Eight-Week Trial Prep Checklist for California PI Cases
Most trial losses are set up eight weeks before voir dire, when expert demands, MILs, and witness prep all compete for the same paralegal h…
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Intake Screening: Which Calls Become Cases and Which Decline
A solo or small-firm PI practice that takes every call it pleases will drown in files that go nowhere. The intake screen is not customer se…
Settlement Fund Disbursement: From Defense Check to Client Wire in California PI
The window between a cleared defense check and a client wire is the highest-risk stretch in plaintiff practice. A single math error, a miss…
Cost-of-Prosecution Tracking for Plaintiff PI Firms: Capture, Recover, Absorb
Most PI firms know their gross fee number cold but cannot say within two percentage points what last year's resolved files actually cost to…
Building a PI Referral Pipeline From Workers' Comp, Criminal, and Family Law
The lawyers most likely to hand you a six-figure case aren't other PI firms — they're the workers' comp, criminal defense, and family law a…
Managing Client Communication Through the Slow Middle of a PI Case
The intake is signed, treatment is winding down, and then the case goes quiet for eighteen months. That silence is where most client relati…
PI Law This Week: A $644M Premises Verdict, NY Comparative Fault, and ELD Enforcement Hits 67 (Aug. 13)
An Orange County jury delivered one of the year's largest premises verdicts, New York's modified comparative fault rule for motor vehicle c…
Plaintiff-Bar PE Consolidation, NHTSA Recalls, and Agentic AI: Aug. 7 Wrap
Morgan & Morgan retained J.P. Morgan in June 2026 to explore a minority PE stake exceeding $1 billion, accelerating MSO-model consolidation…
PI Case Management and California Lien Priority: Ops Benchmarks August 2026
Supio Agent's Westlaw Advantage integration creates the first fully agentic PI case-prep workflow across 27,000-plus tracked cases and $1B-…
PI Law This Week: Mass-Tort Dockets on the Move (Aug. 6)
Our week-of-August-6 recap tracks five mass-tort dockets, from AFFF and Covidien mesh bellwethers to the 3M earplug wind-down, Camp Lejeune…
PI Law This Week: The NEC Warning Wall, Depo-Provera's Global Deal, and Hair-Relaxer Discovery Reopens
Causation ran through every docket this week: the Seventh Circuit narrowed the NEC warning theory, Depo-Provera moved toward a global deal…
Freight Broker Liability Peaks at $604M as Amazon and MDL Verdicts Reshape PI Bar
Arnold & Itkin's $604M Dallas County verdict against C.H. Robinson on July 23 is the first major award under the post-Montgomery freight-br…