The Best Attorney in Memphis

If you are looking for the best attorney in Memphis, or the winningest lawyer in Shelby County, Tennessee, or the finest injury attorney in the Tipton County area, you will not find it.

That is because it is not ethical in Tennessee for an attorney to hold themselves out as the "Best attorney" while others may say so, like SuperLawyers or a Readers Choice poll, they cannot say they are the best lawyer.

But ratings are helpful.

Martindale Hubbell highest rated lawyers are called "AV-Preeimnent"

Avvo has a rating system, and anything above a 9.0 is very good.

Google has ratings of lawyers. Often with stars and comments.

Facebook often has ratings of accident attorneys.

Lawyers.com features profiles and reviews of injury lawyers.

Likewise, Yelp rates lawyers, law firms and related services.

Readers Choice awards are presented to attorneys who are considered by readers to be the best in their field.

Only lawyers with million dollar results are allowed to become life members in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

And, only attorneys with Multi Million Dollar results are allowed in the exclusive Multi Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

As mentioned above, Super Lawyers is a well-known lawyer rating program that uses peer reviews to help rate an attorney.

Memphis Magazine features the face of certain kinds of law, such as catastrophic injury and wrongful death.

Finally, there are various Top 100 clubs of trial lawyers.

These highly-rated lawyer review services may help you find an injury attorney of your accident that can help seek fair compensation in or out of court.

You Do Not Have, For You Do Not Ask

You Do Not Have, For You Do Not Ask

In a legal case involving a work-related injury, I had a letter from the other attorney stating the “maximum” that they would ever pay. The only way that would be increased is in the unlikely event that one of the two treating doctors changed their final rating.

Again, it is rare for a workers compensation doctor to change his rating, but asked both of them asked anyway. One of them did not change it, but the other did. The increased rating led to a settlement well in excess of the “maximum” that was named earlier.

How often would people work with us if we kindly but firmly asked for what we would like? The Bible reminds us “we have not for we ask not.”

This principle also applies to our marriages and other relationships.

In the church or workplace, how many times are we doing things just because “They have always been done that way.”

For instance, what a husband and a wife each feel is “romantic” virtually never match up. That is why it is so important to let your spouse know what you need and not have them just guess.

The best illustration is an old story about a couple coming home late from their 50th anniversary party. Fifty years of raising kids, keeping house and making snacks. He offers to make sandwiches. He lovingly gives her the one made with the heelpiece from the end of the loaf.

She explodes, “For fifty long years you have given me the heel piece of bread and I am just sick of it!”

He looks saddened, and softly says, “But that has always been my favorite piece.”

Communicate, and never give up! We have not for we ask not.

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