The Real Suits: Champions for the Injured – Ep. 5 Adam Pantano

Adam Pantano discusses his career and the transition from insurance defense work to representing injured workers. Adam shares his background growing up in a single-parent household and his motivation to become a lawyer. He also highlights the collaborative culture at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky and the firm’s dedication to preparing every case as if it’s going to trial. Adam shares some of his most memorable cases, including construction accident cases and multi-fatality motor vehicle cases, as well as his passion for biking and handling biking cases. 

Larry Bendesky
Welcome to the Real Suits, Champions for the Injured. Using our platform here at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, I’m Larry Bendesky. With me today is my friend, my law partner, Adam Pantano. It’s so great to have you with us, Adam.

Adam Pantano
Thanks for having me.

Larry Bendesky
So you’ve been with the firm for how many years?

Adam Pantano
A little over 13 years at this point.

Larry Bendesky
And what did you do as a lawyer after you graduated from law school and how’d you start your career?

Adam Pantano
So when I got out of law school, I was actually clerking during the summer before I got my first full-time job as an associate and I got a job doing insurance defense work actually and I did that for about 11 years before I came here to Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky. During that time I actually did a little bit of everything mostly motor vehicle to start out and then right after my first son was born in 2004, I got sent down to Florida to the Crane Institute of America for two weeks. And I sat in a classroom and out in the field and got certified operating cranes and heavy machinery. So that was an interesting experience.

Larry Bendesky
You’ve kept that certification up, correct?

Adam Pantano
Yeah. In fact, I think I was one of the first lawyers that the Crane Institute of America actually accepted into their program in 2004. It was me and I think 10 or 12 actual crane operators from around the country. So I went down. I was in a golf shirt and everybody else was in their work t-shirts.

Larry Bendesky
I think you said you did insurance defense work for about 11 years. Was that at one firm or was that multiple firms?

Adam Pantano
I knew this question was going to come up, so I’ve been trying to think of how many firms it actually was. I know the running joke here at the office is there are very few firms I have not worked at as an insurance defense attorney, but it was really only a few. I worked at some of the more prominent and well-known firms, which is how I met people here at this firm, because I had a lot of cases against Dave Kwass, some with Brian Fritz, and I had a very memorable case with you actually.

Larry Bendesky
And so did that work as a defense lawyer? When you say insurance defense, you represented companies, but it was insurance companies that had insurance for those companies, usually what construction companies, product manufacturers?

Adam Pantano
Less product manufacturers, although I did some product work. Most of it was equipment rental companies. Construction companies. That was most of my work before I came here to the firm.

Larry Bendesky
And did that work help you as you came here?

Adam Pantano
It did. In fact, when I look for lawyers here at the firm to hire for our firm, whether it’s for my team or just in general, I tend to gravitate towards insurance defense lawyers.

Larry Bendesky
For everybody just to define what an insurance defense lawyer is, you gave a little bit of it, but it’s almost like if you’re in a car accident and you contact your insurance company, they hire a lawyer for you. But that lawyer is your lawyer, not the insurance company.

Adam Pantano
I thought, and I still think that my time as an insurance defense lawyer was greatly beneficial to myself now as a plaintiff’s lawyer and representing injured workers and to the firm. And so I look to those lawyers. If I’m going to hire somebody because I think that understanding how your opponent is thinking of a case, investigating a case, working the case up and the process that they go through in evaluating cases, I think is really, really critical to our work because you may just think, well, we’re going to file this lawsuit on behalf of our injured client. Why are they not paying right now? What are they not seeing that I see?

And I think as an insurance defense lawyer, you have that understanding. You understand that you’re not just getting the case in when your client sued and saying, maybe we’re at fault here. There are boxes that they have to check. They have to work through the insurance company. They don’t make those decisions. That’s an insurance company decision. And so I think that that was really helpful to me.

And of course, I had to rewire my mind and my brain about how to write because defense attorneys write differently than we as plaintiff’s lawyers do. They approach arguments differently. And I remember one of my very first depositions here at this firm, it was with three or four defense lawyers that I had known for 10, 15 years. And I was on the other side of the table from

Larry Bendesky
You were now the plaintiff lawyer.

Adam Pantano
Yeah, I was here at this firm at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky. And they were on the other side of the table. And I remembered all my years being with them, next to them. And it was just me versus them. So the biggest difference when I walked into that room was it’s me versus the world now. And that’s the biggest difference. But I do think that my time greatly benefited me and still benefits me to this day.

Larry Bendesky
So you said you had cases with me, a memorable case. You had cases with Dave Kwass. You had other cases against lawyers at this firm. Why’d you make the switch?

Adam Pantano
I never wanted to be a career insurance defense lawyer and I don’t think that it’s a bad thing. I have very good friends on that side and they’re phenomenal lawyers on the other side of us. It’s just not something that I wanted to do for the rest of my career and I think a lot of that goes to growing up. It was just never something that I wanted to do representing people who caused others harm or working for the insurance industry.

It was just never something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life. So when I had cases against this firm and a couple of other firms, I started thinking, all right, well, how are they going to approach these cases? And that’s how I approached my time as a defense lawyer. I’m going to defend this. How are they going to come at me? And it was just something I always wanted to do. And my experience with the lawyers here at this firm solidified that. It’s something that I just wanted to do and after 11 or so years as a defense lawyer, I finally made that switch.

Larry Bendesky
Do you like representing people?

Adam Pantano
I think it is one of the most satisfying things that I’ve done. Certainly as a lawyer, we meet clients at their worst times. They come in and they are looking for somebody to help them when they’ve gone through the worst period of their lives.

And for me, working through their cases, working with them, becoming friendly with the clients, I’m friends with a number of clients that I’ve represented over the years. To this day, I’m still friends with people. And seeing them now with the help that we’ve given them and their families, that’s something that makes me really happy and proud of what I do.

I talk to young people who are looking to work. Talk to law school students. And one thing I don’t think they think about enough, everybody thinks about money. And if you have loans, you got to pay back your loans. But if you’re in a position to take a job that maybe pays a little more money at the beginning as opposed to a job that gives you satisfaction that you feel good about, that you have pride in, I think that’s an important thing.

Larry Bendesky
Is that part of the reason why you made that change from the defense side to the plaintiff side?

Adam Pantano
Yeah, it absolutely is.

Like, when you get out of law school, you have to see what your options are. And for me, at the time when I graduated in 99, it was, I think, easier to get a job as an insurance defense lawyer. You had debt, too. I had debt. I know you didn’t have a lot of money growing up.I paid for 100% of college, 100% of law school. My wife and I paid for our wedding and our house. So everything that we have and had was based on what we earned and brought to the table.

But for me, I wanted to come to work every day knowing that I’m making a difference, that I’m helping people. And again, a lot of that goes to, you know, I was raised in a single parent home in Northeast Philly and I looked around. A lot of the people that were in the apartment complex where I grew up are, quite honestly, some of the same people that we represent now. They are people that wake up every day, they go to work.

You know, they’re working outside, they’re working with their hands. And to me, I wanted to make a difference and help people out. This specifically, this firm is the firm that I wanted to do it at. And I’m happy that I was able to get that opportunity. And I come to work every day in the back of my mind, knowing this is where I had always wanted to be. And these are the people I wanted to represent. So to me, that’s what gets me going every day.

Larry Bendesky
So you talked about your background growing up. You said it was a single parent household. Tell us a little more about your background.

Adam Pantano
So we bounced around when I was a kid. I was born in New York. Most of my mother and father’s families are all either from New York or still live in New York. And my parents split up when I was, think, three or three and a half. And we lived in New Jersey. And then my mom went back to school. And so we moved to Northeast Philly in a place, Welsh Road Apartments is I think what it was called. It’s now called Joshua House. And we had an apartment there and there were some issues with that apartment. And we moved literally across the fence line to the other apartment where I ended up growing up at Bluegrass Apartments on Bluegrass Road. And the neighborhood has changed a lot now, but back then it was a very blue collar area where we lived.

And so it was my mom and just her kids. And we didn’t have any money. We grew up on public assistance. I tell my kids about it now, and they don’t know what that life is like. And I tell them, this is why I work as hard as I do. I never wanted you kids to have that life. So this is the decision that I made. I wanted to go to law school and do better for my family. So it made a mark on my life.

Larry Bendesky
So you said you wanted to go to law school. Why did you want to become a lawyer?

Adam Pantano
So watching TV, I saw LA Law. He’s a Corbin Berenson. He was certainly a character. I don’t know that many lawyers are like that, other than the show Suits which I think is just another topic altogether.

Larry Bendesky
We are the real suits, by the way.

Adam Pantano
I tell all my friends when they say, you know, I’m watching the show Suits. I say, that is not real. OK, no case is developed and settled in 35 minutes. You know, I saw that show and it looked like a pretty exciting job and they all looked like they were driving nice cars. And we didn’t have a car at the time. And I figured, OK, I can do that.

You know, that was always a goal of mine. I didn’t know that I was always going to get there. you grow up in a certain way and you bounce around to certain schools and you have a rough childhood and rough life. And I never knew that it would happen, but I wanted to get there. You know, everything along the way was sort of a path to what I ultimately wanted.

Larry Bendesky
So I’m going to give you a compliment. You’re one of the best husbands and fathers I know.

Adam Pantano
I appreciate that. Thank you.

Larry Bendesky
So what was the motivation behind that? Is that something that you consciously thought about or just kind of evolved into?

Adam Pantano
Yeah. So not having any of that growing up.My grandfather was my father figure, my mom’s dad. I used to laugh as a kid because he would always cry when we would leave visiting them up in New York. There wasn’t much crying in our house for a lot of things, not having that father figure, my grandfather always instilled in us, look, when you have a family, that’s your responsibility. Those are the people you are going to live with. Those are the people who you’re responsible for. You know, actually one of my mom’s ex-boyfriends I’m still friends with now, he helped pay for my books and stuff in law school. I just saw him yesterday. So those are people that made their marks on me. When my wife and I got married and had kids. That was something that I really thought about.

Larry Bendesky
Obviously, you’re very involved in your kids’ lives. What do you like to do outside of work?

Adam Pantano
When my kids were younger, I coached them in Little League. I would take them out to the baseball field. We’d throw, we’d hit. And I loved coaching them. I coached both of my sons. And my wife laughs when I say that I produced two MVPs of championship teams. But, you know, I still love having a catch with both of my kids. I’ve got a college freshman and a high school freshman and we still have catches and I love going to watch my kids play sports. My younger son, Tyler, wrestles. My older son played baseball through high school. For me, you know, anytime I could hang out with them or my wife, that’s a good time for me.

Personally, I like to bike. I have two bikes that are dear to my soul. I love those bikes. I rode this morning, in fact, before work. So those are the things that I enjoy.

Larry Bendesky
Do you wear a helmet when you bike?

Adam Pantano
I wear a helmet.

Larry Bendesky
Do you recommend to all the listeners to wear a helmet when you bike?

Adam Pantano
Yeah, one thing that really bothers me is when I see people out on the road and they don’t have helmets. They’re there for a reason.

You look goofy wearing it, it’s like having a mushroom cap on your head. But the technology for these helmets has advanced so much over the years. Without a helmet, you will not survive an accident. It’s just critical to biking. I was on the Schuylkill River Trail this morning, from Conshohocken all the way out to Phoenixville. That’s a trail, it’s closed, there’s no cars, but there’s bumps, there’s other bikers, there’s runners, there’s squirrels, there’s rabbits, anything that can knock you off the bike, you’ve got the potential to hit your head. So always wear a helmet.

Larry Bendesky
How far did you ride today?

Adam Pantano
I think today, and anybody that checks my Strava will know, but I think it was 26 and a half, 27 miles.

Larry Bendesky
Is that pretty much an average bike ride for you? Before work?

Adam Pantano
Yes, I try to do anywhere from 20 to 30 before work. If I can do more, that’s a plus.

Larry Bendesky
So what time are you getting up every day to do this?

Adam Pantano
This morning it was 4:30. I was out of my house at 4:55, drove down to Conshohocken and was pedaling around 5:20. Now that school’s done, I always drop my son off at school in the morning, but I’m here at work by 8. Now that he’s done school a little bit earlier, it depends how far I bike in the morning.

Larry Bendesky
And you bike every day, pretty much?

Adam Pantano
I try to do four days a week. On weekends I’ll do anywhere from 50 to 60, 65 miles a day.

Larry Bendesky
And have you handled any, have you taken that experience and knowledge about biking and handled any biking cases?

Adam Pantano
I have. In fact, one of my very good friends who I bike with was hit by a car many years ago and we ended up representing him here at the firm. He was three quarters of a mile from his house, coming back from a ride and he had the right of way and in the opposite direction of him, there were two cars trying to make what was gonna be a left-hand turn for the cars that would have come from his left coming across the traffic and the one car cleared the intersection and the other car didn’t wait and hit the back of his bike and shattered his frame which is very uncommon for a carbon fiber frame. This was a race quality bike and it just shattered the frame and sent him off face first into the road. So I’ve handled a number of those cases. I’m handling one right now. Similar type of an accident in a group ride.

But yeah, we’ve handled a number of them and you hear a lot of people say, I don’t like bikers on the road and I get that, but there are rules and there are laws for cars that you have to follow. In fact, a lot of people don’t know, but a biker actually has the same rights in the lane as a car. And if they’re on the shoulder, you’ve got to give them the four feet to their left. And there’s a reason for that because if you’re too close, your mirror can hit them. You can startle them. You can knock them off. There are scary cases because other than a helmet, there’s no other protective equipment that a biker has.

So when you get hit, you’re going to land somewhere and body verse blacktop doesn’t go well.

Larry Bendesky
And how about some of the other cases that you’ve handled? What were some of the cases that you’re most proud of? You talked about how important it is to represent people and how proud you are to do so.

So one, think of a number of years ago, I got a call from a friend who said, hey, this family husband and wife were driving to the bank from their business, they were going to make a deposit and they were on a two-lane road, one in each way, one lane in each way, in each direction and a tractor trailer hit them from behind and drove their car across the opposite lane into a telephone pole. And the husband became paraplegic as a result.

I don’t want to call them elderly. They were an older couple, but they were second generation. They ran a family business. They had two daughters, grandchildren on the way and I met them at the hospital. And that was one of the hardest things to see because the husband was hooked up to every machine possible. The wife survived it. She was fine. That was a really tough case, but working that case through and taking depositions of the driver of the truck and his witnesses. I heard that the deposition of that driver took a much different tone because he tried to blame the people who he drove into a telephone pole.

I became very close with the family, both with the clients and their kids and their business partners. And that was really devastating on them because he ran the business hands on. I still talk with them. Fortunately we had a successful result for them.

Larry Bendesky
You got an eight-figure result.

Adam Pantano
It was an eight-figure result. We went to mediation and I remember, we walked out of mediation, the case had not settled and you were there with me and Bob was there too and we told the defendants what we wanted in the case and ultimately they paid that for this family and we saved his business. We saved them financially. They were able to move into a different home because at the time they lived in a multi-story house and so he either had to be helped up the stairs, carried or they had to move. So they moved and they were able to get a ranch home and you know he’s got a lot of issues because he’s still in a wheelchair all day every day but that was one of the more satisfying cases that I’ve been able to handle.

Larry Bendesky
And congratulations on that. I’ve spoken to the family. I know how much they appreciate all you did in that case.

I know you settled a case for $23 million very recently, a multi-fatality motor vehicle case.

Adam Pantano
Yeah, that was another commercial trucking case. It was a father with his two kids. They were driving and they got struck from behind again by a tractor trailer, a distracted driver, which everybody’s got their cell phones and truck drivers are no different. Unfortunately, this family was hit and didn’t survive this accident. And that was just a horrible tragedy for that family. The surviving family members who found out about the accident and lost their loved ones. It’s just unthinkable what happens to some people.

Larry Bendesky
And you settled an apartment fire case for over $16 million last year.

Adam Pantano
We did and you know that one a lot of legwork went into. We got contacted by the clients. They tell us there was a fire at our apartment and we had to jump out of the window to safety. So we had to figure out what happened there and in that specific case we hired experts. We interviewed witnesses. We actually talked with newspaper reporters who were covering the story.

And it turned out that you hear of slumlords. This was one of those cases where there were multiple violations, complaints about safety, locked doors. There were so many things involved in that. And this was a really sad case because the mother had to essentially throw her son out the window. He had special needs. Couldn’t get himself out the window. She literally had to force him out. She literally had to throw her son out the window. And she jumped out. And they both suffered really bad injuries, burns, orthopedic injuries.

And they didn’t know where to go. They didn’t speak English. They spoke Spanish. The mom, her biggest goal, her want was, I need to make sure that my son’s taken care of. Because what if something happens to me because I’m the only one taking care of him. And you asked earlier, why did you switch sides? Why did you do this? And that’s one of the reasons. You look at this family at the end of the case and you say, you’re taking care of it. If anything happens to you, you know that your son will be taken care of. That means a lot. And the clients, you get a hug from these people. And whether they hug you or just say thank you, you know that you’ve done something good for them. And so that was a really tough case because the mom, every time we talked to her, all she wanted was to make sure herself was taken care of.

Larry Bendesky
And you were able to do that?

Adam Pantano
We were, yeah. And look, it was a team effort. The way that we work is we work in teams here. So it’s me, you, Bob Mongeluzzi, we’ve got other lawyers on our team that we all work together. And it is a true team effort to get these results for these clients.

Like I said at the very beginning when I walked into that first deposition, it was me versus the other people on the other side of the table. And when we are asked to represent people who have been injured, we’re up against not just the other attorney representing the people who have caused harm, but they have billion dollar insurance companies backing their defense. They generally know about these accidents before we do, done their investigation, they’ve started taking witness statements, they’ve hired investigators. So when we get into these cases and the client comes to us and says, I need you to help me, I need you to help my family. It’s generally not the day that the accident happens. And through my experience as a defense lawyer, I know that the day the accident happens, whoever’s involved in that, is on the phone with their insurance company saying, hey, we had an accident on the construction site today, where my driver was involved in a fatality. And that insurance company is split second, hiring lawyers, hiring investigators, putting their case together. So it’s a team effort on our part. And look, we can’t do what we do for our clients without the teams that we have here.

Larry Bendesky
So tell me about the teams. Tell me about the culture of the firm. And not to disparage any of the defense firms you worked for, they’re great firms, but is the culture different here than there?

Adam Pantano
It is. And listen, the firms I worked at, I had great mentors at those firms and I worked for some of the best defense lawyers that the city has. And I think that’s a double edged sword. I was taught by them, but now I go against them. And to me, that’s fun. It’s, you know, the student versus the teacher a lot of times. And I take great joy in doing that. I just spoke with a young attorney yesterday, in fact, and we were talking about our firm. What’s it like there? And it’s a true collaboration of lawyers.

You know, we have meetings here every Tuesday with the lawyers, all the lawyers get together in a room. At this table. And if it’s not here, it’s by zoom. But the best meetings are here in this room. And this table is lined end to end and we have lawyers sitting on the sides and we talk about cases. Here’s a case I have. Who has an idea about this? You know, what’s the value here? Because everybody can think about something on their own. The best way to approach a case is a team. And here we have that. And I’ll give kudos to you and Bob Mongeluzzi. Your doors are always open.

Everybody knows the two of you as fierce, hardworking, top level lawyers. And when you guys walk into a room, that changes the tone of the case. But here at the firm, I was in Bob’s office earlier today talking about nothing related to cases. Just talking. You and I were doing the same thing. And when we have cases, we do that. I was in your office probably more than I’m in my office most days. I’m in your office or somebody else’s office, whether it’s one of the people on my team or one of the other partners here at the firm, everybody here works together because the better we all do for our clients, the better someone else’s client’s gonna do. Because if we have a similar case, everybody talks about cases here at the firm. And I think that that’s one thing that separates us from the other firms, both in the city and in the tri -state area is the wealth of knowledge that our lawyers bring.

Everybody has different backgrounds. You have a different background than me, than Bob, than Jordan, than Drew Duffy and Dave Kwass and Jeff Goodman. But at the end of the day, when we all sit down and we talk about cases, it’s a judgment-free zone. Everybody says, did you think about this? No, I didn’t actually. All right, well, let’s work this out. Let’s roadmap this.

So that when we’re in the case and we’re taking depositions and we’re working with our experts and we’re putting the case together because every case has to be prepared as if you’re going to trial. And that’s one thing that I really enjoy about this firm is the day the case comes in, everybody knows you’re not preparing for settlement. Some firms may do that and that’s fine. That’s not how it’s done. Every case is done as if you’re going to trial.

Larry Bendesky
And how much did you tell me we spent on the meeting we had yesterday? How much have we spent so far in this one case?

Adam Pantano
It’s a very significant case. Just shy of a million dollars. A million dollars. you know what? We have clients in that case. We represent a number of people who have suffered horrible, horrible tragedies.

I know from being a defense lawyer, former defense lawyer, when the case comes in and you say to the insurance company, Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is involved, that changes how they are evaluating the case.

Larry Bendesky
How’s that?

Adam Pantano
They know that the firm has not just the power of the lawyers here, the knowledge, the fantastic lawyers at the firm, but they also know that the firm is going to spend whatever it takes, time, money, effort, to put that case together and do the best job that can be done for the clients. And I can tell you that when I was evaluating cases. When you were in the defense. When I was on the other side as a defense lawyer, I would talk to the insurance adjuster and I’d say, all right, let’s go through the case. What happened? Who’s representing them?

And we would say, Larry Bendesky is representing them. And I say, OK. So what’s the value of the case? And you say, well, it depends. You want to know what it is with that firm or what the case’s value is? Because it’s a different issue. Because the way that this firm, Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, puts the case together, I think is unparalleled for what we do. I really do. And we go to mediations, and mediators will tell our clients, you made the right choice.

You suffered the worst day of your lives and you made the right choice by going to that firm because those lawyers are going to do the right job for you. And that means a lot.

Larry Bendesky
Yeah, well, you’re a big part of it.

Adam Pantano
I appreciate that.

Larry Bendesky
You really are a big part of it. And you handle, obviously, construction accident cases as well.

Adam Pantano
I think that’s the better part of what we do here. Certainly for my team, we do a lot of different types of cases, but I think the majority of our cases are construction accident cases. And I think they’re fun. I think they’re great cases. You learn a lot, but I think you also have to be willing to learn from your clients because our clients come in and whether they’re union workers or non-union workers, these are people who generally have started working at a younger age to learn their craft and they’re building buildings. They’re putting things together. And, you know, there’s a litmus test that they have.

I remember years ago when I was doing defense work, I was taking a ride with one of my clients as a concrete contractor. He owns a very large company and we were going to a housing development where he was being sued by the builder and some of the homeowners for construction defects. They said that he didn’t pour the concrete properly and it was allowing water inside the buildings, inside the homes causing damage. And for a half an hour, we didn’t look at one house. He was driving me around asking questions to me about my experience and my knowledge. And at the end he said, okay, you can keep representing me now. And I laughed because the insurance company had hired us, but this is a guy who had a construction business.

Larry Bendesky
You passed the litmus test.

Adam Pantano
He wanted to know, are you just a guy wearing a suit that’s going to come in and ask questions, or do you actually know my business? Because this is personal to them and to our clients. They want to know, are you just a lawyer, or are you somebody that really takes pride and understands what we do? And so the construction cases, I think, are fun because you’re learning different things with your cases.

You really need to know what you’re doing in these cases. A lot of people advertise that they do accident law. That can mean anything. But here at the firm, when we say we do construction work, we truly do construction work. The lawyers here have more knowledge than any lawyers in the city, I think, in that area.

Larry Bendesky
I know how close you are with your sons. Either one of them want to be a lawyer. Do you want them to be lawyers? Have you had that conversation?

Two different answers. I don’t think either one of my sons wants to be a lawyer. I’ve told them since they were little kids, I want you to do what makes you happy. Don’t be a lawyer just because I’m a lawyer. Again, I approached what I was going to do for a living differently. I approached my kids’ lives differently than I had for myself. I wanted certain things for me and for them. As long as they’re happy.

I know that my one son talks about becoming a physical therapist, which I think is great. He loves physical training. He likes the nutrition end of it. He wrestles. He’s totally into that stuff. My older son wants to, he originally wanted to be a teacher. And I said, that’s great. If that makes you happy. And I think he’s changed his mind. When he got to college, he was going to be a secondary ed teacher. And he called me a couple of weeks after he got to school. And he said,

I think I want to try and get into the business school. And I said, I’m OK with whatever you want to do. This is your life. As long as you’re happy, you can pay your bills, and you do the best job you can do. It doesn’t matter to me what you do for a living. Just be good at it.

Larry Bendesky
Well, they’re good kids.

Adam Pantano
They’re great kids. Yeah, they’re great kids. In fact, James is working at the Jersey Shore for the summer, busing tables. He’s having a good time and I’ll see him in two days.

I mean, as you know, when I interview people, lawyers to work here, people that work through high school, that’s a big deal to me. If they didn’t play sports where there’s discipline and a team attitude, I like it if they’ve worked in high school and through college.

That’s a rule in our house. If you’re playing sports all summer, you don’t have to work because you’re busy. Now, with travel sports these days, I think it’s more hours than you actually have at a job. Otherwise, you have to work. And both of my kids know that. They understand it. And they’re totally fine with that. Last summer, James washed dishes at a restaurant all summer, which, you know, my wife and I laughed at. We say everybody should work in the restaurant industry.

Larry Bendesky
Adam it’s been so great spending time with you to talk about the cases and talk about your background and for everybody out there we’re so glad that you were a part of the Real Suits Champions for the Injured. We appreciate you listening to this episode.

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Adam Pantano
Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. Great time.