RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTING PLAINTIFFS

This is a mixing bowl of unconnected ideas about our work. It’s a summary of some recent E-mail exchanges I’ve had with  other plaintiff’s lawyers about different subjects  under discussion and my general reading. How do We  Make  Decisions? I’ve written a lot about this subject but in Tuesday’s edition of the this  week’s New York Times there was an article about how people  make medical decisions regarding their health care. It was based, in part on medical journal articles…

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MEDIATION AND MEDIATORS

MEDIATION AND MEDIATORS

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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