Sentences with phrase «plaintiffs lawyers often»

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Rich Palma, president of Golden Pear Funding, said plaintiffs who take out advances receive better protection than borrowers may in other lending situations, because their own lawyers typically review, and often sign, advance agreements.

Regulators and plaintiffs lawyers say both restatements and sudden public bankruptcies often signal the presence of fraud.

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

Attorneys Justin Leto and Larry Bassuk launched Level Insurance last month and it's too early to say whether the product is a success but they hope to carve out a niche in competition with existing lenders who finance plaintiff lawyers with high - interest loans, often secured by personal property.

Product liability litigation is often the preserve of plaintiff class action lawyers and large Bay Street defence firms, not Main Street law firms.

«It's something that you don't really see that often that a plaintiff is suing for damages to his reputation, not only as a lawyer but as a potential future career as a judge that could have been impacted by this as well,» says McNairn's lawyer, Jeff Saikaley, of Caza Saikaley LLP.

As headline - grabbing reports of jury verdicts proliferate, successful businesspeople often worry that they could lose everything to a rapacious plaintiff's lawyer.

In the course of the claim the Plaintiff's lawyer advised her to keep a pain journal, something often done in personal injury cases.

These are the generic types of autonomous products Plaintiffs» trial lawyers are most likely to unjustifiably attack most often.

If it sometimes seems that plaintiffs lawyers are overzealous in their pursuit of potential defendants, here is an object lesson in why that strategy often makes sense.

Lawyers often mistakenly appeal heavily to the jury's sympathy when trying a case, especially when they are representing the plaintiff.

In this case, the plaintiff's lawyer can often determine other liable parties, such as employers or others, who can provide compensation.

Evan writes that as a defense lawyer, he'd often try to dehumanize victims to better defend his clients, but that as a plaintiff's lawyer, «things are much different: torts are automatically «humanized» for you every day by your clients.»

Because of attorney - client privilege, it is impossible to know how often those plaintiffs» lawyers advised their clients to take the offers and stay away from trial, but I suspect that it wasn't very often.

Some of the other overall findings include the statistical fact that plaintiffs in English courts win their cases 75 % of the time, which is more than double the US figure and that self - represented litigants i.e. litigants without a lawyer, generally beat expectations and were often very successful in court.

Certainly, any tech tool that enables a plaintiffs lawyer to better compete with the large firms who are often on the other side should be valuable.

Often victims of crime would seek a trial lawyer (i.e. someone who does plaintiff's tort claims) or general practice lawyer, who is familiar with the Internet to bring a tort claim against the perpetrator, to seek a TRO, or to assist of making a persuasive case to criminal prosecutors to press the case (a difficult thing to do).

I've often seen a plaintiff suing without a lawyer, but a lawyer suing without a plaintiff!

Lawyers acting for plaintiffs often run the risk of being out of pocket for unpaid disbursements if an action fails and their clients are unable to pay.

Social media evidence is often admissible in court and is a potent weapon used by defense lawyers when disputing the merits of a plaintiff's personal injury claim.

Thus, a plaintiff's trial lawyer representing a victim of nursing home or ALF abuse and or neglect often must prove the case twice.

When a client is incapable of instructing counsel ab initio or when the client is a minor, it is most often a family member who retains the lawyer on behalf of the injured plaintiff, and is later named in the action as litigation guardian on behalf of that plaintiff.

For the most part, unrepresented parties without a plaintiff ICBC lawyer can not afford such disbursements, and often settle too early, and for far too less money, as a result of not being able to afford to prolong the matter in order to get proper compensation for their injuries.

Going forward, we can expect plaintiff lawyers will argue for a higher PJI rate at trial and that trial judges will often oblige, relying on this dicta from Cobb.

Quite often, injured people without a plaintiff ICBC injury lawyer will not get fair value for their injury claim, for the simple fact that they do not know the different types of damages that can be claimed for, and to what extent.

The personal injury lawyers at Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins have helped many injured plaintiffs recover for their injuries, often times in excess of one million dollars or more.

Also, ICBC often tries to rely on the optimistic outlook of these specialists by sending notice to the Plaintiff's lawyer that they intend to call the specialist as an expert at trial.

Defence lawyers often take the position that the Plaintiff has not «met the threshold» and deny that they are entitled to any compensation for their pain and suffering.

The real question is not whether this behavior is «reprehensible» - but why so many plaintiff lawyers so often fail to check the qualifications of the insurers» medico - legal «experts» and aggressively challenge them whenever it is appropriate to do so (as the LSUC says they should).

That successful representative plaintiffs (or more accurately, their lawyers) should not recoup the significant expenses of certification is not an obvious boon for access to justice, especially when one considers that such payments are often used to help fund the prosecution of the action going forward.

«Louisiana Lawyers Challenge New Ad Rules Main Plaintiffs Winning Less Often, but Recovering More When They Do»

When he was a high school student, he often accompanied his father — a plaintiff trial lawyer — to court when he tried cases to a jury.

As a result, many companies have chosen to simply hold their nose and pay the trolls — those who didn't often landed in the patent swamps of East Texas, where lawyers and plaintiff - friendly juries have built a cottage industry based around multimillion dollar verdicts.