The Button Law Firm - August 2022

OUR FIRM JUST LEVELED UP WITH HELP FROM OUR OPERATIONS MANAGER, ELIZABETH!

Since May, our firm has had what you might call “a glow up.” Our onboarding process is better, our vendor relationships

business,” she explains. “But BLF was also a new place of business for me! So I was very nervous about getting everything right. Fortunately, Russell was so helpful, and so was Ashley. The entire team has been great. Everyone is super collaborative and wants everyone else to succeed.”

an operations manager, Elizabeth’s name came up. Now, she’s moving to Houston to work for us — along with her husband, Kelly, and their Jack Russell terrier, Daisy. “Ashley told me back in 2017 that she was starting with this great new law firm called BLF. Little did I know I would

are stronger, every step we take is systematized, and our day-to-day

operations have never run so smoothly — and it’s all thanks to Elizabeth Bauman, our new operations manager! Within five weeks of taking the job, she’d already onboarded three new hires and was leading the charge on revamping our human resources and onboarding processes. At first, Elizabeth was nervous about onboarding so soon, but she had plenty of experience to guide her. “I used to onboard people all the time in my last position [as the office and professional development manager at a large infrastructure solutions firm], so I’m very familiar with being able to navigate introducing somebody to a new place of

Elizabeth’s skill set is exactly what we needed. We also knew she’d be a great culture fit, because she already had a connection to our team! “Ashley and I met in 2017. She was on her honeymoon in Saint Lucia, and my husband and I were on vacation there,” Elizabeth says.

be joining them five years later! The journey has been long to get here, but I’m super excited to finally be part of the team,” Elizabeth says. We’re just as thrilled. As Russell put it, “Over all these years, we’ve tried and tried and tried to find a really

good leader of operations. Now we finally found that person.” Hopefully if you meet Elizabeth, you’ll love her as much as we do.

Ashley and Elizabeth stayed in touch, even though Elizabeth lived in Baton Rouge, LA. When we started talking about hiring

JUSTICE FOR A FAMILY LEFT BEHIND How We Secured a Full Policy Limits Settlement

of three. Dave was hard at work loading vehicles onto a transportation truck when another driver swerved into the middle lane where he was parked. The driver collided with Dave and, although doctors fought to save his life, he passed away from his injuries. The situation was truly tragic. Worse, it was preventable. The driver who hit Dave was an unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised employee driving a company car. They never should have been allowed behind the wheel. As soon as our team heard the facts, we joined forces with Slav’s Los Angeles- based firm (Abir Cohen Treyzon & Salo) to pursue a wrongful death case and secure compensation for Dave’s family.

to arm-wrestle with his son, walk his daughters down the aisle, or comfort his wife after a hard day again. In addition to that, Dave was also the main breadwinner for his wife and kids. His family needed money to pay his medical bills and move forward after the tragedy that tore them apart. So, we set out to get it for them. Working with Slav and his team, we made a compelling case for Dave’s family and what they were owed. Ultimately, we asked the insurance company of the unqualified driver’s employer to settle for the full commercial policy limits and more. Our hard work paid off. After a long fight, we settled Dave’s case and secured the funds his family needed. That money will never fill the hole Dave’s death left in their lives, but it will make things just a bit easier. As trucking accident and wrongful death attorneys, that’s the most we can hope for.

When you’re fighting a battle against injustice, you need all of the troops you can get. That idea was probably on attorney Slav’s mind in 2020 when a gut- wrenching trucking accident case came across his desk. Slav quickly picked up the phone and called in the troops: our team at The Button Law Firm.

The collision took the life of a man we’ll call “Dave” — a loving husband and father

Of course, we knew that nothing could replace Dave’s life: He’ll never be able

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