eli5 What makes injury lawyers so common?

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You almost never see commercials or advertisments for other types of lawyers. I’m sure there are tons of different types and specialities. Why do you only see advertisments for injury lawyers?

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Most people in their day to day are either not aware of how many things they could go to court for for a potential big payout, or simply do not bother to do so. But the law is a tricky thing and there’s tons of cases that could be swing in one’s favor, even ridiculous ones, and most companies don’t want to deal with such issues and usually settle out of court if they can’t immediately shut down a claim. So for lawyers, there’s tons of potential work that pays well but they simply have to find the right clients. Most people don’t go to court soas to not have to pay the associated fees, particularly the lawyer’s payment. The usual trick with such cases, is that the lawyer is paid out of the settlement, so to the client it’s often either free or very cheap compared to other cases. They advertise heavily because they want people to be on the lookout for potential claims, and not simply let incidents go by. They want a person’s first thought to be “I’m gonna sue” when something like an accident happens.

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