The odds of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against. Think...
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Jan Schlichtmann:
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The odds of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against. Think about that for a second. Your odds of surviving a game of Russian roulette are better than winning a case at trial. 12 times better. So why does anyone do it? They don't. They settle. Out of the 780,000, only 12,000 or 11/2 percent ever reach a verdict. The whole idea of lawsuits is to settle, to compel the other side to settle. And you do that by spending more money than you should, which forces them to spend more money than they should, and whoever comes to their senses first loses. Trials are a corruption of the entire process and only fools who have something to prove end up ensnared in them. Now when I say prove, I don't mean about the case, I mean about themselves.
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The odds of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in court
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are 2 to 1 against
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Think about that for a second
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Your odds of surviving a game of Russian roulette are better
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12 times better
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So why does anyone do it
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They don't They settle
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Out of the 780 000 cases filed each year
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The whole idea of lawsuits is to settle
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to compel the other side to settle
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 190
Timestamp in movie: 00h 46m 09s
Uploaded: 02 April, 2022
Genres: drama
Summary: A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.
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