Gary & Rory Safir
Two brothers, both trial lawyers, talking about the law the way it actually works: plaintiff-side injury claims, criminal defense, the insurance carriers, the courtroom, and everything the billboards leave out. War stories, straight answers, and the shorthand only siblings have.
Both brothers are trial lawyers. Gary sues insurance companies in metro Detroit. Rory tries injury cases in Tampa Bay, and defends people the state has charged. Two states, and the same dinner table growing up. That is the whole premise.
Each episode takes one question and works it to the end. How a claim gets valued. Why a carrier opens low. What a cross-examination is built from. What a record has to show before a jury believes it. Nothing is scripted.
Sometimes a third lawyer sits in, and the talk turns to the parts of the job that stay out of the brochures. The file that should have been turned down. The witness who changed a verdict. The ruling one of them is still annoyed about.
Full episodes are the long conversation. Shorts take a single question and answer it in about a minute. Both run on YouTube and on the channels listed below.
Two kinds of listener. People with a claim of their own, who would rather hear how the process runs before they sit across from an adjuster. And lawyers, who come for the shop talk. This is a conversation about the law, not advice about a case. No episode knows anything about your file.
Episode 001 · September 4, 2026
Carriers price most injury claims as routine and pay them that way. Gary and Rory take one of those files apart. What the medical record has to establish, where the value of the claim actually sits, and how a case an adjuster calls standard gets built to its full worth.
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Piling up appointments does not raise the value of a case. What matters is whether the treatment answers the injury, and whether the records show why each visit happened.
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Thin records are a problem, not a verdict. What a jury believes is the account of what changed in your daily life, told by the people who watch you live it.
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Free consultation, no fee unless you recover, and a straight answer even if the answer is that you do not have a case. Michigan crashes only.
Attorney advertising. The Lawcast is general discussion of the law, not legal advice, and listening does not create an attorney-client relationship. Gary Safir is a trial lawyer at Michigan Auto Law, licensed in Michigan and Ohio.