The majority of my clients are first time litigants: It’s their first time retaining a personal injury lawyer; or retaining a lawyer at all It’s their first time suing It’s their first experience with the legal system It’s their first time getting really hurt and needing to do something about…
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Do I have a personal injury case?
Do I have a personal injury case? You be the Judge. Once upon a time there was woman who was walking in a public park. It was winter and cold and icy. In the middle of the park stood a large snow covered hill. There was no visible path up…
Ingredients matter for a successful personal injury case
A well respected personal injury mediator recently compared a successful mediation to baking. It takes great ingredients to bake a great cake. The same as it takes a lot of different pieces of evidence and factors to make for a successful case or mediation. Just as one ingredient cannot make…
Downtown can be difficult for personal injury clients
When most people think about lawyers, they think about fancy offices, fancy suits, and very expensive hourly rates. It can all be very intimidating. When I first started practicing law, I worked in the downtown Toronto core on Bay Street. Bay Street is synonymous with big banks, big finance and…
Ready for Halloween Trick or Treating? Safety tips from a Personal Injury Lawyer
Halloween Trick Or Treating is fun, family friendly and exciting. But when you take a step back and really examine what Halloween Trick or Treating really entails, it would make any parent cringe. Knocking on the doors of strangers? Check. Accepting candies from strangers? Check. Running door to door at…
What NOT TO DO when hiring a personal injury lawyer (Ontario)
Brian Goldfinger has been practising law long enough to have seen some very good practices from personal injury lawyers in Ontario; along with some very bad practices from personal injury lawyers in Ontario. When bad things happen to people; they often turn to Brian Goldfinger to right the ship and…