My favorite part of working at the SLG is the “Service, Strength and Results”.
Bad stuff happens to good people. Sometimes it is nobody’s fault. It just happens. But sometimes it is someone else’s fault and sometimes really bad stuff happens, like someone loses an arm, and kidney, and lung, or leg, or gets a serious brain injury and they can’t work, can’t play with their kids, or enjoy life. And at the end of a case, when it is all over and the case either settles, or goes to trial and we get a verdict, and the funds come in and we help the client structure funds and make decisions on how the monies they receive are paid to them. Then when we disburse the funds, that moment, that feeling of accomplishment, the friendship that has developed with the client, who now is your friend, your family. That continued feeling that you have helped a deserving good person or persons who had something bad happen to them. The feelings that you have helped make their lives a little better a little more bearable. Even knowing that you can not give them back what they lost, whether it was the loss of an arm, or leg, or a brain injury or even worse, the loss of a loved one. The feeling that we fought for them, believed in them and helped to make their lives better in an impossible situation, is the most rewarding part of my job. Seeing Mr. or Mrs. X have funds to buy a much needed car, or fix up a home, or pay their daughters college loan off or buy a four wheeler for “Mr. X so he can ride through the woods with his son because he will never get to hunt or play golf with him again, but he can spend time with him on the four wheeler. To have the funds to take care of his family, who he can no longer support or take care of, because they now have to take care of him. The simple things. This is especially rewarding when you have had to watch them struggle for two or more years with financial stress along with the stress of medical treatment and physical limitations and mental limitations and catastrophic injuries. No amount of money can give them back what they lost, no amount of money would be worth going through what they have gone through again, but it helps to make the life they have better, that is the reward to me.
Thank you
Elaine Watson
Paralegal to Howard E. Spiva
Howard E. Spiva, P.C.
12056 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Ga. 31419
912-920-2000
912-920-4610 fax
www.spivalaw.com
Elaine@spivalaw.com
