Meet the Personal Injury Lawyers Attorney in Austin, Texas
Meet Scott Hendler
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i think the reason
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is
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is really best illustrated by um
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just something i can share with you
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my earliest childhood memory
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was
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sitting with my mother who would read to
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me from the newspaper
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about the civil rights marches in the
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south
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and the police dogs and the fire hoses
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turned on young
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people and teenagers who are marching
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peacefully for their rights
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i remember asking her how do you change
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it
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the only reason i remember the question
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is because i’ve never forgotten the
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answer
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she said you become a lawyer because
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lawyers change things lawyers are the
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instruments of justice
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and so that has guided my
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career uh you know there were times i
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thought i was going to be a navy fighter
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pilot or a firefighter paramedic but i
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always came back
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to the practice of law because at the
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end of the day i wanted to be a warrior
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for people who needed
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a warrior to represent them to defend
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their rights to protect their interests
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to right wrongs and frankly to see that
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justice is served
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for people who deserve it
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the most important thing
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i think that my clients have to
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learn and rely on is patience
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patience is power
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patience is a weapon the defendants in a
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high value case whether it’s a personal
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injury case or a case over the wrongful
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death of a loved one
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they want to drag it out they want to
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make it painful
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and long
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and if the plaintiff has the patience
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to work through that to let us do our
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job
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they will have more often than not a
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successful recovery often when i go to a
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settlement conference with
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a client in such a case
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i tell them
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you have to be patient because this is a
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process and i rarely reach a settlement
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in the first settlement conference and
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that’s because usually
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the defendants are testing you to see
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how impatient you are how anxious and
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eager you are or your client is to get a
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recovery and if you can show them that
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you have the power of patience
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then you can really
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work towards maximizing the recovery and
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getting
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the compensation that is justified by
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the injury or the death
Austin, TX personal injury attorney Scott Hendler shares why he became a lawyer as well as the one piece of advice he repeatedly gives to his clients.
