What is a "good" year for a plaintiffs attorney doing Car Crash cases? Like in gross settlements? Would like to hear all perspectives.

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I’ll generate about 2 million in fees this year off about 150 cases.

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That's a lot of cases to settle for sure. I've settled around 65 cases this year and done about 3.2M in fees I just have no concept of if that is "a lot" outside of my firm which is a very large PI firm in the southeast.

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It really depends where you are and what type of firm. I am in upstate NY. Small plaintiffs firm. Low cost of living area. Not a PI mill at all. 700k+ was usually a good year for me as an associate. Now it's more an expectation of a million and bringing in business. I am at 3.5 so far this year and it's like a bananas holy shit year.

The two big name partners for the firm usually do 1.8-3. It really depends, with 1.8 being the average for them but it definitely can fluctuate up.

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How much do you get paid?

I was not an attorney, but a pre-suit case manager at a PI firm and was expected to do a minimum of 500K in attorney fees each year (I usually did 600-800). The fee was 33.3% of the settlement if you want gross numbers. My atty had 3 pre-suit case managers. Additionally, he had a separate quota to meet on the litigation side. This was in Fl. I obviously didn’t generate the cases, the atty and firm did that.

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It truly depends. Are you handling pre-suit, small policy MVAs that you can settle in 6 months? Or commercial cases with big time injuries?

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A little of both. Have a few pretty serious cases. Others are 50k-150k in coverage. And I'm running about 140 total cases in litigation. I don't do any presuit stuff.

Having worked for and managed some PI firms, $1 million in net fees per lawyer is a good reach goal if it is car crashes.

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P1 what do you expect your take home to be this year?

I should hit over 5 mill in settlements this year. That is the lowest gross of all the attorneys at my small firm.

I hit about 2.5 million off 130 cases this year in gross settlements. Did not have any legal assistant for 7 months.

It has been hard.

Yea like everyone above said it depends on the cases you are getting the amount of cases you have, etc. The attorney I work for is going to hit over 2.5 million this year but he has had much higher years in the past so it really just depends.

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