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I think you just have to get used to this. Settling more cases is becoming the new normal. There’s a pervasive underlying hatred for corporations or anyone with money, and we are moving further and further away from personal accountability every year. That argument just doesn’t resonate. Plaintiffs lawyers have tapped into this and are in full attack mode, making more money than ever and hitting comically enormous verdicts all over the nation. Corporations and carriers are not only afraid to get hit, but they also don’t want to spend money to defend cases the right way. It’s become a straight numbers game, and trying cases is becoming a lost art for the defense. I know very view defense lawyers in their 30s-40s turning into trial lawyers. Meanwhile, the plaintiffs bar is churning out armies of trial lawyers who get more blood on their teeth every year. The defense used to have the advantage. Not anymore. It’s a new day and a new public mentality. Just about every client is letting it happen and just chalks it up to cost of doing business. Firms have no choice but to follow the leader.
That sounds about right.
Did you switch to defense work? I had a similar thing happen to me when I switched defense firms. My day went from (a) learning and growing to (b) spending most days drafting reports to clients (they were 85 percent forms and very similar case to case) and trying to settle cases.
Started to feel like a robot and had a very low job satisfaction.