I'll respond to this shot although I know that I shouldn't. You are a young guy so you can take this advice or leave it - I really don't care. The attorney client privilege is a pretty damn important concept. If you want to fuck around and treat the practice of law like any other job, go ahead at your own risk. But being a cocky and flippant young attorney is a good way to get yourself in hot water.
this is true of pretty much all biglaw, not unique to Wilmer if you've said a single word in open court by your 7th year, you're kicking serious ass
posting litigation strategy would have nothing to do with the attorney-client privilege I think you mean work product and/or confidentiality
I shouldn't post the stuff I do in this thread. But I've gotten a lot of good info from this thread and a lot of help. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite me in the ass.
got a $25k offer on that needle in cheek case and opposing counsel says he can get it to $50k. Not bad with those facts. Yes I just violated the rules we were talking about earlier. Idk what to say.
Agreed. Depends more on type of work than the size of the firm. I'm a 3rd year litigation associate at a 500-ish person firm, and I've argued a number of substantive motions, handled a few directs, and taken a fair share of depositions.
i have a bus wreck case where the school district and driver are claiming that she wasnt negligent that she just sneezed and momentarily lost control of the bus. all the kids say she fell asleep at the wheel, ran off the road, woke up, over corrected , and they all got thrown around real bad inside the bus. the sneeze defense. this is about as bad as the chewbacca defense.
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Thanks. I am just looking for opinions or experiences of people who do construction litigation full time.
Do you do it full time? If so, do you enjoy it. I do insurance defense right now, primarily auto accidents, but would like to get into construction litigation
have a client whose husband got a penile implant to make it 9.5 inches, and it was supposed to keep him hard all the time. but she says the doc hated her husband so he purposefully made the implant smaller. she said he only has a 2 inch dick so now even with the implant it's 4 inches. he was out of work for 2 months with the penile implant because he had a hard time pissing. he also takes tons of ciallis and viagra all day. he tells her he's going to fuck her in the ass even when she doesn't want it, and calls her his bottom bitch. he shoves her face in urine. he also beats her very badly. he works for the sheriffs department and steals from them and stores tons of their cop car sirens and dash cams and related equipment at their house. it's really my bosses case I'm just doing the TRO on Thursday. Should be a barn burner.
I do both. It's about 25% of my work. Yeah, I enjoy construction work. All of it is construction defect stuff, so it's pretty technical which I enjoy.
I've actually been freaked out. He's made death threats on her and he is a well trained marksmen. I've been looking over my shoulder and considering buying a pistol.
Thats what i figured. I have a background in Engineering and have done a little here and there but am looking at doing more of it.
You'd enjoy it. The problem with doing construction work exclusively is just that there isn't that much of it unless you're in a place where there's a ton of building going on. I do both commercial and residential defect cases, but I've never done any construction contract work. That stuff is really tight-knit.
Plaintiffs or defense work? The defense work is mostly insurance based, with several lawyers carving out a niche and only handling defects instead of PI or other insurance work. The expenses can get extreme on the plaintiffs side pretty quickly--if you are going to carry case costs, which a lot of attorneys are doing. Condo/highrise cases take a long time to resolve so you need to have enough single family small defect work to keep the lights on while you work the bigger cases. I don't think that it is as specialized as most, but on the defense side, you need to have a good expert for the first few to make sure you have code/standard issues under control and you will have no problems with an engineering background, understanding the basic matters. The legal side is pretty straight forward. I would associate another lawyer for a few years if you are working plaintiffs cases to make sure you have a good understanding of the process and time involved. There are a ton of client issues over a 2-3 year period and the amount of docs in a case can be overwhelming. I would not go into it as a solo or without understanding the staff support needed.
pretty sure he is talking about defense work. i probably have no clue what i'm talking about, but it seems like it would be a good gig to get into on the defense side. unless there are a titload of indemnity agreements or something, it seems like if something went down on a construction site that the gc and a bunch of subs would all have their own separate counsel.
Thanks for the info. I would be doing it on the defense side. I am not planning on starting a firm just was curious about people who did it full time. i know there are firms that are almost solely devoted to construction lit.
i'll soon have a AV preeminent plaque in my office for highest of ethical standards i have no idea what you are talking about
no. one of the other lawyers decided today it was probably the most fucked up case that has walked in our office quite some time