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All We Perceive
Sea Cucumber



Registered: 09/24/07
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Ayahuascasoul said: I figured he gets paid a % of what I win so try will try and get as much as they can for me. My injuries and provable and caused 100% by the driver for that oil company. I had another lawyer tell me he doesn't normally do personal injury cases but he was excited about mine and said it was an open shut case.
That's facially true. Once the initial offer comes in, the work to get that offer up on the attorney's end becomes higher and the payoff more incremental. Let's say that your offer is $300,000. Let's assume your fee is 30%. That means the attorney makes $100,000 instantly by accepting that offer. Or they could do additional work which could take weeks to months to years to perform. That instant 100k is going to be tough to pass up when they could be working on other cases and making even more money by accepting that. I can frame any sell to a client and they will accept whatever I tell them to without question pretty much every time. Clients have almost 0 knowledge of the legal issues and almost 0 knowledge of their own injury. I can't even think of a situation when I couldn't sell a decision since I was super green. Honestly, you have to because people often make bad decisions for themselves. I personally feel that framing my client into accepting some lesser offer to pad my pocketbook is very unethical, but tons of lawyers do it, especially the more well known ones.
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Ayahuascasoul
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Registered: 05/21/12
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All We Perceive said:
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Ayahuascasoul said: I figured he gets paid a % of what I win so try will try and get as much as they can for me. My injuries and provable and caused 100% by the driver for that oil company. I had another lawyer tell me he doesn't normally do personal injury cases but he was excited about mine and said it was an open shut case.
That's facially true. Once the initial offer comes in, the work to get that offer up on the attorney's end becomes higher and the payoff more incremental. Let's say that your offer is $300,000. Let's assume your fee is 30%. That means the attorney makes $100,000 instantly by accepting that offer. Or they could do additional work which could take weeks to months to years to perform. That instant 100k is going to be tough to pass up when they could be working on other cases and making even more money by accepting that. I can frame any sell to a client and they will accept whatever I tell them to without question pretty much every time. Clients have almost 0 knowledge of the legal issues and almost 0 knowledge of their own injury. I can't even think of a situation when I couldn't sell a decision since I was super green. Honestly, you have to because people often make bad decisions for themselves. I personally feel that framing my client into accepting some lesser offer to pad my pocketbook is very unethical, but tons of lawyers do it, especially the more well known ones.
I don't want much. If I got enough to pay off my house that would be great. Work is so hard one now it wasn't always this bad but now I hurt so much I a dial basis I can't work like I want to.
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