David Klink’s “Closing Argument”

We get to choose the cases that we work on. I truly, every day I wake up and get to do this job, I am thrilled. It is a job that I love. And I don’t come to work dreading it. I really don’t. We’re fortunate to have the ability, the skill set, the desire, the shared vision of what tort law in America needs to be — not should be — but absolutely needs to be and why it needs to be there for people that have been harmed. People call my office and they are upside down sometimes in terms of “What do I do after this happened?” and you know “This person hurt me so bad, how do I put my life back together?” And it’s up to us to make sure that we help those folks access the justice system.

Something that we take for granted every single day because we’ve spent our entire professional careers existing in this system. Our clients have no idea what this system is. And they are scared. They are ripe to be taken advantage of. And they absolutely need lawyers like us to help them through this process so that they don’t get taken advantage of and they’re not making poor decisions under economic duress. The fact that we get to come to work and assist people with that process and assist and put their fears to bed and conclude a case for them after a long battle is one of the greatest privileges you can have in a professional.

Before I came on this podcast, literally 10 minutes ago, I called a young woman who’d been seriously injured in a car accident. And I told her, “Look, it’s all set and done. Here’s how much money you’re getting.” And she’s coming to my office this afternoon to pick up her check. But she started crying. Literally, this just happened 30 minutes ago. She started crying. She was so thankful that finally it had come to an end. That finally…she’s going to have some compensation. It’s never enough, but she’s going to have some compensation to assist her with her, you know, with her recovery and her life and make things just a little bit easier for her. It’s a good feeling. And that’s a really good feeling. And it makes me proud of the work that we do, the work that my staff does to help people every single day.