I have been a co-def of NYC is numerous cases – mostly low level slip and falls but some more serious cases too – for over 15 years. The City saves money by using its in-house counsel who are always unfamiliar with the files; only come to deps of NYC witnesses and leave it to their co-defs to otherwise develop the case facts in discovery; they don’t even pay for dep transcripts and take a “no pay” position in virtually all the cases up to and including at trial. No wonder that they get poor results and that when their cases come to trial – years after a tort was committed as their cases go slower than all others, juries punish them for the lack of a good defense and for seeming to have an inappropriately callous attitude to the citizens of NYC who are the plaintiffs in most of the cases. What they save in the first instance, they and tax payers get hit for later on.
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I have been a co-def of NYC is numerous cases – mostly low level slip and falls but some more serious cases too – for over 15 years. The City saves money by using its in-house counsel who are always unfamiliar with the files; only come to deps of NYC witnesses and leave it to their co-defs to otherwise develop the case facts in discovery; they don’t even pay for dep transcripts and take a “no pay” position in virtually all the cases up to and including at trial. No wonder that they get poor results and that when their cases come to trial – years after a tort was committed as their cases go slower than all others, juries punish them for the lack of a good defense and for seeming to have an inappropriately callous attitude to the citizens of NYC who are the plaintiffs in most of the cases. What they save in the first instance, they and tax payers get hit for later on.