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I received the following email from a “home office solo” today. I find it very interesting that the bully insurance company can’t take what they dish out.
I am a sole practitioner who handles civil litigation. I work out of my house (and get lots of great information from Grant about home office lawyering). Recently, I had a discussion with house counsel for an insurance company. Apparently, they are not happy with me. The story goes that my litigation techniques, which include pushing cases quickly towards settlement or trial, have upset the people in his office – and the claims department for the insurance company.
It is interesting that the insurance company likes to bully the person who was involved in the car crash and not at fault. However, when a sole practitioner pushes back, they flip out. They don’t want to handle files with me, refer cases out, and apparently are trying to figure out how to fix the “disruption” that I have caused in their office.
Moral of the story: it doesn’t matter where you work. You can still effectively advocate for your client.
Just another example of how a home office solo can represent their client as well as “big law”.
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Good for that guy. It always amazes me how “tall building lawyers” get so bent out of shape when things don’t go their way. I actually asked one the other day if he was going to throw another temper tantrum.