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The Peak Practice Newsletter helps trial lawyers scale, streamline, and accelerate their practices with expert insights on law firm operations, business growth, marketing, and lien resolution strategy.

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Ten years after a truck hit him on a group bike ride, Synergy founder Jason Lazarus revisits the personal injury case he negotiated himself, from a six figure medical lien to a settlement plan built while recovering from facial reconstruction. He connects that experience to a bigger issue facing firms today: rising MSP compliance pressure and staff hours lost to administrativ...

Kyle Wright built his trucking practice in Sandusky, Ohio, a market most firms would overlook. In this Trial Lawyer View recap, he explains how he studied federal motor carrier regulations, put six figures a year into trial training, and ran a catastrophic case at litigation speed pre suit to secure a 5.7 million dollar policy limit settlement. The result: a smaller, higher v...

When a state Medicaid agency demands full reimbursement from a client's settlement, federal law may not actually allow it. This post breaks down the federal mandate behind Medicaid's third-party recovery rights, the anti-lien and anti-recovery statutes that limit them, and the two Supreme Court rulings, Ahlborn and Wos, that define how much of an injury victim's recovery is t...

A longtime Medicare Secondary Payer compliance attorney reflects on becoming a Medicare beneficiary and the lessons this experience offers to personal injury lawyers. Her story provides valuable insight into how MSP obligations impact injured clients.

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