My name is Daniel Kinlan and I’m an attorney here at Harding Mazzotti and I work on cases involving New York State law, Vermont law and Massachusetts law and more specifically, I’m a supervising attorney for our Massachusetts office. The role that I have here at Harding Mazzotti is unique in terms of I can work on all different types of cases, which makes arriving at work every day a little bit fresh, a little bit new and that means I get to work with a lot of different types of clients, a lot of different types of problems which, when you solve those problems, really make the job very joyful. Connecting with clients can sometimes be challenging. Not everyone comes from the same background or part of life, but there’s always something that you can use in whether it’s describing the law or describing the type of medicine related to a client’s injury that you can really find some common ground. And I think as long as you keep talking with the client every so often, you just establish a rapport. It just happens naturally. The staff here at Harding Mazzotti, not only do we work well together but we also have a lot of different knowledge in different parts of the law. And I know that a number of people who have come from an insurance company or different law firms find themselves here being able to find different avenues of knowledge that we can give to our clients but also sometimes one person might have a different background that connects well with this client and I may be able to connect with a different client there, so when we work together as a team like that, we can really be quite unstoppable. My background is that I was born in Albany. I’ve been in the capital region my entire life. The only time when I wasn’t was when I spent four years of college in Poughkeepsie but again still in New York. So I know the area very well. It means a lot to me and there’s no real reason why I’d want to leave, so I feel very connected to the area which I think helps me get connected to my clients. Seems like there’s always some type of community event that Harding Mazzotti wants to be a part of and is a part of. It shows that people can trust us. We are not just here, some brick and mortar down the street. We’re involved in the community to let people know that we want to be involved in their lives and it doesn’t just have to be because they got unlucky and they got hurt. It’s really something where we can connect with them on a different level so they can know us personally and we can do the same with them. When you meet the people that are going to work on your case, you don’t just meet them and then you don’t talk to them for six, seven months. We’re all involved in the process as we move forward together and that’s something that I think is underrated. If you want someone that’s going to be working on your case and not only working on it but letting you know about it, calling you or texting you or sometimes email works better for clients, it’s going to happen. So the client contact is really one of the most important parts and one of the things that’s always going to happen when you’re a client at Harding Mazzotti.
