The Issues We Face ALEX REFLECTS ON THE PAST 5 YEARS
It’s hard to believe it has been five years since I joined Chris at Finney Injury Law. Starting in 2025, I will be contributing my thoughts in this monthly newsletter. I’m excited to provide some additional perspective of our day-to-day work and to nerd out on the law and the issues we face in helping our fellow human beings. Five years ago, a word I used to describe myself was “entrepreneur.” I had my own law practice with my name on the door that I started days after I was sworn in to practice law. To be frank, I had no idea what I was doing, but I had the drive to figure it out and, most importantly, I had surrounded myself with great mentors. The year was 2017. My practice quickly began to build. However, it built on my ability to be a jack of all trades. Estate planning, criminal defense, traffic tickets, family law, general civil litigation, and some personal injury claims. I needed this diversity to keep the lights on at the office. In June 2018, a young lady engaged my law firm after suffering catastrophic injuries from a car crash. To put it bluntly, I had a lot of learning and work to do. Several months later, I settled my first personal injury case for another client. I still remember the rush of excitement, accomplishment, and satisfaction my client felt. I wanted more. Helping plaintiffs was all I could think about. Fast forward to the summer of 2019. A lawyer who shared my office reached out to me, saying Chris Finney was looking for a lawyer. I brushed it off. I was an entrepreneur. He pressed me and encouraged me to reach out. While on vacation with my family, with a wife pregnant with baby No. 3, I sent the email that has transformed me as a human, a teammate, a husband, a
“Through listening, I learned how an injury to a human being changes them.”
father, and a lawyer. Chris offered me the job. I quickly came to grips with winding down my own law firm and focused on transferring a handful of personal injury cases to my new law firm. I was eager to learn. Over the years, Chris and I have grown together in significant ways. Together, we have had the highest highs and the lowest lows. We have been in the trenches. We have been on top of the mountain together. We have been told we are insane. We have been laughed at. After these five years, one word that describes our identity is persistence. You see, when I came over to Finney Injury Law, I did not know the first thing about how you “work up” a personal injury case. It was from Chris that I learned the persistence to always keep learning, to try new things, to stick your head out there, and to listen. Through listening, I also learned by osmosis from successful personal injury lawyers around me. I learned how medical professionals diagnose and treat injuries. And most importantly, through listening, I learned how an injury to a human being changes them. That case I spoke about earlier from June 2018? The persistence resulted in a seven-figure settlement. Even more fitting for the timing of this article is the fact that the firm just resolved one of
the first cases I helped work on from the very beginning, again for seven figures. For this case, we lived on a roller coaster, but it was through persistence that a fellow human being’s voice was finally heard. I cannot wait to share more with you all. To the next five years and beyond!
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