigation includes several specialized practice areas that Charleston personal injury lawyers may choose to pursue. South Carolina personal injury litigation can involve all manner of claims including accidents, medical malpractice, car accidents, work place injuries, defective products and more. It is the personal injury lawyer's choice where he or she will devote most of their time and energy learning the laws. If specializing in just one or two categories, they can become very knowledgeable and experienced in categories such as car accidents, trucking accidents, aviation accidents, medical malpractice, etc.

Charleston personal injury attorneys, like all other attorneys, can elect to start their own solo practice, partner up with a medium size firm, or join a large practice as an associate and hopefully one day make partner. Their are benefits to clients when enlisting the help of a small one man shop including the one-on-one attention they will receive. Also, many times their fees are lower which is appealing to many people. In the end, the lawyer must choose what's best for them.




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