At what point do you usually know a case isn't going to work though, Eric?

That's a very good question.

How do we know when a case isn't going to work? There's a, a sense at the beginning, and I really do believe that when an attorney sits down with their client, they can pick up on what the expectations are.

And usually when you've got a client that's calling you every week wanting an update and understanding that these things now take three, four years from beginning to end, and if a client's gonna call me every week saying, "What's going on? What's going on?" The expectations are really high And I'm not gonna be able to satisfy that person.

That's, that's early on.

For example, I had a meeting yesterday with a client who's got a medical negligence case.

She doesn't call me every day.

When, when a case does come together, you know, what tends to be the difference in your, in your experience?

Eric, so it says, as you started looking into it, what stood out early on, anything in particular that you knew you could tackle?

So things that stood out to me early on were, one, the significance of the injury.

Again, do a lot of TBI now.

I didn't then have a much, much greater appreciation or understanding of the science behind that or those injuries now, what needs to happen to make sure that folks get better.

So I knew we had a significant injury.

I knew that he was suffering.

He had had brain surgery.

So with that being said, where did the case ultimately land? Well,

What kind of case tends to win that sort of recognition?

Well, uh, you know, that's a very good question.

I think the, that was a vote by our peers in the community that handle medical malpractice from the defense side and from the plaintiff side.

So it's, it's a huge honor.

Um, but I think you, we've got to be really selective about the cases that we take because they are so risky and they are so expensive.

Um, in, in my community here in Birmingham, the largest employer is a health system.

And so when I go to trial, if I get 40 people to come down for a venire where you pick the jury from, 30 of them are gonna be associated with the medical field in some capacity.

So is there, is, is there a single case during your career, um, that really kinda sticks with you?

How have you seen, you know, perhaps and how you've seen your own kind of workflow change? And what's what are some things that you use in your day to day on the AI side to help you do your job?

So we use AI.

Well, if we go back two years, we were probably one of the slowest operators.

We wanted to see what it was doing, what the downsides were.

where the risk were to a firm like ours just didn't really understand it.

Within the last 12 to 18 months, it's exploded in the public, and it's also exploded here in our practice.

I think we probably use it on just about every level, from the receptionist side, intake.

Looking forward to hearing your one, five and 10 year predictions for how AI is going to shape the legal space and maybe even more specifically the personal injury space.