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Let’s talk about the Dimopolous ad in the Super Bowl yesterday. My fam was invited over to a party where I was the only attorney present. All of the other adults were professionals. They couldn’t stop laughing and clowning on Steve. I don’t do P.I., but I told my fellow revelers to laugh all they want, Steve D is laughing all the way to the bank, driving his Rolls Royce with AC Slater riding shotgun.
Obviously these ads work. But who are they working on? High school drop outs? CCSD grads? (but I repeat myself).
I did pi for about 4 years. The ads work on stupid people. All my clients were friendly enough but largely not bright. Your fancy pants crew are not the target
I’ve worked both insurance defense and personal injury. PI clients are not bright, but they are greedy. I’ve seen people in extremely minor car accidents who get hitched up with the right (wrong) PI attorney and what should have been resolved with a few months of physical therapy turns into spinal surgery. It’s astounding to me that there are surgeons who will cut into people like that, but there are.
Hmm.. Surgeons cut, that’s what they do. So yes, take an orthopedic surgery recommendation with a grain of salt.
There is an old saying, “dumb is forever”
-Charlie Munger
Tangential thought. Our auto insurance rates in Nevada are higher than most largely thanks to the PI bar. Every minor scrap turns into a litigated case, overtreatment and sadly referral schemes between attorneys and medical/chiropractic providers.
There are just too many PI firms.
Or just maybe, there are too many people willing to have a hack surgeon cut open their spine in order to boost the value of their claim. Without that kind of greed, there’d be fewer PI firms.
That’s a ridiculously myopic take for sure. If you took a couple minutes away from your “Land Use” practice and did some actual cases, you would feel different.
So instead of cursing the PI practice for “greed” and making more money than you, curse the metaphorical cubicle you painted yourself into and get a fkg life.
PI is less than 20% of my solo practice, generates 50% of my total revenues and I spend exactly zero on advertising.
it’s not myopic at all. you don’t even have to get the surgery to claim it as damages, you just need the recommendation. it would be fun to see a study of how many injured parties followed through on surgical recommendations. there are plenty of meritorious cases, and insurance companies are a-holes, but on balance, the cause of high insurance rates in nevada has more to do with the PI machine with its attendant corruption (capping, recommending treatment on liens instead of insurance, buying those liens, referring clients to doctor friends who pay for the referrals, etc.). many clients don’t even benefit from the machine either. they get less money in their pockets than the attorneys, doctors, and tow truck drivers that collaborated to turn a soft tissue case into six figures.
Tell me that you know nothing about PI cases, without telling me that you know nothing about PI cases.
tell me the truth hurts without telling me… tell me you are unclever without telling me …
I did insurance defense for 20 years and now do some plaintiff personal injury. Experts from out of town like Phoenix have determined more unnecessary neck and back surgeries in Vegas than anywhere else. This is what prompted the medical mafia investigations. A minor rear ender and a surgery or surgical recommendation. Eventually this will catch up and insurance rates will get much worse and in turn produce more uninsured drivers. Already, I can not afford my full umbrella with UM/UIM. The insurance rates are sky high. Every other case is bad faith policy limits demand. Scary.
Many carriers will litigate to death cases with $25k policies that could have easily been settled for limits early on, resulting in six and seven-figure jury awards. Stupid. There is plenty of blame to go around.
I don’t practice in the PI world, but am impressed by the quality of the production of these legal ads. Dimopoulos’ ads are at least well-produced. Even the billboards stand out as being well-made
I’ve always been curious as to whether the quality of the legal work that comes out of that firm is commensurate with the quality of the advertising. I know that there are some excellent injury litigators and trial attorneys here in the valley; is Dimopoulos one of them?
That would be a NO.
Take a look at his profile on the state bar website.
I am glad you brought this up. The courtroom and courthouse were not even an accurate depiction of anything from Las Vegas. The courtroom reminded me of LEGALLY BLONDE. So phony and such an inaccurate reflection of the competence of that firm.
For anyone who wants to watch it, it’s on the front page of the lvrj.com site
I get a luxury magazine rag because I overpaid for my house. There’s a Dimopoulos article in there that says his exotic car fleet is worth $13 million. That astonishes me. In other news though, I thought the city came off beautiful during the game.
the courtroom appears to be in the eglet palace. his by appointment only downtown location.
Do you think that courtroom should be accessible without an appointment?