re: Do attorneys like Gordon McKernan take on case work once they make it big?

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so you're an adjuster/hired hand to take recorded statements

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negative ghost rider ... vocational rehabilitation expert, and have been in the industry for 25 yrs. Based on objective factual information, the client can either return to their job of injury (with minimal or no loss of wages) or they will need vocational training to find a new profession (often times significant wage loss). I do expert work for both defense and plaintiff attorneys so I'm not labelled as a "hired hand". I know several colleagues who strictly work for one side, and their reports and expert opinions are the exact same whether it be a sprained ankle injury or 3 level cervical fusion.

Morris Bart has not actively practiced law since about 2008. He is a business man now. Most of the big personal injury lawyers are like that although I'm told if the number is big enough Gordon will get involved it is rare they go to trial.

However, if it goes to a trial I have seen a few of the TV guys in action.

Michael Hingle is very good in the courtroom.

the accelerator on the boat case. I think it was slashed by a higher court because the punitives were out of whack. They tied them to the generals and broke dick, absentee dad was the plaintiff and didn’t get much in generals. Mom had already settled. Now the little Broussard thinks he’s gods gift to lawyering

Bart has openly bragged about not taking depos and calling witnesses blind.

Most people have no idea what they sign up for

The big one in Memphis used to send anything that actually went to a trial to a firm with real trial lawyers. I don't know if they still do that, I do know that the firm they would send their trial work to definitely didn't advertise that they were handling those cases

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G Is too busy making stupid commercials to show off his kids and have the commercials played over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

I've got a good story about Hingle. Dude was in my family's restaurant with his mistress. Wife brought the kids and confronted him in front of the whole damn place

I'd be cool with being a rich POS. He is like Orville Redenbacher though

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Gordon wrote a book on the Biblical basis for suing someone. I had a copy in my office but lost it. It was like 45 pages long, and was actually decently well-done considering the subject matter. Nice glossy pamphlet for a quick read. It had a lot of Bible verses, and some boilerplate legal principles he tried to tie together.

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Except it does not answer the question:

Does the process used to develop the case pass the pristine test?

Are the medical records the usual cookie cutter reports from the nefarious doctors utilized by the plaintiff attorneys?

Are the medical specials true and accurate or some overly inflated number which is paid at a far lower amount by an insurer or via a negotiated sum between doctor and lawyer when the case is settled. Meanwhile the attorney and his client collect the full sum under the collateral source rule.

Did the attorney refer the injured person to a surgeon who seldom has a good outcome. The surgery has a poor outcome leaving the poor injured pawn worse off than before. Of course, this worsened condition often leads to more surgery or addiction and pain management. All of which makes the case far more lucrative for the attorney, but leaves the client with a wrecked life.

See there is another side to these sanitized commercials and glossy billboards. The ads should read " Get Done Over" not Get it done.