In my 22 years practicing injury law, I have accepted cases that at first appeared to be smooth-sailing, while below the surface many problems lay dormant, just waiting for an inopportune moment to reveal themselves. Let's just say, I've felt like a duck more than once. The analogy sort of speaks for itself: On the surface, everything seems effortless, but underneath the constant paddling gets tiring.On the other hand, sometimes, there are those cases where the evidentiary problems seem obvious from Day One. This month, I …