NO BARRIERS TO
COMMUNICATION NO BARRIERS TO
SUCCESS by Dan Baldwin
When a person does not speak English, they often do not know what resources are available to them or cannot effectively access the means to get justice when they have been subject to unjust treatment. There is no barrier to communication in my office as I am trilingual, and I am the one they will be communicating with to handle their case. My clients can more accurately convey their wishes and more actively participate in obtaining justice. Since I am speaking the same language as my clients, they have a greater sense of trust for the advice that I give,” says Charles Rho, founder of Rho Law Group. Rho speaks English, Spanish and Korean. The firm’s practice areas are personal injury and worker’s compensation. His experience living in foreign countries such as South Korea, South America, and Australia has provided him additional insight into how other people speaking other languages and coming from vastly diverse cultures see the world. That experience gives him an edge on how people from cultures are presented in their thinking and beliefs in dealing with often complex legal issues.
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“You Get the Kind of Justice You Can Pay For” Rho says, “I wanted to make a difference in the expression, ‘you get the kind of justice you can pay for.’ I realize that there are many people who take advantage of clients because they do not speak the English language or do not understand it very well. I wanted to offer a fair and honest alternative.” He was heavily influenced by the experiences of his parents’ struggle as they moved from country to country without the benefit of speaking the particular language. He always had a fascination with justice and the law and as he grew, he wanted to put his skills, knowledge, and experience to serve the legal needs of people challenged not only by a lack of knowledge of the law, but also a lack of understanding the language used to apply that law. “I believed then and I know now that I can make a difference in the lives of many people seeking justice just by being able to communicate with them,” he says.
