How Does Your Previous Experience Being a Corrections and Parol Officer Affect How You Approach Personal Injury Cases? – Adam Dougherty

Well, one of the things you know that I did as a corrections officer is teach at the academy. There were two things that I taught at the academy. One was behavior and observation skills, and the other one was incident report writing, which is critical. So, prior to becoming a PI attorney, I did criminal defense work. I’ve tried two murder cases. I’ve handled many life felony cases. And one of the things that has always worked for me was, you know, the detail and looking at the report and seeing if all the information was there.

And plaintiff’s personal injury attorney is no different. For example, trucking companies have policies and procedures. And so what you do is you look at what a company requires of their employees and a standard that they hold themself out to the public that they do, and you make sure that that’s what they do. Oftentimes, they are not following their procedures as they’re written, or they’re not doing things that they basically promise everybody,  like government regulators that we’re doing. You know, oftentimes, most of the time, the policies that we find, I like to call them faux policies or sham policies. They’re there if a regulator comes in and wants to see what’s your program, they give them a piece of paper, but they don’t follow it. And so when we expose that, you know, we get justice for our clients.