Before founding this firm, I had a variety of jobs in the legal world. At some point, I had to make a decision about what I wanted to be. After looking around and seeing what I had tried, being a trial lawyer was where I wanted to spend my time and efforts.
I did not want to be part of the firms that churn and burn and handle hundreds of cases per attorney. I did not want to defend insurance companies and act like I was defending an individual. I was simply saving insurance companies money at the expense of an injured person. That was an empty feeling.
As I grew in my career, I started to see that the most respected lawyers were those who tried cases, those who consistently took the cases to verdict and worked them up the right way. I saw that defense lawyers and insurance companies respected them. When I was an insurance defense lawyer, I saw how the insurance carriers and their lawyers feared real trial lawyers. It translated into real differences for their clients.
When I started Finney Injury Law, I aspired to build it around that experience. The leverage you have is a direct function of your willingness and ability to go to trial. Everything else is downstream of that. We strive to be trial lawyers.
What our firm actually does.
There is no shortage of personal injury lawyers. You can find tons of them with a quick Google search, a billboard, or a TV spot, and all of them tout their results. Some of those results are genuine, and some are not. Maybe somebody touts a result where they were a referring party or the fifth lawyer on. When I look around, I can see that everyone has a results page. You can check out ours too, if that's what you're looking for. We have eight-figure results, like many people do. If that's what you're looking for, you can check that box with ours.
Our firm is designed to be different. We do not take hundreds and hundreds of cases per attorney. We do not take cases based on quantity. We are not case brokers. We look for cases where we can provide effective and real value to you. We want to work for people we enjoy and can help.
I see many lawyers who tout their experience on the insurance defense side, saying they know what the defense or insurance company playbook is because they "wrote it." I worked on the defense side. There isn't any playbook other than to save money. That's the goal, and it is at the injured person's expense.
Our firm isn't built on knowing someone's playbook. It's built on our own. It's built on our interactions with our clients and their experiences. It's built on our experiences in actually trying cases. It's built on taking the time to investigate who our clients are and the facts of their cases, and to help them make the right decision for their case.
We do not prepare every case for trial. No one does that. Anyone who says that isn't being honest, but that doesn't mean we aren't ready to go to trial, or that we don't have the experience to. It doesn't mean we don't thoroughly work up cases. We do.
When I hear people say they prepare every case for trial, it's clear to me that they really don't go to trial, or that it's just marketing copy.
We have gone to trial, and will again, whenever the situation calls for it, but that decision is made with our clients' input and their needs and goals in mind. Each case needs to be handled uniquely. There is no one-size-fits-all. Being a trial lawyer is not running a factory or a settlement mill. It's being a human being who helps human beings.
If you're looking for a firm that will listen to you, advise you, counsel you, and guide you, you've found the right place. We are trial lawyers.
