Our attorneys prosecute personal injury and wrongful death cases on behalf of people injured and the families of those killed. If you have been the victim of an incident or accident and you sustained injuries – physical or emotional – or if your family member was grievously injured or killed and you are trying to figure out where to turn for legal help with their injury or death case, we invite you to read on.

Very Long History of Success

Our law firm was founded by Attorney Steven Schwartz more than forty years ago. Our law firm has been seeking justice for our clients since Gerald Ford was President. In the many, many years we have been in legal practice, we have recovered many, many millions of dollars in compensation for people and families injured due to the negligence of others.

Where We Handle Personal Injury & Death Cases

Our expert personal injury lawyers accept cases for representation in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. We cover Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
We maintain our headquarters in Dover, Delaware, and we have satellite offices in Center City Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware, Dagsboro, Delaware, Bethany Beach, Delaware, Salisbury, Maryland, and
Baltimore, Maryland.

Outside the Mid-Atlantic region, our attorneys are available for major cases involving catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. If our attorneys are not licensed to practice in your jurisdiction, we maintain close working relationships with attorneys outside our service area so that we can associate with “local counsel”.

Types of Injury / Death Cases that We Handle

The cases we handle often result from car accidents, motorcycle accidents, commercial truck and bus accidents, bicycle accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, dog bites, and other types of incidents.

We Work Well with Others

Many of our cases involve referrals and co-counsel relationships with other attorneys. We have the financial resources and experience to bring complex catastrophic injury and death cases through trial and appeal. In cases where counsel refers the client to us, we share our fees as permitted by the applicable state ethics rules. In cases where we co-counsel with an outside attorney to bring the case along through trial and appeal, we typically enter an arrangement to share costs, share the workload and split the fee proportionately. These arrangements are agreed upon ahead of time and approved by the clients. To learn more about how we work with outside attorneys, please contact us.

Hire Us Directly

In other cases, folks who have been severely injured – or families of people who have been killed – contact us directly to inquire about representation. If you or a family member have been victimized by the negligence of another person or company, you do not need a referral from an outside attorney to hire us for your case. If you complete the form on this page or call our office at 855-847-8437, and ask for our Client Services Team, we can complete an intake and gather all the information needed for one of our personal injury trial lawyers to evaluate your case or claim and discuss your legal rights with you.

Attorneys’ Fees

In personal injury and wrongful death cases, we typically work on what is referred to as a contingency fee. Under a contingency fee, the client pays a fee at the end of the case. The fee is typically a percentage of the settlement or award. Our contingency fee will typically range from 1/3 of the settlement to 2/5 of the settlement. The contingency fee will be discussed with you before we start representing you. The fee agreement will be in writing, and it will require your signature.

Costs of Prosecution

In personal injury and wrongful death cases, it can cost thousands of dollars to bring a case to trial. On the lower end of the spectrum, we have been fortunate to settle car accident personal injury cases with only several hundred dollars of case expenses. Conversely, we have handled complex medical malpractice cases and complex commercial trucking cases where the costs of expert witnesses, filing fees, medical records, depositions, etc., are truly in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don’t worry-you don’t need to be a millionaire to be able to afford to prosecute a complex personal injury or wrongful death case. If we take your case, we will spend the money necessary to prosecute the case fully and properly. Case expenses that we advance then will be repaid from your settlement or award.

Free Consultation

In personal injury and wrongful death cases, our attorneys do not charge a fee for the initial consultation.
This is standard at most personal injury law firms in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland. This arrangement permits you to speak with multiple attorneys at different law firms before you decide which attorney you should hire. The choice of an attorney is highly personal. There are 1,000,001 factors that go into determining whether you will be happy with your personal injury lawyer. If you interview a personal injury or wrongful death lawyer at an initial consultation and you are not 100% certain this is the lawyer you should hire, then you should get a free consultation with another attorney. (Do this before you sign the fee agreement, hiring the first attorney).
If you are searching for a skilled personal injury or wrongful death trial lawyer to assist you with your case or claim, please contact us for a free consultation and case review. The phone call will be free – there will be no charge to you to find out if you have a case that we can help you to pursue. And if we accept your case, we will do so under a Contingency Fee Agreement that requires no up-front cash expense from you.