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The Rocket Fuel to get Your Case to Trial
Have you ever made a big mistake because you didn’t know that your client did time at Sing-Sing for armed robbery (I have) or you didn’t know about the racy photos on her Facebook profile? Checklists can make your life a whole lot easier by making big screw-ups less likely.
Breathing New Life into a Run-of-the Mill Neck Injury Case
Need to breathe life into your run-of-the-mill neck or back injury case? How about an interactive DVD that allows you to show the herniated disc from multiple angles and allows your medical expert to zoom in to show the injury in as much detail as she wants? And here’s the cool part, this is not more »
A Simple Way to Save a Ton of Cash When Requesting Medical Records
A big expense of a new personal injury case is the cost of getting your clients’ medical records. A complete set of medical records for a month-long hospitalization can cost more than $500 and that’s before you’ve decided whether to accept the case. A simple solution is to request the electronic medical records on a more »
How to Eliminate the Cost of a Videotape Deposition
Videotape depositions give you powerful ammunition that you can never get from a written transcript—long pauses by the witness before an answer, a witness staring at the ceiling while thinking of an answer or a witness’s grimacing facial expressions and defensive, arms-crossed body language. Without video of your depositions, you will be missing out on more »
How to Update ALL of Your Local Online Lawyer Directories with One Simple Step
There are a ton of local registries on the internet, i.e., whitepages.com, local.com, superpages.com etc., that consumers use to find lawyers, but there’s just one you. (Google Places is a powerhouse local registry, but there are close to a hundred good ones and your profile needs to be on all of them), What can you more »
4 Simple RULES for Killer Web Content
The average person has an attention span of 8 seconds. But it gets worse—out of every 8 people who read a headline on your website, only 2 will continue to read—ouch, that’s only 1 out of 4. That’s right, it’s next to impossible to get a web visitor to take time to read the content more »
Getting Your Team to Care
Trial lawyers are taught to turn abstract concepts into concrete visual images that a jury can understand. A “day in the life” video is far more compelling than dry testimony from a treating physician in conveying the day-to-day struggles of a severely disabled person. There’s no debate that the visual images in a video or more »
The Biggest Mistake Made by Law Firms
For 98% of law firms marketing and business development are the responsibility of one or two lawyers. Perhaps the senior partners are the rainmakers and the associates and junior partners handle the day-to-day technical aspects of running a law practice, i.e., depositions, court appearance and trials. BIG mistake!
CONVERTING PROSPECTS INTO CLIENTS IN 3 EASY STEPS
It’s always a little awkward when you refer an out-of-state client to counsel halfway across the country. Let’s say you’re contacted by Ms. Jones about a new injury case in Wyoming, and (since you’re not admitted in Wyoming), you call a plaintiffs’ lawyer in Wyoming to refer the case. The phone conversation with the plaintiffs’ more »
Why Structured Settlement Annuities Suck!
A structured settlement annuity locks in a fixed rate for the life of the annuity. At today’s historically low interest rates, annuities may offer a rate of return as low as half of 1%. That’s pathetically low and to make things worse, you’re stuck with this low rate and there’s nothing you can do about more »
