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my approach
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is really two-prong there’s a human
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element
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in that every case starts with a phone
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call and someone who’s suffering whether
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it’s injury to themselves
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a loved one a parent child they’ve lost
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everyone is suffering and all the
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medical records we look at and all the
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cases we review i always try to keep in
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mind that there’s a human being behind
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those medical records
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and i always try to keep that front and
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center so i always go to the client’s
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home
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get to know their family get to know how
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this has really impacted them so we can
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learn best how to help them legally my
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approach is what i learned as a young
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lawyer there’s no substitute for the
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hard work
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going through the records taking good
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depositions and
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always being the best prepared guy in
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the room if you can be
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and trying to get the best result we can
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for the client
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my biggest mentor and i started doing
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medical malpractice
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close to 20 years ago i went to work for
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a firm and i didn’t know it at the time
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but
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i was lucky enough to have one of the
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best trial lawyers most respected trial
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lawyers in baltimore and dc at that time
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to learn from
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and they don’t teach you a lot in law
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school about trying cases and taking
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depositions and being able to watch him
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and learn from him for years
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how to question witnesses how to conduct
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yourself in front of judges how to deal
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with opposing attorneys was vital
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but more than that what he really taught
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me is that you can be a really good
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trial lawyer
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and still do it in a very ethical
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professional
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cordial manner he was an old school
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handshake is my word type of a guy and
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i’ve tried to carry that
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forward as best we can learning from
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someone who can do it
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a practically in the courtroom as well
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as he did
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but also do it on a professional level
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the way he did
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i still try to emulate that if i can
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in terms of preparation for my current
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practice i was lucky enough to spend the
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first nine years of my medical
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malpractice career defending doctors and
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hospitals and by that i mean i
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represented the doctors and hospitals
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who were being sued for malpractice
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so i got to meet with the actual doctors
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learned from them i got to meet with all
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the defense experts and learn the
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medicine from them
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more importantly i got brought into the
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inner circle
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of the hospital as they assess these
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cases
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claims committee meetings risk
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management meetings
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you learn how these hospitals and
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insurance companies
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assess these cases and how they defend
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these cases
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and i use that information every day in
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my practice now
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as we prosecute cases on behalf of the
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injured patients
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we use that information to strategize
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our cases we know what the defendant is
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thinking
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and how they’re reviewing these cases
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internally because we did that for years
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and i myself did it for
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nine solid years