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Today I'm honored to welcome Brian R. Sullivan, managing partner for workers' compensation at Catches Law Group.

Brian has spent decades advocating for injured workers handling all aspects of workers' compensation,

Social Security, disability, and accidental disability retirement

claims.

He's appeared at every level of Department of Industrial Accidents and is a respected speaker

in the field.

Brian, welcome into the show.

Thanks for having me, Ben.

Hey, good to see you.

Good to see you.

Yeah, before I get into my questions, I just want to say, Catchus Law, like, definitely one of the pillars of Massachusetts law firms. We see it everywhere. You guys are doing a great job, Boston and beyond. So, you know, congratulations with Catchers and all your success. And we'll, you know, you're a partner now. So thank you. I'd like to take some credit for it, but I can't. We have a great team at our office that's in charge of that stuff, and I'm involved in none of it. And it's successful without me, you know, but we have a great team there that takes care of all that stuff. So thank you for saying that. All right. Well, you're welcome. We'll see about that. So we appreciate you being here. And like, tell us about your lawyer stories.

So today we'd like to go through. for saying. All right. Well, we'll see about that. So we appreciate you being here.

And, like, tell us about your lawyer story. So today we'd like to go through, like, why you became a lawyer and, like, what you're doing now. So, like, where does your story begin? Like, what inspired you to pursue law? You want the real reason? Yes. I can't do math. My career path was pretty limited with my limited understanding of math.

So when I was in college, You want the real reason? Yes. I can't do math. My career path was pretty limited with my limited understanding of math.

So when I was in college, I went to Suffolk University in Boston.

When I was there, I worked at the Department of Industrial Accidents.

I worked in something called the Workers' Comp Trust Fund.

And when I was there, I got to meet a bunch of great people.

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