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ID at least allows you to specialize. In specializing, you will claw and fight to get the same sort of cases again, all while living life 6 minutes at a time. One day you'll claw yourself into a non-equity partner or of counsel role and a high-tier trim BMW. There will be some bland, off-putting hobby that you never get to do because you're always grinding. Your kids will see you more as a roommate who had to sign their report cards.
PI essentially requires you to take shovels full of fender-benders and people toppling over at the grocery store while dreaming of that juicy med mal. In the intervening time, you'll go into debt for vanity plates on your car and a horrible boat with a legal pun for a name. No one will recognize you from your bus stop bench ads.
The legal profession is just wishing on a monkey's paw. It's all bad, just pick your bad.
This painted a vivid picture. This guy drafts.
PI is everyone’s punching bag … until they get hurt at the hands of someone else. Then it’s “how much do you think I can get?” Remember Robert Bork, avid advocate for tort reform:
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/judge-bork-sues-new-york-social-club-over-fall-idUSN07232251/
I take money from insurance companies and put it in the hands of those who have been injured. I actually represent people and I make a difference in their lives. Can you say the same? Oh and I make a shit ton of money doing it. The only regret I have is not leaving BigLaw sooner than I did.
P1 isn’t wrong. I represent plaintiffs in oil site injury cases. The way companies treat these guys is sickening and despicable. Most people would be shocked how many times a big company claims an incident never happened. When you do the work to call them out on it, they retreat to, “oh well he’s not injured anyways”.
ID for an insurance carrier with no billing. Ive worked for a carrier, in private ID, and for plaintiff’s firms. You can work for a carrier like GEICO making $150k and only put in 20 or so hours a week of actual work. And the work you are doing is all template based and extremely easy. Plaintiff side personal injury for a lazy, unmotivated person sounds like a total nightmare.
Haha fair enough. The thing is you’re gonna have to go to court eventually and if you’re just coasting it’s gonna be a hard reality
If there was a gun to your head, I’d take the bullet over either.
Both are a waste of a career. PI requires you to be a true believer and drink the Kool-aid, even as your clients hit you up for advance payments or can obtain loans based on anticipated settlement proceeds. ID in many places is a dead end job with dismal prospects.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I have and unfortunately, still do.
If you had told me prior to starting law school that this would be the area in which I practiced, I would not have gone.
Working on a crab boat out of Alaska would be preferable to tort litigation.
PI for sure
I found my lazy girl job working for the local government. Eff private practice.
This is correct. Govt wins for lazy job! Especially municipal government, to my knowledge. As for PI versus ID, if you can find a PI firm where there aren’t billable hour requirements, and you can be pretty efficient/effective when you do work, you can pull off a reasonable work week.
If you're lazy then billing hours will be torture which is required at ID firms
As a former attorney who struggled to beat the bushes looking for clients, I'd suggest pursuing a job where you can be reasonably assured of a paycheck. PI work requires a lot of effort to gain clients. If you can get a job in either an insurance company or a captive law firm where you don't have to drum up business, try going down that route - and even better if the job doesn't require billable hours.
OP to answer your question, PI is not the way to go if you’re lazy. You will almost certainly get trapped in car wrecks and slip and falls if you are lazy. Catastrophic PI is great, but a career full of those billboard cases sucks.