No Scripts. No Runaround. Here's Exactly How We Work.
When you work with Shulman Rogers, you talk directly with the attorneys handling your case, not a call center or a rotating cast of assistants. You get one team from your first call through trial, and you pay nothing upfront.
If you’ve never hired a personal injury attorney before, the whole process can feel like a mystery. What actually happens at the first meeting? Who’s going to work on your case? How long will this take, and what will it cost you? Those are all fair questions, and we’d rather just answer them than make you guess. Here’s exactly what happens, step by step.
Your Free Consultation is A Real Conversation
When you call Shulman Rogers, you won’t get someone reading off a checklist. You’ll talk with someone who can actually evaluate what happened to you.
Our initial consultations usually run 30 minutes or longer, because a serious injury deserves more than a quick phone screen. Tell us what happened, and we’ll ask questions, listen to the details, and dig into the actual facts of your situation.
There’s no charge for this call, and no obligation to move forward.
An Honest Assessment
Once we understand your situation, we’ll tell you what we think, plainly. That means the strengths of your case, the risks, and the parts we’re still uncertain about.
If we believe you have a strong case, we’ll explain why and walk you through how we’d approach it. If we don’t think the case is viable, we’ll tell you that directly and explain our reasoning. We’d rather have a hard conversation up front than let you walk into a disappointment later.
That’s a deliberate choice on our part, not just a courtesy. We take on fewer cases than some firms so we can put real time and attention into the ones we do accept. Honest intake is where that starts.
We Take Your Case
If we decide to work together, you get the attorneys you already met. Not a junior associate assigned after the fact, and not a case quietly handed off to another firm.
A lot of firms advertise heavily for serious injury cases and then refer them out. Shulman Rogers is often the firm those cases come to. When we take your case, the people who evaluated it are the people who work it, from intake through resolution or trial.
That team includes:
- Your lead attorney, who knows your case and is directly accessible to you
- Paralegals who’ve worked personal injury cases for decades and stay involved from the first call through the final resolution
- The full resources of a 110-attorney firm, including litigation support, expert networks, and the ability to advance all case costs without pushing you toward a settlement that isn’t right for you
Investigation & Building Your Case
Before any negotiation starts, we build your case. We document your injuries thoroughly, including medical records, imaging, treating physician statements, and retained expert opinions when the case calls for them. We look at the full scope of your damages: past and future medical costs, lost wages, lost earning capacity, long-term care needs, and how a serious injury has changed your day-to-day life. We don’t leave damages on the table.
Negotiation & Preparation
Most serious personal injury cases resolve before trial. We negotiate from a position insurance companies and defense counsel take seriously, because they know we’re willing and able to try a case when that’s what it takes. Our trial record is part of every negotiation we walk into.
We will never pressure you to accept an offer we don’t believe is fair. Every settlement decision is yours, made with our honest read on the offer, the risks of continuing, and the realistic range of outcomes.
Trial, When That's the Right Path for You
When a case needs to go to trial to get a genuinely fair result, we try it. Our attorneys have done so in state and federal courts across the country, including a $6.6 million Federal Tort Claims Act verdict and a $2.1 million FTCA verdict, both won at trial rather than negotiated under pressure.
Trial experience isn’t a fallback for us. It’s a core part of this practice, and it’s a big reason we get the results we do at the negotiating table too.
Direct Access, Real Communication
You’ll have direct access to your attorney and paralegal throughout your case. You’ll hear from us when there are meaningful developments, and you’ll never be left wondering who has your file or what’s happening with it.
Our paralegals aren’t administrative support. They’ve worked serious injury cases for decades, know the courts and the process inside and out, and are genuinely invested in how your case turns out. You’ll know their names, and they’ll know yours.
What It Costs You
Nothing upfront, and nothing unless we win. We advance all case costs, including expert witness fees, filing costs, medical record retrieval, accident reconstruction, and deposition expenses, everything it takes to build and litigate your case. If we don’t recover for you, you owe us nothing.
Our fee is a contingency percentage of what we recover, and we’ll walk you through exactly what that means before you sign anything. No surprises.
Ready to Get Started?
Evidence has a shelf life, and missing a deadline is usually fatal to a claim no matter how strong the underlying case is. For standard personal injury claims in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia, the statute of limitations is generally three years, but that timeline shifts depending on who’s being sued, the type of injury, and other factors specific to your situation. Don’t assume you have more time than you do.
The sooner you reach out after an injury, the more options you have. Call us. Your first consultation is free.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. The information on this page is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Shulman Rogers is licensed to practice law in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia. National representation is available for select matter types.