Being a plaintiff's attorney, you can easily get overwhelmed with stress, volume, time constraints, deadlines, crazy clients and cash-flow problems. Unfortunately, it's usually the client and the case that suffer[ultimately you] if you are unable or refuse to put the resources into a case. After trying cases for 20 yrs and funding for more than 5 yrs, I see day in and day out the stark differences in the workup and presentation of cases. For instance;
1. On a falldown/premises case, a good workup mandates an investigator, good digital color photos of the scene and an engineer;
2. On a motor vehicle accident, certain cases will necessitate a reconstruction expert or biomechanical engineer;
3. Medical malpractice cases require a "real review " from the inception;
4. Products cases-real expert needed and site inspection[see CPLR Section 3102(c) governing pre-suit inspections) and
5. In castostrophic injury cases there is no way to avoid hiring a life care planner, economist, voc. rehab expert and in many cases a photographer to do " a day in the life of".
There is now funding available for all these needs.
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