What’s your full name? Christopher M White (Chris)
What do you enjoy doing outside of work? Crossfit, Reading, Columbus Crew Soccer, Movies, Gaming, and Spending Time With My Wife and Daughters
What was your first job? Lawn Care and Maintenance
What’s your favorite sport or event to watch? The Olympics
What would you sing at karaoke night? The Scotsman
What a Trial Lawyer Knows About Trials
Posted by Thomas D. White in Litigation
Often when I sit down with a new client to discuss how they feel they need to sue someone or someone has sued them, we first have to work through the shock of why they are in a lawyer’s office. We need to know where lawyer’s offices and doctor’s offices are but somehow we hope we will never need them.
This past week one of my friends, Andy (Bims) Mast passed away. We were not friends in the traditional sense that often think of as friends. We didn’t share many common interests and outside of the occasional breakfast, we didn’t spend much time together over the past five years. Bims and I came from different generations and often had different ways of looking at the world. But despite these differences, we became friends when we worked in the same business over twenty years ago. I was a typical high school teenager who was looking for a summer job, and Bims was the seasoned employee who wasn’t sure that I would last the summer.
For more than 5 years we have been building the cultural touchstones of our business. For most of that time, those touchstones came from the ownership down to our team. But something changed in 2017. At first, it was a comment here and there, then it grew into discussions, and, as I found out last week at our 4th quarter meeting, our cultural touchstones are a now firmly held beliefs about who we are and how we act as a team and business.
Recently the Ohio Channel put together a video about the history of the Holmes County Courthouse. Our senior partner, Thomas D. White, who was the Holmes County Common Pleas Court Judge for 20 years, was able to participate. Check out the video below!
