Also funny that you can either give someone a 30 day extension on answering written discovery or you can have them file a motion, get a hearing, and then get your written discovery responses 60 days later just a stupid policy by a trust fund baby
Having a policy that your lawyers need to try a few cases a year: good Having a policy so that no courtesy is ever extended again to any of your employees: bad
lol what a fucking dork ass loser. I'd love to give that guy a noogie and demand I'll stop when he allows me another 7 days to respond his complaint.
Today's UMC craziness, Some tool came on spouting about how the Parkland shooting was fake and that he and others are being unfairly prosecuted by the court. Never seen so many lawyers unmute and start berating this pathetic excuse for a person. Judge eventually kicked the guy out of the zoom and restored order.
Is anyone here active on LinkedIn, or actually post anything? I haven't logged into my account in years.
Linkedin is worthless. I know some med mal defense lawyer that is always bragging about his victories on linkedin. Does he actually get work that way?
I've always heard this, but never tried it. It's not just overloaded with the same recruiters that send me 5-10 emails/week? Like is there a job postings section or do you reach out to lawyers directly?
There’s a good job posting section where you can narrow by all kinds of things like hybrid/remote, industry, etc.
I use LinkedIn and it’s really only been useful for me after I became a plaintiff lawyer. I’ve picked up some new med mal experts on there that have done good work for me. I rarely actually post anything myself, though.
I definitely know people who have gotten work posting their articles and stuff on there. Don't know if the results bragging works.
I understand why people put up the bragging posts, but I’m not personally comfortable with that. A lot of work goes into trying big cases and one lawyer’s victory is another’s professional disaster. Plus, I don’t want to be the guy that brags on there all the time only to get totally dunked on after taking a bad verdict.
My favorite while working at the State was county court public defenders bragging on social media about verdicts/plea deals
was doing pretrial last week in a county where the judges have both civil and criminal dockets, and listening to the girl from the DA and the defense lawyers bullshit about the amount of time the dude was going to plea to was pretty gross. just joking about how half a year sounds better than a quarter year and how x months sounds better than y. i'm sure they do it so much that they don't realize how ridiculous they sound, but joking about how much time a dude is going to sit in a prison cell isn't funny.
There's a carrier in Florida who has their attorney's brag on social media and linked in every time they win a trial. It's funny as hell when they don't have anything to post after they get hit for a huge fee when they lose 75% of the cases they take to trial.
I had a hearing yesterday on an emergency motion someone else filed. The judge set us at 8:30 AM because he had a murder trial at 9:30. The bailiff brought out tissues and placed them in the jury box, then told me he did it because the photos are bad. At the conclusion of our hearing, they brought the defendant in a shirt/tie, handcuffed and wearing leg shackles. I’ve been doing this a long time, but I still take a step back when I think these judges are juggling these two types of cases together.
Reminds me of when I was interning for a Federal Magistrate and I walked into the courtroom and there was a bunch of handguns just sitting their on the table as evidence for the hearing we were about to have. They were all obviously made impossible to use with plastic fillers and stuff, but still. Chilling as fuck to walk into a room and see a bunch of guns that were used to kill someone.
Y'all's practices are too sanitized. One of the first clients I ever met when I was clerking while in law school, we had been in court and then went to see client in jail. Lawyer told me to take my tie off so the Defendant wouldn't be able to use it to strangle me.
PD's office should brag over not-guilty verdicts. If you can get a poor person, wrongly charged off, that's worthy of it.
I deposed a defendant driver in prison who had to wear a Hannibal lecter mask because he was a “biter and spitter”
I have a German client who had to attend a four day trial. We took a break and the judge dismissed the jury so he could bring a prisoner for sentencing. 20 years, then back in cuffs/leg irons to jail. He was shocked.
Insurance defense lawyers and other knowledgeable insurance lawyers: Crazy lady rear ends PC and then later admits she did it on purpose because PC was driving too slow. She basically drove through PC such that PCs bumper scratched the entire side of crazy lady's car and the lady kept going, then the lady stops her car in an exit lane of McDonalds , gets out, and screams at PC that she will "fuck her up." PC wants to press charges. Thus far crazy ladys insurance has paid for property damage etc. How likely is it that the lady's carrier will void coverage for an intentional tort if PC presses charges and the lady is convicted? What if she never presses charges? How often do carriers void coverage in incidents like this?
Well respected orthopedic spine surgeon referred a MVA PC directly to me today. That's the first time I can remember having an ortho do that for me. Maybe I'm forgetting but it doesn't happen often for me. Pretty good sounding case too. I've had this surgeon as treating physician in a lot of cases and have taken his video deposition many times. I don't know him personally outside of work.
States vary upon whether you can use a criminal conviction to prove an intentional act for insurance coverage purposes. It also depends upon the mens rea needed to establish the intent element of the criminal statute.
I was mostly giving you guys grief. Kinda funny seeing plaintiffs’ attorneys bitching about verdict bragging. Definitely don’t have a problem with any of you guys posting stuff on here, and I generally root for you as long as it doesn’t have some direct impact on me.
Almost every case I found in MS on the issue of coverage exclusion for intentional acts involved a shooting, homeowner's coverage, and whether or not someone meant to shoot someone. A few things are clear: intentional act exclusions of coverage are definitely enforceable and valid in MS, Circuit Courts routinely find in favor of the insured on the issue, and the Supreme Court routinely upholds the Circuit Court in such cases. I think there is probably more room to argue in a motor vehicle accident case than in a shooting. But all it would really take is a defendant admitting that they intentionally meant to strike another vehicle. There is case law that says it doesn't matter if the harm is greater than they intended.
I think we can all agree that people posting 25k settlements on Instagram with giant checks and a money gun should never stop what they’re doing.
There’s a woman lawyer here who I graduated with and she is one of the I love to be a lawyer type A couple months ago on instagram she posted like 4 checks and was like we make it rain call me if you want a check!!!! it was like 3 $30k checks and I think one for $20k. I looked at the dates and they were all from different months