And that’s what I do. I listen to them. I hear them. I gather all the information and I tell their story. I know that that impacts people’s lives. I know it impacts my clients when I get a good financial result for them, but I also know it impacts my clients when we just get to speak and they get to understand that somebody’s hearing about them, hearing of their loss, hearing of their struggles, and that they’re going to have an opportunity to voice it to someone, to say what the defendants did was wrong, to say what was taken from me or taken from my loved one should not have been taken. It’s a very individual personalized job. I think that’s why I like it so much because I really do enjoy it.

I mean, you get to help people, but I get to talk to people and learn their stories. And again, I, nobody’s coming to see me when they’re in a rough spot and they need somebody who has an expertise in an area that they’re unfamiliar with. It’s my job—that is a major part of being a plaintiff’s attorney.

It is a fulfilling part and it’s part of what I like to do. The other part that I think gets lost a lot is that personal injury law is absolutely necessary to have a safe society. It just is. You go into a store to buy something. That store is supposed to be safe for you to walk around in. Now, I would like to think that store owners will spend money to keep their store safe, but they won’t, and they don’t.

They keep situations safe. They keep a store safe because they know if they don’t, somebody gets hurt, they can be sued. We have laws, criminal laws that say you can’t rob or you’re going to jail. Those laws aren’t so clear when it says you need to make sure that you drive safely and don’t hurt somebody.

If you get in an accident and you didn’t intentionally do it, there’s not a legal repercussion per se, but there needs to be a repercussion because there needs to be an incentive for people to look where they’re driving. There needs to be an incentive for store owners to keep their stores safe. There needs to be an incentive for big corporations who have dangerous ingredients like asbestos to tell the people using it that they could die from it.

This is serious stuff. I mean, I think sometimes we get lost in your ambulance chaser, your this or that. You can walk safely in the streets because we sue those people who let their properties fall into disrepair and endanger others. You can be assured that the products being sold to you are most likely not going to hurt you because the corporations who know and only care about money know that if they put a product out there, that’s bad and going to hurt somebody.

Even if it saves them some money than making a good product, it’s gonna hurt them in the long run because plaintiffs’ attorneys are going to come and they’re going to sue them. They’re going to ask for money. They’re going to say you were wrong because you knew this was a dangerous product.

You thought you put it in the marketplace anyway. And now because of that, my client’s life is forever changed and you’re going to pay for it. We keep the world safe. I know it’s silly. I know it’s crazy, but we really do. I don’t think that people unfortunately go about the world saying, I want to make sure everybody is treated well and everybody’s safe and everybody’s good just because the system of justice that we have is something to be proud of.

I think it’s something that most attorneys lose sight of. In certain countries, there’s a king. If you do something, the king is going to decide what your punishment is or what you get. In other countries, it’s just a judge. In this country, when you’re hurt because of somebody else’s negligence, what we do is very unique and it’s beautiful.

It really is. We gather other members of your community where you live and ask them to be actuaries. Ask them to assess the injuries that you have sustained, that their peer has sustained, and ask them to come to a number that compensates them for their injuries. Ask them to look at somebody’s life, see how somebody’s negligence has impacted that life and as a community come to a number that will help that person make up for everything they’ve lost.

Also as a community come together and say, no corporation, you were negligent in putting this into the marketplace or no defendant driver. You were negligent because you didn’t look left before you made the right turn because you were in a rush somewhere and you were really only caring about yourself when you really need to care about everybody else in this world.

When you’re driving a 1,000-pound or 2,000-pound machine that can kill people, you don’t get to just say, I’m in a rush and I’m not going to look to the left because that’s going to change somebody else’s life. And when you do that and you hurt somebody. There’s going to be somebody to sue you. There’s going to be somebody to hold you accountable.

There’s going to be somebody that gets other people of the community to say, no, this is wrong. This is not how things should be. And how are we going to make things right? That’s what being a trial lawyer is. That’s the value of personal injury law. It’s keeping this world safe, speaking up for those who don’t have a voice.

And it’s making sure that people who have had their life absolutely destroyed, traumatized, or even just hurt a little, are compensated appropriately.

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A lot of people have a very negative connotation of personal injury lawyers. But the bottom line is, you’re all a joke until you actually need one. God forbid something happens to you personally, or someone you care about. And then all of a sudden you’re thinking to yourself, “Wow, how am I going to pay my bills? My dad’s not working. He doesn’t have a job and he’s crying in pain all day in the living room and he’s crying. What am I going to do?” And all of a sudden, we become important to people. But they’re still weary when they walk in the door because of the reputation.

The bottom line is, I’m not like that and none of us should be like that. If somebody’s hurt, act like it’s your family member. Act like it’s someone you care about because you do. These people may be in your life the rest of your life. And if you do a good job and you do care about them, they see that. They see that you care about the way you speak and the way you act. It’s sincere and they can tell if it’s bullshit or not. And when you do that, they appreciate it and they deserve it. And they will call you back years later or send you their family and friends because of these reasons.

It’s not so hard to care about people, but in today’s day and age, it goes way beyond law. Everyone seems to be selfish and concerned about what’s best for themselves. Where few people left on this earth get happiness from helping others, we need to spread that kindness around a little bit more. It’s not easy. And people who are kind often get beat up all the time. That comes with the territory. You know, it’s just keep your nose up, keep your chin up, and never stop till you get to the goal. And then you start again. That was me. I just think caring about people matters. A lot of lawyers will short sell the case. It’s worth a hundred. They’ll take 50 to run home and they’ll have to work and they’ll tell the client they did a great job. Besides being disgusting, that catches up to you after a while. They’ll talk to their friends, they might have another case, and they’ll find out who you were as a person. I don’t ever want that happening to me. It’s not going to.

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I think the opportunities for young lawyers today are not the same opportunities we had, and it’s a shame. It’s a skill that you don’t get taught. It’s a skill you have to learn. So I get to bring young lawyers with me, and I think I have a great opportunity to show the younger lawyers, the younger people, you know, how to do this, how to do it right, how to do it professionally, ethically. And it may sound corny, but there are people that depend on us. Some of my worst experiences in this space are always the cases I’ve lost. And any lawyer who says they don’t lose cases, in essence, hasn’t tried cases. And when I see families that need anything and everything I can get to survive, and for whatever reason, a jury disagrees or we lose the case, that’s devastating. And I always kind of second guess myself, “What did I do wrong?” And I try to bring those types of, you know, experiences to other lawyers, younger lawyers we’re working with, so that they understand you’re not always going to be perfect. You got to gamble. I don’t go to Vegas and put money on tables. I can walk through a casino and never lose a penny. But I go into courtrooms and I let millions of dollars, in these days billions of dollars, ride. And I just say we’re gonna let it ride today. And we’re doing that because big companies should be required to take care of the mistakes they’ve made, the messes they’ve made, and the people we represent should get compensated. And I’d like to know I’m helping the next generation of those lawyers doing what we’re doing.

And they’re going to do what I did in multiples.

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