At Arnold & Itkin, we are known nationally for trying cases. <00:00:5.500> Whether it's in the energy industry, whether it’s in the pharmaceuticals, trucking companies, they know that we will try a case anywhere, anytime. And that's really important for our clients.
Why is that important? Because if your firm and your lawyer is consistently down the courthouse winning, it ensures that the other side's going to either be scared and pay the appropriate amount of money and that if for whatever reason the case goes to trial, that you're going to be best represented.
I cannot tell you how many firms and lawyers in this country do not try cases. And if they do not try cases, the insurance company or the company is not going to be scared - - no matter the facts! If they can't deliver at the courthouse, why should they ever do the right thing?
They don't do the right thing because they should they only do the right thing when you make them.
The only way to make a company do the right thing is to scare them. If you don't want to pay, that's fine, that's your choice. We'll go down to the courthouse, we'll let a jury decide, and we'll see who's right or wrong.
We've had cases where people have offered us $10,000 to settle, and we've ended up with verdicts of 5 million or 10 million. Lowball settlements don't intimidate us - they motivate us.
<00:01:026.000>At ourfirm verdicts matter. Results matter.