Legal Disclaimer

1. Attorney advertising

This website was built to promote the legal services of The Nagel Law Firm, LLC. Everything on it — the practice-area pages, the biography, the figures, the video — is written to persuade as well as to inform, and it should be read the way you would read any advertisement.

Daniel Nagel is the attorney responsible for the content of this website. The firm’s principal office is in Jonesboro, Georgia.

2. This website is not legal advice, and the law may have changed

The information here is general. It is not legal advice, it is not tailored to anyone’s circumstances, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with a lawyer who knows the facts of your case. Do not act on anything you read here, and do not decide against acting, without getting advice about your own situation.

Every page on this site that states Georgia law — the practice-area pages, the landing pages we run advertising to, and the city pages under Areas Served, which name statutes by their section numbers — carries this notice:

It applies to the rest of the site as well. The General Assembly amends statutes and the courts reinterpret them, so a rule that was right when a page was written can be wrong by the time you read it. The firm does not monitor this website against changes in the law, and does not promise to update it. That includes the blog: each article carries the date it was published, articles are not revisited afterwards, and an older one may describe law that has since moved.

Where a page names a statute by its section number, the number tells you where to look. It does not tell you that the section still reads the way this site describes it, or that no court has since read it differently. Check the current law before you rely on any of it, and check how it applies to your own facts — which is the part no website can do for you. Rules also differ from state to state; nothing here should be assumed to describe the law anywhere other than Georgia.

3. Contacting us does not create an attorney–client relationship

Sending a message through the contact form, emailing the address published on this site, or telephoning the firm does not make you a client. You become a client only when the firm has checked for conflicts of interest, agreed to take your matter, and signed a written engagement agreement with you. Until all three have happened, the firm is not acting for you and is not watching any deadline on your behalf.

This matters for confidentiality. Information you send before there is an engagement is generally not protected by the attorney–client privilege, and the firm may already act for someone whose interests are opposed to yours. Send us enough to let us know what your matter is about and how to reach you — and no more — until we have told you in writing that we represent you.

An unanswered message is not a declined case, and a declined case is not an opinion about your claim. If you do not hear back from the firm, please assume nothing and consult another lawyer promptly.

4. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome

Case results depend on facts that are unique to each matter: how the injury happened, how badly someone was hurt, what the evidence shows, what insurance exists, which court hears it, and who sits on the jury. A recovery obtained for one client tells you nothing reliable about what any other case is worth.

The figures shown on the home page are summaries of the firm’s past work, and each has a specific meaning. More than $50 million recovered and more than 1,000 cases handled are cumulative totals across every client and every kind of case, from the start of Daniel Nagel’s practice to the date at the top of this page. 15+ years is the combined experience of the firm’s attorneys and staff, not the experience of any one person and not the age of the firm, which was founded in 2021. 98% client satisfaction is the share of the firm’s reviewers on Google who gave it five stars, as of the date at the top of this page; it is drawn from public reviews, not from a survey the firm conducted. None of these is a prediction, a promise, or a guarantee of any result in your matter, and none is adjusted for the individual facts of the cases behind it. Most cases recover far less than the average the totals imply; some recover nothing.

5. Testimonials, reviews and endorsements

Where this site quotes a client, the words are that person’s own description of their own experience. One client’s experience is not a prediction of yours, and a quotation is not an endorsement by any court or bar association. No testimonial on this site was given in exchange for anything of value. Each one is a review the client published themselves, about this firm, and is reproduced in their words; where a quotation is shortened, an ellipsis shows where.

6. Awards, ratings and recognitions

Any award, listing or rating mentioned on this site was granted by the organisation named, using that organisation’s own selection criteria. No award is an endorsement by a court or a bar association, and no award, rating or listing predicts the outcome of any case. Selection criteria for each recognition are available from the organisation that granted it.

7. Time limits

Legal claims are subject to deadlines. Missing one can end a claim permanently, whatever its merits, and some deadlines — particularly where a government body or a public entity is involved — arrive much sooner than people expect. The deadline that applies to you depends on the kind of claim, who the defendant is, and when the injury was or should have been discovered.

This website does not tell you what your deadline is, and no page on it should be read as saying you still have time. If you think you may have a claim, speak to a lawyer now rather than later.

8. Where the firm is licensed to practise

Daniel Nagel is admitted to practise in the State of Georgia — in all State and Superior Courts of Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia — and in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. He is not admitted in any other state. The firm does not seek to represent anyone in a jurisdiction where its attorneys are not licensed, and nothing on this site is an offer to practise law in such a jurisdiction.

9. Fees and case expenses

This site says that the firm handles personal injury matters on a contingency basis — no attorney’s fee unless there is a recovery. The notice above, which also appears at the foot of every page, is the one Georgia requires wherever that is said. Attorney’s fees and case expenses (such as filing fees, records, and expert witnesses) are separate things. At this firm, no case expense is owed by the client unless there is a recovery. The contingency percentage, and how fees and expenses are calculated and deducted when there is a recovery, are set out in the firm’s written fee agreement, not here.

Read the fee agreement before you sign it, and ask about anything in it you do not understand. A free consultation is free; it is not a commitment by you or by the firm.

10. Photographs and depictions

Photographs on this site are used to illustrate the kinds of matters the firm handles. None of them depicts a real client, a real client’s property, or a real case, no one shown in them is identified as a client, and every image is owned by the firm or licensed for this use. The exceptions are the photographs of Daniel Nagel himself, which are his.

11. Links and embedded content

This site links to the firm’s social media profiles and embeds a video player from YouTube on the home page. The firm does not control those services and is not responsible for their content. A link is not an endorsement. What the embedded player means for your privacy is described in the privacy policy.

12. How to reach us

If anything on this page is unclear, ask us. It is a better use of a phone call than guessing.

The Nagel Law Firm, LLC
Jonesboro, GA
844-GA-WRECK · daniel@gawreck.com

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