You Just Passed The Texas Bar Now What

You are brave enough to go into private practice! Congratulations, it will pay off! You want to practice law as a plaintiff personal injury attorney and help people. Good choice! You take on a couple of car accident cases. Questions start to come up that you have no clue how to answer, you feel a…

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How To Add Value To That Which Is Priceless

How to value that which is priceless is the title of Chapter Four in Nicholas Rowley & Courtney Rowley’s new book, Running With The Bulls, How To Win Top – Dollar Settlements.  As the book begins, the point is made that many lawyers undervalue personal injury cases for two main reasons.  First, many lawyers are…

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The “Dart Out” Pedestrian Case

In San Francisco we often hear some incarnation of the following: “I just didn’t have time to avoid her” or “I just didn’t see him until it was too late” or, “she just came out of nowhere?” Statements of this nature, attributed to the driver, regarding the unfortunate pedestrian they just ran down, speaks volumes…

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Advice to a Younger Me

My journey as a self employed trial lawyer began in August of 1994, the day I got fired from my first job as a lawyer.  Getting fired is not as bad as you might think. It happened around midday, when I was asked to go see Francine Curtis, the firm’s managing attorney for the plaintiff’s…

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My Very Own Spiderman Case

One of the questions that I am asked on a regular basis is, “What is the most interesting case that you have worked on?”  I have always struggled with this question, especially in recent years, as our firm has begun to work on more tragic cases. They are not appropriate for social settings, simply because…

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