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Month: October 2014

MEDIATION AND MEDIATORS

MEDIATION AND MEDIATORS

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I’ve written about settlement mediation before on this blog: https://plaintifftriallawyertips.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=157&action=edit The entire subject of modern settlement negotiations has been much more complex then when I started the practice. The insurance adjustor would come to the office and negotiate with you. In other cases, you would get a phone call from the defense lawyer who would want to talk settlement. In all but rare situations you negotiated your own cases directly, either with an insurance representative or the defense lawyer. Now, even the smaller…

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TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

TRIAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONS

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When I was a young lawyer in the small town of Mount Vernon, Washington I would sometimes fly to places for legal work as the quickest way to get there. Just outside town there was a narrow dirt air strip right along a standing field of corn on one side and a drainage canal on the other. The local pilot who flew the farms for spraying the fields had his planes there and one was a small two seater he…

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VULNERABILITY IS POWER- BRENE BROWN

VULNERABILITY IS POWER- BRENE BROWN

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Brene Brown is a PhD research professor at the University of Houston in the graduate College of social work. Her area of research involves relationships between people. She studies vulnerability, courage, worthiness and shame. She has published about these subjects: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABrene%20 She also has a blog(http://brenebrown.com/)  and has TED talks as well.  She confirms what I believe about the essential need of plaintiff attorneys to be totally authentic and to be truth tellers about themselves and their cases if they want…

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