Susie Injijian — Who Needs an Army to Become an Eight-Figure Trial Lawyer When You're Willing to Do the WORK?

Susie Injijian was running out of resources and out of time. She had put a few hundred thousand dollars into the premises liability case, got some litigation funding, and invested most of her retirement savings to bring it to trial. Tune in as she and host Dan Ambrose break down the complex case that dragged on from 2018, with two trials, until July 3, 2023, when it all paid off with a jury verdict of $25.5 million. “It was career-changing for me. I mean, my dreams came true because of it, and that's no exaggeration,” she says.

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Episode Snapshot

1. Susie is the mother of TLU coach Georgio Injijian, whom she brought on to co-try the case after her original co-counsel abandoned ship in early 2022 with trial set for October.
2. Susie's client, an electrician, suffered severe burn injuries on his right arm when a fuse he was changing at an industrial property exploded in his hand.
3. Susie took the case right before the statute of limitations, filed a cross complaint against the property owner and tenant, and financed it herself.
4. The first trial in October 2022 ended in a mistrial after a defense lawyer claimed a family emergency mid-jury selection. The defense offered $600,000 to settle. Susie rejected it.
5. After the mistrial, Susie attended TLU Live in Las Vegas, connected with a jury consultant, and went to trial in April 2023.
6. During trial, the defense was caught running an unauthorized shadow jury — a demographically matched group secretly watching the Zoom feed. The judge offered a mistrial, but Susie declined because the case was going well.
7. Susie waived $450,000 in specials (medical bills subject to an ERISA lien and lost wages) to avoid anchoring the jury low and instead builtan entirely non-economic damages case.
8. On July 3, 2023, the jury delivered a $25.5 million verdict after a day and a half of deliberations.
9. Post-verdict, the defense brought a motion for a new trial. At that point, she had the total judgment at over $33 million. The defense asked to go to mediation; Susie said “no.”

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