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This is Jayne Zabrowski. I am here today talking with Attorney Gordon Johnson. I am attorney
Johnson's paralegal. Hi Jayne. Hi Attorney Johnson can you tell us what you do? Um, I'm
a brain injury lawyer but specifically I am a personal injury lawyer who handles nothing
but brain injury cases. And how is it that you only do brain injury cases? Well I started
doing some brain injury cases about twenty years ago and the more I learned about it
the more specialized I got and then I realized that there really wasn't enough lawyers that
strictly limiting themselves to brain injury. So I went and learned that got more involved
in an advocacy level on the internet and beginning in 1996 gave me the opportunity to tell the
world about what I knew about brain injury and my approach to representing those with
brain injury and once the internet was there I was able to focus and specialize strictly
on brain injury cases. Was your first case a brain injury case that evolved into you
getting more cases or you understanding brain injury more? Well I represented several brain
injury people before the critical case that started around 1993. A couple of the brain
injured people I represented were severely brain injured people that actually they weren't
personal injury clients. I was a general practice lawyer in Berlin Wisconsin handling a small
time general practice lawyer would be handling including personal injury cases I had a couple
of divorce clients that had severe brain injuries. And had there families pretty much torn apart
because of the behavior Issues. I hadn't handled a real significant personal injury cases.
Then I got a brain injury case a personal injury case. Um, it was the husband of a secretary
in my office and even though the doctors were not making it out like this case wasn't particularly
a serious case. But I heard from his wife whens he came to work everyday it was clear
to me that he was having the kind of problems that people I represented with severe brain
injuries have had. So rather than just struggling tryng to figure it out on my own I went to
this seminar that was sponsored by National seminar in Houston Texas. At that seminar
I realized that this concept this theory is much more complicated,Um than I thought and
it was something that I seemed to have a understanding of and learned it quickly and I just decided
that at that point that it was going to make up a major part of my career.