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re: If I could do it all over again, I'd be a personal injury attorney
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:20 pm to NfamousPanda
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:20 pm to NfamousPanda
Mine got Dudley Deboser after making jokes about people suing for nothing. Medical problems from fender bender
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:24 pm to sealawyer
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They want loans from day one.
This is pretty much a given these days. And it's a tough trend to keep up with as a solo or small firm practitioner. But there's certainly big money to be accumulated.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:40 pm to TDsngumbo
There will be a reckoning for Louisiana PI attys in the next 5-10 years. The gravy train cannot run on forever. There will also be a reckoning for the doctors who enable the racket.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:56 pm to DevilDagNS
Hope the doctors who enable this get suspended
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:54 pm to TDsngumbo
I am a personal injury lawyer with a small firm that does not advertise. We handle complicated cases for people that are severely injured (most of the time). It is rewarding work helping put someone's life back together after it has been shattered.
I used to be an insurance defense lawyer in a big defense firm. I could not believe how unethical some insurance companies and large corporations were, hiding evidence, misleading about policies-so I made the switch to representing human beings and I sleep great at night.
Although I have found myself representing a scoundrel from time to time and have let many of them go as clients, it is fulfilling work generally. Most of you do not really have an idea of what it takes to get a case where someone has been destroyed and then piecing together a case to get them compensated and their life repaired. It is challenging, risky and can be extremely complicated-putting my time, expertise and money at risk with no guarantees that I will win. That is why we are often highly compensated, the reward follows the risk.
I used to be an insurance defense lawyer in a big defense firm. I could not believe how unethical some insurance companies and large corporations were, hiding evidence, misleading about policies-so I made the switch to representing human beings and I sleep great at night.
Although I have found myself representing a scoundrel from time to time and have let many of them go as clients, it is fulfilling work generally. Most of you do not really have an idea of what it takes to get a case where someone has been destroyed and then piecing together a case to get them compensated and their life repaired. It is challenging, risky and can be extremely complicated-putting my time, expertise and money at risk with no guarantees that I will win. That is why we are often highly compensated, the reward follows the risk.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:39 pm to Verbal Kent
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I am a personal injury lawyer with a small firm that does not advertise. We handle complicated cases for people that are severely injured (most of the time). It is rewarding work helping put someone's life back together after it has been shattered.
I used to be an insurance defense lawyer in a big defense firm. I could not believe how unethical some insurance companies and large corporations were, hiding evidence, misleading about policies-so I made the switch to representing human beings and I sleep great at night.
Although I have found myself representing a scoundrel from time to time and have let many of them go as clients, it is fulfilling work generally. Most of you do not really have an idea of what it takes to get a case where someone has been destroyed and then piecing together a case to get them compensated and their life repaired. It is challenging, risky and can be extremely complicated-putting my time, expertise and money at risk with no guarantees that I will win. That is why we are often highly compensated, the reward follows the risk.
These are the rewarding cases, but not the norm of what society thinks of PI attorneys now. Most advertising attorneys are getting soft tissue injuries with little to no rear end bumper damages. Here is what I do not like, is when the PI attorney or firm directs the client to a specific chiro for treatment. The attorney is essentially creating the fourth and final element of negligence, damages for the bodily injury case so there is a case to make a BI claim upon.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:49 pm to glorymanutdtiger
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Hope the doctors who enable this get suspended
It is the definition of racketeering. And its just sitting there in plain sight and accepted by the citizens of this great state.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:53 pm to DevilDagNS
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There will also be a reckoning for the doctors who enable the racket.
You hear a lot about this from the PI crowd. The docs take a huge chunk of the settlement money. It has absolutely changed the economics of PI work in the last twenty years, at least from what I hear.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:56 pm to JudgeHolden
The RICO suits are coming.....
Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:31 pm to Paddyshack
Just look at all that Steve Madden attire
Posted on 2/19/19 at 7:01 pm to TDsngumbo
As someone who worked as a paralegal at a PI firm, this is 100% accurate. They want to “borrow against their case” immediately. If it’s a big money case (18 wheeler Or offshore accident) the attorney will loan them the money almost always.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 7:14 pm to TDsngumbo
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$772,200 a year would be enough to make me want to work with the lowest denominator of society for a living.
Why would I take a pay cut?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 7:29 pm to TDsngumbo
I have an old college roommate that does this, it’s not as lucrative as you think.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 8:00 pm to jackmanusc
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You're missing the huge advertising costs to keep volume up
LOL
Some of the most successful personal injury attorneys have never run a single ad anywhere. You've never heard of them and they have tons of business.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 10:03 pm to Brightside Bengal
It was the vehicles fault it saw her well before the impact but the software could decide if she was a car, a bike, or a person. The human element also failed as well.
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