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the most rewarding aspect of my practice
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is not only the personal satisfaction of
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intellectually challenging myself but
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also having the additional path of that
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challenge benefiting someone else
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especially someone who’s in need or has
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been taken advantage of often by someone
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a corporation a company with much more
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power much more resources sometimes I
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analogize it to endurance sports that
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I’ve done before like trail running or
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rowing we’re in the moment you have your
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personal satisfaction of pushing a
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mental limit or a physical limit and
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that in and of itself is sort of the
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reward of what you’re doing regardless
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of whether you win or not but unlike
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that and with law you have those same
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challenges and those same moments where
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you’re pushing those limits but every
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time you push the limit a little bit
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more someone else benefits from that and
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and the having those two things aligned
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is very satisfying one of the most
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memorable cases I’ve handled involved
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title insurance and it was still within
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our area of bad faith but this was one
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of those cases that takes you to a
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slightly more unusual area of the law
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and for me that was that was title
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insurance and this case in particular
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involved determining whether legal
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access existed to my client’s property
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and that task involves analyzing
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decade’s old maps and really olds and
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what I would call ancient documents that
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describe land I felt like at times I was
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the only person who believed in our
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theory and there were many moments where
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I had to essentially learn someone
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else’s profession like civil engineering
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or surveying and then argue with someone
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else
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a surveyor or civil engineer about the
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case so that was a very unusual
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situation that I had never been in
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before sort of doing a crash course and
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someone else’s proof
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and then arguing with them but
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eventually when the court agreed with
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our theory of legal access and this was
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after years of building up this theory
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it was one of the more satisfying
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moments of my career
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Los Angeles, CA bad faith insurance attorney Cooper Johnson shares the most rewarding aspect of his practice and talks about one of his most memorable cases.