As his client who was involved in a motorcycle accident was clinging to life, plaintiffs attorney Christian Young stayed at his beside for hours monitoring his condition, a decision that helped Young secure a $1.1 million settlement without filing a lawsuit.

“My distinct impression is that not many attorneys would spend hours and hours by the bedside of their client and spend time with the doctors and the nurses. Instead, most attorneys would have read from the records months later,” said Christian Young, of counsel in the Bridgeport office of Cohen & Wolf.