Useless Law firm screwing over genuine claimants

Personal Opinion Piece:

Well readers.... I have just been and sat in at an interview with one of the
most useless law firms I have met in the 12 years I have been doing this,
they will be listed on the Blacklist when I publish it.

The advice that was given was unreasonable and left the client nowhere
other than to try to defend their claim at conciliation.... apparently their
lawyer can't or doesn't appear at conciliation hearings... yet by worksafe
vics standards the conciliation process is just as important as the hearing
portion yet its not treated as such by the lawyers.... why not?

So it seems that to get your entitlements these days and on the previso
you can actually retain a lawyer to represent you you may have a chance
of gaining your entitlements but I ask is this a breach of our rights and
procedural fairness? because if they wont represent the smaller client....
who does?

The claim enquired about was a really simple claim to initiate and I felt
he wasn't really interested...no offers of help were given to the client other
than to make a call to workcover assist and as we all know they are far
from impartial so maybe it was just that he couldn't make enough money
from the claim ? I dont know ?

I definetly wouldn't see this firm again for a workcover claim because
if they arent interested in the little guys... then they are NOT in it for their
clients, it's all about the money!

It was a very disappointing experience as I do like to believe in the
old sayingthat justice will prevail but for most injured workers I meet and
speak to they would just throw their hands up in the air and scream
"Ive had enough" which is exactly what the system wants them to do!

Sooooooooooo I will be writing to Mr Bailleau and others trying to resolve this
issue and I hope we can and will be able to assure all injured workers that our
god given rights are protected and acted upon by all areas of the workcover
systems because this behaviour is detrimental and oppressive to all those
who use it and it just not good enough !

We have rights that are covered by the Accident Compensation Act
and the Workplace Relations Act that are not being enforced and in
some instances just ignored by all areas of the workplace injury systems.

Why are they able to pick and choose what they will or wont cover ?

Its time they listened and ensured that our rights to use this system is not
used against us when it suits worksafe, the insurers or certain law firms....:)


Note: This one has been added to the Lawyers Blacklist which by the
way is growing quickly and should be ready for publication this year.