The worst is that the legislature or some regulatory body banned funding loans on comp cases -so now instead of oasis giving them loans-they are asking me directly!
Bookkeeper at Company has check-writing authority. Bookkeeper's email gets hacked and the Hacker emails bank saying new person with check writing authority needs to be added to the accounts. Bank then sends forms to hacked email account. Hacker forges signatures, emails the forged forms back to Bank, and Bank accepts them and adds Hacker to account. All this is done over email. Hacker then wires money to an offshore account. All this occurred in like an hour. Any banking laws or regulations out there to hang this on Bank?
All I know is that our law firm's bank would never let that happen. It was a pain in the ass when I joined the firm to get added to the various bank accounts . My partners had to initial and sign all sorts of forms.
Yep. Every time I have to do a wire transfer from our firm's account I have to physically go to the bank to sign the transfer. I'm just wondering if there's any specific laws or regulations that anyone has run across that won't require me to research it.
me: hey legal assistant have you followed up on client x to see if he agrees to the settlement legal assistant: i'm still waiting to hear back i call and have everything wrapped up in 4 minutes. and she is one of my better ones. on another case, same deal i ask if we have signed paperwork back on a case we settled last week, my legal assistants response via email: "she's working on it."
One of the partners at my firm had a trial about two weeks ago against a pro se Plaintiff. It was even more of a shit show than my trial against a pro se sovereign citizen defendant when I worked for the state. Plaintiff only talked about how the crash wasn’t his fault. On cross, he was shown videos from his Instagram account doing pushups and riding a scooter around Indianapolis during the NFL combine trying to convince prospects to use his products. He stated that the video was “gendre” that did not accurately provide context. When asked what “gendre” meant, he explained that it was a word that he just made up. The rest of his testimony was basically a marketing presentation for his sports/fitness apparel. Directed verdict after 16 minutes of testimony
I had no idea our Adobe package came with Adobe Sign which is the same thing as docusign. So I've been paying docusign for no reason. Adobe does a shitty job of making you aware of these things.
He posted a few Instagram videos following the trial and complained about how the jury didn’t get to decide the case and that they were leaning his way.
Gendre: adj; misleading, manipulative. The antivaxxers claims that the COVID vaccines were dangerous were gendre.
Remember when the alarmists freaked out during covid and said it would be the end of the legal world without the ability to get in court and push cases etc? I've had my best 2 years in 2020 and 2021. Carriers have still been settling cases etc. Seemed crazy at the time to freak out and now I can only laugh at those folks. I was getting list serve emails from the plaintiff bar acting like everything was in ruins.
I'd have to go back and look at 2018 and 2019 numbers. I just counted and we opened 78 MVAs in 2020 and have opened 81 already through today in 2021. We've also spent a shit ton more on marketing this year so.....
I feel mostly the same. I've settled a ton of cases this year and am having the best year I've ever had by orders of magnitude. Several of the cases I settled recently were filed in late 2020/early 2021.
Huntville lawyers: any takes? Potential case that involves investment into real property, unjust enrichment etc.
when i first started my firm i was meeting with anyone and everyone. this chiropractor brought along his cousin or something to a lunch meeting and he was like i can get you a ton of jones act cases. was like damn that sounds tight thank you. then he says it will cost $25k cash for each one. was like ok nevermind that sounds extremely not tight.
there are a dickload of vietnamese shrimpers on the texas and louisiana coast. i think he sort of ran them, but not sure. still have never handled a jones act case
I have like 4 going right now. We're on the coast obviously. Although there isn't much deep water drilling etc going on off our coast. Most of the Jones Act cases I get originate out of LA and somehow find me . A lot of folks from the MS coast go over to LA to work offshore. Have a case where a shrimper from the MS Coast got injured shrimping off the coast of Fourchon LA
I’ve only had one maritime case called in so far involving a death on a cruise ship due to medical negligence. But it was an old lady and the death occurred on the high seas so it was an instant turn down.
Me as a defense lawyer billing hourly: “All of these Zoom hearings are bullshit. There is no replacement for being there in person to see the judge and opposing counsel. We need to get back to that!” Me now as a contingency fee guy: “Every court appearance other than trials should be by Zoom forever, goddammit!!!!”
Haggard Law Firm in Miami had a 7 figure verdict in one of those cases recently. Med mal on a cruise ship
Multnomah County, Oregon (home of Portland) doesn't even do Zoom, just has lawyers call in. Real convenient when working from Latin America
In all seriousness, though, I will happily accept any Jones Act referral y'all get. We just settled two for 11m yesterday. I think we are quite good at them and would be happy to do a 50/50 referral. Edit - we do them across the country. New Jersey, Texas, NYC, Illinois, etc.
I just sent out a claim against the US in a general maritime case. It could have some profound effects on governmental immunity in the maritime context. I'll do an AMA in like five years when the case is over.