Lawyer thread

I need 24 hours of CLE by 12/31. Not sure why I do this every two year cycle.

 

Lauren and Amy need to mind their own damn business

 

just called opposing counsel. have a compel on file that outlines how he has straight up ignored 8 emails about scheduling a car inspection. he picked up the phone, i guess realized who it was, hung up and then didn't answer when i called back. i am losing my gd mind

 

I usually pretend not to be able to speak English instead of just not answering.

 

The judge in the YSL trial asked the defense lawyers if they want a mistrial without prejudice. Sounds like if they say yes she will grant it.

Not sure it makes sense since most of their clients have been in jail and if they decide to bring the case again they’ll just be in jail for another 2-4 years awaiting the outcome of a new trial

 

have a case where i'm about to do a doctor depo. fred loya captive counsel subbed in two days ago so the other lawyer called and was like the judge hasn't signed so if they dont show up let me know and i'll be there i guess.

he goes on to tell me that they gave back like 70 cases to fred loya because they just got sick of getting hammered at trial because loya wouldnt hire experts or let them do *anything* other than take a plaintiffs depo and sit there for their clients depo

said they got popped for 7 figures on a case where they couldve paid 30k when plaintiff had a 7 figure life care plan and a surgery and they just went to trial with no experts and no nothing and it was gutshot liability.

p funny

 

Is Fred Loya and viable business or will it be insolvent or bankrupt in 5-10 years?

 

Asking the Fred loya lawyer for the basis of her firm objections because they made no sense and she had to look them up

like objection to her testifying about what a disc herniation and she says a Chiro isn’t qualified

like that’s not a form objection bruh

 

I think they’re likely going out of business

 

“Sam you can laugh all you want but let’s keep it moving”

 

emailed the Court clerk asking to schedule the hearing on our motion to compel and OC responded that he was out on leave november and december and unable to attend a hearing. awesome.

 

lmbo

If he’s out for two months surely he’s designated a colleague to pick up the file in his absence right?

 

i have no idea. he has ignored emails on September 25, 2024, October 1, 2024, October 8, 2024, October 11, 2024, October 15, 2024, October 16, 2024, October 22, 2024, and October 24, 2024.

i tried calling him yesterday, he picked up the phone, realized it was me, then hung up. i tried to call him back and it went to voicemail. i've tried to talk to adjusters at lyft and they've pretty much ignored me.

if the edr data gets fucked or erased we are going to get an unreal spoliation instruction.

 

they've also blown a stowes demand on this woman who has a lymphedema in her leg and has to wear compression socks and spend 45 minutes in a pneumatic pump for the rest of her life. she's 37. if we have to try the case i'm just going to put the pump on our table for the entire trial.

 

Thankfully you won’t be without a rico case for long with Lil Durk getting arrested yesterday

 

And he has an out of office message on so I guess he’s just taking off until January and expects all other attorneys to just press pause on his cases

I hate captive counsel so much.

 

National paralegal day was last week and we had scheduling conflicts so it's just now getting celebrated. Entire staff got sent with the amex to go eat lunch at Saltgrass. My question: should the whole staff get lunch or just the paralegals? After all, it's national paralegal day.

 

if you want to do something i would send all the staff. no attorneys.

 

also get the chase ink business preferred. 3x points on advertising.

 

no attorneys are going. I should have clarified the options are all staff vs just paralegals. I can't stand participation trophy culture . We ended up sending the whole staff. I could see where doing something for all of them is the wiser thing to do and best for morale.

 

How would you feel if you were the staff? That should answer your question. Also it’s a made up holiday (as all are). It’s not akin to a participation trophy.

 

i like gump a lot but he has a bunch of unintentionally hilarious moments

 

agree here. Paralegal day, receptionist day, admin day, etc. All of them are just the entire staff. It's a handful of days a year where they all get free lunch. It's not the end of the world.

 

Enjoy your day paralegals.. Legal assistants, receptionists, and everyone else who does similar level work, GET FUCKED.

 

any time you can make some staff extremely resentful of the other staff you really gotta do it

 

Gotta breed competition, can't let them get complacent

 

OK, first of all I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong. Sometimes I’m a boomer about stuff. It’s funny because there’s other stuff that my more progressive partners are boomers about and I’m more progressive so it’s not a linear issue. Eventually, I saw the light on this one and decided the correct mindset is for everyone to be rewarded or enjoy celebrating. If I was gonna say anything to defend myself or in response to what y’all have said, I would note that we also celebrate legal assistant day and the legal assistants are rewarded then too . At this point I think on all the days we give cards , gift certificates, and send them to wherever they want for lunch (no partners go) with the AMEX. I guess in my mind , on legal assistant days they get all sorts of great treatment, enjoy it amongst the other legal assistants. Then on paralegal days same thing with the paralegals, etc., etc.

 

yea, but it's one of those things where you just have to treat it like "staff appreciation day". Instead of it happening once a year, it is every few months. Small price to pay for keeping up morale.

 

I cater in Chick-fil-A breakfast one Friday a month for my entire team of almost 30. It costs me like $400. If I didn’t do it I seriously think that there would be a riot.

 

Agree with that.

 

I come into the office once/month and always pick up some diabetes-donuts, bagels, something for everyone. We're a small office, tho.

Chic-fil-a is a good idea

 

I can't remember, you are in insurance? Regardless, that's awesome , and really freaking expensive.

 

Alternative finance, legal funding, distressed real estate.

It’s a small price to pay to keep morale up. No single bigger curse to a business than bad morale imo.

 

I know legal funding folks that are much richer than lawyers. I have a theory that the cottage industries around law are more lucrative than actually being a lawyer. Should figure out a way to get into that and out of law probably.

 

Employees looking at a $400 breakfast.... "sure could use a raise instead of a breakfast "

 

I've argued that point many times at meetings. Instead of giving them x,y,z just give them $. The argument is always that there is value to getting them together and giving them something that they can enjoy and is fun. I'm still not sure I know what the right answer is. Probably a combination of paying them well and doing the other stuff

 

yeah do both if you can

 

he just asserted a vacation letter for the hearing tomorrow. i really hope he is blowing us off because something happened to the vehicle between us sending the spoliation letter and now. that would be v nice

 

lol at a vacation letter. that's not a thing here

 

It definitely is here. Can pretty much designate two weeks where any hearings or trial settings or anything will be auto reset

Almost always they’re two weeks in the summer

 

yeah Georgia has very lenient leave of absence rules as well.

my favorite is the guy who does a lot of state farm and allstate work who also just happens to be a state senator, so by law he is excused from doing anything, including responding to discovery, while the state senate is in session.

 

don't do what this opposing counsel just did to us

have a corporate rep depo tomorrow. he calls and says his client is in japan and his flight is delayed and he will miss a connection and therefore be unable to attend the deposition tomorrow. we ask him for flight info and we will cancel the depo. the guy wasn't even in japan. nice.

 

jesus

 

GK I feel like the percentage of shady, absolute shit lawyers you deal with is much higher than the average attorney

 

i think we just have a few right now that have gone completely off the rails and i'm not bashful about posting

but yeah the fake delayed flight back from japan to avoid having to tell us if you actually have insurance is a first.

 

Your Fred Ioya (sp?) escapades sounds pretty wild, too.

Keep posting, tho. Por favor

 

How do you deal with clients that, for a lack of a better term, are just absolute wimps? (Trying to eliminate the derogatory term for female genitalia from my vocab)

Have a guy right now that is making me want to stuff him in a locker. It's a decent dogbite case, and WA has strict liability, so don't really have to do anything other than submit evidence of damages. ER visit, nasty bite, stitches, etc.

The dog is a golden doodle (be warned, Oranjello ), but whatever, it was aggressive. Now the client wants to move neighborhoods, sell his house, and enter a PO against the Def. Claiming PTSD with no previous history. He wants to retire from this case. Talking to the guy for 30 seconds, you're just like dude, come on.

 

The hardest skill I still have to learn as a PI attorney is being a zealous advocate for low damages/chiro/minimal cases.