Now clerking for a PA Supreme court judge lol. Nepotism is great.

Find on their website where it says file a claim and call that number. Do you have a policy number or claim number ot anything?

If you don’t have anything just call the main number and say I’m looking for the adjuster for an incident and they will get you to the person assigned. You don’t need a demand letter yet, just a letter of rep you can fax in and they probably want before talking to you.

I forget if you've said this but have you ever done a PI case like this?

Insurers have to have a registered agent on file with the Secretary of State (for corporate purposes) and the Insurance Commissioner for insurance claim purposes (in every state that I am aware of). Call up your IC's office and ask for it.

IIRC, the insurers stonewalled their own insured on the grounds of intentional act and not a covered negligent tort; because of that stance, they are probably going to stonewall you because, if they don't, they open themselves to a complaint with the IC for bad faith acts, etc. I'd file a complaint, that's what you're probably going to have to do in the end anyway (and beat a MSJ).

Yeah, I wanted to avoid the awkward phone call if possible was all. Probably just end up doing it that way.

This was odd because usually the adjuster reaches out so we already have their contact information, but they never reached out this time. I think since our CL was a pedestrian and not in a motor vehicle at the time, they categorized it differently in their system. They never contacted our CL's auto policy or attempted to personally contact them at all.

Yeah, we've done a few auto's, but they've settled at demand letter phase. I imagine this will settle as well, but obviously we'll see. If we had to file a complaint, we would move for SJ and the trial would be on damages only. Liability is as clear-cut as possible.

But also, we have a mentor who practices in this area exclusively. He looked our demand over before we sent it out, and gave us some helpful fixes.

Good to know, Gioco. We are prepared to file if necessary. Assuming we get past the intentional conduct issue, I think we would be fine.

I'll check back to the thread when I have some news (hopefully good )

Ah yes, I remember this now. Wasn't sure if you had done a PI case before. Probably worth a phone call, you never know. I've "made friends" with adjusters over the phone and gotten a little extra for clients just by being nice to them and talking to them like people.

Random Question- Is shutting down for President's Day standard?

I didn't even realize today was a federal holiday. I didn't even find out until I go to file something and the Courthouse was locked up.

So, just because I'm bored, who else worked today? Anyone get the day off? I'm thinking in the future I'm going to just take these days off as well, since I get like nothing done if the courts are closed, no mail, and the banks are closed. I worked on a few housekeeping items today, like organizing some files and cleaning out old stuff, but hard to be really productive with no clients and almost no other attorneys working.

I'm a state employee and didn't get the day off. We get the day after Thanksgiving off as an additional holiday, and I believe that's the one they call Presidents' Day. We also get Christmas Eve off, but it's another one where they just tack "observed" onto some holiday from another part of the year.

Biglaw, office is closed.

Can't believe no President's Day off for a state employee.

I'm federal gov, we were off. I also got the second shutdown day off, and the non uniform response to this from different agencies was lolsy.

On the bright side, we get both Primary Election Day and Election Day off on the even-numbered years.

Was working in small law. Love working these days because it's so much easier to get litigation documents (discovery, memo's of law, etc.) complete when the phone is not ringing and the mail is not coming. Yesterday I was able to get a memorandum of law done in about 3.5 hours. Usually would take me two days between phone calls and other nonsense going on.

It is and it isn't. Locally, some courts were functioning. I took off since State offices were closed and our work involves those offices. However, looking at the calendar had been an afterthought since I initially presumed they would be on a skeleton-crew schedule (which often occurs when banks are closed but courts are functioning).

I would typically have been in since I am taking off later this week for WSOPc at Rio but chose to go do things with mom (and had been in over the weekend).

watched 3 hours of appellate arguments today in Brooklyn. I was given the confidential reports/proposed slip opinion prior to the arguments (I am an intern at the court and this was a perk) - it was fascinating to see, in certain circumstances, that the court was prepared to reverse or modify a judgment and how an awful appellate advocate could have f'd that up.

Hey guys - wanted to bounce this idea off of people who may have gone through something similar.

I currently work in a small general practice firm, doing work I generally dislike. I'd much prefer to work for a prosecutor/PD. There's a job opening at one of the local prosecutor's offices that I am qualified for.

In doing some research, the guy in charge of this office has politics that are very different than mine. I suspect that he probably has prosecutorial ethics that are different than mine as well. I don't have a problem with that when it comes to work environment - but I have a few questions:

1. How much latitude do you think individual ASAs/ADAs are given in their prosecutorial discretion in a small to medium sized office? An easy example is I'm guessing (without evidence yet) that the office doesn't have a particularly progressive stance towards people charged with minor drug possession charges. I interned at larger offices in law school and even the interns were given discretion to send those cases off to ADR or reduce them to disorderly conducts if the person did 10 hours community service or something. It would be kind of soul crushing to send people to jail for having 10.1 grams of mj.

2. How should I approach the interview (assuming I apply/get an interview), knowing that I likely have different perspectives on criminal justice than the people in charge?

3. I'd appreciate any general thoughts on navigating the politics of a small-ish office like that. To give you an idea, the next election for the position features 5 republicans and a democrat. I'm about as staunchly left as you can get.

I haven't worked at State Attorney's Office, but I did work at a PD for six years and dealt with ASAs every day. Strictly my opinion:

In general, if you are going to routinely drop cases or give lower charges because you feel bad about putting people in jail, I don't think being a prosecutor is going to be for you. It's okay to feel like some people are being overly punished over seemingly minor crimes, but at the end of the day, it is sometimes justified and that is the job that you are hired to do.

When I had ASAs against me that I knew would buckle because they felt bad about putting somebody in jail for whatever reason, I took advantage of it. Not only that, but I didn't have a lot of respect for them either.

If your politics are not going to allow you to go in there and demand jail for sometimes seemingly minor stuff (like weed, for example), then you probably just need to go work at the public defender's office.

sup bros.

Biglaw sucks.

That is all.

Disagree.

(Sup bro)

Thanks for the input. By way of further background, I interned at two prosecutor's offices while in law school and have no problem following the policies of a given office regarding specific crimes, drugs or otherwise. If given latitude, I would likely exercise that to not push for jail time on certain crimes, but that's kind of the point of prosecutorial discretion. If I'm not given that kind of latitude, then I'll follow whatever the guidelines of the office are. What kind of sentence/charge I'd push for on a given case is going to depend on a bunch of factors, but I'm not trying to work as an ASA because I want to keep people OUT of jail.

Lol. Well I know you Cali corp bros have much more reasonable hours. But in NY it is terrible. Weekday hours don’t even bother me too much even when I have to work very late. But the weekend work is just brutal. I get emails at 10pm on Saturday night with assignments due Sunday afternoon.

Without knowing they’re coming? That’s soooo gross.

Just remember you can lord this over your associates forever once you get out into a less stressful supervisory position.

NY biglaw gives me a powerful fright.

I'm considering deploying with my (civilian) DOD agency to a far off stinky place, probably Afghanistan, but you take the position before you know where they will send you. Probably six months, although it seems like lots of people voluntarily stay a few months longer. Basically triples my salary while I'm gone, and there's a few perks. We do get taxed, unless you stay a year. Everyone I talk to who has done it says 10/10 would do again.

Downsides include that you're supposed to wear goggles and a simple mask when you're walking around because it smells bad and there's always stuff flying around in the air.

Big Law, or deploy?

Yes. I get plenty more that I have a hunch could be coming but could just as easily wait on ice until Monday. Like when I turn in a non-urgent memo to a senior on Friday, it’s almost inevitable that I get edits back Saturday afternoon with inatructions to turn it around by Sunday night (and it’s never just line edits).

On the other hand, if I’m giving it to a partner, he or she will almost never look at it until monday.

I do think a lot of it is just bad luck. I’m on an especially brutal team. Most juniors probably have it much better.

Not sure if you mean outside big law or just higher up within biglaw, but if the latter, I have no intention of staying long enough to be in a very supervisory role. And even if I did, I could and would never do to my subordinates what is done to me.

Outside big law. In 10 years and various jobs every big law refugee supervisor I’ve had has used their big law time as an unattainable measuring stick about how hard their subordinates should work. Like I GAF that he or she billed 2200 hours in 1992.