A personal injury lawyer can be a kind of civil litigator who gives legal representation to plaintiffs that are alleging physical or psychological injury as the consequence of the negligent or careless acts of another person, entity, or business. Individual accident lawyers specialize within an area known as tort law. This covers private or civil wrongs or harms, including defamation and actions for bad faith breach of contract. The main goal of tort law is always to make the injured party complete again and also to discourage others from committing the same crime.