Maryland Injury Lawyer Phil Santa Maria Answers Your Maryland Personal Injury Law Questions

Welcome to the website of the Santa Maria Law Center. I am Maryland injury lawyer Phil Santa Maria.

I've created this website to give you free information about Maryland personal injury claims resulting from car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, medical malpractice, falls, animal bites and defective products.

I have included discussions of some of the most common accidental injuries, such as neck injuries and brain injuries.

I also describe the Maryland injury law claims process and how Maryland injury law trials are conducted. I have even included tips for deposition witnesses and my list of typical deposition questions in a car accident case.

Phil Santa Maria's Qualifications As A Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer

Before hiring a lawyer, always ask about the lawyer's experience and qualifications. These are my qualifications as an injury lawyer in Maryland.

I graduated in the top 10% of my law school class and was a member of the Editorial Board of our Law Review. I have earned the right to practice before the highest courts in Maryland, the District of Columbia and California. I've also been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. I'm even admitted to practice before the Court of Military Appeals.

During my career, I have handled thousands of Maryland injury law claims. I've handled million dollar Maryland injury law cases and small cases where the recovery was only a few thousand dollars . . . and all size cases in between.

I've been given the highest possible rating for legal skill and ethics by the prestigious Martindale Hubbell Law Directory peer rating system. It's gratifying to know that your peers -- other lawyers and judges -- respect your ability and your ethics.

I've also appeared for many years in Who's Who in American Law which honors about 2 1/2% of American lawyers. Earlier in my career, I was awarded an entry in Outstanding Young Men in America. Unfortunately, I'm no longer eligible for that listing because of the "young" requirement. I've been a Maryland personal injury lawyer for more than 25 years.

I'm a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group of lawyers who have successfully handled million dollar cases. Currently, the Forum includes less than 1% of American lawyers.

I created the website "All-About-Car-Accidents.com," the Internet's most popular source of free consumer information concerning car accidents. (Although I have since sold that site and am no longer responsible for it, it still contains many of my consumer-focused articles.)

And, finally, I am the author of the first lawyer-written self-help book for car accident victims who want to settle their own claims, The Car Accident Claims Kit.

How The Santa Maria Personal Injury Law Center Can Help You

Service And Results!

At Santa Maria Law Center, where we focus on Maryland injury law claims, we have one simple "Golden Rule" -- we treat clients the way we would want to be treated if we were the client trusting an important legal matter to someone else.

As far as I know, we are the only Maryland injury lawyers that offer guarantees to our clients. We want you to hold us to them. We write them into our agreement with you. These are our service GUARANTEES . . .

• We guarantee the quality of our legal services.
• You can be sure that all Maryland injury law legal work that comes from this office will be of the highest caliber. If you find anything that does not meet your needs or expectations, please bring it to our attention. We will correct the situation immediately.
• We guarantee to communicate with you frequently.
• You deserve to be kept current on the progress of your Maryland injury law case. So we will frequently contact you to tell you what has happened since our last report. And if nothing has happened, we tell you that, too. Good communication is the key to a good working relationship with your lawyer (whether it's us or some other lawyer). And we intend to make sure that your relationship with our firm is the best you have ever had...or ever will have.
• We guarantee to return phone calls promptly.
• For a positive, productive lawyer-client relationship, we must communicate openly and freely with each other. If we are not available when you call, we promise to return your phone calls promptly. In addition, we will give you mobile phone numbers you can call to reach us out of the ofice.
• We guarantee to meet all deadlines.

• Few things are as frustrating as deadlines that are not met. A missed deadline can do a lot to undermine a good lawyer-client relationship. What's more, we want you to know that you can trust what we tell you. So we guarantee to complete all promised work on time.
• We guarantee the fee we quoted you.
• No one likes financial surprises. No matter how long your case takes, it will never cost you one penny extra. Once we quote a fee, we stick to it, no matter what. You can depend on it.
• We guarantee you'll always receive the highest level of care and attention.
• No one likes to be thought of as a case number. Every person in our office is here for one purpose: To serve you. If you don't receive the close personal attention you want, nothing else matters. When you are our client, you become part of our family. And we guarantee you will receive the best we offer.

Click here if you want to know even more about my background and interests. And click here to get more information about how I operate my firm. I have also included a list of some of our results in previous cases.

If you have a question for a Maryland injury lawyer that isn't answered here, by all means contact me.