The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

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It-Like

a

Pirate,

but

Legally

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10

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But you as a PL have minimal co

sts-

your time,

mmor

travel,

expert witnesses, copying,

clerical-not

that much.

This

stacks the

odds in your favor. Every month costs them much more than you.

The

actual payout may be covered by insurance, but defendants'

defense costs aren't unless they allow their insurance firm to run

their defense, which means giving up

control-u

sually meaning

lousy legal work. So simply by moving forward every month, you

put increased pressure on the defendant, motivating them

to

pay

you to go away since they didn't get that message at first. You want

to ask

to

be paid to go away immediately, then again after the judge

refuses the defendant's request for dismissal, and then about every

four months right up until the end.

If the defendant does go all the way through the trial, it means

they either are confident they did nothing, are tough, or, in ways you

as PL may

not

understand, consider themselves simply unable

to

settle. (We'll get to that later.) But if they prevail all the way through

the trial, you again ask for money, much less, or else you threaten to

appeal.

Ifthey won't pay you, then appeal.

That

will be another year,

easy, and you can keep asking to be paid to go away. From beginning

to end, you want to keep hitting them with body blows.

What

kind

of blows are best?

Play

ing

to

the

Press

PLs pretend they don 't seek media coverage

-doing

so irks judges.

But they ...