Imagine sitting across from your personal injury attorney three months after a fender bender that gave you mild whiplash requiring six physical therapy sessions, and when the attorney gently suggests that your case might settle for fifteen thousand dollars to cover medical bills and some pain and suffering compensation, you feel a wave of indignation … Read more
Picture yourself scrolling through morning news over coffee when a headline stops you cold about a local teacher arrested for embezzlement from the school district, and before you finish reading the second paragraph detailing how investigators discovered suspicious transactions, your mind has already constructed an entire narrative about greed, betrayal of trust, and guilt that … Read more
Imagine lying awake at three in the morning wrestling with a decision that has consumed you for months since the accident that left you with chronic pain and medical bills you cannot pay, caught between two voices in your head that seem equally compelling yet completely incompatible as one voice insists that you deserve compensation … Read more
Imagine sitting in a courtroom watching a judge sentence someone who caused a car accident that killed a beloved community member, and notice how every person in that courtroom holds a fundamentally different understanding of what justice requires in this moment despite everyone using the same word to describe what they want to see happen. … Read more
Imagine sitting at your kitchen table after your landlord has given you papers saying you’re being evicted, trying desperately to understand the document that apparently explains your rights and options but that might as well be written in a foreign language despite being technically in English, confronting sentences like “the plaintiff avers that the defendant … Read more
Imagine sitting across from your parents trying to explain that you’ve decided to sue your former employer for wage theft after they failed to pay overtime wages you legitimately earned over two years of working sixty-hour weeks at the family restaurant they own with relatives from your tight-knit Korean American community, watching your mother’s face … Read more
Picture yourself at a pleasant dinner party where conversation flows easily through safe topics like vacation plans, children’s activities, restaurant recommendations, and maybe some carefully modulated political opinions that don’t risk genuine offense, when suddenly someone mentions that they’ve been drafting their will and trying to decide how to handle their estate given complicated family … Read more
Consider the moment when your sister calls during your weekly phone conversation asking how everything is going, and you hear yourself saying “fine, everything’s fine” despite having received papers that morning notifying you that you’re being sued by your former landlord for damages you don’t believe you caused, knowing that this lawsuit could cost you … Read more
Imagine reaching age seventy-two after spending your entire adult life as a capable person who managed complex professional responsibilities, raised children successfully, navigated major life decisions competently, and generally thought of yourself as someone who could handle whatever challenges life presented, only to find yourself sitting in a personal injury attorney’s office following a serious … Read more
Picture yourself at twenty-four years old, precisely eight months after walking across the graduation stage to collect your diploma while your parents cheered and photographed the moment that supposedly marked your transition into successful adulthood, now sitting in a hospital room with a shattered femur from a car accident that wasn’t your fault but that … Read more