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David Stradley- Profile Video | Raleigh Workers Compensation

David Stradley | 757 Views | 11/16/2015

Legal Philosophy

One thing that might surprise my clients to know about me is I’m very interested in music. I grew up singing. I grew up playing the piano. At one point I learned to play the guitar a little bit and I like to duck hunt. I’m a big hunter as you can tell when you look around my office. And I also like to fly airplanes. Our practice is statewide and so I use the plane primarily for business to get back and forth to court, to depositions and things of that nature. My name is David Stradley, I grew up in Statesville, North Carolina.

I went to school undergrad at Wake Forest and the law school at Duke. Graduated from Duke in 1995 and I’ve been practicing law ever since. I am the managing partner of the firm but I spend most of my time doing insurance bad faith litigation. So, I’m most of the time engaged in client matters, working with clients, trying to get information from defendants in order to prepare cases for trial. What really motivates me about this job is helping folks. Helping folks solve problems because that’s what we do as lawyers, we help people solve problems.

What Clients Can Expect

Frequently we’re up against the biggest law firms in the country and some of the biggest corporations in the country. And what we find is particularly in our insurance bad faith cases is that they have policies and procedures that are unlawful, that are not legal under our laws in North Carolina because they are designed to prevent the insurance company from paying what they owe. People don’t buy policies to be underpaid. They buy policies to be paid fairly. So, when I get up most mornings I’m focused on finding the information that allows me to prove that these companies are doing these things they’re not supposed to be doing. It’s a great challenge but it’s a great motivator as well. One thing that’s important for our clients to understand is that they can trust us to guide them through this process.

When clients come to our firm they can know that we have assembled a very high quality team of folks to help them with their case and help them solve their problem. We bring a double-barreled approach with both high quality pre-trial legal work as well as high quality trial work. We have the trial skills to bring it home but we have the pre-trial skills to do the homework and to make the case so that we can present it to a jury in a persuasive manner. I love being in front of 12 people and a judge and presenting our case in the most effective way I know how to do it. It’s a lot of hard work. It’s 16, 18 hour days but it’s what we do and it’s what we love doing.

By: David Stradley

David Stradley- Profile Video | Raleigh Workers Compensation

Legal Philosophy

One thing that might surprise my clients to know about me is I’m very interested in music. I grew up singing. I grew up playing the piano. At one point I learned to play the guitar a little bit and I like to duck hunt. I’m a big hunter as you can tell when you look around my office. And I also like to fly airplanes. Our practice is statewide and so I use the plane primarily for business to get back and forth to court, to depositions and things of that nature. My name is David Stradley, I grew up in Statesville, North Carolina.

I went to school undergrad at Wake Forest and the law school at Duke. Graduated from Duke in 1995 and I’ve been practicing law ever since. I am the managing partner of the firm but I spend most of my time doing insurance bad faith litigation. So, I’m most of the time engaged in client matters, working with clients, trying to get information from defendants in order to prepare cases for trial. What really motivates me about this job is helping folks. Helping folks solve problems because that’s what we do as lawyers, we help people solve problems.

What Clients Can Expect

Frequently we’re up against the biggest law firms in the country and some of the biggest corporations in the country. And what we find is particularly in our insurance bad faith cases is that they have policies and procedures that are unlawful, that are not legal under our laws in North Carolina because they are designed to prevent the insurance company from paying what they owe. People don’t buy policies to be underpaid. They buy policies to be paid fairly. So, when I get up most mornings I’m focused on finding the information that allows me to prove that these companies are doing these things they’re not supposed to be doing. It’s a great challenge but it’s a great motivator as well. One thing that’s important for our clients to understand is that they can trust us to guide them through this process.

When clients come to our firm they can know that we have assembled a very high quality team of folks to help them with their case and help them solve their problem. We bring a double-barreled approach with both high quality pre-trial legal work as well as high quality trial work. We have the trial skills to bring it home but we have the pre-trial skills to do the homework and to make the case so that we can present it to a jury in a persuasive manner. I love being in front of 12 people and a judge and presenting our case in the most effective way I know how to do it. It’s a lot of hard work. It’s 16, 18 hour days but it’s what we do and it’s what we love doing.

By: David Stradley