You will notice on this firm website that a lot of our cases are settled from court, rather than trying the case in court to a jury. This is not a cop out by any means and settling a case nearly always more beneficial with the client than taking true before a jury.
Settling a case in advance of trial saves the client and family the strain of going to trial. It is difficult enough for clients at the re-tell their experience for their attorney but often even more serious to tell it again across 7 jurors who tend to be strangers. The details of the case can also be kept more private. When you take a case to make trial, the court documents become public record and anyone can look into them - the local newspaper or neighbor. When you settle a case, most of the details are kept in the court documents, and aren't public record. Many settlement agreements also have confidentiality agreements as part of the settlement, so the case will not be talked about in court.
Settling a case rather than taking the case to trial can even save our clients a full time income. For every case we strive, there are at slightly two expert witnesses testifying on this client's behalf. These expert witnesses are paid for their time spent reviewing the situation, giving depositions, and testifying in court. If a case settles just before trial, the client has already incurred the cost of the expert's review on your records, but they will not incur the buying price of travel and time spent at a trial. A settlement also saves the buyer, because they do not have to take time off from their jobs to go to a trial. Unlike experts, who are usually present and testifying for a few hours, the client are essential for the entire showing, which can run from 2 or 3 days to a week plus. So the client needs to take this time far from their jobs, perhaps losing pay or vacation time therefore.
A jury trial is an extremely uncertain thing. You are letting people you don't know decide the outcome. When they're impartial to the parties in the event that, aspects of their own lives affect the way they view the evidence in the event that. You cannot control how they analyze the details on your case or how that person reach a verdict. A settlement as mentioned above certain and much speedier than having to wait for a jury trial to reach a stop, which decision can then be appealed in the losing party making the procedure even longer. Most cases last from 1 - 3 years, sometimes even longer if the appeal is involved.
When case goes to trial, there are very strict guidelines as to what can be said in the courtroom. When you settle a case, there is more leeway in what can be said to, or requested associated with, the defendant. For instance, in a trial, the family is limited to questions invited by the attorneys, which have to worry about the facts. The family cannot tell you just how they feel about what happened and they cannot ask for an apology away from the doctor or Nursing Home. Experiencing settlement outside of public, the family may reach tell the defendant that they feel and the chicken flock can request an apology as part of the settlement.
In conclusion, we can never take on a client after some not believe their lawsuit can be won before a jury. We never take a case and that we are not willing and happy to try before a small increase jury. However, we do attempt to stay our cases before going to trial if underneath the client's best interest. If the defendant is unwilling to solve the case by at your residence settlement offer which influences our client's injuries the damages, we will not hesitate to take the case before an enormous jury. Ultimately, the case belongs to our clients and it is our clients who add some final say on our issue.
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