094: Saar Swartzon of the law firm Cohn & Swartzon will be discussing the Business of the Law.

Saar Swartzon of Cohn & Swartzon has acted as lead trial counsel on many successful personal injury verdicts and settlements. Mr. Swartzon has years of experience in personal injury claims involving catastrophic injuries.  Mr. Swartzon helped obtain a $36 million jury verdict for an asbestos victim. This personal injury verdict was determined as the 48th largest verdict in the United States according to the National Law Journal, Top 100 Verdicts in 2004.  Mr. Swartzon has continued to obtain millions in compensation for his clients each year since starting Cohn & Swartzon.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

• Listen in as Saar tells us how staying on a job too long can cost you.

Tell us something good

• Saar tells us that his best case was during his first year when he represented a truck driver with no workers compensation insurance.  With one letter he was able to deliver a 7 figure settlement.

What’s on your desk?

• Personal injury cases of all kinds –  mostly car accidents
• An upcoming dog mauling case
• Currently has a mesothelioma/asbestos case in progress

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• Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• www.Fiverr.com
• 99designs.com

Favorite Books:

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star’s ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO’s disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions.
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard The primary obstacle to change is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.

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