Description
Cole Douglas helps seriously injured people and their families get answers and get their lives back on track. At Cochran Douglas, he’s best known as a school district abuse attorney who handles institutional sexual abuse cases against school districts and the State of Washington. Whether a client has whiplash from a rear-end collision or has lost a spouse to someone else’s negligence, Cole treats every Tacoma-area case as the most important one.
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I regularly get asked the question of
why I became a personal injury attorney.
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For most people, when they hear personal
injury attorney,
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they think of an ambulance chaser or some
negative connotation that
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they hear in the news.
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From my perspective,
I work on behalf of people who are gravely
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injured, who don't know what to do,
and are struggling to
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keep their life together.
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I find it an extremely rewarding and
honorable profession to work on behalf of
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injured people and their families who
are struggling, who need those answers.
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I find joy and
a sense of belonging in helping
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educate them and getting them
back to where they should be.
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A lot of people who are injured don't know
what to do, and I gain a lot of joy in
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being able to help get them back on track.
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Although I handle a variety of different
practice areas, I think I'm most known for
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the cases involving institutional sexual
abuse, whether it's against the state of
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Washington or against school
districts across the state.
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I regularly get asked if
there's a specific case or
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a specific client that reminds me as to
why I want to be a trial attorney.
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It's really hard to pinpoint any one.
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I think any time I get on the phone or
meet in person with a client,
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that's the reminder.
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Whether it is a rear-ender car accident
where someone's suffering from whiplash,
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or a catastrophic injury case where
a loved one is telling me that their
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spouse was just killed by the negligence
of somebody else, it doesn't matter.
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For that individual client,
that case is the most important one,
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and for each client who I speak with,
I operate under that belief.
