Monday, June 3, 2013


Our logo "Working to Make Our Communities Safer" expresses our firm commitment to working to enforce the safety rules in our communities.

What are the safety rules?  Safety rules are the rules we live by every single day.  For example, the "Rules of the Road" we all abide by when we operate a car or truck - these are community safety rules.  The rules we follow in winter to remove snow and ice from walkways so people won't fall - these are community safety rules.  The rules doctors follow to provide care and treatment to the sick and injured whether in surgical procedures, delivering of babies, or providing every day medical treatment, these are community safety rules.  The rules in place to protect individuals from corporate greed and carelessness - these are community safety rules.  If it keeps members of our community safe physically and financially, then it's a safety rule that must be followed and enforced to prevent harm to anyone of us in the community.  The victim sitting in the plaintiffs chair in court is just an example of what can happen if we allow violations of safety rules.  The next victim could be us, our loved ones, our relatives, our neighbors, our friends, our community members.

By helping juries understand that they have the power to enforce community safety rules which if violated endanger all of us, young or old, male or female, professionals, skilled or unskilled workers, students, athletes, mothers, fathers, grandparents, union members, teachers, fire fighters....  No one is exempt from danger if we allow individuals or corporations to violate community safety rules.

Juries are the conscience of the community and that enables them to speak with one strong, loud voice - "Do not violate our community safety rules and put us, our loved ones, our relatives, our friends, our neighbors, our community members in danger.  If you do, you will pay the price to send the message to everyone the we will enforce our safety rules and protect the members of our communities".  It is a forceful message.

This is the way to keep our communities safe and it has worked for hundreds of years.  In England hundreds of years ago juries were impaneled to enforce the safety rules of the community. And so it should continue today.

You, too, can help keep our communities safe by enforcing our community safety rules whenever possible including when you are sitting on a civil jury.





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