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Number 1, I can relate to my clients. I don't sympathize with my clients I empathize. So when my clients are telling me: I don't know what to do, I don't know how to live, I don't know how to do deal with the fact that I cant walk anymore, I don't know how to cope. I understand because I remember what it was like to be 15 years old and not be able to walk anymore.

In fact, once I remember I had a client who was originally my client and switched to another lawyer and right before the trial he came back to me because that lawyer did not understand what this person was really going through. It was just another broken limb case to that lawyer and ultimately the amount of money that I got for this person was close to 100 times as much that his attorney wanted.

MONEY MATTERS
Whether its a construction accident, a medical malpractice case, somebody falls in a building, all types of accidents. There are so many different types, but whichever one it is, the first thing you want to do is make them hope. That's your job. I cant go back and make what happened to my clients go away - I just can't. But what I can do is try to give them a life that is comfortable and the only way we can do that is by monetary compensation. What can money do? Well when a person cant get around and they now have somebody who can help them to get around, drive them to places, money does it. If they need special vehicle to get where they have to go you need money, if you need a house that is built in a special way with wheelchair ramps, is accessible, bathrooms are accessible to wheelchairs, that stuff costs a great deal of money.

HURT AT WORK?
CALL 718-WORKERS
I represented a gentleman who got injured on a construction site. He tried to go back to work a couple of times and he kept getting re injured and he was calling me and telling me I'm going to have to move, I'm going to sell the house, the kids have to change school districts, the whole family was affected. But seeing him at the end and giving him his money and knowing, now you can go on with your life you don't have to torture yourself and go back to that job that you are not physically be able to do.

FIGHTING FOR
WORKER SAFETY
To me workers safety is something that is sometimes ignored on the construction site because the almighty dollar comes to play and I have made it my personal mission to stay involved - not just win a case but make sure the law that allows my clients to come to court stays as strong as it is. I have written articles about it. Where I actually was saying to the judges who have written some of their opinions are wrong, they are favoring money over safety, money over lives, money over health and that's not right.

DON'T GET ME STARTED
I had a case once involving a child with brain damage. I remembered why I actually got that case settled. I was standing in the court house and a lawyer was coming up to me and arguing with me. They didn't want to settle the case with me, and I turned to them and I just looked at them and said to them I have been preparing this case for years; you really don't want me to get started. This child has brain damage, and make no mistake about it, at the end of this trail I'm going to win. And the lawyer looked at me - he left and two hours later they paid the money.

WINNING
They didn't come to me because they want somebody to sit there and push around pieces of paper. They came to me because they want justice. And if you are tough in court, and you know how to relate to a Jury and you know how to talk to them like what they are, which is people, you can win.

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