Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq. has individually, and in cooperation with other law firms, obtained settlements and verdicts for his clients in excess of $1 Billion. He is the leading author in the U.S. on the subject of Colossus, the computer assessment program used by most auto insurance companies for evaluating personal injury claims. DeShaw is author of three books, and is featured in multiple professional education videos on the topics of traumatic injuries and insurance.
Aaron holds a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Western States Chiropractic College and a Juris Doctorate from Willamette University College of Law. As a doctor, he was on staff at the exclusive Hale Clinic in London England, and additionally practiced in five countries treating people from over 100 nations. He lectures extensively for both physician and legal professionals.
Aaron has been elected by his peers to Super Lawyers in multiple years. In addition to working at his own firm in Oregon, he is of counsel with the nationally prominent firm of Friedman | Rubin in Seattle, Washington.
Presently, more than 90% of Aaron’s cases involve traumatic brain injuries, with the remainder of his personal injury cases being catastrophic injuries such as quadriplegia, spinal cord injuries, amputation, and wrongful death cases. He has extensive experience doing jury trials on complex medical injury cases. Known for his unusual frontal attack of defense medical witnesses’ opinions, his cross-examination of one witness uncovered the “doctor’s” lack of an M.D. degree. Other defense doctors simply refuse to show up to testify against his clients.
DeShaw is a board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, an association of doctors, lawyers and other health care providers who are dedicated to helping people with life changing brain injuries.
He is also a musician, and photographer.
Charlette Sinclair has dedicated her career to helping lawyers maximize settlement value for their legitimately injured clients. Her background isn’t traditional - while working as a paralegal for mass volume law firms she realized the ineffectiveness of the traditional, narrative-style demand letter. She then learned about the Colossus bodily injury claim software and other claims evaluation software from subject expert Aaron DeShaw, who taught her “there is an art to advocacy, but a science to settlement.” As she continued to develop her knowledge of the insurance industry evaluation process, she had the privilege of learning more from former insurance adjusters and insurance claim process experts who provided great insight, and embarked on a mission to help change the way law firms prepare and present their cases to insurance companies.
Over a series of years studying and writing demand letters, Charlette has refined a series of demand letter templates that are formatted to trigger the bodily injury software systems, and traditional evaluation methods that insurers use to evaluate bodily injury claims. Often referred to as a law firm’s "secret weapon," she led a team of doctors, nurses and paralegals who helped law firms outsource demand package preparation, treatment chronologies, etc. More recently, she has consulted directly with law firms, training lawyers and their staff on the use of her proprietary demand letter formats as a tool to achieve higher settlement offers and avoid costly litigation for their clients. She often is called in to consult with firms who are consistently getting “low ball” offers for their cases in order to turn around their claim values.
Charlette has also gained experience working with a variety of lawyers as a visual media consultant for High Impact - training at their headquarters in Denver, and interacting with their team of medical illustrators, animators and medical specialists. While training in legal visual exhibits, she acquired niche skills in advanced visual claim presentation methods, that allows her to better serve lawyers during the demand submission process, in ADR, and during trial. Through a series of products she intends to produce for Trial Guides, Charlette will share her invaluable knowledge and methods with attorneys and physicians who are interested in better serving injured people. She is currently working as a freelance legal consultant on a part time basis, and is phasing out of her involvement in the legal industry.
When she’s not consulting, she enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family, driving sports cars, fishing, and playing with her 10 year old pitbull, Enzo.
With over seven years of experience as a Visual Litigation Strategist for High Impact, the industry leader in providing innovative visual solutions and litigation support to attorneys worldwide, Tyler has personally consulted on 200-350 cases per year ranging in value from five to eight figures. He’s provided top-notch service developing case themes and visual strategies that have helped secure millions of dollars for his customers and their injured client’s. It’s safe to say Tyler has seen (and strategized) every case type from auto injury, medical malpractice and products liability, to intellectual property and securities fraud; if there is a story to be told, Tyler will help realize the vision.
With that said, Tyler knows that no two cases are exactly the same and what proved successful in one may not be the right recipe for the next. With each day it is exactly this attitude Tyler employs on each and every case, building on past experiences and results while not losing sight of the details that make each case unique in its own right. It’s no surprise his regular client’s enjoy picking his brain and collaborating with him on every case, not just the ones they need exhibits for.
High Impact is a visual media firm operating in Centennial, CO for over twenty years. Its extensive portfolio of offerings (media types) has proven successful in every stage of litigation (and pre-lit) in all shapes and sizes of cases across the country.
Employing visuals as communication tools makes your arguments stronger and increases the value of your cases – this has been proven at every stage of litigation, with any case-type or venue, no matter what you might think your case is worth.
Tyler can be reached at 800-749-2184 or via email at tk@highimpact.com
Admissions: Georgia, Tennessee and Washington
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Morgan Adams earned his reputation as “The Truck Accident Lawyer” by successfully taking on the nation’s biggest trucking, bus, and insurance companies. The firm’s expertise in truck accident litigation is well known and the firm is frequently hired by other lawyers to maximize results for clients in these tragic cases. He has represented clients in these tragic wrecks in 34 states. Over the years Adams’ truck accident firm has grown to include a west coast office in Seattle, WA and east coast office in Chattanooga, TN. The firm typically represents clients in cases involving spinal injuries, brain injuries, amputations and wrongful death. Morgan Adams is a past chair of the American Association for Justice’s Trucking Litigation Group (TLG) and the first and only recipient of the TLG Lifetime Achievement Award. He has repeatedly been selected as a Mid-South and Top 100 Super Lawyer; is a member of the Belli Society, Taos Group, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum; and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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Sean helps traumatically-brain injured clients by holding accountable the wrongdoers who caused the injuries. Sean prosecutes brain injury cases in Washington and across the country in teamwork with other attorneys. He co-manages the firm’s library on TBI science and research. In addition to brain injury cases, Sean has worked on a variety of matters involving maritime law, aviation law, insurance bad faith, nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, burn trauma, and toxic exposure.
Super Lawyers has named Sean a Washington Rising Star, 2015-2017. This is an honor limited to 2.5 percent of attorneys practicing in Washington. Sean is an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice. He is also a member of the American Association for Justice.
Sean joined Friedman | Rubin in 2009 after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law. Sean is now a partner at Friedman | Rubin. The law is his second career after years as an English instructor in different countries.
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Writing Demand Letters: Where Science Meets Settlement Part 1
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Writing Demand Letters: Where Science Meets Settlement Part 2
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Writing Demand Letters: Where Science Meets Settlement Part 3
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Writing Demand Letters: Where Science Meets Settlement Part 4
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Writing Demand Letters: Thinking, Communicating, and Persuading Visually
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Advanced Demand Letters: Truck Accidents
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Using Decision Science to Write Your Demand Letters
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