New York City Personal Injury Lawyers,
Reibman & Weiner

Reibman & Weiner is a New York City personal injury law firm.
People ask what personal injury means and what a New York City personal injury lawyer does?  A personal injury attorney helps people who become injured as the result of a preventable incident caused by someone or something else, most often an accident of some sort.   For example, we have clients who were injured by careless drivers, medical malpractice, slippery substances left on floors in public buildings or stores, construction site accidents, dangerously defective drugs and consumer products, or by false arrest or police brutality.

All clients coming to our New York City office meet with one of our experienced attorneys.  We listen to what happened to you and ask detailed questions to make sure we understand the facts.  We can then answer your questions about what kind of lawsuit we think applies to your situation and the procedure involved.

During the first visit to our New York City office, the new client will hire the law firm of Reibman & Weiner to work for them.  Hiring a lawyer or law firm is referred to as a retainer or retaining the firm.  We are retained when the new client signs a standard retainer agreement naming the law firm of Reibman & Weiner as their lawyers.    We don’t charge a legal fee unless we take on your case and recover money for you.  That is the usual contingency fee arrangement that almost all New York City personal injury lawyers have with their clients.  Sometimes the newspapers and radio commentators criticize this arrangement.  What those commentators don’t say is that the insurance companies who defend personal injury lawsuits pay their teams of lawyers hundreds of dollars per hour.  If you could afford to pay a lawyer the same amount, then you probably would not have to sue to recover your lost income and the cost of your medical care after an injury.  The contingency fee is what allows ordinary people to assert their constitutional rights to have a jury decide the facts of their case and an appropriate amount of money to be awarded.

A successful personal injury lawsuit requires a monetary investment to prosecute the case.  Personal injury lawyers rather than the client usually pay those expenses as the case progresses.  The law firm expects those expenses to be reimbursed when the case is won and money is recovered.  The necessary expenses include Court fees, expert witness fees, costs to obtain copies of medical records, and fees paid to stenographers for recording deposition testimony.  Other expenses bring the actual cost, before legal fees, of a typical lawsuit to approximately $2,000.00.  It is the practice of Reibman & Weiner to pay those costs without any contribution from the client.  Once a case is settled and money collected, the litigation expenses incurred by Reibman & Weiner is first deducted from the settlement amount and then the one-third fee is calculated from the remaining amount. 

Sometimes people ask if the one-third fee agreement is unfair to the client.  Some law firms who defend large corporations that we bring lawsuits against have lawyers who charge over $500.00 per hour when defending a personal injury lawsuit.  Those are expensive lawyers with years of experience and expertise in trying to make you lose your case.  Our job is to win your case.  When the time and expertise of the lawyers at Reibman & Weiner is considered, it is a very fair deal to hire an experienced team and not have to pay anything unless there is a successful outcome.  The personal injury lawyers at Reibman & Weiner have more than 50 years combined experience in pursuing justice for injured people.  Our efforts have recovered millions of dollars for our personal injury clients.

Call NYC personal injury Law Firm Reibman & Weiner today for a free consultation.  We are here to help you.  Call us first.  Don’t settle for less..

NYC Personal Injury Lawyers, Reibman & Weiner will fight for your case.