Hey veterans, Travis Studdard, veterans disability attorney here.
I wanted to talk to you today about free consultations or what happens when you call a VA disability
attorney on your claim.
If you're watching this, you're probably getting to that point whether you're wondering if
you should hire a VA disability attorney, but you may be a little bit nervous about
making that initial contact because you're not sure what happens next, or whether it's
going to cost you money right from the get go.
I want to go over that a little bit with you and tell you that at our firm, we're glad
to review your claim free of charge to see if we can be of help to you or not.
Again, that is free of charge.
There's no cost up front, there's no charge on an hourly basis for us to review your claim
because we want to help.
We want to see if we can be of value to you and your claim.
If we can't help or if we're not going to be able to add anything to that process, then
we'll tell you that right up front.
We're not going to charge you for giving us a call or reaching out to us or sending us
an email.
You know, we don't like telling veterans that we can't help, we wish we could help everybody
but of course that's simply not possible.
You know, we're trying to figure out each claim on an individual basis whether we can
make a difference in that claim or not.
First, you're going to contact us.
You're going to do that through email or on our website, through our get help feature
or our chat function.
You can also pick up the phone and give us a call if you'd like to do that as well.
In that initial contact, we will tell you what information we need from you.
Usually what we'll do if possible, we'll email you a basic questionnaire to give us some
information about your military service, your disabilities, where you currently stand with
the VA, that sort of thing.
We'll also need key documents from you.
A ratings decision, a statement of case, supplemental statement of case, BVA decision, BVA remand,
whatever you have that's gone on in your case so far.
After that, we'll look at those things and have some follow up questions sort of to fill
in the gaps on what we need to know.
Some cases are complex enough that we need to request an entire claims file from VA to
get a full picture of what's happened in your claim.
Once we get all of that information, we're going to spend some time analyzing the issues
in your particular case.
After we do all of that, at that point, we'll be able to tell you if we can help or not.
Up to that point in the process, you're under no obligation to us.
If you say, "You know what, I just don't want to hire you at this time," then great.
We'll wish you the best of luck and that'll be that.
We're not going to send you a bill or anything along those lines, because again, we want
to help if we can and if not, then you know, we'll help another veteran that does need
our help.
But you know, this process allows both sides to decide if we want to work together.
You get to know us a little bit better, we get to know you and your claim in particular.
If we both decide that we want to work together, then at that point in time, we will sign paperwork
that will make us your attorney.
We'll send that into the VA.
Up until we sign those papers, you're again, no obligation, no fee.
This is not a high-pressure sales tactic.
Quite the opposite really.
We don't take every case.
Our firm is selective and we unfortunately have to tell veterans many times that you
know, it's either not a good fit or there's nothing to do in that particular claim, or
you know, we're at our max capacity at the moment.
This whole process of evaluating your claim can take a few days or even longer depending
on you know, C file request and that sort of thing.
But again, it provides us both an opportunity to get to know each other, decide if we want
to work together without any commitment on your part.
Again, no reason not to, there's no risk.
Go ahead, reach out to us.
We'd be happy to hear from you, or another VA disability attorney that you would like
to work with.
I'm sure their process is probably somewhat similar to ours.
Hope you enjoyed this, give it a thumbs up and check out our other videos on VA disability
issues that you may be facing.
Thanks for watching again.