FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
We go to annual trial lawyer conventions by the NJ Association for Justice. They're held twice a year - one in Atlantic City in the spring and the other in the Meadowlands in fall.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I didn't go to law school with this work in mind, I intended to be involved in commercial transactions and work 9 to 5. After law school I clerked for two wonderful superior court judges and they were both in the civil division. Any business-related cases were very boring to me, but the personal injury cases were interesting. Each case, each affected life was different from the other. I repeatedly saw how the insurance companies would toy with individual lives, one after the other, and half way through my clerkships I decided that I wanted to help these people - it wouldn't be popular to be an 'ambulance chaser' but I knew it would be honorable work - and it is. The hours are extreme - very very far from 9 to 5.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Most of our time is spend trying to get the treatment that our clients' doctors prescribe, but the insurance companies hate spending money - they really do.