Building a Conflict-Check Workflow for Multi-Attorney Plaintiff Firms
A single missed conflict can cost a firm a case, a fee, and a bar complaint. Here is how multi-attorney plaintiff shops in California shoul…
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Practice Operations
Workflow, intake, lien management, and the business side of plaintiff personal injury practice.
Insurance Discovery: Finding Every Available Coverage on the Defense Side
The first policy the adjuster names is rarely the only money on the table. Primary limits, excess towers, umbrella policies, and your own c…
Expert Retention Timing: Retain Early or Wait for Defense Disclosure
Retain your accident reconstructionist at intake and you burn capital on a case that may settle at policy limits. Wait until the §2034 exch…
Structuring Catastrophic Injury Demand Letters: Economic vs Non-Economic Damages
The demand letter does work the complaint cannot — setting carrier reserves, framing settlement, and seeding trial themes years before voir…
Subpoena Practice for Medical and Employment Records in California PI Cases
Records subpoenas look like paperwork until a custodian ignores you, a defense firm serves your client's employer without notice, or a prov…
Eight-Week Trial Prep Checklist for California PI Cases
Most trial losses are set up eight weeks before voir dire, when expert demands, MILs, and witness prep all compete for the same paralegal h…
Intake Screening: Which Calls Become Cases and Which Decline
A solo or small-firm PI practice that takes every call it pleases will drown in files that go nowhere. The intake screen is not customer se…
Settlement Fund Disbursement: From Defense Check to Client Wire in California PI
The window between a cleared defense check and a client wire is the highest-risk stretch in plaintiff practice. A single math error, a miss…
Cost-of-Prosecution Tracking for Plaintiff PI Firms: Capture, Recover, Absorb
Most PI firms know their gross fee number cold but cannot say within two percentage points what last year's resolved files actually cost to…
Building a PI Referral Pipeline From Workers' Comp, Criminal, and Family Law
The lawyers most likely to hand you a six-figure case aren't other PI firms — they're the workers' comp, criminal defense, and family law a…
Managing Client Communication Through the Slow Middle of a PI Case
The intake is signed, treatment is winding down, and then the case goes quiet for eighteen months. That silence is where most client relati…
Building and Budgeting the Expert Witness Roster in PI Cases
Expert witnesses are the largest controllable cost in serious personal injury litigation. A roster built too lean leaves damages categories…