https://talabilawfirm.com/ Yes with these dudes via a runner They represented to him that they were with my firm he noticed and thought it was weird and called me and fired them last night
I had a mediation fail today because my adjuster didn't want to budge from $120K when the mediator says "we have a deal at $125K." So now we're setting up a two-panel IME that will easily exceed $5,000. Just received another email that we will not go from $35K to $40K to settle, asking me to propound "aggressive discovery." Fun.
Lol aggressive discovery dealing with my clients is definitely worse than adjusters but y’all have to deal with some bullshit too
You need to send them a scathing letter that provides a timeline of what happened etc. I'd have your client fill out a declaration which attests to those facts and attach it to the letter. End it by saying that if they pursue enforcement of the contract or file an intervention for fees that you'll report them to the State Bar. We deal with shit like this all the time. Our business can be really scummy, unfortunately.
It is nuts that an insurance company with billions of dollars will blow up a deal over $5,000 much faster than a middle class person with their life upside down.
They're both admitted liability cases with questionable soft tissue injuries, but both settlements would be like 1.5 meds...I though Pltf was being very reasonable.
The problem is that most Plaintiffs' lawyers end up taking that bullshit because they don't want to work extra hard for 1/3 of 1/3 of $5k.
My favorite are the adjusters that will act tough and say “we’ll try this case!” Sure that’s fine, but there’s no we about it. One of us will try the case and the other may sit in the back of the courtroom taking notes.
Defense lawyer and his client have told 2 different stories to the court about when they lost access to an email account and whether the client backed up their emails. The corporate rep said in depo they did. She now signs an affidavit saying no that’s not true look at this printout from the go daddy help page. defendant’s response calls it “simple irregularities”
Is there anything worse than a client telling you how the law works because their aunt's sister's cousin had a similar case when the client is in fact dead ass wrong on the merits of how they think the law works ?
federal court in ohio wrote this absurdly thorough 113 page opinion on e-discovery recently and you could basically take it and use it as a roadmap for how badly these guys have fucked up. at one point the court cites an article and says "This is no longer amateur hour." Which is of course going in my reply brief.
I posted in here about how my wife had an employment agreement put in front of her unexpectedly. Her colleague also received an employment agreement, and the colleague's boyfriend (who either wants to be a lawyer or is a law student) did some cursory research on restrictive covenants and then told employer how they could tighten up the agreement in the employer's favor (and to his SO's detriment)
My best guess is that he was trying to explain the contours of the relevant law but failed to comprehend the role of an advocate
I tried to have a day free of this defense lawyer, thinking once the reply brief was filed he would be quiet for a few days. Nope, he filed a motion to strike my reply brief because I included a document from another case involving his client that’s going on concurrently where they recently said they don’t have any emails (despite producing some emails to us) as evidence of why they shouldn’t be trusted to conduct their own forensic examination. bold strategy.
Regardless of whether the motion has merit, there's no better way to draw attention to something that you don't like than filing a motion to strike it.
Basically Pacer but for all state court filings IMO. Charge a monthly fee and per page download fee with a portion going to the state court systems. Take a cut off the top.
Also a $75k settlement that I want to get ASAP client didn’t tell us she had Medicare and actually denied she had it in her deposition then we find out the day before geico is getting ready to cut the check that she does so probably not getting anything until September Tight
Mind posting a link to that opinion? I've got some e-discovery stuff coming up and sc is light on relevant case law, so wouldn't mind a good place to launch the research on the brief.
https://casetext.com/case/dr-distribs-llc-v-21-century-smoking-inc-7 I was incorrect - it was Illinois. There’s an earlier Ohio decision that’s cited in there that’s pretty good that is what led me to this one.
This is the opening sentence of an opinion. Made me laugh: “Jeanette Ringo suffered injuries when she retreated from a Peekapoo dog owned by Lela Wilson and Tela Wilson Collins and fell in their driveway. ” Ringo v. Wilson, 204 So. 3d 827, 828 (Miss. Ct. App. 2016)
I have an indemnity issue with a co-defendant and their in-house counsel cannot fucking figure out that he's not allowed to contact my client's employee directly.
I have a comp client that is convinced the employer/carrier have tapped their phones and are constantly in their yard surveilling them. I was skeptical but to please the client I asked the E/C's lawyer to advise their surveillance not to go on claimant's property. OC responded that the carrier didn't have surveillance on the client. Two days ago same client tells me that a nurse case manager is going into appointments with her and asks me to tell E/C not to send NCMs into appointments with her. I ask OC about this. She says they don't even have a nurse case manager assigned to the case. Probably just the doc's nurse.
yeah they somehow found the one federal judge who is knowledgable about ESI. talk about an unlucky roll of the dice.
I've thankfully never had a case with hundreds of thousands of pages of ESI production/search terms/etc., but I can see myself fucking it up due to my apathy. On the sideline of one right now -- Bad tractor-trailer accident, Pltf attorney is also going after WA Dept of Transp. based on the concrete barriers in the area. WA DOT produced over 300K of PDFs based on broad search terms, but produced a ton of irrelevant stuff. It's an old bulldog Pltf attorney that is just skulldragging this poor WA DOT lawyer. Just moved for sanctions and he's probably going to prevail. The briefs are like watching a couple argue in public. Lots of mudslinging, name calling, "has he nothing better to do than harass my client?" Really tremendous content.
Just had a depo in this case and it was the managing lawyer at the Houston Fred loya office they fired that kid and he was super apologetic kid who thought he could teach the mediator how to do his job fucked up almsot every case he had. He didn’t file experts on our case and deadline was like a year ago. Managing lawyer was like yeah I’m not surprised
Tegg have y'all ever had anyone else have an issue with emails from your firm going to spam? Just had that happen with another guy at your office.
in our case the defendant said they don't know anything about a gmail account that the leasing office used. Then the court ordered them to search it and they said oh we lost access to the leasing office account over a year ago. Then we filed another motion and attached an email from the leasing office account from 6 months ago. now they are on to we lost access when we sold the property February of this year and put in an affidavit that the account was "likely accessed from a single computer in the leasing office." there have been a lot of footnotes with links to how to reset your gmail password, how to access gmail, where you can access gmail