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So I tell clients all the time there is no normal. Nor normal is irrelevant. Every case has its own timeline and a lot of times the timeline is based on the client. How long they're out of work for, what type of treatment that they need, do they need surgeries, you know, what type of job do they do? Certain cases drag on a lot of times because of the claimment. Not that that's a negative or or knock on the claim, but if you need a back surgery, you're going to be out of work for six months on a if
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things are good. If you have clients who who work through the injuries and don't have the surgery, their their case may go quicker. Quicker doesn't always mean better. It means listen, you want to settle case as quickly as is reasonably possible. But if you're having all these procedures, you don't want your medical cut off before you're ready to have that cut off. don't want to have a settlement before you feel that you've gotten what you need from the case. So, from my
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point of view, from our office, we don't let cases sit in the files. We're very proactive. I think people get frustrated because certain law firms don't return phone calls. They don't look to help. They they they don't push things along. They kind of let things just sit and settle. And that is that is really frustrating. And, you know, we've we've substitute other attorneys on cases where we look at a case that's been sitting around and nothing's happened for a year and a half. and we'll settle
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a case in three months. And that is that is what I would say could be the lawyer's fault. Also, the court is very slow, very slow. And you have to push for court dates and and there are a lot of cases on the calendar and that is a reason why. And that's unfortunately part of the legal
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