Personal Injury
Our trial lawyer firm has a national reputation for extraordinary accomplishment in personal injury cases.
Our principal lawyer, Robert P. Schuster, has won the largest Wyoming jury verdict in the state’s history for personal injury damages: $17.5 Million. He has obtained what is believed to be the largest personal injury settlement in the history of New Mexico and one of the largest in the United States — in excess of $100 Million.
Mr. Schuster has been recognized as one of the outstanding lawyers in the country by The Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation. He has consistently received the highest possible rating from his fellow lawyers as “AV Preeminent” in Martindale-Hubbell, the national and international encyclopedia of practicing lawyers. He is designated as a “Mountain States Super Lawyer” for Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Robert P. Schuster, P.C., as one of the best law firms in the country for Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation. He is an invited lecturer at national and international business and legal conferences.
The types of personal injury cases have been varied, but the variation demonstrates a basic fact regarding trial lawyers: The essential skills of a trial lawyer do not rest on a single subject or topic; rather, the excellence of a trial lawyer derives from the attorney’s fundamental strategic skills:
- Having the capacity to effectively absorb information and documents and then to determine how they can be used for the strategic benefit of the case.
- Feeling comfortable with combat and confrontation, and not shirking from either.
- Being able to examine witnesses in depositions and in the courtroom rigorously but effectively.
- Being committed to the client’s case and undertaking the representation aggressively and uncompromisingly. The basic hard work of a case — the willingness to spend time with it — is perhaps the most important and least appreciated feature of successful trial lawyering. It is, and needs to be, very hard work.
- Being effective and persuasive one-on-one, in writing, in a courtroom with a judge, and in a courtroom with a jury.
- Having rich strategic skills that are demonstrated by a history of success and accomplishment.
Our firm, with its full team of resources, has achieved preeminent success in many types of personal injury cases, including the following:
- Natural Gas Pipeline Explosions
- Aviation Crashes
- Truck Collisions
- Carbon Monoxide Gassing
- Brain Injury
- Medical Malpractice
- Defective Products
- Industrial and Work Place Accidents