Personal Injury

Accidents & Personal Injury

• Construction Site Injuries
• Jones Act
• Petrochemical Accidents
• Slip & Fall
• Sports Injuries

Car Accident

• Auto Accident
• Whiplash

Dangerous Property

Mass Accidents

• Airplanes
• Buildings
• Mass Transit - Bus, Train, Subway
• Ships & Boats

Medical Malpractice

• Anesthesia Malpractice
• Birth Injuries and Defects
• Cosmetic Surgery
• Elder and Nursing Home Abuse
• Emergency Room Errors
• Lasik Eye Surgery
• Medication Malpractice
• Nursing Home Negligence
• Optometry Malpractice
• Prescription/Drug Malpractice
• Psychiatric Malpractice
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Surgical Errors
• Wrong Diagnosis or Misdiagnosis

Motorcycle Accident

Product Liability

• Design Defects
• Manufacturing Defects

Serious/Catastrophic Injuries

• Amputation
• Birth Injury
• Burn Injury
• Head/Brain Injury
• Paralysis

Toxic Tort

• Chemicals & Cosmetics
• Dangerous Drugs & Products
• Hazardous Waste
• Medical Products & Devices
• Mesothelioma
• Radiation & Electromagnetic Energy

Truck Accident

Wrongful Death

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Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wash. D.C., Florida and Kentucky

The motto at our Virginia-based personal injury law firm is "all we do is injury law" and our Virginia personal injury lawyers stay true to that motto. All of the VA personal injury lawyers at our law firm focus exclusively on helping personal injury victims who were seriously hurt in car accidents, truck wrecks, motorcycle crashes, or were hit by a vehicle in a pedestrian/crosswalk accident. Our injury firm also handles medical malpractice, brain injury, paralysis, electric shock, wrongful death actions, and bus, airplane and railroad/FELA injury cases as well. We have offices in Virginia and North Carolina (NC), and this includes 3 NC licensed attorneys, and we will come to you if you need representation in an injury case.

Our firm was founded in 1985 by an injured railroad worker, who then attended law school himself and he became the founding attorney of our firm. Our injury law firm has expanded to representation in all areas of personal injury law including accidental injuries, disease and wrongful death cases arising in Virginia, the Carolinas, or throughout the eastern United States.

• Two of our injury lawyers were named in "The Best Lawyers in America" (2012).
• Two of our injury lawyers with our firm were named Virginia "Super Lawyers" (2012).
• Our law firm has the highest rating for lawyers of "A V" from Martindale Hubbell Lawyer Rating Service.
• Our firm was the first Virginia injury firm accepted into Primerus, a lawyer group requiring peer review admission.
• Our injury law firm was named as a "Best Law Firm" in Virginia personal injury law (Norfolk) by U.S. News (2012).
• Richard N. Shapiro is board certified in civil trial advocacy.
• Our firm provides charitable services to a wide variety of charities including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Fallen Brother Fund, Red Cross, and other organizations.

1. Our firm, along with co-counsel, obtained a $46 million jury verdict for a gas station worker who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury after a train accident. At the time this verdict was rendered, it was the largest traumatic brain injury verdict in Virginia history. With interest, the total award was $60 million.
2. Richard N. Shapiro obtained an $8.6 million jury verdict for a railroad worker who lost his life after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Mr. Shapiro's client was exposed to diesel exhaust fumes, radioactive scrap, and other toxic carcinogens while working for the railroad. Rick devoted more than four years to this case in order to get some semblance of justice for his client and the client's beneficiary and the case was appealed.
3. Randy Appleton, as co-counsel, secured a $3.5 settlement for a 5-year-old child whose father was wrongfully killed in a Virginia truck accident.
4. Jim Lewis obtained a $2.3 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case involving a child who suffered shoulder dystocia due to a nurse-midwife's negligence.

All staff participate in the various parts of our administration.

(757) 460-3428

Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Attorneys work evenings and weekends and as necessary depending upon trial schedules, hearing schedules and similar. We will talk to a client whenever we need to.

We will make ourselves available at night or on weekends on an emergency or after-hours basis depending upon the emergency nature of what is required.

Yes

We have the ability to speak Spanish and communicate with those who may not speak well in English.

We only handle cases on a contingency fee and there are no up-front fees and only a fee if we recover for the client, but our contingency fee depends on type of case.

Not applicable

Yes, we always provide free initial consultation and our fee agreements are basic and not full of legalese.

All of our retainer agreements are contingency fees for personal injury cases, meaning no upfront fees and an attorney fee only if we recover for you. The fee will vary depending upon the type of case and this is discussed with a potential client so there are no misunderstandings. Please consult with our lawyers for any questions in this regard. We have a "No Fee if No Recovery" pledge right on our firm website, and we list numerous reasons our clients choose us as well.