In the end, Smith's
client accepted a lower offer.
Not exact matches
If they don't keep their rates
low, then Credible
clients, like you, won't
accept their
offers.
On the flip side, it may be the
client who chooses to
accept an
offer to settle for a
lower amount — despite the lawyer's advice to the contrary.
Some inexperienced lawyers may give up and advise their
clients to
accept low settlement
offers.
Instead of
offering an acceptable settlement
offer to help mend the damage their
client has caused, they start as
low as possible in hopes that your lack of experience will lead you to
accept.
It has always been our policy to never
accept a
low settlement
offer that benefits the people who caused our
clients harm more than it benefits our
clients.
I imagine that the lawyers tried to get the
client to
accept the $ 30,000
offer on $ 13,000 in medical bills and $ 9,800 in wages because this was a
low property damage case.
Many settlement mill law firms look solely at the medical bills, simply
accept the insurance company's
low settlement
offer based on those bills, and fail to represent their
clients fully.
Recently he saved a
client $ 40,000 from the listed price of a lakeside property by pinpointing the exact price of the home and generating a market analysis report that made the seller comfortable
accepting the
lower offer.
Using your logic, if you were representing the buyer who made the
offer with the
lower deposit, and they failed to get their
offer accepted because of it, you would have considered yourself to have done your buyer
client a favour because of the possibility that your buyer's: «may have simply changed their minds about....»
Also, if your
client gives in during the negotiations, share with the other party some of the reasons that they
accepted the
lower offer so the other party doesn't assume they'll keep giving, and which could turn the negotiations into a cycle of asking for more and more, Nazari says.