A Foot in Each Camp
...ad agreed to accept a minor role as “local counsel” with an “out-of-town counsel”. Then this “lead counsel” dropped the ball and got himself fired, and I was verging on trying a case I could not win. I was holding perhaps a pair of twos. I followed all of their tips, made sure I had good experts, and prepared as if we were going to trial. Eight hours of mediation got us a meager settlement, but it was a meager settlement in a case that never shoul...