Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly Announce Recognition

Guy W. Crabtree

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly is pleased to announce the recent recognition firm partner Guy W. Crabtree has received from our peers and the business community. 

Mr. Crabtree was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 in the field of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. Mr. Crabtree has been included in Best Lawyers each year since 2005. 

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. 

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC provides innovative and effective legal representation to injured individuals as trial lawyers in personal injury and wrongful death cases involving automobile accidents and medical malpractice. They are also trial lawyers who represent families and provide legal expertise to individuals and companies in commercial and business disputes, and to property owners whose property has been contaminated by toxic chemicals in their groundwater.  

Focus Should Be On Health Care Safety

We understand that it is difficult for anyone to wrap their head around the issue of errors and health care. Americans have a justifiably high opinion of doctors, nurses and other care providers. The vast majority are dedicated professionals that do tremendous good for society and save many lives.

But to err is human, and it has become clear that the big business of health and nursing home care results in too many preventable injuries. According to a recent study by doctors at Johns Hopkins, death due to medical error ranks 3rd (250,00 per year) behind heart disease and cancer. That is an alarming statistic. So read our March newsletter not as an indictment of the fine people who work in health care today, but rather a defense of every American’s right to justice and accountability when preventable mistakes occur. Patients and families who are harmed by preventable medical errors should not be denied their right to seek legal redress for what has happened to them. 

Guy W. Crabtree is a partner with Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC, in Durham, NC.

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly Announce Recognitions

Tracy K. Lischer

Charles F. Carpenter

Guy W. Crabtree

Durham law firm Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC is honored by the recent recognition our lawyers have received from our peers and the business community. 

Guy W. Crabtree and Tracy K. Lischer were recently selected for inclusion on the 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers list; firm Partner Mr. Crabtree as a Top Rated Personal Injury – Plaintiff Lawyer, and Ms. Lischer, Of Counsel, as a Plaintiff Lawyer in Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice. They have been included in Super Lawyers each year since 2009. 

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.  The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.  

In addition, Charles F. Carpenter and Guy W. Crabtree both were again rated AV Preeminent from Martindale-Hubbell. An AV Preeminent Rating is the highest rating available from Martindale-Hubbell, the leading independent attorney rating organization and such a rating signifies that the lawyer has reached the heights of professional excellence, and is recognized for the highest levels of legal ability and integrity. 

CCC in the Community

Durham County Bar Association President Guy Crabtree, Judge Doretta Walker and Lydia Walker at DCBA’s Fall Picnic at Forest Hills Park.

Photo credit: Bob Friedman, Publisher, Attorney at Law Magazine

Lindsey Spain and Guy Crabtree presented a check for $ $2,845 to Kristin Pearson, the Director of Development for TROSA who was the beneficiary of the Durham County Bar Association’s 5K in September.

Photo credit: Bob Friedman, Publisher, Attorney at Law Magazine

Be Careful Because You Never Know Who’s Looking

It only took one unfortunate occurrence for us to realize that we had to caution our clients about the impact social media can have on their cases. Defense attorneys had gone onto a client’s Facebook page and found some damaging photographs and comments that negatively impacted his case and which they used during our client’s deposition. Since then we have been very careful to discuss the use of social media with our new clients. This is what we advise our clients regarding the use of social media during the life of their case:

YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE USED AGAINST YOU TO NEGATIVELY IMPACT YOUR CASE. INSURANCE COMPANIES AND DEFENSE COUNSEL WILL SEARCH FOR YOU ON THE WEB. SO BE VERY CAREFUL AND READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. 

UNTIL YOUR CASE IS COMPLETELY RESOLVED: 

1. DO NOT accept future friend requests from any person you do not personally know.  Insurance companies, their attorneys and private investigators who work for them may try to gain access to your social media web sites in order to obtain information that can be used to defeat or damage your case.
2. YOU MUST tell your attorneys and support personnel at Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly about your past or a current use of Facebook, LinkedIn, Caring Bridge, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, or any other social media websites. 
3. Tell us the names of any and all social media websites, blogs, or other online media to which you regularly post or update.
4. If you use Facebook, LinkedIn, Caring Bridge, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, or any other social media, you should IMMEDIATELY reset your profiles to the highest possible privacy settings.
5. DO NOT post anything about your claim, your case, or your injuries on any social media web site or blog. 
6. DO NOT post anything that you would not want a judge or juror in your case to see.
7. DO NOT delete information about your case or your injuries that you already have posted as this can be discovered—but do not make any further similar postings. 
8. If you have posted something about your claim, your injuries, or the incident that caused your injuries, YOU MUST tell us about it at once.

In the future you must BE VERY CAREFUL not to place any information about your claim, your injuries, or your lawsuit on the web in any manner because that information is subject to being discovered, and the information might be used to damage your case.

Guy W. Crabtree is a partner with Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC, in Durham, NC.

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly Announce Recognition

Guy W. Crabtree

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC is pleased to announce the recent recognition firm partner Guy W. Crabtree has received from our peers and the business community.

Mr. Crabtree has been chosen as a member of the prestigious 2017 Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. Mr. Crabtree has been included in Best Lawyers each year since 2005

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition.

Crabtree, Carpenter & Connolly, PLLC provides innovative and effective legal representation to injured individuals as trial lawyers in personal injury and wrongful death cases involving automobile accidents and medical malpractice. They are also trial lawyers who represent families and provide legal expertise to individuals and companies in commercial and business disputes, and to property owners whose property has been contaminated by toxic chemicals in their groundwater.