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This form asks for less than you are probably expecting, and that is deliberate.
It asks your name, how to reach you, roughly when the incident happened, what kind of incident it was, who else was involved, and which county. It does not ask you to describe what happened, and there is nowhere on it to do so.
The reason is a rule about prospective clients. Under Minn. R. Prof. Conduct 1.18, a person who sends a lawyer information about a possible case can become a prospective client, and if what they send could be significantly harmful to them, that lawyer — and every other lawyer in the firm — can be barred from ever acting for anyone on the other side of it. Comment [4] to that rule tells a lawyer to limit what they collect at this stage to what is actually needed to check for conflicts and decide whether to talk. A "tell us what happened" box collects far more than that, from someone who has no way of knowing what it costs them.
So the fields below are the conflicts check and nothing else. What happened is the conversation, and the conversation happens once we know we are able to have it.
If something on this site is wrong, that is the most useful message we get, and it does not belong in a conflicts form. Say so in an email to dmadgett@madgettlaw.com and the source will be re-checked and the page corrected and re-dated. See how we verify the law.
Prefer the telephone, and use it if anything is close to a deadline: Madgett Law, LLC, 612-470-6529. IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Suite 1650, Minneapolis, MN 55402.
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There is no charge to talk with us about your case. This form asks only what we need in order to check for conflicts and decide whether we can speak with you — not the details of what happened. Those come later, if at all, and not through a web form.
Before you send this form — please read.
Do not send us confidential, sensitive, or detailed information here. Send only what is asked for below. We use this form to find out who you are, what happened in general terms, and whether we have a conflict of interest. That is all we need to decide whether we can speak with you.
Submitting this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Madgett Law, LLC has not agreed to represent you and is not your lawyer. We will represent you only if we complete a conflicts check, agree to take your case, and you and the firm sign a written fee agreement.
We may already represent someone on the other side. Madgett Law, LLC represents many clients and may represent, or may in the future represent, a person or company whose interests are adverse to yours — including in the matter you are writing about. Because you have not been asked for and should not send detailed information, submitting this form will not prevent the firm from representing another party in this or a related matter. If you have already spoken with another lawyer about this matter, say so and stop there.
Minnesota law limits the time you have to bring an injury claim. Sending this form does not stop any deadline from running. If a deadline is close, call 612-470-6529 rather than using this form.
Email and web forms are not secure. Do not use this form to send anything you would not want read by someone other than us.
Madgett Law, LLC handles most Minnesota personal injury matters on a contingent fee: the firm's fee is a percentage of what it recovers for you, and if there is no recovery, there is no attorney's fee.
Case costs are separate from the attorney’s fee. Filing fees, medical records, police reports, expert witnesses, and deposition transcripts are case costs. Madgett Law, LLC advances case costs, and repayment of those costs is contingent on a recovery. If there is no recovery, you owe nothing.
Any contingent fee arrangement will be set out in a written agreement signed by you that states the percentage the firm receives on settlement, trial, or appeal; which expenses come out of the recovery; whether those expenses are deducted before or after the fee is calculated; and any expenses you will owe whether or not you win.
Nothing on this page is a fee quote, a fee agreement, or an offer of representation. Fees are set case by case.
If a deadline is close, do not wait on a form. Call Madgett Law, LLC at 612-470-6529.