Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Does that happen often?” Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “That you lose at trial?” Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Yeah.” Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “No. It doesn’t happen often. I guess it depends on who you’re talking […]
Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “In the State of Washington, if you are charged with assault with a firearm, and that’s an actual specific subset of an assault first-degree, is an assault with a firearm, you can also be charged with the firearm enhancement. So, even though the firearm is
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Is the difference the insurance company? The adjuster? The attorney?” What? Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “Generally speaking, is that you’re going to have a different adjuster assigned to the case once it’s in litigation. Now, that adjuster is looking at having to spend
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “A person has hired their personal injury attorney. And, it’s just like shopping. I like this one, this brand of cereal. I don’t like that brand of cereal, but I won’t know until I try it. If they’re in the middle of a case and they’re not happy with
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “A person gets injured. They want to hire an attorney, and their thought is…’I can’t afford an attorney’ How do you get paid?” Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “So, in this scenario, with a personal injury attorney, generally speaking, it’s never going to cost
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “So, will you be the attorney, specifically in regards to your office…somebody walks in, are you the attorney handling the case or does that go to somebody else? Because a lot of these larger firms, they have 20 different offices across the country, you know the guy that they’re
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “You mentioned earlier, that there’s no money out-of-pocket to the client. Wouldn’t they have a question in their mind that…’If I’m not paying my attorney, how do I know the case is important to them’?” Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “Well, I suppose though,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “It’s almost like a no-win situation if you have a prosecutor where you’ve had some previous history with…and it just carries on, and that defendant is at the whim and will of that prosecutor.“ Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “That can be true, but
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Needless to say, there’s a history there, among prosecutors. They know you’re going to be able to do it (go to trial). So in your particular situation, given your relationship with the prosecutors, when is plea bargaining most useful?“ Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Do the attorneys, on the other side, look at the value of a case after you file a lawsuit, as you just explained, simply adding their fees to the number that they previously offered? I’m thinking…’we’re going to spend another $10,000 in attorney’s fees, so we’ll just add that
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