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  1. Oranjello

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  3. El Tiburon

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    I'll send you my OnlyFans so you can donate.
     
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  4. Gallant Knight

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    I refer out every federal court case
     
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  5. RJF-GUMP

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    that’s silly.
     
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  6. SmoochieWallace

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    Because there are rules and the judges are more likely to read the briefs and the law.
     
  7. Goose

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    I just moved into a new place a month or so back. I'm renting but some of the units are owned in the complex. Some have garages, some don't. I don't. When I first moved in I had my assigned parking spot and there was even a sign that said "parking for apartment #69." A few days ago I noticed the sign was down but didn't think much of it. Today there is a new sign up and the sign now reads for "parking for apartments #68, 69, & 70."

    Obviously I need to say something to my landlord, but can he do this? I really like the place and would like to stay beyond my current lease but I'm not going to get jerked around like this.

    Here is what my lease says about it:
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  8. Bricktop the white

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    federal court is nothing more than a scam invented by the insurance industry to avoid paying plaintiffs.
     
  9. Gallant Knight

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    The federal judges here hate injury cases too. They just want to sniff farts with the baker botts nerds
     
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  10. Sammy Meatballs

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    I’m set for trial in may in federal court.
     
  11. bro

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    Cry more!
     
  12. bro

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    Ya I mean it isn’t that big of a deal.
     
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  13. harvey birdman

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    How many spots can you park in?
     
  14. RJF-GUMP

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    Often I like federal court more than state court. State court conservative judges are more likely to just toss your case on MSJ regardless of the merits and figure they will have no repercussions. Federal judges at least make a colorable attempt to follow the law here.
     
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  15. Goose

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    1
     
  16. harvey birdman

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    So now they have three tenants fighting for one spot. Not my area of expertise but seems shitty of them.
     
  17. Goose

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    Correct
     
  18. SmoochieWallace

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    I’m sure their malpractice carrier is thrilled.
     
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  19. wes tegg

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    I’m sure the dec action has been filed!
     
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  20. wes tegg

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    Federal court kind of rules here because the 11th circuit is not going to overturn a monster verdict as long as Georgia keeps popping off hundo millies.
     
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  21. El Tiburon

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    I’m currently handling my only fed court case on the plaintiff side. I’m about to file next week, but it’s an FTCA claim against the VA so I’ll be having a bench trial.
     
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  22. Sammy Meatballs

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    Verdicts are awesome here.

    We just got named the number one judicial hellhole and the number one place to do business.
     
  23. RJF-GUMP

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    Let's be honest , there's less than a 10% chance you'll be having a trial.
     
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  24. RJF-GUMP

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    When you think you aren't going to have any revenue for the 2nd week in a row but your out of state referral counsel overnighted you a $20k referral fee and saves the day
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  25. RJF-GUMP

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    We were looking at cash flow consistency yesterday. As a plaintiff lawyer I had 12 weeks in 2022 where I had $1000 in revenue or less. And I'm busting my ass and not dragging things out any more than they have to be. But I never really have 3 weeks in a row without any revenue and typically not two weeks in a row. So it's really not a big deal. In other words those 12 weeks are spread out through a 52 week cycle and never back to back. Would be kinda crazy to be one of these products lawyers etc that goes an entire year without a fee then gets $10M in revenue all at once. I know we have some guys on here that do med mal or premises cases where they have like 10-20 total cases. If you are set up where the rest of your firm is bringing in revenue to pay the bills while you wait on your 10-20 cases to settle then that obviously works out. The business dynamics of all this are interesting to me.
     
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  26. Gallant Knight

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    have a 401k plan for my employees but never thought i enrolled and was about to change that. i guess i had been investing 1% with a 1% match without knowing it. have a decent chunk in there that i never knew about.

    started this like 2 years ago and my associate has like 60k in hers wish i had done that fml
     
  27. Gallant Knight

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    with 6% of what i pay myself with the 3.5% match should be maxing this bad boy out each year going forward
     
  28. billdozer

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    Match doesn't go into the 401k contribution limit. It would factor in if you were doing the maximum limit - 401k contribution + match + after tax = $66k
     
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  29. Gallant Knight

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    yep just realized that now. i set this up a couple years ago because none of my employees were saving any money. i don't actually know shit about this
     
  30. Gallant Knight

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    i think i'm going to set it up to take the % from each check to get to the 22.5k

    what is the 66k?
     
  31. billdozer

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    It is the total allowed to a 401k. So the $22.5k + the match + after tax can go up to $66k. I'd only use the after tax if your plan allows for Roth conversion of the after tax (look up Megabackdoor Roth).
     
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  32. El Tiburon

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    Megabackdoor Roth sounds like the stage name for a well hung Jewish porn actor who only does kosher anal scenes.
     
  33. Gallant Knight

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    shocked that goldman has the highest fee for the funds i'm available to choose from
     
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  34. BUstang

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    I hate dealing with out of state lawyers. I've practiced in enough states outside of Texas now to conclude there is a objective difference in how I am treated here versus non-Texas jurisdictions.
     
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  35. Gallant Knight

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    shit i hate dealing with lawyers who aren't in houston
     
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  36. BUstang

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    True. These clowns want to make everything a fist fight and I hate practicing that way. Let's just do the work, you bill and I'll get the case resolved 98% of the time.
     
  37. Gallant Knight

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    have a lyft case where my 3 clients have a combined 500k in medical bills. have police dash cam footage of the 59 year old laying on the ground on a sidewalk and the EMS people putting her on a backboard into the ambulance without her moving much. 9 year old with lacerations to her face

    i would very much like this one to settle for a lot
     
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  38. BUstang

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    Lyft driver hit your 3 folks in a different car?
     
  39. Gallant Knight

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    911 call too with crying client saying a man just hit her baby and her mom and she needs an ambulance asap

    the guy in the lift too did a witness statement for us saying that the lyft driver had been driving erratically for the entire time he'd been in the car

    maybe i hope they don't settle this
     
  40. Gallant Knight

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    yep and he had a passenger so 1m in coverage
     
  41. BUstang

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    There's a zero percent chance they don't tender the policy.
     
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  42. Gallant Knight

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    goddamn 911 call is crazy. "OH MY GOD MY BABY'S FACE IS BUSTED OPEN"
     
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  43. Gallant Knight

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    they're bitching about the hospital bills being too high already.
     
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  44. BUstang

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    Which defense firm?
     
  45. Gallant Knight

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    pre lit. just sent a stowers demand yesterday for all 3
     
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  46. RJF-GUMP

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    Funny, if you go over to the doctor thread, they talk about money and how much money they make all the time. I don't think it's been brought up once over here. But lawyers are the scum of the earth.
     
  47. Sammy Meatballs

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    That’s because we do this to hold powerful corporations accountable on behalf of the little guy.
     
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  48. Sean Connery

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    Mediated and settled my first case yesterday

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  49. Sammy Meatballs

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    and totally not because suing slumlords is extremely lucrative in the state of Georgia.
     
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