• When interviewing attorneys ask them the following: do you specialize in civil rights or do you also practice other areas of law? How long have you exclusively handled civil rights cases? What is your track record? Do you have an appellate track record? Do you have a strong medical background that can be helpful in a complex medical neglect case?

 

  • Our firm exclusively handles civil rights cases which give us an edge over other attorneys who dabble in civil rights but also practice unrelated areas of law such employment law or bankruptcy. You wouldn’t let your accountant do a medical procedure on you, would you? Likewise, you don’t want to hire a jack-of- all trade attorney who will likely bring in another attorney who actually specializes in civil rights after they retain your case.

 

  • We take pride in exclusively handling civil rights cases and have had several published 9th Circuit court of Appeals decisions in the civil rights arena having favorably changed the law in order to help jail inmates obtain better medical care while in custody.

 

  • The Sehat Law Firm has a proven track record and our commitment to improving patient-inmate care has recently paid dividend with a seminal 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals decision, in the case of Mary Gordon vs. County of Orange, during a treacherous 8 year litigation and after two favorable 9th Circuit Federal Appellate decisions have changed the tides for the betterment of inmate medical care. The case in essence, lowered the standard of proof for deliberate indifference to serious medical conditions and correctional staff can now be held liable objectively for their deliberate indifference. County and municipal jails in all 11 states and territory of the 9th Federal Circuit are now held to this new standard of pretrial detainee medical care.