FAQ

I don’t take every case that comes through the door.   Unfortunately, I get a lot of cases that I’m unable to take for various reasons. One is that there may be nobody to collect against. I do these cases on a contingency fee, which means that I don’t get paid from my clients upfront, […]

Clients can remain confidential and that’s very important that’s a very point option for many people.   They want to come forward but they don’t will want their names out there and so what we do is we file the cases under what’s called a pseudonym which is you hear John Doe or Jane Doe.

My firm is different than other firms in several ways.   One of the ways is I have my own investigative unit, my in-house investigators who are comprised of all former law enforcement individuals. These guys have a lot of experience doing criminal investigations. They now work for me in the private sector and they’re

There are often red flag that indicate that somebody might be a sexual predator that parents can be on the lookout for.   So, I actually have an app that I’ve designed it’s a free app the parents can download called Safe Parent on my website that basically has these red flags in a quiz

Herman law is a national law firm representing victims of sexual abuse across the country.   And we do that because we think it’s important that victims across the United States have access to lawyers, who handle these kinds of cases. And so, I go into jurisdictions with my lawyers and jurisdictions literally across the

Of all the cases I think that sex abuse cases are particularly important to have a lawyer who knows his way around these kinds of cases. There are many facets many levels and when you start to unpack all the different layers of what goes into these cases, I don’t think it’s fair to a

A civil case will generally take from beginning to end about a year. Now that means that we filed we’ve gotten a case, we’ve investigate it, we filed it and we’re moving into trial. There are many occasions along that process where there might be opportunities to settle a case where there’s mediations and where

We handle a lot of Boy Scout cases.   Unfortunately for decades there were a lot of Boy Scouts who were being abused by troop leaders, and what we know is that the Boy Scouts were keeping confidential files, we call the proverbial files on Boy Scout leaders and these files were created when a

If you were raped or sexually assaulted in a school, the school may be responsible and it’s like any other institutional case we’re going to look at number one whether or not the school was negligent and what that means is where there red flags was the school on notice that the perpetrator, whether it’s