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Keefe & Griffiths, P.C. limits its law practice to representing injured workers in Missouri and Illinois workers' compensation cases. As such, it is one of the few (if not only) law firms limiting its practice to such cases.
For other legal needs such as divorce, criminal, traffic, wills, estates, or the many other legal problems people face, Keefe & Griffiths, P.C. refers its client's to experts in those fields.
Similarly, Keefe & Griffiths, P.C. receives thousands of referrals of workers' compensation clients from other law firms.
Since its founding in 1950 by Jack Randall, the firm has represented over 20,000 injured employees in workers' compensation cases in Missouri and Illinois and has recovered more than two hundred and twenty million dollars for its clients.
The firm has recovered benefits for injured workers against such companies as General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, McDonald Douglas/Boeing, The States of Illinois and Missouri, Granite City Steel, McCarthy Brothers, American Steel, UPS, Doe Run, and hundreds of other employers, large and small.
Successful claims have been made against every large workers' compensation insurance company including Missouri Employers' Mutual, Liberty Mutual, AETNA, Travelers, Fireman's Fund, CNA, CIGNA, and a host of others.
Our attorneys have written and been published on workers' compensation topics, spoken at seminars attended by lawyers and judges, been sought out for advice by other attorneys in the field, been called to testify as experts on workers' compensation matters, been quoted in legal publications concerning court decisions and been interviewed on television.
One or more lawyers of the firm are members of the American Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, The Lawyers Association, The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and The American Trial Lawyers Association.
FEES
All fees are contingent. If client and attorney collect by trial or settlement, the attorney keeps a percentage of the recovery as a fee.
In Missouri, the fee is usually 25% of the recovery. In Illinois, the fee is usually 20% of the recovery. In both states, attorney fees are governed by statute and must be approved by either the Administrative Law Judge or Arbitrator.
At Keefe & Griffiths, P.C., clients are not required to pay a retainer nor are they asked to advance the costs of litigation except in the most unusual circumstances.
If the case is lost or results in no recovery, the client is not responsible to reimburse the costs of litigation that were paid by the firm. The contingent fee arrangement makes attorney representation possible for clients who cannot afford expensive retainers and hourly fees. It also gives the injured worker a fighting chance against wealthy insurance companies and corporations who have nearly unlimited resources to hire attorneys and expensive experts.
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