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most settle but you understand there’s a
difference between settlements and
settlements and the reason I say that
whenever you take a personal injury case
you have to prepare the case in
litigation as though it we going to
trial which means you have to do all of
the work when we talk about Discovery we
mean depositions request for production
of documents requests for admissions
interrogatories those kinds of things to
find out everything you need to find out
about the other case that has to be done
and you have to be aggressive in your
Discovery you have to take any and all
depositions clients the uh the precipi
witnesses to the event doctors if
necessary experts if necessary so that
case is ready to go to
trial and that way if you do all that
work the settlement which happens before
trial is a reasonable settlement the
problem with a lot of personal injury
lawyers who at least call themselves
personal injury lawyers is they don’t do
that work they file a complaint and they
sit there and wait for a check well the
problem is that if they haven’t
adequately prepared their case and
you’re the defense attorney you know
that so when it comes time to settle
that case you’re not going to offer him
a significant sum of money because he
hasn’t done the work so who suffers is
the client they don’t know what the case
is worth the attorney is supposed to
know what the case is worth but the
attorneys that don’t do that work right
up front actually cheat their client
because their client does not get what
they’re entitled to
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