John Paul Young

I was run down on my bike by a State vehicle. It should have been a slam dunk situation. The State had a red light and I had the crossing signal. But the State was determined to make the accident my fault! John was recommended to me by a neighbor who thought highly of him. He quickly got on top ...of my case and several things impressed me: (i) We went out to the accident site and very carefully reviewed what had happened. (ii) John got statements from all the witnesses (they saw the plain truth!) (iii) When the State did their preliminary fact finding, wanting to know every place I had every lived and every band aide that had every been applied to my body, John cut them off. (iv) When the State took my deposition, John was very thorough in preparing me for what to expect and how to effectively present myself. (v) When medical bills got screwed up and unpaid, John straightened things out. (vi) Eventually the case went to arbitration. Again John prepared me very thoroughly for what to expect and had done his own homework to judge what we should expect from the State. (vii) In summary John kept me well informed at all stages of the process and prepared me for the parts I had to play. AND in the end, of course, it was determined that it is not, after all, okay for State Vehicles to run over bicyclists. But without John to make that case, I would have been left high and dry.