the reason i became a lawyer is that
early in my career i was a burglar
alarms installer for a company that
installed burglar alarm systems
and i was on the roof of a large
operational plant in south carolina and
was electrocuted
and when i was electrocuted i saw how
injured workers got treated and i
decided right then and there that i
wanted to do something about that and so
i went to law school to become a lawyer
so that injured workers in north
carolina would not be treated the way i
was
i always tell my clients uh during the
process of the litigation that
they shouldn’t worry so much about the
value of their case
what they need to worry about during the
tenancy of their case is whether they’re
getting the proper medical care and
treatment that the workers compensation
act is designated to provide
and that sometimes is very difficult
sometimes they’re finding that they
aren’t given the right treatment or they
get the wrong diagnosis maybe the doctor
is being impatient with their recovery
and decides that they are ready to go
back to work when in fact they aren’t so
i try to get them to be patient about
their situation let me worry about their
circumstances
and let them focus on their medical care
and recovery