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Can you tell us about a memorable insurance defense case?
Can you tell us about a memorable insurance defense case?
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i’ve had a lot of memorable cases in
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my decade plus working insurance defense
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but there’s one that sticks out in
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particular
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it was a slip and fall case where we
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were representing the
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international renaissance festival a
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gentleman had an unfortunate accident
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where he was on an outdoor boardwalk
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slip and
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slipped and fell and suffered a personal
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injury
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it’s not an uncommon situation in the
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type of case that i
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get but why it sticks out for me is that
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one of the first cases
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that i handled without any particular
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oversight or managing from
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any senior attorney here it was my
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case to run with from start to finish
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with my colleagues available for any
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questions or second thoughts or
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considerations at the end of the day
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we got a great result in the case uh
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federal court granted our motion for
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summary judgment
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so anytime you get a good result for
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your client
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it’s it’s a good day and it’s a
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memorable case
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the reason this one stands out in
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addition to
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being primarily a independent effort for
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me
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is that it was really an opportunity to
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see
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both the forest and the trees so to
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speak in terms of how to effectively
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manage an insurance defense case and
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what i mean by that is
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when you’re a new attorney and when
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you’re working for a more senior
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attorney
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a lot of times you get very task driven
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you’re
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assisting the senior attorney and he or
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she
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is explaining why things are done but
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you’re focused on the task and you don’t
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necessarily see the bigger picture
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in this case the ability to have the
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agency and autonomy to run the case to
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think strategically
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to go into a deposition with the
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plaintiff and understand
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exactly the facts that i wanted to
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elicit from him
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to use those facts in a motion for
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summary judgment
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effort the court to agree with my
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analysis
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and ultimately get a positive result for
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the client
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was a great feeling and something i
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continue to think about today
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not only as a benchmark but as a way to
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best approach all the cases i get from
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here forward
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Baltimore, MD commercial litigation attorney Jonathan D. Nelson shares the story of a memorable insurance defense case.
