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.

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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.

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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.

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Lawyer v. Lawyer - 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 limine, 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.

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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.

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