Episode 193 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Pat Lamar

Hey, let's talk about that real quick.

So I want to, um, because my son Tom kind of does some of that work, and we're hopeful to hook up with you and, and do those, uh, cases together.

But, um, and I don't know much about it.

I mean, that, that's out of my purview.

But, um, you know, to bring a, a medical malpractice case in Alabama, I mean, kind of like you said initially, a, a professional negligence case, you better have darn good facts.

Fair?

Yeah, you got to have them.

Um, if you don't have them, y- you'd be a fool to take the case.

Um, you know, I know that there are lawyers out there that, that have in the past in, in various types of settings, they take cases that are sort of borderline, and they hope they-

Right

... can make them into something.

You cannot turn a bad professional negligence case into a good one.

Right.

I mean, you might could if you got facts that you didn't know about for some reason, but if you don't have it from the very beginning, then don't do it.

And, and even, even some good facts aren't enough.

It just depends on-

Well, don't you have to get, in Alabama, don't you have to have an expert opinion right from the get-go, right?

No. Um, that, we don't have the law like Florida.

Okay.

Florida has a law that says that before you file, you have to have a certificate of good faith or something.

I don't know that that's what they call it, but basically it's an affidavit from an expert saying there is merit-

Okay

... to this case.

You do not have to do that here.

Um, I generally try to, to obtain an opinion before I do something.