I work for a CPA firm, 45-50 employees, and we're looking at expanding our benefits package. Right now, we only offer 2 or 3 weeks vacation, 1 week paid sick time, healthcare, 401(k) with profit sharing, and Life/Long-term disability coverage. No dental, no parental leave, no ST disability, no EAP etc.
Could anyone else in this industry, or in another professional services industry, weigh in on what benefits you offer and which ones are most popular?
Thanks all!!
Stop lowballing plaintiff counsel. Your life will be easier, I assure you.
A2 we all know most claims are worth a couple thousand, you only add value based upon dragging out litigation. Literally the last ID case I had, plaintiffs attorney sent me a reasonable offer at the onset of litigation and we accepted it. Not my fault you think every fender bender is a million dollar case. But I take you’re not very well compensated since that’s the first thing you attack me for? Lol.
It blows my mind how financially incompetent plaintiffs attorneys are. The fact you see every insurance company as some sort of money machine is embarrassing and ignorant of the liabilities they have to cover.
All the mundane ID stuff is easy billing. Plus, it's your chance to convince the carrier that further substantive work is necessary (motion practice, depos, discovery, etc), so you can get the kind of experience that will help you get out of ID.
Oooo . At my firm they seem to have plenty of that to go around
That was me today. Maybe award yourself w small talk in between an aimed task completed
I've been thinking about trying to dedicate certain hours or days to plow through it with treats and fun music because I am ashamed of my procrastination on these easy tasks. Its just so easy to put it on the back burner.
I'm starting to think that I'm the weird one in ID. I absolutely love going through all the medical records and drafting a snarky medical chronology with notes about how their statements are inconsistent or just don't make sense. And then I love drafting reports about all of the amazing dirt that I find in the records or social media. For me, it's like solving a giant puzzle. On Wednesday, I went through over 2,000 pages of records from a plaintiff's auto carrier. I'm pretty sure getting into accidents is his full-time job. It was tedious at times, but finding all of the old MRI reports was super helpful for my case. I usually just have music with a good beat in the background and dig in.
A2 I agree that those other tasks are more exciting, but these medical records are a gold mine for impeachment materials and can potentially set up this case for a motion for fraud as he didn't disclose all of these accidents in his sworn interrogatories. So getting all the good juicy bits makes for better motion practice later.
You get paid just as much to do that stuff. If they didn’t want you to do it, they wouldn’t require it.