Does the firm perform community service?
Most of the firm’s clients are disabled or suffering from terminal medical conditions caused by exposure to toxic chemicals. Few law firms are able or willing to litigate toxic injury cases, because it is quite difficult and costly to prove such claims. The firm provides this litigation service to its severely injured clients, most of whom would otherwise be unrepresented. The firm also assists its clients in securing necessary medical care, by establishing that treatment is covered under clients’ medical insurance policies and group plans. Many of the firm’s clients need organ transplants. Health insurers and HMOs often refuse to authorize transplants, claiming they aren’t medically necessary or are excluded from coverage as experimental or investigational procedures. The firm has persuaded a number of insurers that an organ transplant for a terminally ill client is covered as an emergency service, and that most organ transplants are neither experimental nor investigational. When nece
