In my experience, cases never get close to settling at mediation before everyone starts talking brackets. Everyone just postures for hours until after lunch and then a bracket gets thrown out there and people start talking real money.
Ive been doing employment for just over the last year and the mediations have been substantially worse than the ones in PI. Cartoonishly low starting offers on every case. Tons of quick impasses. Employment in general kind of sucks. Tons of administrative pre reqs, lots of depos and discovery for less money than your average rear ender.
Got a great case factually. One of my primary Defendants has tons and tons of insurance coverage. They were sued before the policy came up for renewal, but apparently didn't notify carrier until after renewal. Now coverage issue. I hate my job sometime.
I was about to share a recent mediation story but then remembered you’re on the other side so decided I probably shouldn’t.
I'll wait to post more details until after we open but it's an offshore case with deaths and major injuries.
You're secret is safe with me. (I also probably know already too) My favorite part of that is the Defendant with no insurance coverage crying poverty when its represented by people who I don't even want to imagine the hourly rate, and is part of a little enterprise, that at a minimum is going to be generating tens of millions in profits in a couple of months.
Only chance we settle is if that defendant decides he wants to make it go away. Otherwise, I’m not optimistic. If it doesn’t settle, I don’t expect I’ll be involved much longer unfortunately.
I'm not optimistic. They seem to have it in their head that the business they are in is going to create sympathy and help with a jury in this venue. Totally and completely insane. Another bingo defendant just got creamed this week. Could've made it go away for about 40k. Just got hit for $500k.
Yes, yes it is. I'm not sure if it's just posturing or true naivety. I had this basic conversation at the inspections Monday. I was like, you don't get the politics in this area at all do you?
It's a good set of facts for me. Got too many RoR letters floating around out there for my liking though.
first one since i was 18. and that time i didnt make it onto a panel. there were like 200 of us left and they just told us to go home around 11
This case is how I’ve met Brandon Chicken in the flesh. My favorite was when he sent me an email that started, hey this is Brandon Chicken. wes tegg pretty much knows anything that’s going on in the state I think. And like he said, this one is in my backyard, which is the Wild West.
I get called to jury duty all the time, three times in the last ten years. On the last one, I stuck and was a juror on a DUI case where the guy refused a breathalyzer. He got rear ended by another drunk driver as he was turning into his driveway. The cop ran him through tests on video and he looked relatively sober. He testified that he didn’t trust the breathalyzer, so he refused. The cop was a woman who acted like a total hardass at trial and the entire jury hated her. Unanimous acquittal, half hour deliberation.
Ive always wanted to be on a jury and i finally got the summons last year. Called the line the morning of to confirm and got told they didnt need any more jurors.
reminds me of a joe jamail verdict where he got mid 7 figures even though his client was blackout drunk
I love when my client on a denied claim googles their diagnosis and send me a screenshot in a text as though I'm going to be like "oh shit...this is news to me and changes everything..."
Was at the beach at a bachelor party all weekend. Not feeling this telephonic motion hearing and telephonic pre trial hearing back to back this morning.
Always fun when General TMB tries to pontificate on the type of person who should sit on the supreme court.