Attorney to Attorney

Many of our cases are referred by other attorneys. Through years of experience, we have become familiar with the many reasons, both legal and practical, that compel attorneys to refer cases. We are not only accomplished litigators with the skill, experience, and tenacity required to win complex cases, but we are experienced in taking referred cases and working them up for trial or arbitration.

We invite association, as it is our belief that because a local attorney knows the local witness pool, examination of lay witnesses is best handled by the referring attorney. We prefer to focus on the cross examination of defendant’s and experts.

If you have a personal injury case and you need to refer it or engage co-counsel, please contact us at 800-245-ATTY (2889) toll free.

Gentamicin Information for Attorneys

This information is provided for attorneys who represent or who are intending to represent plaintiffs with gentamicin poisoning. We are providing this information for the purpose of informing other lawyers about Keith Douglass’ experience with certain technical aspects of gentamicin ototoxicity cases. We are not giving legal advice to the general public.

As explained more fully below, we will associate with attorneys representing gentamicin victims in all fifty states who may not be familiar with the medical aspects of gentamicin poisoning or with the specific defenses asserted by healthcare providers and their insurers in these claims. We have formerly, or are currently associated with firms in California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington.

As the attorney profile of Keith Douglass details, his life before law school consisted of fifteen years involvement in medical research and clinical laboratory management. He was admitted to practice law in Washington in 1984 and became progressively involved in plaintiff’s medical malpractice claims. In the late 1990s, he represented a young man who received gentamicin for twenty-eight days and suffered severe bilateral hearing loss. That case was successfully settled just prior to trial. During the course of that representation, Keith Douglass was impressed by the complexity of the medical issues surrounding gentamicin-induced ototoxicity, and by the incredible and devastating challenges gentamicin poisoning victims endure. Since that time, he has continued to represent gentamicin ototoxicity plaintiffs.

Because there appears to be little CLE or seminar material related to the legal aspects of gentamicin poisoning, the following information is included in this website with the hope of providing some insight to the practitioner who is looking at these cases for the first time. More information can be found by clicking on Gentamicin Poisoning.

Please click on an area of interest below:

• Gentamicin ototoxicity cases are almost always professional malpractice cases, not Product Liability Cases
• Many physician and nurse experts used for screening don’t recognize potentially good plaintiff gentamicin cases
• Defendants may include not only the prescribing physicians, but hospitals, pharmacists, home health agencies, and nurses
• Common standard of care violations related to administering gentamicin
• Your plaintiff seems fine sitting across your desk. What are the damages?
• The defendants’ and defense expert depositions - know your medicine
• Verdicts and settlements in gentamicin cases
• Association of counsel