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You're a dedicated true believer working to make your clients "whole" for the trauma they've experienced. But, insurance companies fight you at every turn. They're dragging out cases, litigating for litigation's sake, delaying settlement for as long as possible, driving up your costs, and burdening you with unnecessary discovery, all to pressure you into settling for less than your clients deserve. But you can fight back, and take control of your case outcomes, with better in-house investigation results. So that you can maximize your clients' recoveries, and your firm's revenue.
Mike Corwin spent over 30 years conducting civil plaintiff investigations helping his attorney clients maximize their clients' recoveries, and firms' revenue.
He'll help your in-house staff conduct more effective litigation investigations so that you can prove causation and liability faster, increase the amount of the defendant's comparative negligence, rely less on costly depositions and discovery practices keeping your litigation costs down.
Here's what happens when your staff regularly conducts effective in-house case preparation investigations:
✅ Instead of conducting investigations by trial and error and hoping for the best, your staff knows exactly what to do, and how to get it done right the first time, saving you $1000s on each and every case.
✅ You'll develop usable information, independent of the discovery process, away from the prying eyes of the defense team. Allowing you to keep information under wraps until you're ready to use it at exactly the right time, which puts you in a STRONGER POSITION to shape your cases' results.
✅ Your staff will be able to locate witnesses, including hard to find ones, and interview them BEFORE defense counsel reaches them keeping them from muddying the waters. Locking in favorable information early in the process can help you to INCREASE THE % of the defendant's comparative negligence.
✅ When your staff effectively conducts investigations in-house, they create the ability to increase the defendant's percentage of fault, which can INCREASE your client's recovery significantly, and BOOST your firm's revenue too:
For example: increasing the defendant's comparative fault from 65% to 85% in a case or cases totaling $2,500,000, increases the client's recovery by $500,000 and your firm's revenue by $166,500. Doing so year after year for 5 years, would recover an additional $2,500,000 more for your clients. and $832,500 more in fees for your firm.
✅ Conducting effective witness interviews helps you reduce the number of depositions you need to do, saving you $1000s per witness in deposition fees and costs for each case you litigate. And since defense counsel isn't present during interviews, you'll be able to ask the difficult questions, that you'd be reluctant to ask in front of opposing counsel at a deposition.
✅ You'll be able to easily locate and obtain copies of admissible public record documents that you can use to IMPEACH the defendant, and defense witnesses, as well as to PROVE OR DISPROVE FACTS that are in dispute, which can lead to faster case settlements, and improved comparative negligence percentages.
✅ Conducting the investigations in-house gives you GREATER CONTROL over the investigation, including the speed at which information is developed and documented, and how to use that information to improve your position during settlement negotiations.
✅ Having in-house staff that can conduct effective investigations, can help prevent taking on the wrong case, the type of case where you end up spending $1000s with nothing to show for it in the end. Your staff can quickly and efficiently, conduct an initial investigation that will help you to determine when or not to take on a case.
Schedule a CallHow Mike can help your firm to maximize client recoveries and firm revenue by helping set up a effective in-house investigation system and train your staff in the investigation techniques he used to build cases for top plaintiff attorneys:
- Assess the investigation processes you are currently using, and whether those processes are the most effective for the cases your firm handles.
- Assess the level of your staff's current investigation skills and knowledge. And identify what skills and knowledge they'll need to develop to make your firm's in-house investigations more effective.
- Train your staff using a variety of approaches to get their skills up to speed as quickly as possible. The trainings are focused on ensuring effective results. Investigation techniques covered include: how to locate witnesses, including those that are hard to find through more standard approaches, conducting witness interviews including proper note taking skills, preparing witness interview summaries that make it easy to find the most important information, obtaining sworn signed witness statements, declarations, and affidavits, conducting asset searches to determine if you should accept a policy limit offer, conducting background investigations on party opponents, defense witnesses, and expert witnesses for credibility assessments and impeaching them. Investigative photography, and scene documentation.
- Outlining the steps in conducting investigations based upon the types of cases your firm handles.
- Organizing the information developed during an investigation.
- Telephone and email follow up.
Conducting effective plaintiff investigations is not taught in law school or paralegal programs. Here's what happens when you conduct them by trial and error.
- Conducting investigations by trial and error is costly to you and your clients. Not knowing where to look for information, or how to get it means wasting time and resources, and missing out on powerful information that could move an insurance company to settle on favorable terms, getting less for your clients, and revenue for your firm.
- Not being able to conduct an investigation that can quickly help you assess whether to take a case or to pass, can lead you to taking on the WRONG CASES. Ones that require spending a lot of time and money, but offer little likelihood of prevailing in a meaningful way.
- When it comes to comparative negligence, not knowing how to conduct effective in-house litigation investigations can lead to lower fault percentages for defendants than should be assigned to them. Multiple cases settled where the defendant percentages of negligence are lower than they should be can can result in your clients receiving as much as $500,000 less in recoveries, and your firm getting $160,000 in lower fees on cases totaling $2,500,000 in damages.
- Not being able to conduct effective witness interviews means relying on costly and ineffective depositions, increasing your costs by $2500 or more per per witness, and which provides opportunities for defense attorneys to interrupt the flow of the depositions, resulting in incomplete or ineffective information that lessens the strength of your cases.
- Not knowing where and how to obtain admissible public records or how to use them effectively, can make it harder to impeach the defendant and defense witnesses, and to prove or disprove important facts. Which can lead to lower comparative negligence percentages, and even to losing a case.
Why plaintiff law firms trust Mike to help them implement an effective in-house case preparation investigation system.
Mike Corwin spent 30 years building cases for civil plaintiff attorneys helping them maximize their clients' recoveries, and firm's revenue.
He worked with nationally recognized attorneys conducting investigations on wrongful death, catastrophic injury, civil rights, employment, premises liability, medical malpractice, and 3rd party liability on workplace related violence.
Mike served for many years as a guest instructor on conducting litigation investigations at the University of New Mexico Law School. He was an approved to conduct CLE programs on conducting litigation investigations by the New Mexico Supreme Court. He trained hundreds of lawyers, paralegals, legal assistants, and law school students in conducting effective litigation investigations.
He has served as a consultant evaluating that adequacy and sufficiency of workplace investigations.
He is the author of the book Effective Litigation Investigations.
If you're ready to maximize your your clients' recoveries, and your firm's revenue, through having your in-house staff conduct effective case preparation investigations Mike can help you get that done!
Are you ready to invest in helping your clients receive the full recoveries they deserve for the trauma they've received, and to boost your firm's revenue?
You're a true believer dedicated to helping your clients through incredibly difficult times. Your firm has had some good successes, but to move to the next level, and really maximize case recoveries for your clients and revenue for your firm, you need an effective in-house investigation system that will get you the absolute best information that can be found.
Insurance companies are doing all they can to throw a monkey wrench into getting your clients' the recoveries they deserve. They're dragging out cases, delaying settlements, engaging in unnecessary discovery, and other practices that are designed to apply pressure on plaintiff law firms to settle cases for less than they're worth.
Being able to build a rock solid case through your firm's in-house investigation practices can help you take back control over the litigation process. And I can help you do that. And the return on your investment can easily be 10Xs to 15xs your investment.
There are a variety of ways that I can work with your firm. I offer a complete in person consulting and training service, where I'll come to your office to work directly with your staff to assess, evaluate their investigation processes, and train them in conducting effective litigation investigations that will help you maximize your case outcomes, your clients' recoveries, and your firm's revenue for $15,000. I can also provide this same service remotely via Zoom, email, and telephone for $10,000.
I can also work with your in-house staff guiding them through the processes necessary to conduct effective case preparation investigations, and provide them with how to email and telephone instruction to improve the effectiveness of those who already possess some investigation skills, on specific aspects of conducting an investigation such as locating a hard to find witness or conduct witness interviews for $7500 in person or $5000 remotely via Zoom.
Or if you prefer, I can provide training on one aspect of conducting case preparation investigations, such on how to conduct effective witness interviews for $4000 in person, and $3000 remotely.
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