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Recent Posts from South Carolina Trial Law Blog

• Adjuster Law: Not Enough Damage to the Car

  I sent a demand package to an insurance company on a car wreck case with about $26,000 in bills for medical treatment and two herniated disks. The adjuster wanted us to get information on prior…

• Funny Answer for Request on Information for an Expert

  In a recent conversation: Question: Does anyone have any information on expert _______? Answer: You are in trouble. ______ is formidable. I have used the expert myself on several occasions. The expert is well qualified,…

• Don Keenan and David Ball Seminar on the Reptilian Brain

  I went to their seminare in Atlanta 2 weeks ago. Great, great stuff. Unfortunately, the book was still at the printers and won’t be out for another week or so. They conducted a lot of…

• Why Listen to Me about Interrogation?

  I’ve stayed out of the fray on this for as long as possible, but with the release of the memos from the Office of Legal Counsel, I juat have to include my opinion. As my…

• Trial Works Online Takes a Quantum Leap in Case Management

  TrialWorks has added a extra-net or web-based component to their program. They’ve always had the remote access, but this allows you to give anyone a username and a password and access to a portion of…

• Update on Case Management Software

  As many of you know, I have a penchance for case management and a background in programming and technology. Lately, Needles and TrialWorks have been the top two dogs in case management. Historically Needles was…

• New Trial Tech from David Ball, Don Keenan, Jim Fitzgerald and Gary Johnson

  With his Damages book, David Ball gave plaintiff’s attorneys a structured way to talk about damages and to present a case from opening statements throughout the trial. It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say it…

• How to Get the Last Dollar out of Mediation

  One negotiating tactic that I can share we used today to get some extra money at mediation. But it should be used sparingly and in the right situation. We were in mediation today and the…

• Negotiating

  One of my favorite parts of being a trial lawyer is negotiating. Getting the other side to pay more than they wanted to. In doing this for nearly ten years, I’ve picked up a few…

• My First Experience with Adjuster Law

  When I was relatively new as a Plaintiff’s attorney, I received a call from a GEICO adjuster stating that at the beginning of December, that they wanted to take all of their cases and wrap…