In Mississippi, nursing home and elder abuse attorneys are personal injury professionals who specialize in cases where a nursing home, medical facility, one of their staff members, or an in-home caregiver is accused of neglecting duties that result in the mental and/or physical suffering of an elderly person. This could include inadequate mobility assistance that results in a fall or desertion that results in death. These attorneys also use their legal expertise to prove mental, physical, and/or financial abuse of the elderly.

Knowledge of Mississippi’s laws, statutes, regulations and decisions regarding the care of the elderly and the obligations due to them by all involved in caring for them makes such attorneys indispensable in cases that require more in-depth legal assistance than is available from state sponsored legal services programs. Many of these attorneys have agreement with state legal services programs to provide legal assistance at reduced rates to elderly persons who are referred through those agencies.

The primary responsibility of these nursing home or elder abuse attorneys is to give their clients full access to the legal rights granted them by state and federal laws. It is the goal of these nursing home and elder abuse attorneys to prove claims that the negligent behavior of someone who owed a greater standard of care to an elderly person resulted in preventable suffering or death and to therefore win a fair and full settlement on the behalf of the client. That settlement should cover all damages, including medical bills, pain and suffering, and burial expenses for such neglected individuals and their families by way of negotiation or trial.

To effectively perform their duties, these attorneys work with state agencies that protect and care for the welfare of the elderly and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in criminal aspects of negligence cases.

It is standard practice in the state of Mississippi for attorneys servicing the elderly to advertise free consultations. This is permissible as long as these attorneys have followed the advertisement rules outlined by Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1(b) and (c), which disallow advertisements that create unjustified, false, or misleading expectations. Further, Professional Conduct Rule 7.2 (c) requires that all advertisements disclose the town or city in which advertising lawyers are located or there must be an included reference to further information available form the Mississippi State Bar. These rules fully apply to Internet and e-mail communication.

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