our approach when we take on a

catastrophic injury case I think is a

very unique approach and that is we look

at a the holistic needs of a family and

one of the reasons that we do that is

you know I’ve been doing this work for

over 25 years and my own mother uh

unfortunately tragically was killed she

was hit by a concrete mixer truck while

crossing the street when she was out on

a covered walk in 2020 and that really

changed uh my view on what the needs are

because we did a great job in in

representing families and we have for

for decades but I kind of think we

looked at it and said this is the slice

right this is our role with this family

we’re here to help them with this civil

case and we’re going to be the best in

the business at doing it and we’re going

to build these cases to win and we’re

going to help the families and what I

recognized and realized after my own

family tragedy is the needs that my own

family had my brother my sister our

extended family who have had no exposure

to working as a personal injury lawyer

you know there’s so much involved first

of all there’s the criminal case and a

catastrophic injury or wrongful death

like what’s going to happen to the

person who caused this and what’s my

role in the criminal justice system well

that’s different than seeking money

damages that’s you know the government

bringing a case but we know that victims

have rights and there’s constitutional

rights for victims so now we enter in

appearance in the criminal case and we

represent the family’s interests in the

criminal case all the way through to

victims compensation to restitution to

victims what they call Victims Impact

statements we stand with the family

while they’re telling the judge about

the impact of the family we make sure

that we meet with the prosecutor to talk

about what charges and depress the

prosecutors to go after the the most

severe uh you know outcomes as we can so

we do we deal with that in death cases

we help them locate and work with

probate lawyers did the person have a

will what about the life insurance what

about social security disability

benefits even in a catastrophic injury

case what about long-term or short-term

disability benefits these are all

different than just bringing the claim

against and pursuing the person who was

at fault but handling this much more

holistically we’ve helped people uh find

new homes for their pets after somebody

families find new homes for their pets

after somebody’s been killed we’ve

helped connect Charities to families for

donations of of clothing and furniture

and we’ve helped his families establish

GoFundMe Pages whatever it takes I

recognize having personally experienced

uh the the burden that’s put on a family

after somebody is literally taken off

the face of the Earth there one minute

they’re gone the next and it’s it’s a

horrific time for for families and I

know all of the assistants my own family

needed and we’re taking that same

approach to every family that we work

with and I really am on a mission

frankly to try to expand this sort of

holistic level of representation to all

lawyers not just those in our Law Firm

but all areas around the country to

recognize that there’s the lawyer as the

lawyer and then there’s the lawyer as

the counselor and we need to be

approaching these cases and our and our

families that we’re representing in a

very holistic Manner and I think it’s

very impactful and helpful to the

families and that causes us to when

we’re hiring case managers to hire

people who have either worked in that

Criminal Justice System who have worked

as victims Advocates who have experience

and great empathy for families who may

have experienced these same sort of

things themselves because you know let’s

face it not everybody wants to say work

in a funeral home or not everybody wants

to work in a hospice or not everybody

wants to work with pediatric cancer

patients but somebody does and thank God

they do because people in those

circumstances need the help and we take

that same approach to the practice of

law we have a group of people in our

Elite litigation group who are focused

and dedicated to the holistic help of

families who have probably experienced

and hopefully experienced the worst

thing that will ever happen in their

lives