In It To Win It

I think that when you undertake what I do for a living, in representing the injured. It’s that you really have to have a spirit about you. You have to want to fight.

If you don’t have that, you can’t do this.

It’s not just the trial, it’s all the skirmishes before the trial. If you think that a defense attorney, for an insurance company, is just always a nice guy to deal with, it’s not true.

These guys get paid an enormous amount of money to win. Everything about you has to go “I’m in it to win it, I’m here to win” and if you don’t do have that, you’re not going to do very well. Which gets me right back to, if you’re representing people, and you will not get into the fight and you’re part of this 90% that never goes to court or the 5% that, you know, they’ve tried a few cases or the 5% that try cases and lose. They don’t have that spirit of in it to win it.

I’ll tell you what, it’s simple, so simple, that if you’re not going to undertake representing somebody with a tragedy. Representing a family with children with tragedies, you better have that mentality, if you don’t, you don’t.

That’s my criticism of so many lawyers that they take the case, but they’re no way prepared to get into the fight. Which gets to, your tragedy is too important to trust to inexperience or to somebody that doesn’t have that attitude, you know, that “I’ve got to do in every single case, the best” and if I don’t, not only does it impact my clients, but what’s it do to me as an individual? I’m not who I want to be, and so, it’s the fight.

It is the fight.