I am a defense attorney. I handle 10-13 cases tops. I hear Potsdam attys handle 50-60 cases. I don’t understand how this is possible. Can anyone explain to me how plaintiff attys can handle so many cases?

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What are the type of cases? Car wrecks? Something more complicated? I think our litigation attorneys end up somewhere between 75-100 of car wrecks and it can be 200+ for prelit attorneys

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I have 250–275 pre-lit cases, but we have 55 total employees including 15 treating paralegals and 5 negotiating paralegals, I meet with every paralegal every week, I’m on pace to settle between $7.5-10M in 12 months

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I'm a government defense attorney (torts). I'm currently carrying more than 200 cases.

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I applied for a position with Dept. of Labor, mind if I pick your brain about working as a litigator for the gov?

A lot of the PI cases settle pre-litigation. Not much legal work involved.

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And much of the litigation isn’t very complex on PI matters, though there are definitely fields like med-mal and product liability that are much more intensive.

I'm a plaintiffs PI/med mal in Albany, NY. I probably have about 75 cases on the average day (with about 10-15% being commercial hourly and the rest litigation PI). We are not a high volume firm at all. The high volume advertising firm in our area each attorney has 165+ I think, from what I hear from them. They have a ton of support staff and different units to manage them. mine are just me and my paralegal (of which I am without right now and the market is awful)

Yeah I have 57 in lit 177 total. But 4 staff members to myself, and more and half are run of the mill car wreck. Have about 20 or so that are complex litigation cases either complex trucking or complex premises/products/negligent security.

You drowning? I don’t think I could handle that but I’m young in it

I'm in insurance defense and I have like 75 active cases. "Active" is a relative term though; not all of them are exploding at the same time. It's a lot. But for everyone one of those with really complex issues, there are 5-6 piddly diddly soft tissue car wreck cases that I can do in my sleep at this point. With discovery delays, etc., I have more like 10-15 really hopping at any given time.

Same here. Sitting at 74 active cases, 3 of which are court approvals and a couple UIM cases with no chance of exposure. We have an 18 month timetable from filing to trial so many are active at once.

I average around 200. As others have said, a fair percentage are run of the mill that can be done in my sleep. Probably 20-30 are more complex. I'm down to one paralegal right now though, so I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed, but usually it's manageable.

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