Lawyer thread

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  1. wes tegg

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    It’s not Pega-me, is it?
     
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  2. harvey birdman

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    Hit Me
     
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  3. El Tiburon

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    Only if you’re Mario and hankering for butt play.
     
  4. wes tegg

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    So she’s hitting her clients? None of this seems thought out.
     
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  5. Gallant Knight

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    Pegah packs a punch
     
  6. Oranjello

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    1. Do all litigators consider it beneath themselves to send a calendar invite to opposing counsel when one of you request a meeting at a specific time and day?
    2. At what point do you refuse to manage your own schedule?
     
  7. RJF-GUMP

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    Have never sent a calendar invite to just meet . And I don't manage my own schedule.
     
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  8. wes tegg

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    I’ll send a calendar invite. My assistant does most of my calendaring/scheduling, but I’ll still do plenty on my own.
     
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  9. Nug

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    This was prompted by a convo bw 'jello and I where I mentioned that I do almost zero of my own calendaring. He said he schedules a majority of his own meetings. He also wasn't familiar with "calendaring" as a verb.

    I haven't handled my schedule in almost 13 years of practice and I'm sure as hell not gonna start now.

    I think litigation requires a lot more calendaring than other areas because for a lot of meetings, hearings, etc, I also need several reminders to begin briefing, or if it's a depo that means we need a prep session, and so on.
     
  10. Oranjello

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    Lol it was sparked by you mentioning how someone asked for you a call at, for example, Tuesday and 10am. And you bitching about how you had no one to send the calendar invite on your behalf and doing so yourself was both beyond your capability and beneath you.
     
  11. Nug

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    I have over 100 cases. I ain't scheduling around that

    no attorney that does solely litigation runs their own calendar
     
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  12. Gallant Knight

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    My “calendaring system” is extremely fucked

    I get a text and email 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days and day before every deposition and hearing. I get my two week schedule emailed to me every Monday.

    I don’t even have a calendar that I look at. I just get those notifications and go from there
     
  13. Craig Pettis

    Craig Pettis Que será será motherfucker
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  14. CF3234

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    This. It’s not an ego thing. It’s an I have too much shit to do to be wasting time managing my calendar. Now if I have a relationship with OC and setting a time to have a quick chat to discuss a case is a matter of a couple text messages within a few minutes rather than multiple emails to an assistant over a period of a couple hours, I put that in the calendar myself.
     
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  15. Brandon Chicken

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  16. Gallant Knight

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    I think I have maybe one more “I can’t I’m wandering discovery” when a potential client calls from absolutely losing my shit
     
  17. Gallant Knight

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    lmao just got a call from a woman who was getting a chest tattoo and the tattoo 'artist' was turning an accidentally tattooed her fucking face.
     
  18. Gallant Knight

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    called the tattoo parlor to try to get insurance and surprisingly they were not very professional. said they needed to go through their emails to find it.

    said i'll call back in two hours and they can either give me insurance info or we will be filing and apparently that is 'fucking dramatic'

    i guess if you tattoo people for a living you're desensitized to the fact that most people do not want tattoos on their face.
     
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  19. Tex

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    Pic of face tat?
     
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  20. Ray McKigney

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    way behind here but hello
     
  21. electronic

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  22. Sammy Meatballs

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    ah the Charlie Crist days
     
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  23. Gallant Knight

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    got a referral from a billboard firm. client was a pedestrian and hit by car and has broken leg and fractured ankle. pictures of him in the hospital are pretty gnarly.

    they made claim with shitty insurance company and were told that driver was in course and scope. they hire someone to do a search to see where he works and couldn't find anything and they were like we are gonna drop it but maybe youll find something.

    called the insurance company and was like so was the guy driving for a rideshare can you take a look. he was driving for ubereats

    offered to let them have it back but they said since i found it i could keep it

    like...thanks but also what are yall doing
     
  24. Gallant Knight

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    love the firms that are willing to take the shitty 30k policies on flat fees. they're so overwhelmed with cases that they materially fuck them up like 30-40% of the time.

    settled one last week for 2x limits and about to settle one today for 2.5x

    thanks state farm
     
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  25. bricktop

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    Just won an FTCA bench trial against the post office

    top offer was 5800
    Verdict was 253k

    :getmoneyfuckbitches:
     
  26. Nug

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    Why was it bench?
     
  27. bro

    bro Your Mother’s Favorite Shitposter
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    wow thanks for raising my taxes
     
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  28. wes tegg

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    All FTCA cases are.
     
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  29. wes tegg

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    Congrats!
     
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  30. wes tegg

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    I just sat through a mediation where my client and the mediator talked about motivational/self-help/performance coaching podcasts all day.
     
  31. Nug

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    I did not know that. I have two right now.

    Wack
     
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  32. bro

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    always wondered why the mediator would be gone for 1.5 hours halfway thru the mediation and come back with barely any new insight or information.
     
  33. bricktop

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    No jury. No fee shifting PFS/OJ. No prevailing party costs (I think this one is less clear).

    just you and the judge
     
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  34. bricktop

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    my clients will now be able to afford a house because of the American dream (got hit by a postal van)
     
  35. Sammy Meatballs

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    and because you’re capped at a 25% fee!
     
  36. bricktop

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  37. herb.burdette

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    I was in litigation with the Cleveland Browns and we had oral argument on summary judgments.

    The federal judge called us back to chambers to “discuss settlement” but this was a Monday and he spent the first 15 minutes with the Brown’s counsel lamenting about the loss on Sunday.

    That’s how I knew this was going to be a tough argument.
     
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  38. Gallant Knight

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    We’ve referred out the 6-7 post office cases we’ve signed up. They suck ass
     
  39. BUstang

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    I had a dynamite multiple back surgery CMV case against the VA. Settled it for $825k. Never again.
     
  40. wes tegg

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    They’re the worst.
     
  41. Oranjello

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    Why?
     
  42. BUstang

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    25% capped fee. Limitations in damages. Bench trial in federal court. Traditionally very conservative valuations of cases.
     
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  43. colonel_forbin

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    Dealing with the government blows. The AUSAs fight everything and don't weigh risk because there's no concern about the company bottom line.
     
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  44. Gallant Knight

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    For usps cases have to wait I think 6 months for them to respond to a demand before you can do anything as well…

    the list goes on and on
     
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  45. Nug

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    I have a gnarly bicep tear against the Naval base out here, subcontractor got hurt when a ladder detached from the wall. Repairs were performed just 2 months earlier.

    Have another clear-liability accident caused by a USPS truck that turned directly into our guy, he's looking at surgery

    Suddenly not too jazzed about these cases
     
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  46. BUstang

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    Be efficient with the cases and upfront with clients immediately about expectations. If you can get in and out quickly, they're ok. It's just hard to accomplish.
     
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  47. bricktop

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    The first phone call with the AUSA, after waiting 6 months post sf95, he essentially told me that the post office will offer past meds, after insurance setoffs and that’s about it. They don’t consider litigation costs. They don’t factor in the risk of a verdict. He also told me that they ignore anything they’re told by the AUSAs assigned to the case


    My only tips are 1. Make sure you put a huge reserve on the sf95 even if the case will never come close. 2. Lay an extensive foundation for everything you’re asking for or expect the rule 52 motion to be granted on it. Get a life care planner for futures. Don’t rely on a treater. 3. Don’t even bother if you have anything less than a lock on liability

    oh, and in any tort reform state: expect a huge fight about any medical bills submitted

    basically, just know that you have to take the case to trial to get anything out of it
     
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  48. RJF-GUMP

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    yah but it's really fun when you beat those fuckers on the merits
     
  49. bricktop

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    only to be awarded $5000 by the federal judge because that’s what he paid for his first house in 1965


    Unless you get very lucky with a liberal judge like I did
     
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  50. Sammy Meatballs

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    I would rather do soft tissue workers comp than handle another usps case.
     
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