{"id":1947,"date":"2016-12-05T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:42:08","slug":"myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/articles\/myth\/","title":{"rendered":"MYTH: Hiring an Attorney Will Just Cost Me Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1948\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance.jpg\" alt=\"HANDSHAKE\" width=\"1280\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance-300x59.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance-768x151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance-1024x201.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Handshake_duisenberg_school_of_finance-700x137.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some people say they don\u2019t want to hire an attorney because the attorney gets a percentage of the total amount collected \u201cwhich will just cost me money I would get to keep if I didn\u2019t hire an attorney.\u201d <strong>WRONG.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think about it \u2013 if this were the case, no one would ever hire an attorney. Instead, attorneys bring value to the case and make your case larger than it would be if you handled it yourself. We know how to prepare and present your claim. We know how to value it properly. And we know how to negotiate with insurance companies and how to file lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance companies won\u2019t take you seriously if you don\u2019t have a lawyer. They know the system. You don\u2019t. They know they can lie to you, take advantage of you, and undervalue your claim. However, if you hire an attorney, you usually will end up with more compensation which means that the attorney pays for themselves, usually several times over.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">If you\u2019re in need of a lawyer, call Nelson Boyd\u00a0at 206-971-7601.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114,162,34,74,26,23,282,38,46,118,75],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-attorney","tag-contingency-fee","tag-deborah-nelson","tag-hiring-an-attorney","tag-insurance","tag-jeff-boyd","tag-myth-monday","tag-nelson-boyd","tag-nelson-boyd-attorneys","tag-nelson-boyd-seattle-attorneys","tag-seattle-attorneys"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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