Lawyer V. Lawyer

Gary and Debbie talk everything about punitive damages. How and when to plead; When to conduct discovery; How to handle in trial; When to move to strike punitive damages; when to drop punitive damages. They include examples of obtaining or defending against punitive damages in the past and Insurance company and insured interaction with punitive damages. Check out this episode and others from our Lawyer v. Lawyer podcast at burgerlaw.com/podcasts

In this episode, Debbie and Garry interview Grant Doty, a lawyer with 15 years of legal experience and 20 years of experience before that in the army. Gary and Grant are old friends and Grant shares his experience as a combat soldier and lawyer. We draw parallels and differences between them. Such a pleasure to interview and work with a great lawyer, soldier, and person.   See all our Lawyer v. Lawyer episodes at burgerlaw.com/podcasts 

Gary and Debbie are joined by Jennifer Crompton of Lexitas to discuss best practices in mediation. They share some funny stories about mediation incidents and deposition drama and how those show best practices. View more legal podcasts by Burger Law: https://burgerlaw.com/podcasts/

Debbie and Gary are joined by Jennifer Crompton of Lexitas to talk about this local company’s growth and scaling to eventually being acquired by a national litigation support company. We learn about the management and operations successes of Lexitas, how that helped it grow, how those lessons can be translated to running a law firm, and how Lexitas and law firms operated during Covid. The lessons of pivoting to zoom and virtual mediation and deposition litigation practice are valuable and these practice changes continue and have changed the future of litigation.   You can watch all of our past videos and podcasts for Lawyer V Lawyer here: https://burgerlaw.com/podcasts/

Gary Burger brings guest Stephen Gerring of the Gerring Law firm for a second episode to discuss the Top Adjuster Tricks they encounter and How to Combat Them. Stephen and Gary discuss what to do when the adjuster claims that the client’s injuries were pre-existing, the adjuster claims that too much time elapsed between the accident and first treatment, the adjuster evaluates the case based on the amount of outstanding medical bills only, adjuster cuts down the amount of treatment accepted for nebulous reasons, adjuster tries to use your client’s medical records against them, adjuster says hospital’s bills are higher than customary in the region, or the adjuster asserts comparative negligence.

Maximize Settlements In The Claims Stage. Gary brings guest Stephen Gerring of the Gerring Law firm to discuss techniques to maximize case value pre-suit with a claim representative. This includes Communicating the severity of your client’s injury as soon as you can, anchoring in the claims stage, understanding all aspects of your client's case and their medical condition to improve negotiation, ask to speak to an adjuster’s supervisor to get a better pre-lit evaluation and have an outstanding reason for it, Treat all medical providers as lienholders and pay all their pro-rata share (which typically saves a good amount of money for clients), and be willing and ready to file suit and litigate if you cannot settle in the claims stage.   View all of our other podcasts here: https://burgerlaw.com/podcasts/ Visit Burger Law: https://burgerlaw.com/ Visit Gerring Law: https://www.gerringlaw.com/

In this episode of Lawyer v. Lawyer, Gary and Debbie discuss and teach the nuts and bolts of how to properly impeach a witness and why, cross examine with medical records, lay a business record foundation, get pictures submitted in the evidence, how to get a court to take judicial notice of pleadings, life expectancy tables, reaction time and stopping distances in car wreck case. It’s a must-listen for any trial lawyer. Personal injury Law Firm serving all of Missouri and Illinois. Burger Law is a Personal injury Law Firm that has successfully recovered millions of dollars to compensate car accident victims and their families. When a driver breaks the rules of the road and injures or kills another person, they should be held responsible. If you are injured in a car accident, your case likely has difficult legal, insurance, and damage issues that require a seasoned car accident attorney to resolve. Injured? Call us today @ (314) 500-HURT in Missouri or (312) 500-HURT in Illinois.

Lawyer v. Lawyer (2 of 3) - Preparing For The Trial Process Gary Burger and Debbie Champion discuss their processes and procedures for going to trial, how they prepare exhibits, motions in luminescent, Depo designations, voir dire, opening, examination of witnesses, exhibits, and closing. They discuss their processes and systems they have to make sure that this gets done effectively and for how they try the case. Personal injury Law Firm serving all of Missouri and Illinois. Burger Law is a Personal injury Law Firm that has successfully recovered millions of dollars to compensate car accident victims and their families. When a driver breaks the rules of the road and injures or kills another person, they should be held responsible. If you are injured in a car accident, your case likely has difficult legal, insurance, and damage issues that require a seasoned car accident attorney to resolve. Injured? Call us today @ (314) 500-HURT in Missouri or (312) 500-HURT in Illinois.

Debbie and Gary talk about the main pet peeves that they have about what opposing counsel does at trial and which is ineffective. Debbie and Gary discuss not having a plaintiff at trial in the courtroom, not putting in medical bills, not admitting fault well, not impeaching in cross-examination appropriately, not having a cohesive theory of the case, and being too focused on technology, and not having a backup plan. Personal injury Law Firm serving all of Missouri and Illinois. Burger Law is a Personal injury Law Firm that has successfully recovered millions of dollars to compensate car accident victims and their families. When a driver breaks the rules of the road and injures or kills another person, they should be held responsible. If you are injured in a car accident, your case likely has difficult legal, insurance, and damage issues that require a seasoned car accident attorney to resolve. Injured? Call us today @ (314) 500-HURT in Missouri or (312) 500-HURT in Illinois.

Welcome to Lawyer V. Lawyer, the only legal podcast giving you both sides of the trial room floor. This is a special edition episode featuring a recent radio interview Gary Burger and Debbie Champion did on Dr. Stan Fine's "It's Your Business" Radio Show. In this special episode we'll cover some of the stigmas around lawyers in business, how lawyers get business, how you know it's time to get a lawyer involved to sue, and more.   To get more information, suggest topics for Debbie and Gary to discuss, or hire them, email info@lawyervlawyer.com. For more episodes visit our Lawyer V. Lawyer Facebook page or website. Although the advice is good, no attorney-client relationship is formed by listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Lawyer V. Lawyer, the only legal podcast giving you both sides of the trial room floor. In this episode: Gary and Debbie Discuss how to litigate by zoom - tips and tricks for taking depositions and mediating cases by zoom. How to use documents, video record depos, meditate successfully, use exhibits and presentations.  To get more information, suggest topics for Debbie and Gary to discuss, or hire them, email info@lawyervlawyer.com. For more episodes visit our Lawyer V. Lawyer Facebook page or website. Although the advice is good, no attorney-client relationship is formed by listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Lawyer V. Lawyer, the only legal podcast giving you both sides of the trial room floor. In this episode: Debbie and Gary discuss the effect fake news and election litigation has on the law and litigation everywhere else. All of a sudden, people are openly criticizing judges and decisions, are filing baseless lawsuits and making claims without proof. But we have rules of evidence and ethics rules to control that. How the weird political world bleeds into normal lawyer work. To get more information, suggest topics for Debbie and Gary to discuss, or hire them, email info@lawyervlawyer.com. For more episodes visit our Lawyer V. Lawyer Facebook page or website. Although the advice is good, no attorney-client relationship is formed by listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!  

Our Lawyer v. Lawyer hosts discuss social media now: using it as part of an investigation to see if the plaintiff to see if they are exaggerating their injury and the strategy of that; using it to investigate venire panels and potential jurors for their political views and socioeconomic status; and the rapidly (still) changing nature of social media with rapid political and pandemic changes we are experiencing.

Gary and Debbie talk about cases with bad injuries and high damages: some of which have good liability and others may not be worth a hoot. Start at the end of the case, assess whether plaintiff is sympathetic or not sympathetic, turn tough liability cases into good liability cases, jury research and early resolution.

Debbie and Gary discuss what they did with their offices to accommodate Corona and working from home, productivity of employees and their experience with Corona. They also prognosticate on systemic changes in the law that will happen because of Corona.

Gary and Debbie welcome Jill Bollwerk again for her second episode with us. We continue our discussion about Jill’s practice and what her, Debbie and Gary’s plans are for the next decade. We figure out that we like what we’re doing and are mostly going to continue what we’re doing. We talk about lawyer advertising, how to market ourselves, Jill’s great networking and our concerns and risks we will confront in the next decade or so. We also continue our discussion about work-life balance and when we like to get our work done - balancing our other interests and family.

In this episode, Debbie and Gary welcome Jill Bollwerk of Bollwerk and Tatlow as their guest. We discuss how her practice started and some unique aspects of being a woman trial lawyer. Women in the courtroom need to take the edge off and try cases differently. Women can be harder on other women. Then we discuss work-life balance and how we choose our life and practice.

For episode 59, Garry and Debbie discuss the lessons we learned or re-learned in 2019: don’t get too big for your britches; perfect is the enemy of good; get rid of the haters – no good deed goes unpunished; get your plan together, keep at it and trust your intake instincts; work with a servant’s heart; Appellate work is challenging and makes you home your instincts. Gary and Debbie wish you a happy new year and look forward to more podcasts in 2020. To get more information, suggest topics for Debbie and Gary to discuss, or hire them, email info@lawyervlawyer.com. For more episodes visit our Lawyer V. Lawyer Facebook page or website. Although the advice is good, no attorney-client relationship is formed by listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!

Dan Schnurbush again joins Debbie and Gary about the exciting topic of insurance coverage: The insuring agreement, exclusions, denying coverage under the insurance agreement or exclusions, burden of proof on insured to prove insuring agreement, burden of proof and insurance company to enforce exclusions, conflict, dec actions, mistakes lawyers make in coverage issues, pressure lawyers could put on insurance companies on insurance issues. 

Welcome to Lawyer V. Lawyer, the only legal podcast giving you both sides of the trial room floor. In this episode: Gary and Debbie have guest Dan Schnurbush join them to discuss insurance coverage: bad faith law, coverage letters, policy interpretation, duty to defend, duty to defend when no duty to indemnify exists, arbitration. Great episode with a lot of detail.  To get more information, suggest topics for Debbie and Gary to discuss, or hire them, email info@lawyervlawyer.com. For more episodes visit our Lawyer V. Lawyer Facebook page or website. Although the advice is good, no attorney-client relationship is formed by listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!