Personal injury attorney in Plainfield, NJ.

Yes. Lockwood Injury Law represents clients across every Union County municipality, Plainfield included. We'll come to your home or hospital room in Plainfield for the initial consultation if you can't make it to the Westfield office.

Nothing up front. We work on contingency for personal injury cases — we only get paid if you recover, and our fee comes out of the settlement or verdict. We'll go over the exact percentage in your free consultation. No hourly bills, no retainer, no surprises.

The statute of limitations for most personal injury claims in NJ is two years from the date of the accident. For workers' comp, you have two years from the date of injury or last authorized treatment. There are shorter deadlines for claims against public entities. Call us the week it happens, not the week before the deadline.

We can't answer that in a sentence. It depends on your medical bills, lost wages, future earning capacity, pain and suffering, and the available insurance coverage. In a free consultation we'll review your records, pull the policy limits, and give you a realistic range — not a guess.

Most injury cases settle before trial. We prepare every case as if it is going to trial — that is the only way to settle it well — but ninety percent of ours settle through negotiation. When a case does need to be tried, we try it ourselves.

New Jersey follows modified comparative negligence. As long as you are 50% or less at fault, you can still recover — your award is reduced by your percentage of fault. We hear cases every week where clients thought they had no case because they were partly responsible. Usually they do.

You'll have a direct phone number for the attorney on your case and a direct email. We return calls within one business day, send you copies of every pleading and settlement letter, and sit down for a full case review every two months. If that is not what happens, we are not doing our job.