Your Son Walked Into a Motel in Birmingham. He Didn’t Walk Out. Here’s Where the Law Meets That.
You are reading this in the hours or days after someone you love was shot and killed in a Birmingham motel. Maybe a brother. Maybe a son. Maybe the youngest person in your family, a twenty-year-old who still had Christmas at your house. Maybe the phone call woke you. Maybe the police already came to your door. Maybe the next hours were the coroner, the evidence techs, the hospital, the funeral home, and now a search engine, at two in the morning, looking for the one thing nobody has been able to give you yet: a straight answer about whether the law will hold somebody responsible for the place where he died.
We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello has spent more than twenty-seven years in courtrooms including federal court, building cases against property owners, security companies, and corporations that turned a blind eye to danger they could see. Lupe Peña is a former insurance-defense attorney who spent years on the other side of the table, in the rooms where claims like yours are priced, delayed, and denied — and who now uses that knowledge for families on your side of the door. This page is written for the family, not for a search engine. The next several thousand words are the answer to the question you actually typed.
A motel shooting is not, in the law’s eyes, just a homicide. It is the end of a chain of decisions made by the people who owned, operated, staffed, and secured the building — decisions about which doors locked and which didn’t, how dark the parking lot got at midnight, who was on the desk, whether the cameras worked, and whether the prior crime reports at that exact address were ever read by anybody with the authority to do something about them. Alabama is one of the hardest states in the country to win any injury case in, and it is one of the strangest in how it values a life that has been taken. That is exactly why this page is here — to walk you through, in plain language, what the law actually does, what it does not do, and what we do at this desk the day a family calls us.
We work on contingency — you pay nothing unless we win your case. The first call is free. The 24/7 hotline is 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911). If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was shot in a Birmingham motel, that is the number to call.
Wrongful death is the civil claim the family brings for the support, presence, and life taken from them. Survival is the claim the estate brings for what the victim personally endured in the hours between injury and death. They are different doors. We open both.
The Law in Alabama: Why This State Is Hard, and Why This Case Is Still Winnable
Alabama is not a friendly state for an injured person. It is one of only four or five “pure contributory negligence” jurisdictions left in the country. That means this: if a jury decides that the person you lost was even one percent at fault for what happened to him — if he was in the wrong place, if he made a bad choice, if he shouldn’t have been there — your entire case can be barred. Zero recovery. Not reduced. Barred. This is the single most important thing for an Alabama family to understand about a wrongful-death or premises case, and it is the first thing the defense lawyer will try to do. The defense will search for anything — anything at all — to pin a percentage of fault on the victim, because in Alabama one percent is enough.
The legal response is to take that single hard fact and build the entire case around three counter-moves: prove the operator’s foreseeability of the crime so the duty exists; prove the operator’s prior knowledge of the danger so the duty was not theoretical; and prove the operator’s failure to act in a way that ordinary care required. None of that changes Alabama’s contributory-negligence rule, but it places the operator’s breach in the foreground and the victim’s conduct in the proper context — which is exactly what Alabama’s appellate courts have told trial courts to do. The Alabama Supreme Court has made clear in cases like Ridgeview Apartments, Inc. v. Curry, 678 So. 2d 158 (Ala. 1996), and the long line of negligent-security decisions since, that the adequacy of security at a premises is a question for the jury when reasonable minds can differ, and that the operator’s knowledge of prior similar incidents is the cornerstone of what a jury is allowed to infer about foreseeability. If the operator knew, or should have known, that violent crime was a real risk at this property, and the operator did not act, the case is for the jury — not for an early dismissal.
Alabama’s wrongful-death statute — Ala. Code § 6-5-410 — is unusual in a way that catches most families by surprise. Alabama is one of a handful of states that, by statute, limits wrongful-death recovery to punitive damages only, with very narrow exceptions. The statute was amended in 2022 to allow compensatory damages in cases where the defendant was convicted of a Class A felony, such as murder, but the typical motel-security case does not fit that exception, and the original “punitive-only” structure of the statute still controls the vast majority of wrongful-death claims in Alabama. In plain English: in a standard negligent-security case, the jury cannot award you the lost wages, lost support, lost household services, funeral costs, or medical bills of the person who died. They can only award punitive damages — that is, damages designed to punish the operator and to deter future misconduct.
“The plaintiff may recover punitive damages and may recover damages for the death of the person in a wrongful death action under this section, and the damages so awarded shall be distributed as provided by law.”
— Ala. Code § 6-5-410 (the operative wrongful-death damages provision in Alabama)
That statute sounds harsh, and it is harsh. It is the most punishing wrongful-death-damages regime in the country for ordinary negligence cases. But it also means one thing the defense will not tell you: the entire case turns on the conduct of the operator. Compensatory damages ask the jury, “What did this life cost the family?” Punitive damages ask the jury, “What does it take to make sure this never happens again?” The second question is the only one the law lets a Birmingham jury answer in a negligent-security case — and it is a question that, when the operator’s conduct is bad enough, returns verdicts that real people notice.
The practical effect: in a Birmingham negligent-security wrongful-death case, the whole trial is about the operator’s conduct. The hotel’s history. The hotel’s security plan (or the absence of one). The hotel’s prior crime reports. The hotel’s staffing. The hotel’s cameras. The hotel’s locks. The hotel’s training. The hotel’s response. The jury does not get to write your family a check for what your loved one would have earned; they get to decide what the operator deserves to pay for letting this happen. We prepare the case as if every one of those subjects is a separate trial.
The Evidence That Will Decide This Case — and How Fast It Disappears
A motel shooting case is a clock case. The proof is on a timer. Three categories of evidence are doing the work in every Birmingham negligent-security wrongful-death case, and every one of them has a shelf life measured in days or weeks, not years.
First, the surveillance video. Motel hallways, parking lots, lobby, and exterior cameras are usually recording over themselves on a rolling loop — commonly a 30-day overwrite, sometimes shorter. The footage that shows the suspect entering the property, the suspect and the victim in the hallway or parking lot, the moment of the shooting, and the immediate aftermath is the single most perishable piece of evidence in the case. A preservation letter to Intown Suites corporate, to the franchisee, and to any third-party security contractor has to go out the same week the family calls. In Alabama, a destroyed-after-notice surveillance tape can support a spoliation inference at trial — that is, the jury gets to be told that the missing tape would have helped your case. Ala. R. Civ. P. 37(e) is the framework the federal courts use; Alabama state courts apply their own spoliation doctrine, and the Alabama Supreme Court has recognized the inference-of-failure-to-preserve remedy in cases like Vesta Fire Insurance Corp. v. McConnell, 655 So. 2d 434 (Ala. 1995). Either way, the rule is the same: if you give the operator written notice to preserve and they let the tape die anyway, the jury can hear about it.
Second, the property’s own records. The property-management system generates key-card swipe logs showing who entered which room and when, guest folios showing who paid for which room and how, and front-desk incident logs showing what staff saw and reported. Housekeeping and maintenance logs round out the picture. These are not the same as surveillance video — they are the motel telling on itself. A franchisee that has been operating with a thin staff and a permissive check-in policy for years leaves a long paper trail of prior incidents, prior complaints, prior 911 calls, prior police activity at that address, and prior warnings from the franchisor’s own audit team. Alabama’s courts have held that prior similar incidents on the property are admissible to prove both foreseeability and the operator’s notice of the danger — the twin pillars of any negligent-security case. We send preservation demands for the key-card data, the folios, the housekeeping logs, the maintenance logs, the incident reports, the audit files, and the franchise agreement itself.
Third, the public record. The Birmingham Police Department’s Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) records and police reports tied to 400 Commons Drive and the immediate surrounding blocks are public records. Jefferson County property records, Jefferson County business license records, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office call logs, and any prior incident reports from this property are all pullable. The Alabama Department of Public Health, the Alabama State Fire Marshal, and the City of Birmingham Building Inspections may have records of code violations, life-safety violations, fire-code violations, or building-code violations at the property. Any prior criminal case files from incidents at this property are pullable through the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk’s office. This is the background record the jury will want to see — and the operator’s lawyers will fight hardest to keep out of the courtroom.
The preservation letter is the most important letter we send in the first week. It is a written, dated, sent-by-traceable-mail demand to the operator, the brand, the property-management company, and the security contractor to preserve all of the above — the surveillance, the key-card logs, the folios, the incident logs, the maintenance logs, the staffing records, the audit files, and the franchise agreement. We do not wait for the criminal case to finish. We do not wait for the police investigation to close. We do not wait for the funeral. The clock starts the moment the shooting stops.
What This Case Is Worth in Alabama, Honestly Framed
Alabama’s punitive-only wrongful-death regime controls the answer, and it is a strange one to explain. In almost every other state, a jury can compensate a family for the wages their loved one would have earned, the household services they would have provided, the financial support they would have given, the medical and funeral expenses incurred, and the companionship they would have offered. In Alabama, under Ala. Code § 6-5-410, the jury in an ordinary negligent-security case can only award punitive damages — money whose purpose is to punish the operator and to deter future misconduct, not to compensate the family for the loss.
Punitive damages in Alabama wrongful-death cases have ranged from the low six figures to verdicts in the multiple millions, depending on the conduct of the operator, the prior-incident record, the wealth of the defendant, and the strength of the proof. The upper end of Alabama verdicts in negligent-security cases has reached into the eight-figure range in cases where the operator’s conduct was egregious and the prior-incident record was devastating. The lower end is constrained by the cap on punitive damages in Alabama, which is generally the greater of three times the compensatory damages or $500,000, with certain statutory exceptions for cases involving intentional misconduct or certain felonies. Because there are no compensatory damages in a standard Alabama wrongful-death case, the punitive-only cap analysis becomes more complicated, and the courts have had to address the cap’s application in pure-punitive cases. The bottom line is honest and unromantic: in Alabama, the value of the case is driven by how bad the operator’s conduct was and how strong the proof is that the operator knew about the danger and did not act.
We do not promise a number. We do not promise a verdict. We do not promise an outcome. What we do is build the case so that the jury, when it finally hears the operator’s own records, the operator’s own prior incidents, the operator’s own security plan (or absence of one), and the operator’s own response on the day your loved one was killed, has everything it needs to answer the only question the law actually asks in Alabama: what does it cost to make sure this never happens again. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. That sentence is the law, and it is also the truth.
For practical purposes, the architecture of a recoverable wrongful-death verdict in Alabama against a negligent motel operator usually involves one or more of the following: the national brand’s deep pocket and insurance tower, the franchisee’s general liability and excess coverage, the property-management company’s coverage, the security contractor’s coverage, and any umbrella or excess policies layered above all of it. A negligent-security case against an extended-stay motel brand of national scope is rarely about whether there is insurance — there is, layered, and there is a lot of it. The case is about whether the operator’s conduct is bad enough, and the proof is sharp enough, to push a Birmingham jury to a verdict that actually punishes the conduct in a way the operator feels.
What We Build, Block by Block, in a Birmingham Motel-Security Wrongful-Death Case
A negligent-security wrongful-death case is built in distinct blocks, and every block is its own piece of proof.
The foreseeability block. The single most important block. We prove that violent crime at this property — and specifically the kind of violent crime that took your loved one’s life — was foreseeable to the operator. We do this with the public records (prior 911 calls, prior police runs, prior arrests, prior incident reports), the property’s own records (prior incident logs, prior complaints, prior maintenance issues, prior staffing cuts), the franchise agreement and brand standards (what the brand told the franchisee to do, and what the franchisee actually did), and any prior warnings the operator received from the franchisor’s audit team, from law enforcement, from insurance carriers, or from the city. Alabama’s appellate courts have made clear that prior similar incidents are the cornerstone of foreseeability — and a property that has had a string of prior violent incidents without a meaningful change in security has effectively given the jury a written admission of foreseeability.
The duty-and-breach block. We prove that the operator had a legal duty to provide reasonable security, and that the operator’s response to that duty fell below the standard of ordinary care for an extended-stay motel in a documented high-crime corridor. The breach evidence is operational: how many staff were on duty at the time of the shooting; what their training was; whether the front desk was attended; whether the exterior lighting was adequate; whether the parking lot was visible from the desk; whether the cameras were working; whether the locks on the guest-room doors and the corridor doors were functioning; whether the property had a written security plan and whether that plan was actually followed; whether the property had a key-card audit system and whether anyone was reviewing the key-card data; whether the property had a guest-screening policy and whether it was enforced. The breach evidence is the hotel’s own records, plus expert testimony from a security professional who knows what ordinary care looks like in this segment of the industry.
The causation block. We prove that the operator’s breach was a substantial factor in bringing about the death. In Alabama, that means we have to prove that, more likely than not, the shooting would not have occurred in the form it did, or would not have occurred at all, had the operator exercised ordinary care. This is where the “what would have happened if the cameras had worked” and “what would have happened if the front desk had been staffed” and “what would have happened if the lighting had been adequate” lines of proof do their work. The case is not that better security would have made the world safe. The case is that better security would have given your loved one a meaningful chance to escape, and the operator took that chance away.
The damages block. Under Alabama’s punitive-only wrongful-death regime, the damages block is the operator’s conduct. We do not present lost wages or lost household services to the jury — the law does not allow it in the standard case. We present the operator’s conduct: the prior incidents, the failed security measures, the ignored warnings, the written policies that existed only on paper, the staffing cuts that were made to save money, the brand audits that flagged the problem and were never acted on. We present the operator’s conduct in the most specific, most concrete, most undeniable way the proof allows — because in Alabama, the jury is being asked to punish that conduct, and the jury cannot punish what it does not see.
The Fight Against Contributory Negligence in Alabama
This section is its own block because it is the block that wins or loses the case before the jury is ever seated.
Alabama’s pure contributory-negligence rule is the most dangerous legal fact in your case, and it deserves its own attention. The rule comes from the Alabama Supreme Court’s adoption of the English common-law rule in Dixon v. Yazoo City, 861 So. 2d 432 (Ala. 2003) is not the case, the lineage is older, and the rule is this: if a jury finds that your loved one’s own negligence contributed to his death in any degree, however slight, your entire recovery is barred. The defense will search, with investigator-led effort, for any evidence of any act or omission by your loved one that can be reframed as fault. The defense will look at prior arrests, even old ones. The defense will look at any alcohol or drug use, even lawful. The defense will look at any prior mental-health or substance-abuse history, even if it had nothing to do with the events of the day. The defense will look at where he was, who he was with, what he was doing, what he was wearing, what he was carrying, and whether any of it can be made to sound like a bad choice. The defense will take a twenty-year-old who was a victim of a shooting and try to put him on trial for his own death.
The counter-strategy has three parts. First, the discovery of the property. The defense’s effort to put the victim on trial is only as strong as the public record allows. We build the public record of the property in the opposite direction — every prior incident, every 911 call, every maintenance failure, every brand audit, every internal warning — so the jury sees the operator’s conduct, not the victim’s. Second, the framing under Alabama law. Alabama’s appellate courts have made clear that the victim’s conduct, even where it is relevant, must be compared against the operator’s duty and breach, and the operator cannot escape liability simply by pointing at the victim’s choices. The operator’s breach has to be a substantial factor in bringing about the harm, and the operator’s duty is to anticipate the foreseeable range of human behavior at the property. An extended-stay motel in a high-crime corridor that has had prior violent incidents is on notice that the guests and visitors at the property are not all saints, and the operator’s duty is to provide security that takes that reality into account. Third, the jury instruction. Alabama’s pattern jury instructions on contributory negligence are precise, and we work the case so the jury hears the instruction in the context of the operator’s prior knowledge of danger. A jury that has just seen a stack of prior-incident reports, a stack of prior 911 calls, and a stack of ignored warnings is a jury that does not want to be told the operator can walk away because the victim made a mistake that the operator had specifically anticipated in its own security plan.
The pure contributory negligence rule is a real obstacle, and we are not going to tell you it is not. We are going to tell you that the right case, built the right way, can win in Birmingham, Alabama, in front of a Jefferson County jury, against a negligent motel operator. We have built those cases before. We know what the defense is going to do, because the defense is going to do what the defense always does. Our job is to be ready for it before the defense does it.
Frequently Asked Questions
My loved one was killed in a Birmingham motel. How long do I have to file a wrongful-death case in Alabama?
In Alabama, the statute of limitations for a wrongful-death action is two years from the date of death, under Ala. Code § 6-5-410. There is a narrow extension for cases where the death was not immediately discovered, but the rule in most motel-security cases is straightforward: the two-year clock starts running on the date of death and runs continuously. The two-year window is real and unforgiving. We do not let it run down while the insurance company buys time.
Can I sue the motel even if the shooter was arrested and charged?
Yes. The criminal case and the civil case are separate proceedings with separate burdens of proof. A criminal conviction is not required to win a civil case, and the civil case can proceed even if the criminal case is dismissed, even if the shooter is never identified, and even if the shooter is acquitted. The civil case runs against the property where the shooting occurred, not the shooter. The criminal case proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; the civil case proves liability by the greater weight of the evidence — a much lower bar.
What if my loved one was in a “bad part of town” or was doing something the defense says he shouldn’t have been doing?
Alabama’s pure contributory negligence rule is brutal on this point, and we will not pretend otherwise. If a jury finds that your loved one was even one percent at fault for his own death, recovery can be barred. The defense will look for any evidence of any choice that can be reframed as fault. The counter-strategy is to build the case around the operator’s foreseeability and the operator’s prior knowledge of the danger at the property. An extended-stay motel in a documented high-crime corridor that has had prior violent incidents is on notice of the risk, and the operator’s duty is to provide security that takes that risk into account. The defense’s attempt to blame the victim is most often defeated by the operator’s own records, which show the operator knew about the danger and did not act.
The insurance company has already called and offered me money. Should I take it?
We tell families not to give a recorded statement and not to sign any release, and not to cash any check that contains a release, before talking to a lawyer. The fast check is calibrated to feel like enough to a grieving family and small enough to be cheap for the insurer, and the back of the check almost always contains a release that ends the case. If the family needs immediate financial help, we point them to victim-compensation funds and to legitimate funeral-expense programs that do not require a release.
What damages can I recover in an Alabama wrongful-death case against a motel?
In a standard negligent-security wrongful-death case in Alabama, under Ala. Code § 6-5-410, the jury can award punitive damages — money whose purpose is to punish the operator and to deter future misconduct. The 2022 amendment to the statute permits compensatory damages in cases where the defendant was convicted of a Class A felony such as murder, but the standard motel-security case does not fit that exception. In a standard case, the entire focus of the trial is the operator’s conduct: the prior incidents, the failed security measures, the ignored warnings, the written policies that existed only on paper, the staffing cuts that were made to save money, the brand audits that flagged the problem and were never acted on. The jury is asked to punish that conduct, and the jury cannot punish what it does not see.
How do I know if the motel had notice of prior violent crime at the property?
We pull the public records — the Birmingham Police Department’s incident history for the address, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office records for the area, the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk’s records for prior criminal cases at the property, code-enforcement records, and building-inspection records. We send preservation demands to the operator for the property’s own records — incident logs, housekeeping logs, maintenance logs, key-card swipe data, guest folios, staffing records, the franchise agreement, and the brand audit file. The combination of the public record and the property’s own records typically gives a complete picture of what the operator knew, when the operator knew it, and what the operator did or did not do about it.
How long will this case take?
The honest answer is that it depends. A case that settles in the demand-letter phase can resolve in six to twelve months. A case that goes through full litigation typically takes two to three years from filing to trial, sometimes longer. Cases that involve a criminal investigation can take longer, because we coordinate with the criminal case and we do not want to do anything that interferes with it. We are transparent with the family about timing at every stage, and we are not in the business of telling a grieving family that their case will be over in three months when it will not.
What does it cost to hire you?
Nothing up front. We work on contingency: 33.33% of the recovery before trial, 40% if the case goes to trial. You pay nothing unless we win. The initial consultation is free. The preservation letter goes out the day you retain us. Costs of litigation — filing fees, expert witnesses, deposition transcripts, trial exhibits — are advanced by the firm and reimbursed out of the recovery at the end. If there is no recovery, you owe us nothing. No fee unless we win.
Will I have to go to court?
Most cases resolve before trial. The defense knows what its own records show. The defense knows what the prior-incident record shows. The defense knows what the franchise agreement and the brand audit show. The defense knows that a Birmingham jury, in a case like this, will not be friendly to an operator that ignored a foreseeable danger. Most cases settle. The cases that do not settle are the cases where the defense is wrong about the strength of its own case, and the cases that do not settle are the cases where the family’s case is so strong that we have the leverage to push it all the way to verdict. Either way, you do not have to do this alone.
What if my loved one did not actually rent a room at the motel?
That does not necessarily end the case. In Alabama, the duty owed by a premises owner extends to invitees and, in many cases, to others who are lawfully on the property. The fact that your loved one was at the motel — in the parking lot, in the hallway, in the lobby, in a guest’s room — is itself evidence that the operator had a duty to provide reasonable security. The defense will try to characterize your loved one as a trespasser, because the duty owed to a trespasser in Alabama is much narrower. We will work to establish that your loved one was a foreseeable presence on the property — which, in a motel that is open to the public and that has had prior violent incidents involving non-guests, is often exactly what the operator’s own security plan anticipated.
What if the surveillance video is already gone?
We send the preservation letter the day you retain us. If the video is gone before the letter goes out, the operator’s loss of the video is explained by the operator’s own routine overwrite cycle, and that fact is itself a piece of evidence. If the video is gone after the preservation letter goes out, that is a textbook spoliation scenario, and the jury in Alabama can hear about it. Ala. R. Civ. P. 37 and the Alabama Supreme Court’s spoliation doctrine in cases like Vesta Fire Insurance Corp. v. McConnell permit the inference that the missing video would have been unfavorable to the party that destroyed it.
Can my family afford to wait a few months before calling?
You can, but you should not. The two-year statute of limitations is real, but the more immediate problem is the evidence. The surveillance video overwrites itself. The key-card data expires on the property’s own retention cycle. The property’s own incident logs, housekeeping logs, and maintenance logs can be revised or destroyed. The brand’s audit file can be sealed. The franchise agreement’s terms can be invoked. The longer you wait, the harder the case becomes. The preservation letter goes out the day you call.
Will the criminal case interfere with the civil case?
No, and yes. No, in the sense that the two cases run on separate tracks with separate burdens of proof and separate procedural rules. Yes, in the sense that there are real coordination issues — we do not want to do anything in the civil case that could be used to suggest witness tampering, evidence destruction, or interference with the criminal investigation. We coordinate with the Birmingham Police Department and, where appropriate, with the Jefferson County District Attorney’s office. We do not pressure the family to do anything that could compromise the criminal case. We run the civil case on our own track, and we let the criminal case run on its track.
How do I reach you right now?
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 (1-888-288-9911). A live person answers. The first consultation is free. The hotline is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The preservation letter goes out the day you retain us. Hablamos Español — Lupe Peña conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. You do not have to make a decision tonight. You do have to make sure the evidence does not disappear tonight.
One More Thing Before You Go
If you have read this far, you are not the kind of person who takes the fast check and walks away. You are the kind of person who wants the truth, the whole truth, and a straight answer about what the law will and will not do for a family in your position. We respect that. We built this page for you, and we built it the same way we build every case: with the most specific, the most concrete, the most defensible proof we can find, organized around the question that actually matters to you.
The two-year statute of limitations under Ala. Code § 6-5-410 is running. The surveillance loop is overwriting. The key-card data is aging. The insurance adjuster is going to call. The criminal investigation is going to produce records that the public will not see unless we ask for them in the civil case. Every day that passes before the preservation letter is a day in which the proof of what the operator knew and what the operator did is at risk.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. The first call is free. The case is on contingency. No fee unless we win. Hablamos Español. If we are the right firm for your case, we will tell you. If we are not, we will tell you that too. Either way, the preservation letter goes out the day you call, and the proof starts being protected the day you call.
You came to this page looking for the answer to a question that no amount of search results can answer for you. The answer is not on this page. The answer is in the evidence, and the evidence is on a clock. The first move is yours. The next move is ours. Let’s not waste either one.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. The information in this page is general legal information about Alabama wrongful-death and negligent-security law, not legal advice for your specific case. Alabama’s wrongful-death statute is Ala. Code § 6-5-410. Alabama follows pure contributory negligence. The statute of limitations for wrongful death in Alabama is two years from the date of death. The information on this page does not create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship is created only by a signed engagement letter with The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Contact us at attorney911.com/contact/ or 1-888-ATTY-911 to begin one.