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00:00:05 questions I get very often from my clients is how do settlements differ from jury verdicts and it’s a great question because of course it’s a lawyer I answer it depends but settlements take into account a couple of things one is that you control the amount that the case resolves at when you go to a jury you don’t know it’s 12 strangers decide whether you win or
00:00:27 lose or tie. So settlements are a good thing. One of the things that’s built into a settlement is the cost of going to trial. If you settle your case, you might be able to save tens of thousands of dollars in expert fees, in exhibit fees, and other costs associated with going to trial. So that means that the average settlement might be a little bit less than the verdict, but yet the amount you put in your pocket will be higher. And that’s what we try for. When we settle a case,
00:00:56 We want to try and put more money in our client’s pocket than if they chose the option of going to trial. And that’s a business decision. A good lawyer will go over those numbers with a client before he asks a client to try and settle a case or whether they choose to go to trial. If you have questions like this about settlement or trial,
