Personal Injury vs. Criminal Law: Same or Different?

Some people might ask: "What do personal injury law and criminal defense have in common?" The answer: A great deal indeed - and a lot more than you might think. These two practice areas share much in common: They both involve clients who have been deeply upset by a traumatizing event, and they both involve clients who are up against powerful adversaries. Criminal defendants face the power of state prosecutors and police departments seeking to punish them - even jail them - for charges they may not be legally guilty of. The victim of an injury faces powerful insurance companies who do everything they can to deny the victim's needs to be fairly compensated for their injuries. Both of these legal adversaries are very powerful, and both are very persistent in winning their cases.

Relentless Representation

"Relentless" pretty accurately describes our client advocacy, and each of these areas of legal practice requires just that type of attorney: One who is relentless in the pursuit of his clients' interests; one who knows when to be aggressive; and knows when to negotiate. Within the criminal defense specialty of our practice, our firm has handled many different types of criminal defense, including the following:

We know how to locate and exploit the weaknesses in the police and the District Attorney's case. We are relentless in our defense of our clients accused of criminal offenses. Our Principal, attorney William D. Kickham, has defended numerous criminal cases in Massachusetts. He is a former Special Assistant District Attorney for Norfolk County, and as such knows the prosecutorial side of criminal cases: He knows how they are strategized, he knows how they are assigned, and he knows how they are negotiated down to lesser offenses, when that strategy is needed.

Within our personal injury specialty of our practice, we have more than 20 years' experience in investigating, evaluating, and litigating personal injury claims in the following areas. To learn more about any of these types of cases listed here, or more, please contact us.

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