first of all one of the things that sets

us apart from others in the market is

that we are fundamentally a group of

lawyers who a lot of us have experienced

the type of loss that

the people that we represent have

experienced that’s one of the things

that certainly sets us apart the other

is that we’re not a law firm that exists

simply to serve as a claim adjuster

instead we take this very holistic and

thorough approach and we prepare cases

as if a case is going to have to go to

court keep in mind that the vast

majority of cases settle and that’s

important and I don’t think I’ve ever

met a client that started out by saying

you know what I want to do is I want to

go to court no that’s not uh that’s not

what clients in game is at the at the

start of a case they want a fair

resolution to their case but what we

appreciate as lawyers is that in order

to achieve the best opportunity for a

fair settlement you have to start the

process building as if the case is going

to go to court to make sure that the

risk is created for the insurance

company that you’re bringing a claim

against and I think that because as we

do take cases all the way to trial on a

regular basis that small minority of

cases that don’t settle we’re in a very

good and powerful position to be able to

prepare a case for that fair settlement

and most cases at our Law Firm do settle

but they settle at a high value given

the facts and Circumstance of course

every case is is unique but the facts

and circumstances of the case they

settle for a high value because of the

way that we go about building the case

the other thing I would say that sets us

apart is that when Darren and I set out

you know in 1996 to build this Law Firm

one of the things we wanted to do is to

be able to make sure that our clients

had the financial power to compete

and to go up against billion dollar

insurance companies because even though

you might be uh hurt by an individual

out on the street uh in a car you know

it’s their insurance company and those

lawyers that are hired by that insurance

company that are on the other side of

the case and so we wanted to build a

firm that uh that accomplished this kind

of financial equality in the litigation

sense meaning that we have over 30

lawyers in our Law Firm we have more

than 100 employees we’ve been in

business for more than a quarter of a

century and we are set up so that we

have the financial power to invest in

our clients cases to put the legal

resources behind it and the money

resources behind it to compete on a

level ground with the insurance

companies and that’s what that was our

vision when we started and I’m happy to

say we’ve achieved that that vision and

that set this apart

when we set out to build this law firm

and had a vision of who is it that we

want to represent we really from the

very beginning knew we want to represent

people we want to represent individuals

and families we don’t represent billion

dollar corporations and we don’t

represent insurance companies we

represent individuals who’ve had

something happen to them and when

something happened to them it was caused

due to the negligence of another person

or a company and they needed help to get

Justice to make a recovery for the

damages that they’ve sustained and their

individuals many of whom have never been

in a law firm many of whom have if

they’ve had a limited experience with

with a lawyers it’s it may be in a job

setting where they’re working on behalf

of a company but in their own individual

capacity they may have never hired a

lawyer and we wanted to be a law firm

firm it gave access to the court system

to individuals to be able to take on

these large insurance companies and to

be able to afford to do so and that’s

why we work on what’s called a

contingency fee basis where we don’t

have to accept an hourly fee for the

work because frankly most of our clients

if you took it take the world of people

who come for our assistance they’re

probably in one of their worst Financial

positions right because something bad

has just happened to them or to an

immediate family member and they may be

missing time from work the last thing

they need to do is go pay hundreds of

dollars an hour to a law firm to be able

to represent them so this contingency

fee Arrangement allows them to come to

us we do the work on a percentage basis

we don’t get paid unless and until we

win the case and we look at the cases on

behalf of our individual clients and we

say we’re going to take it on we’re

going to take that risk on the front

side we’ll get paid when you get paid at

the end of the case