Why Choose Us 1 – Hyper Focused Practice Area
Chinook Law’s legal practice focuses exclusively within the area of personal injury litigation. Specifically, within the area of financial compensation for injuries and other damages caused by motor vehicle accidents.
For a law firm, this high degree of focus to the exclusion of other practice areas allows Chinook Law to tailor and optimize internal processes and procedures with the goal of maximizing legal outcomes of our clients while simultaneously providing a streamlined workflow for our legal staff.
Thanks to our focused experience in this area of law, we can connect you with the appropriate healthcare and treatment providers who can provide you with the care you need to recover from your injuries, while properly documenting the nature and extent of your injuries for the purpose of your ongoing claim.
Why Choose Us 2 – Maximize Your Compensation
Insurance companies are like any other business in the sense that they are focused primarily on their profits. To this end, they deploy their vast resources, highly trained claims adjusters and an army of lawyers to resolve claims for as little an amount as possible to protect their bottom line.
On the other side of the claim is the injured party, who had been hurt physically, mentally, and financially, and who had most likely never been in a serious accident before. Under these harsh circumstances, they are suddenly placed into a position where they must deal with the insurance company from a disadvantageous position.
Under this kind of adversarial system, you will need an advocate who will fight for your rights just to level the playing field. According research conducted by the Insurance Research Council, injured parties who were represented by a lawyer on average received 3.5X times the settlement amount when compared to injured parties who settled their claims without a lawyer.
Why Choose Us 3 – Strict Professional Ethics
Code of Conduct:
In Alberta, the conduct of all lawyers are governed by the Law Society of Alberta’s Code of Conduct, which explicitly outlines the Lawyer’s professional obligation to practice the law with honour and integrity, as well as as the lawyer’s overall relationship with clients among other duties.
Chinook Law strives to go above and beyond these guidelines in the delivery of legal services to our clients so that our clients can be assured that we have their best interests in mind at all times.
Our promises to you:
Why Choose Us 4 – Eased Financial Pressure
Those who had been injured in a car accident will face many financial pressures caused by a simultaneous reduction in income and increased healthcare obligations. These financial pressures are especially serious given the current cost of living in Canada.
Although Chinook Law may not be able to cure you physically, we can help ease your financial burdens in the following ways during the course of your claim, so that you may focus on your recovery:
Why Choose Us 5 – Consultations are Always Free
Regardless of whether you are a new client seeking information or an existing client requiring assistance, Chinook Law will never charge you for consultations when you need legal advice related to your car accident. In this way, you will never have to worry about contacting your us when you run into problems.
Typically, Alberta lawyers and law firms charge their clients on an hourly fee basis of between $200.00 to $1,000.00+ per hour with a minimum billing unit of 6 minutes. In other words, every time the client contacts their legal representative for help, this time is being tracked and the client is being billed at increments of 6 minutes. Under this kind of fee structure, the client can incur significant legal fees before their case is moved forward in any meaningful way.
In contrast, Chinook Law charges legal fees on a contingency basis. Under this kind of fee structure, our legal fees will not incur until we have obtained a positive result for our clients, and the amount of the fee is intrinsically tied to our performance.
Why Choose Us 6 – Limited Case Load
Chinook Law understands that the needs of every client is different and that each case requires a tailored approach in advocacy to maximize the legal outcomes for that client. To this end, our firm’s case volume will always be capped to ensure that every client’s case receives the focus, care and attention it deserves.
With the above purpose in mind, Chinook Law is selective when considering potential clients to accept. By refusing to accept frivolous cases, we maintain a strong reputation within the industry, which ultimately further contributes to positive legal outcomes for our clients.
Chinook Law’s efforts to limit our case load allows us more time to proactively follow up with our clients and relevant third parties regularly and preemptively resolve any issues before these issues can develop into more serious problems.
Why Choose Us 7 – Data Driven Process
Chinook Law meticulously tracks every aspect of our legal practice with the goal of optimizing our decision making process and workflow to maximize outcomes for our clients in the following ways:
Simultaneously, Chinook Law consistently conducts in-depth legal research on the latest case law for the purpose of:
Why Choose Us 8 – Digital First Policy
Chinook Law maintains a ‘Digital First’ policy in every aspect of our operations, allowing us to leverage the inherently scalable nature of technology to optimize workflow for our legal staff, which in turn helps us improve access to justice for our clients.
Chinook Law adopts enterprise grade project management software previously reserved for coordinating large scale software development to automate the tracking of absolute and relative legal procedural deadlines, balance/prioritize tasks based on workflow load, and records requisition among other traditionally manual and time inefficient undertakings. This high degree of automation on repetitive tasks allows us to asymptotically improve the quality of our discretionary decisions.
Chinook Law also utilizes cutting edge cloud based SaaS in the areas of legal case management, digital document automation, storage management, project collaboration, communications and digital security for the purpose of operating the law firm of the future.