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episode 37: 37. Personal Injury Lawyers
If you can make it through three years of law school, you too might end up on a billboard. Zachary Crockett makes the case.
- SOURCES:
- Jason Abraham, managing partner of Hupy & Abraham.
- Nora Engstrom, professor at Stanford Law School.
- Kyle Hebenstreit, C.E.O. of Practice Made Perfect.
- RESOURCES:
- “Personal Injury Settlement Amounts Examples (2024 Guide),” by Jeffrey Johnson (Forbes Advisor, 2022).
- “Low Ball: An Insider’s Look at How Some Insurers Can Manipulate Computerized Systems to Broadly Underpay Injury Claims,” by Mark Romano and J. Robert Hunter (Consumer Federation of America, 2012).
- “A Century of Change in Personal Injury Law,” by Stephen D. Sugarman (UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper, 2000).
- Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, in the Supreme Court of Arizona (1977).