For Plaintiff's attorneys, how big is your caseload? What kind of cases are the majority of them and are they in suit? I am currently handling 150+ mostly MVAs and premise liability cases, just about all in suit, (on top of about 10 DUIs and other small traffic matters) and I feel like I'm drowning and looking to jump ship. What is normal/to be expected? In NYC area if that matters

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When was the last time you did a roundtable to see what cases/how many are ripe for settlement? Sometimes if you can identify a bunch at once you can make headway and clear some of the load. Plus you’ll look like a rockstar!

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I’d recommend making a plan to stop all other work on a particular night (say wed or thursday) around 3 or 4 pm and go through the entire case list - i bet there’s a bunch of others you can clear. If you do this 1x per month or 1x every 6-8 weeks even, you should find a better flow.

What are the case values like on those? Regardless, that is definitely a large caseload. I feel your pain, however. As of right now, I have 280 cases (most in litigation and values range from 5 figures to 7 figures). I have a case manager (non attorney) and 3 paralegals handling them. If the case manager was an attorney, and if my paralegals were actually paralegals (most are out of college with no experience) this arrangement could work. But as of right now, I have basically been drowning.

I hear/read things about plaintiff-side firms where the attorneys have 40-50 high value cases, and that is it. That is the dream.

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I have a few with low nusiance value and a few 7 figure cases. If you find one of those firms, let me know

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Seems to me like a matter of time before you start committing malpractice if you haven't already

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60 MVAs (many commercial and 18 wheeler) couple wrongful death and premises sprinkled in. About 30 in lit and 30 in prelit. No prelit paralegal or lit paralegal. 1st year in. Drowning. Still trying to find good systems to implement to stay organized and on top of everything. Can’t seem to focus too much on one case to really push it to resolution and many cases are getting neglected. Seems like just throwing the ole “put more time in” just isn’t cutting it.

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I’m a litigation attorney at Morgan & Morgan and I typically have 70-90 active litigation files at one time.

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Me too pls lmk

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What kind of staff support do you have?

Are you getting mentorship or are you on an island by yourself?

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That is a pretty high case load for files in litigation. If you look to make a switch and want to stay plaintiff side PI, I would make a target list of firms that you think are handling higher value cases and apply there.

Yeah attorneys at our firm have 60-70 litigation cases, I have 250-275, but they are all pre-litigation cases and I have 12 paralegals sharing pre-lit caseloads of 60 cases or so amongst 5 pre-lit attorneys, but yeah that sounds like a crazy caseload on top of traffic and criminal

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I have about 70 cases, a mix of pre suit and in suit with about 10-15% med mals. 1 paralegal. I am in a smaller market (Albany, NY) and we are a well known firm but not the local advertising firm. They have more akin to yours guys' numbers. I work about 830-4, no weekends. I got very lucky. When I have to try a case that turns into 7 days a week longer hours but it's so rare that happens.

However, most are not 7 figure case. 6 figure+. The partners all make in the multiple 7 figures a year so they aren't complaining.

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