Why is personal injury frowned upon?
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Bc it’s very easy to become a grimy and greedy attorney in a practice area where you have a financial interest in a specific outcome of a case/claim. There’s no ceiling to how much money you can make, as long as you’re able to replace every client whose case finishes with more clients. The insurance companies have also done a fantastic job of painting PI attorneys as being “ambulance chasers” when in reality, if the insurance companies just paid out fair value on the claims that people filed, most PI attorneys wouldn’t even be in business anymore.
The good PI attorneys are actually some of the best attorneys you can come across because they not only are knowledgeable when it comes to the laws, but they’re also very knowledgeable when it comes to the medicine and what kind of treatment makes sense for their clients; they also tend to be great businessmen/women bc that’s why PI is. The most successful ones are also some of the best trial attorneys around, which is where the money is.
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I would say because of the volume and you’re not doing super sophisticated work with a lot of motion practice, etc. On the flip side you’re in court way more so PI attorneys are arguably much better trial attorneys than those who rarely, if ever, try cases.
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I respect that, but I think if you want to be good at PI, the work is sophisticated. Novel theories of law, a good eye for medicine, and knowledge of medical conditions in addition to the trial experience. Getting around damage caps or making what seems like a simple car accident into a products liability case is imo just as sophisticated as big law. See the motion practice in this case for example:
https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2022/10/10/lyft-to-face-jury-trial-over-app-flaws-in-precedential-florida-product-liability-ruling/?slreturn=20240003212355
The case overload is a real issue, and I think most PI lawyers underwork their cases because of it. But I disagree with what I perceive to be a perception that PI lawyers are less intelligent or skilled.
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Because the attorneys send clients to have their entire medical history treated, often including surgery, when someone stubbed their toe and claims it’s all related to the incident.
Also, it’s inherently frustrating when 50% of the job is antagonistic by nature, regardless of which side of the v. one is on.
I think people say they are ambulance chasers and honestly, some of them are. I just honestly think over the years it has been given a bad rap because of attorneys that only care about the money and don't really care about the clients.