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Before becoming a plaintiff’s injury attorney, Loren Cochran worked in broadcast journalism. At Cochran Douglas, he uses that same skill to present catastrophic injury cases to juries so they can understand what happened and decide how a client should recover. Loren says his clients’ stories remind him why he became a lawyer, and he works to hold responsible parties accountable and help injured people in Tacoma and beyond become as whole as possible.
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My passion is personal injury law.
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I truly care about the
people that we represent.
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I truly care about making a difference
in their lives, but also in
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the lives of the community.
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I had an interesting path to the law.
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Straight out of the University of
Washington, I was in broadcast
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journalism, and I loved it.
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I loved the idea of pursuing a story,
ultimately taking something that had a lot
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of complex facts and boiling it down so
that an audience could understand
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exactly what the story was.
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I'm fortunate enough to do the
exact same thing with the law.
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As a plaintiff's personal injury lawyer,
I take cases that are very complex.
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They involve some sort of harm,
and I try to boil down the facts so that
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the audience, in this case, a jury,
gets to hear the story and ultimately
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decide for themselves
what happened and what is the process
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for recovery at the end of the day.
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I get reminders of why I do this work
every time I sit and talk with clients.
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A lot of the people who come
to me are incredibly harmed.
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They're incredibly damaged,
and they are lost.
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They have absolutely no idea
how they're going to take the next step in
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life because they've suffered
such catastrophic injuries.
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When they tell me these stories,
that's really what connects me back to why
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I became a lawyer because they're
looking for some sort of help.
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I'm there to tell them there
are things that we can do.
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There is accountability that we can make.
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Ultimately, we are going to try and put
you back together again,
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and make you as whole as possible.
