working on SEO for our website. wanting to target PI clients in south mississippi. the debate yesterday was whether we should target the whole state of mississippi or something like "personal injury attorney mississippi gulf coast" the debate was "what does a layman" actually type into google when looking for attorneys in our area. Our SEO guy is supposed to get us a list of the most searched phrases , so maybe its a pointless debate. Our IT guy wants to try just going after the whole state, whereas I think we need to narrow it down. We ultimately decided we'd just try different things , get the analytics, and see what worked best.
just spoke to a radio dude. I can get 40 30 second adds a month for $1000. Thinking about doubling up on the weeks of the 1st and 15th for 20 adds each those weeks to concentrate the fire power. I think the best way to go about marketing is a multimedia multifaceted approach. You're never going to beat the giant car wreck factories like Shunarah that have a billion billboards. But if you have a well placed bill board here and there , hit the radio, have good website with SEO, yellow pages-kinda spread it around as well as get referrals from other lawyers because you do a good job-I think you can get some business with this model but i could be wrong.
purchase TV ads during the day on the gameshow network and whichever networks in your are that play daytime soaps.
how much are they in your neck of the woods? i don't even want to think how expensive that would be in houston. also, if you get like two cases a year from the radio at that price you are making money. if you get one a month that is a home run.
exactly on radio-one 25k car wreck is $10k in fees. i could be wrong on this but i think a commercial during prime time is like $2500. I don't really know though, I haven't checked because it just seems out of our budget.
so in this trucking case I've got a hispanic driver that is down in miami I think , that's at least where he delivered the truck to and where the trucking company is located. but he could technically live anywhere. I know his name because opposing counsel sent me a letter of rep with his name. i've been trying to locate him and serve him but having a hard time. opposing counsel wont accept service on his behalf. i hired a PI firm who located two guys with his name in Miami. One was 27 and one was 53. Called client who saw the driver and said the 27 year old one matched description. I'll try to get him served. But I'd think eventually the trucking company will have to disclose his contact info in discovery and i'll just keeping asking for time to serve extensions until i can get him properly served. OC says he can't get in touch with him either. What a pain.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/2...y-use-evidence-found-after-illegal-stops.html Utah v. Strieff may instantly be one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever as far as our rights go. The implications of this case are frankly terrifying. From Sotomayor's dissent: “The court today holds that the discovery of a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket will forgive a police officer’s violation of your Fourth Amendment rights,” she wrote. “Do not be soothed by the opinion’s technical language: This case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification and check it for outstanding traffic warrants — even if you are doing nothing wrong. “If the officer discovers a warrant for a fine you forgot to pay,” she continued, “courts will now excuse his illegal stop and will admit into evidence anything he happens to find by searching you after arresting you on the warrant.” Justice Sotomayor added that many people were at risk. Federal and state databases show more than 7.8 million outstanding warrants, she wrote, “the vast majority of which appear to be for minor offenses.”
This may be better suited in a tax thread but is money from a class action lawsuit taxed before it gets to you? Or will I just have to declare it when i file my 2016 taxes?
I guess I should clarify what the award was for too. It's a settlement from BK misclassifying employees as exempt employees so they didn't have to pay us OT. So i guess it's "back pay" for the time I was there plus some punitive damages?
I have zero experience in this area of law and have done no research, but my gut tells me the IRS will say that is taxable.
I figured it was just wasn't sure if it was like a bonus where they tax it before, or i have to add it to my income. Now that I think about it, it wouldn't make sense to tax it before as they don't know anyone's filing status. Thankfully I'll write off so many miles driving for Lyft that I probably won't get hit hard on this check (it's under 5k).
Class action suits vary in their taxation. If it is for an injury then it isn't taxable under 26 U.S.C. § 104(a), but since this is for back pay it is taxable. I'd agree with Tilly. This was actually the fact pattern on my Income Tax final in law school.
doing my first focus group on July 15th-gonna run me $600 which is apparently real cheap. 1PM-5PM. doing it with a lawyer that does it all the time. gonna get a video recording of all the focus groups conversations-super pumped.
how much are DME docs making in yalls state? We've gotten some ruling requiring them to compel their financials and some are making $300-500k a year on DMEs alone.
a lot of the chiros i work with give their patients DME stuff under an LOP and bill it out at ~$1000-$1,500. I usually reimburse them like $250. So they are making a killing on dumbass TENS units.
I don't understand what you mean when you say they give their patients defense medical exam stuff under LOP. What is the "stuff"
Probably the 'most-right' answer. Every time I see it is when any treating physician can't find anything objectively wrong with them other than they subjectively 'hurt,' so they just throw their hands up and say fibromyalgia and refer them to pain management. That's really the only time I see it. Coupled with my incredible cynicism towards PI work in general, I'm almost certianly biased, but I tend to think it's a load of crap. This. I don't feel like it's an objective disease/however it's classified and is more of a symptom of psychological problems than symptoms/evidence of an actual physical problem caused by the defendant.
I got a dv on an aggravation case this week with a quarter million in lost wages. I don't think I got a single favorable ruling throughout the trial (at least one of which was going to be reversible error), so when the foreperson read their verdict I was all
Friend of mine owns a company that sells TENS and other non pill based pain relief. It's apparently very fucking lucrative. He went to all the tennis majors last year, Cannes film festival this year, and god knows how many other places.
yeah i mean tens units cost like 10 bucks and get billed out at like 1500 that is some serious markup.
What makes it even better, one of his fraternity brothers runs a medical device sales force company. So he runs the sales force (all contractor) for my buddy's TENS company. Basically he travels around the globe, promotes his company and charity on social media, and collects checks.
So I was working on some rules of the road for a med mal case i'm doing and hit a road block. i'm reading patrick malone's rules of the road for med mal cases book. called his office -he was doing speaking engagement in arkansas. he emails me , i email him the facts of my case, he gives me long email back give me lots of good advice specific to my case. i'm like this is crazy-i never thought the dude who wrote the book i'm reading would give me the time of day. guess it never hurts to try.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oak...-emotional-distress-after-unplanned-pregnancy This seems like an interesting civil case to work on.