LEGAL CAREER The Cases of My Career LARRY STRICK
I am a proud plaintiff’s personal injury lawyer.
moth tried every which way to get out from
My practice has permitted me to represent
under its responsibility as a retailer in the
hundreds of extraordinary people who need
chain of commerce, completely uncaring
help navigating a civil justice system to be
about the strain on the family who had to
made whole. Every client was unique. Many
care for Harry in his home. Of course, they
of them were disenfranchised; some were
tried their luck at a Summary Judgment
severely injured. Very often, my clients were hard-working folks whose injuries prevented
which was denied. After we conducted a focus group to test their arguments regarding
them from working and were falling through the limited safety net.
the allocation of fault between it and the bankrupted manufacturer, we were confi-
When looking back at the “biggest” or “most
dent that their arguments were not going to get sufficient traction. At the end of the day,
significant” cases of my career, I instantly begin thinking of the case I handled for Harry, who, while watching his grandson’s soccer game on a poorly designed lawn chair, fell back on his neck and was rendered para-
the result we were able to achieve provided him with sufficient funds to have a more comfortable end of life. I also think about Antoinette, a 43-year-old
lyzed. Harry had purchased the chair at a big box store, which had sourced it from a Mexi-
woman who underwent uterine fibroid surgery, which left her in a vegetative state be-
can manufacturer that had gone bankrupt by the time of Harry’s injury. The big-box behe-
cause of a non-attentive anesthesiologist. I never was able to speak to Antoinette. I learned about her artistic, vibrant, happy life from her mother. I saw pictures of her dressed for the holidays and her artwork in which she took such pride. I did spend hours with Antoinette’s mother who traveled to her bedside each day for the three years we worked on the matter. Of
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