NO! NO! NO! When I first started practicing personal injury litigation in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, recorded statements were the “norm.” I was part of the first wave of attorneys that routinely rejected the practice of allowing recorded statements because I saw how they were unfairly used to sabotage my clients’ claims. If you […]
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In my experience with personal injury and car accident cases in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, it is highly unlikely that any case will advance to trial without the judge ordering the parties to mediation. I would suspect this is also true for other jurisdictions throughout the country. “Mediation” is an informal settlement conference. Mediation is
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I have many people ask whether my car accident lawyer is permitted to take a fee from my Personal Injury Protection (PIP). When you sign a contract to hire a lawyer for your auto accident case, the contract probably provides that the attorney’s percentage comes from “any and all” amounts that are collected. Technically, this would
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I have been getting many comments on my blogs stating that my website is very “informative and helpful.” I do appreciate the positive feed-back. Unlike other websites, I intentionally made my website more informative than the average car accident attorney website. In my many years of practice in the Dallas and Fort Worth area, one
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Now, let’s assume you are one of the “lucky” ones selected for jury duty. I will follow a typical case in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas, although other jurisdictions are still very similar. You will be asked by the judge to take a seat in the jury box at which time you will be sworn
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Now the jurors are back in the hall and the attorneys are in the courtroom conferring with the judge about some of the responses from the panel members. The judge will ask the bailiff to individually call one or more of the panel members back into the courtroom to further discuss the juror’s answers or comments during the voir dire process.
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You have been summoned for jury duty and made it through the administrative stage. Now, you are seated in the courtroom awaiting jury selection. It is at this point that the attorneys and the judge finally get to personally converse with the panel members. This process is called “voir dire,” which, translated from French, means “to speak the
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Many people call me to seek advice about what to do if they are called for jury duty. Likewise, I thought I would write a series regarding jury duty, starting from receipt of the notification all the way through the trial and verdict. Parts I-III will deal primarily with the jury selection process, while part IV will
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In the past two sections, I discussed how your car accident claim is handled prior to any lawsuit being filed. In this final section, I will discuss how your case is handled when a lawsuit is filed. Once you and your lawyer decide that a lawsuit is necessary, your lawyer will explain to you that the lawsuit must
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In Part I, we discussed the role an automobile liability insurance company plays during the investigative stage of your claim. Now, we will discuss the settlement stage of your claim. Remember, in Part I, we established that the insurance company only has a duty to protect their driver. If the adjuster believes that the other driver
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