270. Sean Claggett — Fewer Cases, More Success: How Focused Work Leads to Bigger Wins [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Management, Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What if you could consistently predict trial outcomes and secure life-changing verdicts for your clients? Sean Claggett has cracked the code. By focusing intensely on a few key cases and harnessing the power of big data and focus groups, he’s transformed the trial landscape, winning multiple eight-figure verdicts. It’s a formula with a proven record of success — allowing them to win multiple eight-figure and life-changing cases for Sean’s clients. In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Sean and Michael Mogill discuss: The next-level methods to leverage big data for predictable trial verdicts and settlements The critical importance of leading by example to cultivate an elite trial team The meticulous preparation tactics that set the most successful trial attorneys apart ---- Show Notes: 02:20 – Sean Claggett's Journey to Becoming a Lawyer 05:53 – Growing Up and Moving to Vegas 09:03 – The Vegas Community and Its Resilience 11:17 – Leadership and Work Ethic in Law 14:14 – The Making of a Great Trial Lawyer 19:22 – The Role of Focus Groups in Trial Preparation 23:35 – The Early Struggles and Entrepreneurial Ventures 24:40 – Discovering the System for Success 25:39 – The Turning Point: 2012 and Beyond 28:39 – The Lowe's Case: A Game Changer 29:24 – The Importance of Focus Groups 33:49 – Predicting Verdicts with Data 40:12 – The Emotional Toll of Trial Law 43:32 – The Drive to Make a Difference ---- Links & Resources Rules of the Road by Rick Friedman David Ball on Damages: A Plaintiff’s Attorney’s Guide to Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases Reptile: The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiff’s Revolution Challenged Athletes Foundation Republic Services wrongful death trial Claggett & Sykes Law Firm ---- Listening to this episode but want to watch it? Check it out on Spotify. Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include: David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: #209 Mark Lanier – Achieving Multi-Billion Dollar Verdicts #178 Brian Panish – The Making of Champion Trial Lawyers #135 John Morgan – The Greatest Threats to the Legal Industry

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0:00.0	I'm obsessed with the concept that verdicts are predictable, the amount.
0:07.8	I do believe that to be true now.
0:10.2	That's Sean Claggett, renowned trial attorney and founding partner of Claggett and Sykes.
0:14.7	For years, I didn't believe it.
0:16.1	You know, everybody says you don't know what a jury is going to do.
0:18.2	That is not true anymore.
0:19.4	We've done 13 jury trials that we've consulted on or done ourselves recently, where we have
0:25.2	been within a range in 12 of the 13 based upon our big data and live focus grouping.
0:37.4	I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:42.1	I've built my business through practice, not theory.
0:44.9	Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:50.3	earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:54.7	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth within our own organization
0:59.1	and help the country's most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs.
1:03.6	In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond
1:08.4	to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity,
1:11.5	challenge the status quo, and define what it means to be a true game changer.
1:16.0	Today, we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes from the podcast where I sat down with
1:20.1	Sean Claggett to discuss how to leverage big data to drive predictable trial verdicts and settlements,
1:25.1	while leading by example is critical to developing a world-class
1:27.8	trial team, and how the most successful trial attorneys approach preparation.
1:32.2	Every focus group you do is like a new panel walk again.
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