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well the one piece of advice I
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continually find myself giving to
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clients is for them to realize that once
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they initiate a claim of any kind that
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everything that they say or do uh on
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social media or publish is just that
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broadcasting their own personal life to
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the rest of the world and everything
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that they say and do ultimately can and
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will be used against
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them a little bit about my background
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and experience that really prepared me
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for my practice is that I started out
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unlike most plaintiff’s lawyers as a
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defense lawyer I began my practice in
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1990 as a private practice insurance
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defense lawyer with the firm in Kansas
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City Missouri I worked there for about
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four years advising insurance companies
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and then uh defending their clients and
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insurance companies for four years and
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then I went in-house and worked for a
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large insurance company for about 21
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years where I interacted with the claims
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department defended the insurance
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company defended its customers that had
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been sued for various uh claims and
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ultimately after that I went to yet
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another insurance company for another
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three years so I had about 50 jury
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trials and 30 years of practice as a
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defense lawyer to prepare me for the
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practice I have now as a plaintive
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lawyer where I get to advise individuals
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uh that have been involved in accidents
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and have sustained injuries about what
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the insurance company perspective is in
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looking at their
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claims