Personal Injury Lawyer: Mediation vs. Trial—Which Is Better?
The first real fork in the road of a personal injury case often isn’t liability or medical treatment, it’s whether to settle in mediation or push to trial. By the time clients sit across my desk to make this choice, they have lived with pain, appointments, lost wages, and insurance calls for months, sometimes years. The decision carries weight. It affects finances, stress levels, privacy, and how quickly life can move forward again. There isn’t a one-size answer. There are