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well when my clients came in and we sit
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down and chat and we find out about them
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the first thing I tell clients is always
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be truthful in your answers to the
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questions that we ask be truthful in
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everything you do with our firm with the
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insurance carrier don’t exaggerate don’t
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embellish don’t make things worse than
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they are also of course in this day and
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age I also tell them do not post uh
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information about your case on social
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media one of the common things that
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happens today with young people is they
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seem to want to tell everybody else
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about their lives so they get involved
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in a personal injury case they want to
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talk about it so they go on social media
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and start talking about their personal
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injury case what they don’t realize is
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that the insurance carriers and defense
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attorneys are well aware of that and
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they acquire that information off of
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their social media posts because most of
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it’s public information so what happens
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is when you file a lawsuit and you’re
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claiming certain damages on behalf of
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your client but one of the first things
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you get from the defense in terms of
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discovering the lawsuit is 20 30 40
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pages of Facebook postings or Instagram
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postings by your client that discuss the
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case bad mistake shouldn’t do it but you
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have to let them know that we also send
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them a letter saying whatever you do
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don’t post on social media I tell them
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don’t post on social media the insurance
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carriers want this information and
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nothing good comes from
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it I’ve done a lot in my life before I
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became a lawyer um I was a director of
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public relations at Ben hu in downtown
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Las Vegas I was a matred of the Piaza
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restaurant at Cesar Palace before I ever
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went to law school and uh after law
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school of course I’ve worked with a
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large civil firm the largest firm in the
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state I was a deputy public defender
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where I tried criminal cases throughout
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the system I formed a practice I built a
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law firm I severed my relationship for
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the law firm I went solo I’ve had
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Associates I’ve done virtually every
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kind of work in the law from the
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beginning but I began focusing on
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personal injury over 40 years ago and I
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decided this was what I needed to do
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this is what fulfilled me as an attorney
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representing injured persons against
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insurance companies I find most
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satisfying and of course that’s what
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I’ve done for almost all of my career