About the firm
Because a lawyer carrying thirty files can prepare all of them, and a lawyer carrying three hundred cannot. Cukjati Law Firm takes a deliberately limited number of cases so each one gets the attention that produces a result, and so the person you speak to is the person handling your claim.
A great deal of personal injury advertising is bought by firms that run hundreds of files at once. That is a legitimate business, and for a straightforward claim with clear liability it can work perfectly well.
What it cannot do is prepare every case as though it might be tried. At that volume the economics require settling most files quickly, and insurers know exactly which firms those are. The offer reflects it.
This firm carries fewer cases on purpose. The trade is that it turns work away, and says so at the first meeting rather than after signing someone up.
Not an intake desk, not a case manager who calls once a month, and not a different associate each time.
That matters most at the two points where cases are won and lost: the first conversation, where what happened has to be understood properly, and the decision about whether an offer is good enough. Neither is a job for someone reading a file summary.
Most cases settle. That is not an argument against preparing them for trial — it is the reason to.
An insurer values a file partly on the cost of trying it. A case that is visibly ready, with the medicine documented and the experts in place, is priced differently from one the other side expects will fold. The preparation is what produces the settlement, even when the trial never happens.
Personal injury: collisions of every kind, catastrophic injury, premises liability, medical negligence, product failures, work injuries and wrongful death.
The firm also takes referrals from other attorneys and co-counsels on cases that need Texas litigation capacity, on fee terms that comply with Tex. Disciplinary Rule 1.04(f).
Where a matter is better served elsewhere — a different practice area, another jurisdiction, or a firm with the right specialist — you will be told that. Referring a case out is a better outcome than holding one badly.
Nothing. A consultation is free, and it does not commit you to anything.
If you have a case, the fee is a percentage of what is recovered and the firm advances the costs of building it. If there is no recovery, you owe no fee. Get that in writing from any firm you speak to, including this one.
If you do not have a case, you will be told so, and told why.
San Antonio, Texas, practicing principally in Bexar County and across the state.
Yes. That is the reason the firm keeps its caseload small.
Personal injury: motor vehicle collisions, catastrophic injury, premises liability, medical negligence, product failures, work injuries and wrongful death.
Yes, and the firm co-counsels. Fee division follows Tex. Disciplinary Rule 1.04(f), which requires the client’s written consent to the arrangement.
Nothing, and it commits you to nothing.
Automated intake assistant. It does not give legal advice and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship.