Secrets To Your Top Recovery
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Learn how to maximize the Attorney-Client relationship to give your employment law case the best chance of success!
Many of us have experienced unfair or hostile treatment in the work place. Let's face it, the employment world is generally not democratic and can be brutal. Sometimes matters can only be resolved in a court of law. You will be fighting for your rights and asking the court to award you, in many cases, your job back, lost earnings, compensatory damages, and attorney fees. Lawsuits are new experiences for most people and can bring with them a certain anxiety that is only natural. You need to be prepared. Secrets To Your Top Recovery can give you the answers you need to help win your case.
"Over the course of my fifteen plus years of admitted practice, I've noticed a pattern of which cases were the most successful. One of the most striking and undeniable conclusions I found was that. If a client knew what I knew at the beginning of the case, that client and I would have a distinct and clear advantage." ~Morris E. Fischer, Esq.
Clients will pay hundreds of dollars an hour, translating to several thousand dollars in consultations with their attorneys to learn the priceless information contained in this book. I have literally seen the same kinds of cases achieve different results, based upon a client's ability and willingness to follow and implement these strategies. Think of it this way, the difference between a large settlement and verdict and a small one sometimes is very thin and can rest on one or two of the principles contained in this guide. To help improve your chances of a large settlement or verdict, order this book
Written in an easy, readable, and user-friendly form, this book breaks down the complicated legal process to simple components that anyone can understand and covers all major aspects of litigation including:
• Understanding the Legal Elements
• Responding to Defendant's Discovery
• Successful Performance at Deposition
• Understanding Settlement Value
• Effective Communication with your Lawyer
• What Happens at Trial
• Achieving Maximum Recovery at Mediation
Having a fundamental understanding of your case can be a leading factor for success, and can save you money in the process. Secrets To Your Top Recovery provides you with priceless information about the best possible ways in which you can help your attorney at the different stages of litigation to achieve the best possible result.
About the Author
Morris E. Fischer concentrates his practice in employment and business law. Admitted to the bar for over fifteen years, Mr. Fischer possesses a wealth of unique and diversified experience. Early in his legal training, Mr. Fischer had the opportunity to clerk for New York State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth D. Molloy, where he obtained a bird's eye view of the legal system which has enriched his practice to this very day. Following that experience, he litigated hundreds of civil cases during his five years of New York practice, culminating in working for the President of the New York State Trial Lawyers' Association. Possessing both a legal degree from the Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law in Long Island, New York and an accounting degree from Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business. Mr. Fischer has used his education to focus on the client's true needs while providing tough, aggressive and vigorous representation.
Passion, concern for the client and battling Goliaths are the kinds of qualities that Mr. Fischer utilizes on a daily basis to fight and achieve justice for his clients. Tough, aggressive and vigorous litigation are the techniques he lives by to achieve results in a timely fashion.
Morris E. Fischer
Morris E. Fischer concentrates his practice in employment and business law. Admitted to the bar for over fifteen years, Mr. Fischer possesses a wealth of unique and diversified experience. Early in his legal training, Mr. Fischer had the opportunity to clerk for New York State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth D. Molloy, where he obtained a bird's eye view of the legal system which has enriched his practice to this very day. Following that experience, he litigated hundreds of civil cases during his five years of New York practice, culminating in working for the President of the New York State Trial Lawyers' Association. Possessing both a legal degree from the Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law in Long Island, New York and an accounting degree from Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business. Mr. Fischer has used his education to focus on the client's true needs while providing tough, aggressive and vigorous representation. Passion, concern for the client and battling Goliaths are the kinds of qualities that Mr. Fischer utilizes on a daily basis to fight and achieve justice for his clients. Tough, aggressive and vigorous litigation are the techniques he lives by to achieve results in a timely fashion.
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Secrets To Your Top Recovery - Morris E. Fischer
Secrets To Your Top Recovery
By
Morris E. Fischer, Esq.
Copyright © 2011
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This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is distributed with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal or other professional advice by this publication. If legal advice or other expert advice is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
ISBN: 0-9632171-7-8
Second Edition
Morris E. Fischer, Esq.
www.morrisfischerlaw.com
Smashwords Edition
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE LEGAL PROCESS
2. UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL ELEMENTS OF YOUR CASE
3. WRITTEN DISCOVERY DEMANDS
4. YOUR DEPOSITION
5. CRITICAL STRATEGIES IN MAXIMIZING DAMAGES AWARDED AT A JURY TRIAL OR AT MEDIATION
6. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR LAWYER
7. SETTLEMENT
8. WHAT HAPPENS AT TRIAL
9. APPEALING A DECISION
10. LITIGATING AGAINST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is difficult to thank all of the people who have helped me both personally and professionally over the many years of my life without leaving someone out. I thank my family for their support and efforts over the years, especially my parents and older brother Joe, who strongly encouraged me to become a lawyer. Aside from them, I acknowledge the following as the most influential people with whom I have had either a professional or personal relationship. Although some are from completely different walks of life, the one factor these individuals have in common is that they have been remarkably successful at their given endeavor. In no particular order:
Ms. Kathleen Williams (6th grade social studies teacher, Rochester, NY)
Dr. Max Rudansky (Head of Neurology, Huntington Hospital, Huntington, NY)
Dr. Jack Azar (former Vice President, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY)
Rabbi David Harris (Headmaster, Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim, Flushing, NY)
Keith Devries, Esq. (Master Trial Lawyer, New York, NY)
Walter S. Booth, Esq. (Top Criminal Defense lawyer, Bethesda, MD)
Jim Waide, III, Esq. (Master Trial Lawyer, Tupelo, Mississippi)
Mr. Alan Veingrad (NFL Superbowl Champion, Dallas Cowboys, 1992)
Jeff Morris, LLB (former managing partner BOYNE CLARKE Barristers, Toronto, CA)
Most of all I want to thank my wife, Aviva for marrying and putting up with me for the last eleven years. I have a wonderful practice and many friends, but I am not the easiest person with whom to be married. I would not be nearly as successful as I have been without my wife’s influence.
INTRODUCTION
I wrote this guide principally for clients or future clients office to inform them of the best and most productive ways they can help achieve success in their cases. When I began my legal career in 1995, I couldn’t have possibly written this guide without the extensive experience I have gathered in my career since then. Let me share with you a brief overview of my experiences in the legal profession.
In law school, I served as a law clerk for New York State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth D. Molloy. This clerkship was a phenomenal opportunity for a young law student because it provided me with a box seat view of trial work, litigation, and the inner workings of a court.
After graduation, I worked for the State-Wide Insurance Company in Hempstead, NY, where, among other duties, I was given small claims trials for the company, and I started keeping track of the reasons I was able to prevail in court. As I proceeded with my legal career in New York, I represented hundreds of clients from both the plaintiff and the defense sides of the cases. My final legal job in New York was with the law firm of Kramer & Devries, LLP. At the time, Lenore Kramer, Esq., was the President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. I worked a great deal with her partner Keith Devries, Esq., a phenomenal trial lawyer, from whom I learned a monumental amount. The firm was so high powered that it received referrals from Johnnie Cochran’s New York office. Although my experience there was short, for I left to marry and settle in Maryland, it was life changing. I will truly remember being part of Kramer & Devries as one of the great highlights of my career.
In Maryland, where I have now practiced for over ten years, I broadened my practice to encompass Federal, State, and Administrative employment law claims. I believe that one of the primary advantages that I have over most of my competitors is the great breadth of cases I have handled along with the different venues in which I have practiced. For example, I frankly don’t know of any other lawyer who practiced in the high-pressured environment of New York City on multi-million dollar tort claims and then later also secured a successful $870,000 trial verdict in Oxford, Mississippi.
I am admitted to practice in the states of New York and Maryland as well as the District of Columbia. On the federal level, I am admitted to ten federal courts, including the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
I have traveled to many states and have been in many court- rooms across this great country. I have had administrative employment litigations reaching the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
I have tried to learn from every experience, good or bad. At one point, I won twelve cases in a row on summary judgment for a highly reputable Park Avenue, Manhattan law firm. At that time, I asked myself, What do all of these cases have in common?
I couldn’t quite put my finger on the answer at that time, but when I moved to Maryland in late 2000 and set up my own practice, I had the opportunity to continue to represent hundreds of clients with employment and business claims. This continued experience enabled me to develop a formula for achieving the best results for any given lawsuit.
Finally, after thirteen years of practice and over seventeen years in the legal field, I decided to write this guide to share my winning formula with my clients. I believe through effective cooperation that we can maximize our chances and recoveries for both of our benefits. This book contains the most vital information that defense firms don’t want you to know about and what other lawyers may charge you hundreds of dollars per hour to find out.
In 2011, after another three years or so of litigating exclusively in the employment law field, I decided to write the second edition for this book. Over this period, I notched several large and critical victories in which I tested a number of new litigation techniques. In April, 2011, I obtained a jury verdict in the amount of $250,000 in a case against the United States Secret Service, Mogenhan v. Nepolitano, United States District Court, District of Columbia, Case No: 98-0817. This was no ordinary case. For one thing, my client, Ms. Ann Mogenhan, litigated this case for nineteen years against the government. I am eternally grateful to Ms. Mogenhan for entrusting me with her case for the last seven of those years. At present, there is an attorney fee and interest petition before the court for an approximate $800,000.
I learned a great deal from the Mogenhan trial. I can’t wait for another jury trial against the government. In fact, in this second edition, I have dedicated a chapter to litigation against the U.S. government. I have learned from experience that their modus operandi for litigating employment cases consists of very similar patterns, no matter what the case. While I’m eager to share information for my federal employee clients, that which I’ve learned can apply in all employment law litigation, public or private.
Since this book’s first edition, my firm also had successes in Durham, North Carolina and Billings, Montana. In Durham, I won a trial for a federal employee, a registered nurse, from the Office of Veterans Affairs, Yvonne Glover v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Matter No. 558/05. She obtained reinstatement into her position, all back pay and attorney fees.
In Billings, I successfully litigated a case against the National Institutes of Health at the Merit Systems Protection Board level. Melkus v. Department of Health and Human Services, M.S.P.B. Denver Field Office, Case No: DE-0752-10-0160-I-1. NIH terminated my client for expressing an opinion against preference hiring for Native Americans. The agency claimed that my client demonstrated himself to be ideologically against the aims of the agency. While this may have been true, he still had the legal right under the