To get client satisfaction, especially from legal firms, is a very difficult task. One of the most well trusted legal firms in Kenya and in Africa that have so far provided satisfaction for their clients is Daly and Figgis. Their main aim is to provide the following to their clients

Competence: The lawyers who represent you should be well experienced and should have vast knowledge on various aspects of law. They should have practiced for a while. As you may know, ‘practice makes perfect’ and in this way the lawyers gain experience. The lawyers should also qualify as Solicitors, Barristers or Attorneys. The lawyers should provide succinct advice, real solutions and thought out best options rather than lengthy legal opinions and voluminous advices.

Commercial outlook to legal problems: Another thing that law firms should do is to understand that clients expect them to do more than just quote the textbook to them. Clients want to know how the lawyers will argue out their cases in court by applying both book knowledge and wisdom. The legal experts should be mindful of the commercial aspects of a transaction and advise the clients accordingly.

Cost effectiveness: Law firms should recognize that clients need to keep the legal costs of a transaction to a minimum. There is sometimes a false perception that the larger older established firms are more expensive than the smaller and/or more recently established firms. This is a wrong perception because legal firms will charge you according to the experience, competence and negotiation skills that are put on the table. If you want a good job done then you may end up paying a little bit more, but you will get the quality deserved for what you have paid for.

Daly and Figgis concentrate on providing the above to their clients. Through their competent lawyers, they bring a wealth of experience that will give you your money’s worth. If the clients are not satisfied, they will work hard to ensure that their clients needs are met. They will not rest until justice is done!

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There have been relatively few legal opinions about litigation between athletic trainers, competitive athletes and sports accidents or injuries. However the courts have recognized that a duty does exist between the parties.

Protecting and ensuring an athlete is safe and healthy is the responsibility of an athletic trainer, which is similar to that of a team physician. In the case of an athletic trainer who is treating an athlete with an injury, several legal duties exist as a result of the athletic trainer/athlete relationship.

There are a number of potential recognized legal duties of a trainer or a team physician. Such responsibilities and actions may include:

* Properly assess the athlete’s condition

* Provide or obtain proper medical treatment

* Provide clearance to participate

*Inform the athlete of the risks of athletic participation given the particular medical condition

Legal Duty

There have also been a number of legal cases that have focused on the duty of the athletic trainer to a student-athlete. Whether a legal duty has been breached is assessed from the athletic trainer’s adherence to accepted sports medicine practice.

This is known as the “reasonable person standard,” because an athletic trainer is expected to act as a reasonable athletic trainer would under the same or similar circumstance. Legal statutes recognize that not all athletic trainers practice in the same settings, with equal access to resources, staff, facilities, or equipment, so the level of reasonable care does change according to specific circumstances.

Since an athletic trainer is a sports medicine professional they are held to the level of care that a reasonable sports medicine professional would be held to in a similar situation. This standard of care is usually established by expert testimony and is based on national athletic training certification boards, standardized training programs, certification programs, and state licensing requirements.

A certified athletic trainer must act with the skill and knowledge that is reasonable for the profession.

Properly assessing and prescribing treatment of an injury is not always a universally accepted method, which is why it is difficult to determine an appropriate legal standard.

Although sports medicine researchers do not universally endorse any specific grading scale, the scales do provide legal guidelines for a reasonable standard of care to be used by athletic trainers. However, data indicates that most athletic trainers do not even use these guidelines when assessing an athletes’ head injuries. From a legal perspective, it is important to note that the athletic trainer’s actions should not be compared with what the average athletic trainer would do in the same or similar circumstance.

Because many practices of a a trainer may be outdated, the law becomes a bit hazy when it comes down to optimal medicinal care for sports injuries. Just because most athletic trainers may evaluate an athletes’ head injuries on a hunch it does not mean that it is legally reasonable to do so.

A recent study showed that almost one third of football players who experience a concussion were held out of play for only 14 minutes. This is an amazing fact given that the grading scales for injuries generally recommend that an athlete who has suffered a minor head injury needs to remain on the sidelines for at least 20 minutes.

Legally it is possible to argue that based on the current scientific knowledge this behavior is not reasonable. If a case of this type went to a jury they may consider this behavior even less reasonable if evidence is presented that 14% of these athletes suffered a Grade 2 concussion according to the proper scale.

All serious sports accidents/injuries should be throughly investigated at the time of the event. If an athlete is injured because of negligence by a trainer or other individual, legal action may be necessary.

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What it is

The TIC: attorney opinion letter is used in particular situations. Occasionally, TIC interests are treated as real estate rather than as securities, and in this situation a TIC: attorney opinion letter can be used.

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