The case you should have turned down
Every plaintiff firm is carrying one. It was signed on a good day, it has eaten eighteen months, and everybody knew by week three. Here is what the file looked like at intake, and why nobody said so.
Mostly about practice — what a records review should catch, what a timeline needs to survive summary judgment — and occasionally about the software.
Every plaintiff firm is carrying one. It was signed on a good day, it has eaten eighteen months, and everybody knew by week three. Here is what the file looked like at intake, and why nobody said so.
An adjuster gives your demand somewhere between four and fifteen minutes. Most of what lawyers labour over in a demand letter is read by nobody. Here is what the reader is actually doing with it.
Four of the five steps in a disability claim can only deny. The fifth is where almost every contested case is won or lost — and most hearing briefs spend their best pages on the wrong one.
Firms shop for “legal AI” as though it were one category. It is two, they fail in opposite ways, and buying one expecting it to solve the other is the most common expensive mistake in this market.
You are about to hand someone your clients’ medical records and your privileged work product. Most vendor security pages are written to reassure rather than to inform — here is what to ask instead, and how to read the answers.
Sanctioned filings get the headlines, but the more common failure is quieter: a demand letter that states a date the record does not support. Here is the mechanism, and the three things that stop it.
Defense counsel reads the same records you do. The difference is what each side is looking for — and the gaps that decide value are almost never in the narrative summary.
Causation in a retaliation case lives or dies on sequence. Here is what belongs in the timeline, and the two entries firms most often leave out.
Most demos are designed to prevent these questions from coming up. Ask them anyway — the answers separate tools that read your file from tools that autocomplete a template.