I think our firm is different from most

of the firms that we deal with we’re

native Oklahomans we’re both Mike Burge

and I are both from very small towns

neither of my parents graduated from

high school for example I think that

made us pretty hungry literally and

figuratively we were hungry I tell you

if you can’t be the smartest lawyer in

the room my theory was you ought to be

the hardest working and that’s been sort

of our guiding star our whole career

when I met my Ikea you know it didn’t we

became fast friends and we do a lot of

things the same way our job for the most

part is explaining very complicated

topics to jurors for example you might

try a case involving medicine and you

have to explain that medicine to a jury

a lot of doctors aren’t necessarily the

best at doing that there’s some lawyers

that have a medical degree and yet they

can’t talk to a jury we can get down on

any level and talk to people we’re

sincere we’re honest and very hard

working and the people that we’ve hired

are the same way we carefully choose our

younger lawyers and everybody in this

firm has been trained by Mike and I

first of all Bill we know that a lot of

our clients when they come to us have

had a tragic events or some traumont

traumatic event in their lives such as

the loss of a loved one uh their home

destroyed a death in the family injuries

so those people

need to be treated well and we try to

take care of them well and when they

call we try to call them back

immediately because

any question they have needs to be

answered and they need to get responsive

answer soon because like I say that’s

what they deserve after what they’ve

been through