Birmingham Personal Injury Lawyers - Alabama

Drake Law Firm

419 2nd Avenue SW
Cullman, Alabama 35055
USA

256-734-7602

www.drakelawal.com

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At Drake Law Firm, our practice is limited solely to personal injury and wrongful death cases. Whether it is a car accident with an 18-wheeler, a work accident, or an injury caused by a defective product, we have the necessary resources, experts and attorneys to properly and professionally handle your claim through the legal process. Additionally, our legal team is well-equipped and experienced at handling severe and catastrophic injuries such as paralysis, traumatic brain injury, amputations and burns.

Owner and founder, Whit Drake, was voted as one of the Top Birmingham Personal Lawyers in the March 2012 edition of the Birmingham Magazine.

The practice area of Drake Law Firm covers the entire State of Alabama. While our main office is in Birmingham, the majority of our cases are in the outlying counties such as Calhoun, Cullman, Morgan, Blount, Madison, Chilton, etc. We represent clients from Huntsville to Dothan, from Anniston to Tuscaloosa.

The firm was founded by Whit Drake in 1998 after he worked for another personal injury law firm in Birmingham for nine years. Mr. Drake tried his first case at age 25 and obtained a $700,000 punitive damage jury verdict against Northrup King Company for a farmer who had bought contaminated feed for his dairy cattle. His first verdict for more than a million dollars came just two years later in a wrongful death case. Since that time, he has obtained numerous verdicts and settlements in excess of a million dollars, including obtaining record verdicts in several counties. He has also written multiple articles for legal publications and spoken extensively at legal seminars. Drake has successively handled cases in West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina. He has also been honored as one of the top Birmingham personal injury attorneys by the Birmingham Magazine in its 2012 issue.

Our injury lawyers place an emphasis on severe and catastrophic injuries, and have a wide range of experts and resources to establish the extent of these injuries in Alabama Courts. Whether you simply need a car accident lawyer, or require representation for a life-changing personal injury, our staff is ready to assist.

Required by the Bar: No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services to be performed by other lawyers.

Year this Office was Established: 2009

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Third-Party Work Injury Claims; Texting Accident Collisions; 18 Wheeler Crashes; Nursing Home Falls

Practice Areas Description

Drake Law Firm has extensive experience in the following areas:

- Car Accidents

Thousands of people are injured or killed in car accidents every year. In Alabama alone, statistics show that every year more than 1,000 people are catastrophically injured or killed. Drake Law Firm handles a wide-variety of auto accident cases, including head-on collisions, drunk-driver cases, rear-enders, etc. Our clients sustain a broad range of injuries in these accidents such as spinal injury, brain trauma, closed head injury, internal injury ,etc.

- Truck Accidents

The Department of Transportation, by and through D.O.T. regulations, treats tractor-trailers as a completely different and specialized category of commercial vehicles. Their regulations require a variety of safety compliance measures, including but not limited to: daily log books, pre-trip safety inspection, limitations on work hours, weight and load restrictions, etc. Visit Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for more information. Whether it is driver fatigue, an overweight load or inadequate brake maintenance, most truck accidents can be attributed to an overall failure on the part of the truck company to comply with federal regulations.

- Personal Injury

“Personal injury” is the common phrase used to describe injury to the body caused by the negligence of a third party. Our practice is limited solely to personal injury claims. Personal injury can arise in many different situations such as: Car Accidents; Truck Accidents; Nursing Home Negligence; Construction Accidents; Premises Liability; Product Liability; Industrial/Work Accidents; Medical Negligence. Alabama law allows compensation for personal injury damages such as lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, mental anguish, vocational disability, permanent injury, etc. Our job is to properly document your injuries and damages for the insurance company, or if necessary, for the jury. We work directly with your treating physicians to establish the nature and extent of your injuries. We do all the “leg work” so you can recover from your injuries and focus on getting better.

- Work Accidents

“Is Workers Comp All There Is?”
We get this question all the time. While the majority of job injury recoveries are limited to benefits under Alabama’s Worker’s Compensation Act, we frequently pursue what are known as “third-party cases”; Simply stated, parties other than your employer. This could be a manufacturer of the product that caused your injury, a parent company, a supervisory co-employee, sub-contractor, etc.

- Wrongful Death

Alabama law, much like the other 49 states, allows family members to bring an action for wrongful death against a negligent wrong-doer for causing the death of their loved one. However, Alabama’s wrongful death statute is different in that it allows punitive damages to be awarded against the defendant. While other states focus on the “value” of the lost life, Alabama law focuses on the “enormity of the wrong” committed by the defendant. The purpose of the Alabama Wrongful Death Statute is to punish the wrong-doer and deter others similarly situated from repeating the same conduct. An experienced wrongful death lawyer can make all the difference in your case. Our legal team will hire all the necessary experts and conduct a thorough investigation into the death of your loved one to determine how it happened and more importantly, how it could have been prevented.