Yeah, I normally try to be concise. But when law enforcement gives different answers in Interrogatories, Summary Judgment Hearing, and Trial it was painful to have to go through and point out every inconsistency.
I'm sure it's a bad ass brief, and I don't mean for this to sound like a Monday morning QB, but I've used tables/charts to do that in the past. Spoiler: example
a bunch of medical providers have my cell and have no trouble calling or texting between 7am-9pm and i've received 116 emails today. i've done a decent job farming out most of the updates/early case management stuff. but sometimes these folks just don't want to talk to staff. and i don't want to lose a case since our avg atty fees per case is ~$7,900
How many cases are you personally responsible for? It seems weird that you are getting so many folks that want to speak to you directly. It makes me think your staff isn't doing a good job of talking to them because I get a relatively low amount of clients that demand to talk to me directly if they are properly intercepted by paralegal.
we have 450-500 cases and my name is on the door so a certain percentage of them want to deal with me directly.
With that many cases you should probably have more than 1 associate. I wouldn't advise handling more than 100 MVAs per lawyer. But say you had 3 associates handling 300 of those cases. Rarely when I was an associate did my clients ask to speak to my boss whose name was on the door.
luckily for me my associate is the most organized person i know. if she left i would have to hire 3 people to replace her.
Yeah, I went back to see if there was any trimming to be done. Looks like the actual brief is “only” about 45 pages. All the rest is that formatting and fluff appellate courts require. Be glad to not be typing in courier new for a while.
I made a film, profiling a person's life -- we put years of work into it. I get a call today from someone who is not asking, but planning to write a book about the person, that will "compliment the movie." Do I have any legal rights to stop this person or no?
Is there any sort of agreement between you and the person being profiled that would grant you the rights to "their story"?
The person profiled in the story died 30 years ago. However, her niece is a big part of the film, supplied us with all the photos used, has a TON of knowledge about the person and everything. I am close to being done with a Rights to Publicity contract for her + not having permission to use the photos, but exclusive rights of the photos. And she is aware she will be signing an NDA as well. Two other strong sources who lived across the street from the subject have agreed to the same.
If I were you, I would reach out to the attorney doing the work related to the publicity rights contract and let them know what's going on. If you are doing it yourself, it's still worth calling an attorney in your area. You may or may not have any legal basis for deterring the book writer, but a sternly worded letter sometimes does the trick regardless of its legal basis.
Yeah I am speaking to him this week so I will ask him then. But with the important sources of the film, would an NDA assist in this?
Hard to say without knowing more facts. But in certain situations I could see an NDA (or a few NDAs) making it sufficiently difficult to obtain information so as to deter the book writer. More generally, I'm not sure you'd want just an NDA in that situation, though. A broad "publicity rights agreement" with the estate could potentially accomplish what you're seeking and incorporate non-disclosure provisions.
For smaller towns good SEO is going to cost you $3k a month. In bigger cities $10k+. That is for monthly SEO maintenance. Freaking crazy. We canceled our contract with Findlaw because for $1k a month we couldn't tell they were doing anything. Turns out we're going to have to pay much more than that.
I pay $3,500 in Houston. They write a bunch of blogs and pages for me that I review and edit. And I pay an additional $15k in pay per click every month on top of that
Will be interested to see how that 15k in pay per click works out. Sounds like you're paying too little in terms of the SEO itself and putting too many eggs in the PPC basket. But hell what do I know. $3500 would be good in an area like where I'm at. But in Houston top firms are likely paying $10k+ for top tier SEO maintenance.
No. Even if the subject person were alive, he/she couldn’t stop someone from writing a book about them. It would be against public policy for only “approved” historical accounts to be produced.
boomerrang app has been great. basically a good way to handle something (via email) early and forget about it. https://www.boomeranggmail.com/
Interesting. I use Gsuite sync to use outlook with my gmail account. I wonder if there’s a way to do this there.
Yeesh. Yeah that would suck. I would love to be on a jury, but it'll never happen. So now my week is just going to be shot.
It can be hit or miss. I'm not really sure if it is worth it for building business, but some of our carriers do their panel meetings in conjunction with CLM shit.
Claims and Litigation Management Alliance. It's half claims/risk management people from insurance companies and businesses and half defense lawyers.
Spoke with client last week. He called for an update. Staff read him the most recent update. Just for email from staff that he was upset I am not currently in the office and never return his calls. I hate all of these people so much
Anyone know of any stats or have a guess on how often your state supreme court grants cert after COA affirms and motion for re hearing denied? Also in your state if a motion has 7 days to be answered , do you count weekends?
I realize it's a tale as old as time, but my last 5-6 mediations (and every one in 2019) have followed the same script: -Me: I think we need around $XX in authority to settle this. Based on A, B, and C. -Adjuster: cool, here's $20-30K below what you asked for -Me: that's going to be really tough to get it done... -Adjuster: let's just see what happens, I can always go to my supervisor -Me: Mediation not going well, they're looking for [right around requested amount to get it done] -Adj: I really don't want to go to my supervisor, it will make me look bad -Me: well it's not settling today because we didn't come with enough money -Adj: We'Re NoT ScArEd tO TrY a cAsE About to jump on a conference call with the Adjuster and her supervisor to discuss "what went wrong at mediation" yesterday. "We're going to pay you approx. $10,000 to gather evidence and provide a well-researched figure to settle...then we're going to disregard that figure and get mad at you for not settling the case."
After I mediate with a lawyer or adjuster and they don’t come with anywhere near enough authority to settle I agree to meditate with them again on future cases
Yes. Have had lawyers show up to mediations with like 50% of what it would take to settle the case and I don’t go back. If that’s the case then let’s just cancel and save everyone the time and money
I also don’t agree to mediate unless the adjuster will be there or the lawyer assured me they’re bringing money to the mediaiton Have been to a few where the adjuster isn’t there and the mediator has trouble talking to them or reasoning with them and we don’t settle over something stupid
Settled wrongful death med mal with hospital defendant for $400k last week. Still headed to trial against the doc.