We at Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton get many of our clients from the surrounding rural communities. This includes the areas of northeast North Carolina (NC) from Roanoke Rapids and Rocky Mount east to Camden and Currituck counties. In Virginia (VA) , we also get clients from South Hill and Emporia and west through the counties in southeastern Virginia (VA) from Petersburg to Suffolk, Virginia (VA). We also get lots of calls on accidents on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (VA). These areas include the Counties of Isle of Wight, Southampton, Accomack, Northampton, York, Gloucester, Matthews, Charles City, New Kent, James City, Greensville, Surry, Prince George, Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Halifax and King William.
Why do injured people in rural communities come to a Norfolk, Virginia (VA) or Virginia Beach (VA) , Virginia lawyer for their automobile crash cases? There are obviously many answers. In part, the surrounding rural communities are used to coming to Hampton Roads for services, including doctors, lawyers and retailers. However, there is often a deep seated mistrust of the local lawyer in smaller communities. What ends up happening is that the insurance companies like Allstate, State Farm and Nationwide are regularly hiring those local lawyers to defend against people’s claims for compensation for injuries. Understandably, people in rural communities do not want to go to a lawyer who regularly represents the insurance companies to handle a family member’s significant damages from a car wreck. The country lawyers for the most part are not able to specialize in personal injury cases or to only take the plaintiff or claimant’s side in car wreck cases. Economically they may have to be willing to work for the insurers in order to stay busy. So, one of the main reasons that people in rural counties come to our law firm for help in a auto accident is that they are sure that we never represent insurance companies. Our slogan “All We Do Is Injury Law” says a lot. It describes that this is our exclusive area of practice. It also lets the customer know that we have only their interests at heart, because we only represent plaintiffs like them and never represent the defendants, insurers or at-fault corporations.
If you go to our website at www.hsinjurylaw.com, you will see that our lawyers carry licenses for North Carolina (NC) and routinely practice in rural communities throughout southeastern Virginia (VA) and northeast North Carolina (NC). Our real case results at our website show what we as personal injury lawyers for injured people have done in smaller towns and less populated counties throughout the area. We also keep a toll-free line, which is (800) 752-0042 to allow folks to contact us without charge from wherever they are. We want to represent folks in car and truck accidents in small towns and rural counties. We will give you a big city attorney, but with the courtesy and personal care of a neighbor.
Rick Shapiro has practiced personal injury law for over 30 years in Virginia, North Carolina, and throughout the Southeastern United States. He is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (ABA Accredited) and has litigated injury cases throughout the eastern United States, including wrongful death, trucking, faulty products, railroad, and medical negligence claims. During his three-decade career, Shapiro has won client appeals before the VA Supreme Court, VA Court of Appeals, NC Supreme Court, SC Supreme Court, WV Supreme Court, TN Supreme Court, and three times before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, underscoring Shapiro’s trial achievements. In addition, he and his law firm have won settlements/verdicts in excess of $100 million. His success in and out of the courtroom is a big reason why he was named 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” in railroad law in U.S. News & World Report's Best Lawyers publication (Norfolk, VA area), and he has been named a “Best Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” by those peer-reviewed organizations for multiple years. Rick was also named a “Leader in the Law, Class of 2022” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly (total of 33 statewide honorees consisting of lawyers and judges across Virginia). And in September 2023, Rick was selected as a recipient of the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) 2023 President’s Award. Although many nominations were submitted from across the country, Rick was just one of eight attorneys chosen by the prestigious National Board which certifies civil trial attorneys across the U.S. Rick was also recently named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly 2024 Virginia’s Go To Lawyers Medical Malpractice. The attorneys awarded this honor are nominated by their colleagues and chosen by a panel from the publication.
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