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