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“I ask them,” Janine said.
“I know the businesses in this building,” he said. “That isn’t coming from who I just talked to.”
He would have been on the fence taking it. He wanted to get to know those around him and not make enemies if he could avoid it.
“No,” Janine said. “The person who called me was calling for their son. When I asked how she heard about you, she said the newsletter that went out.”
“Who would have thought that newsletter would garner me so much business?” he said.
A little over a week ago, a newsletter went out to everyone in the building. It had blurbs of all the businesses and what they did or services they offered.
Roni had emailed him, asked some questions and what she could put in the newsletter. She’d said one would be going out at least monthly but not more than twice a month to all companies.
To him, it was as if it was free advertising.
It seemed to be working.
Between that and the ads he’d had around town at restaurant place settings, on the radio and even a billboard for the rest of the month. He was getting all sorts of calls for things.
Wills, prenups, divorces, traffic violations.
He’d take it all. Most of those things Janine could handle and he’d just review so the wrongful termination and malpractice suits were perfect timing.
“It’s great,” Janine said. “Most of them are smaller. The other ten calls, that is. I think five were traffic violations and I’m working on them to get them out and get some money in here. There were three wills and two prenups.”
“Clients are clients,” he said. “We are keeping busy.”
“Speaking of keeping busy,” Janine said. “I got the documents sent over for your meeting tomorrow with the malpractice suit.”
“Thanks,” he said. “They gave me a few pieces of information briefly to see if I’d meet with them. But I want to know more going in before I decide.”
“Oh, I think you will. It will touch your squishy little heart.”
“I’ll have you know I’ve got a great big heart,” he said. Janine laughed at him.
“You do and this case will be a struggle for you.”
“Struggle how?” he asked.
“The doctor admitted he’d made a mistake. It happens. Doctors are human too. He was overworked and running on fumes. He’d pulled a double at the hospital. He read a chart fast in the ER, two patients side by side, and grabbed the wrong syringe.”
“Oh God,” he said. “Macie Williams, the woman I spoke with two days ago, said her son had suffered neurological damage on his left side. He has limited usage of his arm and facial features.”
“Yes,” Janine said. “It’s sad. You can read what he was given and his reaction to it.”
“The hospital offered them a settlement,” he said.
“Oh,” Janine said. “She didn’t say that.”
“She felt it was low. She isn’t trying to bury anyone but doesn’t want to feel like she is being paid off either. I’ll find out more tomorrow, but they have a long road ahead of them with rehab and lost wages alone.”
“This could be a nice big win early on if they want to settle,” Janine said. “No long drawn out court battle.”
“I’ll do what is right for the client and not my business,” he said. He always did even though his last employers felt otherwise.
“I know that,” Janine said. “I still talk to Frannie.”
“Frannie Lathers?” he asked. She was one of the senior paralegals at his old firm.
