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Posted by McLeish Orlando on May 8, 2013 under Our Firm Be the First to Comment An auto insurance industry review of catastrophic impairment provisions is unnecessary at this time, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando says in Law Times.
Tags: auto industry, Automobile Insurance, catastrophic impairment, Dale Orlando, Financial Services Commission of Ontario, fsco, Law Times, mcleish orlando, McLeish Orlando LLP, Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, toronto critical injury lawyer dale orlando 5 Personal Injury Cases You Should Know (From The Past Year) – 5 Part Blog Series
Posted by Rikin Morzaria on May 6, 2013 under Our Firm Be the First to Comment Everyday this week we will highlight one of the top 5 Personal Injury Cases you should know about. For personal injury practitioners, many of the most significant decisions of the past year arose in the accident benefits context. However, there have been a number of negligence decisions that will also have significant implications for personal injury practitioners. The decisions I have selected for review in this paper deal with diverse aspects of personal injury practice, from limitation periods to minimum maintenance standards to the applicability of statutory conditions to underinsured motorist coverage. In some instances, the cases will dictate dramatic changes to the approach that both plaintiffs’ counsel and defence counsel should take in applicable circumstances. In others, the cases provide useful reminders of small steps that counsel must take to successfully advance claims, and ensure they will be upheld on appeal.
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Posted by McLeish Orlando on May 2, 2013 under Our Firm Comments are off for this article In his own words “McLeish Orlando really gave me an independent lifestyle”. Before Dan’s accident he was an athlete, a top student and a musician in school. Listen to Dan as he tells us how the McLeish Orlando team helped him regain his life and independence after his accident.
Tags: A Noticeable Difference, Dan Harvey, McLeish Orlando LLP New Lawyer Practice Series Part 6: Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law
Posted by Dale Orlando on April 17, 2013 under Marketing, Our Firm Comments are off for this article This is the last post of the series Developing and Funding a Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Practice. The last challenge in starting your own firm is ensuring you have the best resources available. People.
When John McLeish and I started our firm in 1999 we had one other lawyer who worked with us and 7 staff members. We have made a point of not growing the firm simply for the sake of growth. Despite this approach, we now have a firm of 11 lawyers, 3 articling students and 50 support staff. We currently employ an excellent office manager and receptionist, in addition to a host of excellent accident benefit clerks, law clerks and legal assistants. All of these people are absolutely essential to the success of our law practice, but this growth hasn’t come without its share of problems. There is truth to the saying “good people are hard to find” and we have had our share of mistakes. It is important that the people that work for me are dedicated, hard working, intelligent and honest, but this is only a starting point. For me, one of the most important aspects of our firm is the atmosphere. It isn’t for everyone, but it is for me. For almost everyone in the workforce, you spend the majority of your waking hours with the people that you work with. You can pay people well and they will show up for work, but if you want them to go the extra mile, work has to be a place that they enjoy going. They have to like the people that they work with and they have to like you. If your employees like and respect you, they will put their hearts and souls into the success of your operation. You can’t force people to like and respect you, but if you respect them, treat them fairly and take an honest interest in their well being, you will find that they can’t help but reciprocate. I’m not suggesting that you should be afraid to point out peoples mistakes or take appropriate action to correct behaviour that is detrimental to the office so long as it is done the right way. However, once you realize that you have made a bad hiring decision, you should move as quickly as you can to undue the mistake by letting the person go. It doesn’t take long for one person’s bad attitude to fester and create division within an office. You will spend a great deal of time and money fostering goodwill with your employees. You don’t want to let your efforts be undone by a bad apple. Read more of this article »
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Posted by Dale Orlando on April 10, 2013 under Marketing, Our Firm Comments are off for this article In part 5 of our series we discuss Funding Your Practice.
There are significant financial demands to running a successful personal injury practice. These demands are greatly increased when you are in the process of setting up and establishing a new personal injury practice. As stated above, you will have virtually no choice but to offer your services on a contingent fee basis which means you will collect fees some number of months or years after you begin working on a file and you will carry most of the disbursements associated with the file for this period of time as well. At the start of your practice, you can expect a significant delay in the inflow of cash. Conversely, the outflow of cash will begin before you even open your doors for business. Starting in the planning stages of opening your firm, you will begin to incur the typical overhead expenses of a law firm, such as rent, salaries, law society fees, insurance, equipment purchase, etc. Before setting out on your own or in partnership, you must ensure that you have enough money in the bank or access to adequate credit to ensure that you can continue to pay your overhead costs when cases are pending. You don’t want to find yourself in a situation where your judgment about the value of a case is effected by your need to meet your financial obligations. In my experience, banks will be reluctant to lend to anyone who does not have significant collateral that they can pledge as security for their loan or a long and proven track record of success in their law practice. Banks have difficulty recognizing the value retained in a personal injury law practice by way of work in progress (WIP) and paid disbursements. On complex cases, the paid disbursements can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In a large practice, paid disbursements can amount to millions of dollars. Read more of this article »
Tags: A Noticeable Difference, Dale Orlando, McLeish Orlando LLP, Personal Injury Law Firm, Toronto, Toronto Personal Injury Law New Lawyer Practice Series Part 4: Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law
Posted by Dale Orlando on April 3, 2013 under Marketing, Our Firm Comments are off for this article So far in this blog series on Developing and Funding a Plaintiff’s Practice we’ve discussed marketing your practice, through building relationships and advertising and developing systems for document gathering. We continue our series with the importance of gathering damages reports for file development and progression.
It goes without saying that you will want to obtain as many records as you can about your client’s pre and post injury health and employment before the discovery. In this way, you will have a clearer picture of your client’s case and you will be well positioned to educate your client about issues raised in their pre-injury health records. Obtaining records from non-parties can take time, so it is important to start this process early. You do not want to be in a position where key documents about your client’s health are not available before discovery.
Loss of income information in the file should be obtained and reviewed, including the resume the Plaintiff has completed for the purposes of the litigation, the pre-accident income tax returns, school records and current and previous employment files. Special consideration should be given whenever requesting school records. Read more of this article »
Tags: A Noticeable Difference, Dale Orlando, File Analysis, Freedom of Information, McLeish Orlando LLP, Ontario Student Record, Protection of Privacy Act, The Education Act Advice for Parents of Children Involved in a Traumatic Event
Tags: A Noticeable Difference, brain injury, Children Safety, Community, John McLeish, McLeish Orlando LLP, Medical Research New Lawyer Practice Series Part 3: Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law
Tags: A Noticeable Difference, Accident Benefits, car accident, Dale Orlando, data, File Development, McLeish Orlando LLP, motor vehicle accident Brain Injury Series Part 2: The Ways a Brain Can Be Injured
Posted by John McLeish on March 1, 2013 under Brain Injury, Medical News, Our Firm Comments are off for this article This is the second of a series of blogs on Winning Strategies for Handling a Mild to Severe Brain Injury Case.
Diffuse Axonal Shear In a diffuse axonal shear injury many of the nerve cell pathways (axons) may be torn apart or stretched. This can cause a loss of connection between brain cells and can lead to a breakdown of overall communication among neurons in the brain. Information processing may be disrupted. A diagram demonstrating the process of axonal shear appears below:
A coup contre-coup injury to the brain occurs when there is a sudden impact to the head, which causes the brain to first slam into one side of the skull wall, then bounce off that wall and slam into the wall on the opposite side of the skull. Read more of this article »
Tags: brain injury, catastrophic impairment, concussion, functions of the brain, John McLeish, McLeish Orlando LLP, Medical Research, personal injury, personal injury toronto New Lawyer Practice Series Part 2: Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law
Posted by Dale Orlando on February 28, 2013 under Marketing, Our Firm Comments are off for this article Here is the second part of our blog series entitled: Developing and Funding a Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Practice.
In the same way that an injured person seeks out someone that they know who has been through an accident related injury, so to do people seek out community health care practioners who are known to have experience with treating accident victims. Local physiotherapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors and family doctors are commonly asked to recommend a lawyer. Developing a strategy to become one of the lawyers on their “list” is crucial to nurturing this type of referral business. Generally, these people are busy and are not likely to be interested in simply going for lunch with you. However, if you can provide a value added service to them by way of a lunch and learn seminar, you will have a much easier time getting their attention. Look for opportunities to write a paper that explains something new that will be important to their practice and then call the person in charge and ask if they would be interested in having you discuss your paper with their group. The recent changes to the auto insurance Regulations is a perfect example. Our office routinely puts on seminars and webinars for health care practioners where hundreds of people attend or watch online. Read more of this article »
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