Meet Leon Aussprung

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my path to becoming a trial attorney uh
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was really a little
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serendipitous I began as a physician I
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practiced medicine I was a pediatrician
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who worked for a major children’s
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hospital and when I finished my
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residency program I was thinking about
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uh what to do with the rest of my career
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and whether I should subspecialize in
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some area of Pediatrics and I decided
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that what I really was interested is in
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the legal field and my original thought
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was that I would move into the area of
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healthcare administration and maybe
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someday become the CEO of a hospital or
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work in some regards within the field of
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medicine after I uh completed my
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education my law school and my pediatric
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residency I then began practicing
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General Pediatrics where I headed up a
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an outpatient physician practice I also
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did some inpatient Pediatrics and at
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some point I just recognized that it
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really wasn’t for me my personality
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really didn’t fit in with the
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pediatricians and I really had more of
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the personality of an attorney I was a
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little more aggressive I was not afraid
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of uh controversy and and taking on the
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higher ups and I decided to make the
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transition into practicing
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law I tell my clients that they need to
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be patient unfortunately living
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litigation takes a long time much longer
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than really it should uh and it’s very
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difficult to people uh to be patient
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because frequently they’re injured they
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have real needs
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today but there’s no way to get them
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money until the case Works its way
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through the system so although
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settlements frequently do occur those
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settlements often only occur after
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litigation is completed right on the
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verge of trial that means can literally
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be years between when a client comes to
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me and when there’s eventually a
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recovery for them so patience is really
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critical