Lawyer thread

Typically in Florida there is a stop sign on both ends going across the entry/exit to the street and the side coming in from the street has no stop sign in order to prevent a backup of traffic on the street.

Assuming a similar set up in your case, yea the guy already in the lot is at fault.

 

a long time since driver’s ed but iirc at any T-intersection the car that must turn left or right at the intersection yields to traffic on the through street unless there is signage to the contrary

 

I don’t know if electric dirt bikes are a big thing everywhere else, but they’re very popular around here and I despise this trend. These things can travel at speeds from 50-75 mph depending on the brand and upgrades, and my son has several friends whose parents have bought them for their kids and let them ride out on the street all over town. They’re dangerous as shit, and I frankly do judge parents who et their kids ride them (much less buy them at all).

With that said, one of my son’s classmates just got wrecked by a car exiting an apartment complex because they didn’t see him coming up on the sidewalk. He survived, but has tons of injuries and spent two weeks in the hospital. I brought the case in and handed it off to one of our auto guys to handle, and he thinks there’s a great case for line of sight obstruction on the part of the complex. Notwithstanding my personal feelings about whether the kid should have been on the bike to begin with, if it works out then

 

I had a case where we argued the line of sight idea only for the apartment complex to show up to mediation with proof that the fence blocking LOS and the area where the crash happened were all on a city easement.

they also brought video of my clients running the stop sign into the intersection where they got hit (both were on electric scooters)

 

some pretty good plaintiffs lawyers trying a death case in houston.

https://video.ibm.com/channel/gQ6Av8NTQDw

this guy gave one of the best openings i've ever heard yesterday

https://www.wvmlaw.com/attorney-profiles/ryan-macleod/

 

this defense lawyer is probably going to get absolutely smoked. can tell he doesn't spend much time in the courtroom

https://www.thompsoncoe.com/people/cory-s-reed/

 

But he’s the vice chair of professional liability!

 

he's about to have one less client. this is going to be fucking uglyyy

 

there is a guy in austin who does 'rocket mediations.' two hours, $300 per party, and he is awesome. i hate just bullshitting for hours in meditations on smaller cases. we just settled one in under an hour

 

also being able to recover attorneys fees for first party cases is such a game changer. every single judge in harris county will LOVE to give fees on state farm and allstate first party cases.

 

Fuck that guy if that concept ever makes its way into Georgia. My mediations are almost always 1-2.5 hours max. I might only have 1-2 mediations per month that last longer than 3 hours.

 

he just started last year and we were pretty much able to book him whenever we wanted. now he's booked pretty solid through the end of may

 

Then he’d be stupid not to gradually raise his prices then. $600 for a two party claim mediation is just ridiculous.

 

i think he's doing 3/day

 

I do 2 per day usually (10am & 2pm) and 3 on Thursday (9am, 12pm, 3pm)

 

We used to be able to in Florida until we got DeSantis-ed

 

i'm going to have like 150k fees on a few of these

 

Cory has about as much personality as a brillow pad. They must feel confident about an appellate issue because that firm is pretty good about paying before trial.

 

I think it’s good that insurance defense partners that I’ve litigated against extensively are trying to send me cases from time to time. It’s bad that all the cases are completely gross and I have to decline all of them.

 

someone needs to tell these dudes that they really need to settle this case

 

Thompson Coe lost their main litigator/settling partner a few weeks ago. He started his own firm. I dont think many other people over there, besides him, understand how the world works.

 

lmao plaintiff rested and thompson coe's appellate counsel is up there and the judge is absolutely beating him like a rented mule this is fun

 

they needed to offer him like 100k to show up and try this one

 

gee i wonder how many times the plaintiff lawyer is going to say that the defense witness isn't licensed to practice law in texas when the biggest medical center in the entire world is 5 miles from the courthouse.

 

Most difficult case I have right now is with Progressive.

Straight UM case. I’ve got clear liability, real damages (kid had a partially collapsed lung and pelvis was fractured in 3 places), I’m in an incredibly liberal venue, and they’re offering me $135,000 on a $300,000 policy. I’m normally real easy to deal with, but I just told their adjuster she is living in cloud cuckoo land.

 

Sounds like a mediator might need to educate them

 

I won’t mediate it unless they pay for it. I’m not wasting the money. Their position is just mind boggling stupid. I have $17,000 in lost wages for crying out loud. I’m very confident a jury would give $500,000 minimum (obviously damages are capped below that), but I don’t think I have any real risk.

 

True. But it helps adjusters to pay limits when a mediator is like you’d be dumb not to

 

Yeah, I don't know what else to do other than try it, which will be fine. One of wes tegg 's former partners has the second layer of UM on the co-Plaintiff, but doesn't have any on this guy, so he was at the deposition but not participating, and when it was done he said, well that's a policy limits case.

 

Spoiler

after receiving multiple offers (some amazing, some bad), I have decided to stay on board with my current job as the office is no longer winding down, but is instead going through a bit of a reformation. This resulted in me getting a 50ish percent increase in my salary and a track to be nonequity partner starting 2026.

really happy with the outcome as I really like my lifestyle firm and the flexibility they provide. but now I get compensated at or above my actual worth.

 

I very rarely pay for mediations. Once a lawsuit is filed I'm not asking about settlement. You are going to have to bring that up and offer me something. Because I've always already made a presuit demand that got shit on but some dumbass adjuster because insurance companies are dumb. I'm 1000% not asking about mediation. You are going to have to bring that up and pay for it.

 

every single judge in FL orders mediation in every case. It's easier to just show up, demand the limits and leave than it is to get them to grant a motion to dispense with mediation.

 

I like mediation because we settle 80% of the time we go

 

Damn judges meddling with the process.

 

I'd say like at least 50% of the time they bring shit levels of authority to a mediation that have no chance of getting a case settled

 

Think it’s a state requirement

 

Judge denied OC's motion to dismiss for fraud i argued on wednesday.

Trial on april 29th and my treating radiologist won't answer my calls or emails

 

I know I'm being facetious

 

Should push for equity stake in it.

 

bro how many years of practice do you have under your belt now?

 

All depends on situation and your leverage. My partners gave me an equity stake, though small, when I’d be practicing for only 3 years.

 

If, for example, someone had an equity stake in a defense firm in Birmingham and left to to plaintiffs work, would they get bought out when they left or would the equity just revert back to the other partners

 

I've always understood non-equity is a pretty empty title, but is an excuse to bill a higher rate.

But I actively avoided partnership for a decade.

 

Also helpful to have that title when you’re trying to bring in business

 

Yea that's true.