Justice for All: Len Spada’s 30-Year Mission Protecting Boston’s Latino Community

In this powerful episode of Que Pasa Boston, host Gabriela Salas sits down with Len Spada, founding partner of Spada Law Group, whose three decades of legal advocacy have transformed how Boston’s Latino community accesses justice and protection under the law.
From personal injury cases that seemed impossible to win to educational initiatives that prevent accidents before they happen, Len Spada has built more than a law firm—he’s created a shield of protection for families who often felt powerless against the legal system. His commitment to serving the Latino community goes beyond courtroom victories to encompass comprehensive education about rights, safety, and prevention.
This conversation explores:
• How Spada Law Group became the go-to legal advocate for Boston’s Latino families
• Landmark cases that set precedents for immigrant rights and personal injury law
• Community education programs preventing workplace accidents and injuries
• Breaking down language barriers in legal representation and court proceedings
• The evolution of personal injury law and its impact on immigrant communities
• Safety education initiatives that have saved lives and prevented injuries
• Building trust between the Latino community and the legal system
• Success stories of families who found justice when others wouldn’t help
Len Spada reveals how his Italian-American background fostered deep empathy for immigrant struggles and his innovative approaches to making legal services accessible regardless of language or immigration status. His insights into navigating complex legal systems while maintaining cultural sensitivity offer valuable lessons for both legal professionals and community members.
Whether you’ve faced legal challenges, work in community advocacy, or simply want to understand how dedicated attorneys can transform entire communities, this episode showcases the profound impact of committed legal representation on families’ lives and futures.

Connect with Spada Law Group for legal consultation and community resources.

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Justicia Para Todos: La Misión de 30 Años de Len Spada Protegiendo a la Comunidad Latina de Boston 
En este poderoso episodio de Que Pasa Boston, la presentadora Gabriela Salas conversa con Len Spada, socio fundador de Spada Law Group, cuyas tres décadas de defensa legal han transformado cómo la comunidad latina de Boston accede a la justicia y protección bajo la ley.
Desde casos de lesiones personales que parecían imposibles de ganar hasta iniciativas educativas que previenen accidentes antes de que ocurran, Len Spada ha construido más que un bufete de abogados—ha creado un escudo de protección para familias que a menudo se sentían impotentes contra el sistema legal. Su compromiso con servir a la comunidad latina va más allá de victorias en tribunales para abarcar educación integral sobre derechos, seguridad y prevención.
Esta conversación explora:
• Cómo Spada Law Group se convirtió en el defensor legal de referencia para familias latinas de Boston
• Casos históricos que establecieron precedentes para derechos de inmigrantes y ley de lesiones personales
• Programas de educación comunitaria previniendo accidentes y lesiones laborales
• Eliminando barreras de idioma en representación legal y procedimientos judiciales
• La evolución de la ley de lesiones personales y su impacto en comunidades inmigrantes
• Iniciativas de educación sobre seguridad que han salvado vidas y prevenido lesiones
• Construyendo confianza entre la comunidad latina y el sistema legal
• Historias de éxito de familias que encontraron justicia cuando otros no ayudaron
Len Spada revela cómo su trasfondo ítalo-americano fomentó profunda empatía por las luchas inmigrantes y sus enfoques innovadores para hacer servicios legales accesibles independientemente del idioma o estatus migratorio. Sus perspectivas sobre navegar sistemas legales complejos mientras mantiene sensibilidad cultural ofrecen lecciones valiosas tanto para profesionales legales como miembros de la comunidad.
Ya sea que hayas enfrentado desafíos legales, trabajes en defensa comunitaria, o simplemente quieras entender cómo abogados dedicados pueden transformar comunidades enteras, este episodio muestra el impacto profundo de representación legal comprometida en las vidas y futuros de las familias.
Conecta con Spada Law Group para consulta legal y recursos comunitarios.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get that in Boston.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm excited to have here one of my favorite people
in the entire world, not because he is the best
attorney too, but also because now he is going to
be my golf partner and my cigar smoker buddy. We're
gonna be joining a lot of these events around town,
and you're gonna learn a lot about what he does
and how he does it and why it's so important

(00:22):
for you to listen today. So I bet you that
you've been in situations where you fall, or you have
a dog bite, or you have some sort of accident,
and you don't know who to call, what to do,
what even goes remotely through your head. And today my
guest is gonna teach us and educate you, because you

(00:45):
know that's what I want here at Kapasa Boston. I
want to educate you and give you all the resources
to better your life and to know what to do
in circumstances such as his accident. And today I have
lend Spata with me. Welcome lent capt Pass up Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
And tell me where did you grow up.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I grew up just a few miles from here in
East Boston.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, and what part of East Boston?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Uh, everybody that's ever been to Logan Airport? Yeah, okay,
I am so close so that when you come out
of the tunnel and you drive to the airport, I
am directly on the left. As soon as you come
out of the tunnel. We had the first house. People
used to call me and ask me what's the traffic
look like? Because I literally grew up in traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
You should have been working here at iHeart for the
Weather and Traffic Channel.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It was funny because I would often get those phone calls, Hey,
I'm coming down, can they take a look out the
window and tell me what the traffics like? So I
literally grew up in traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So this is very interesting because when you grow up
in East Boston, you probably saw all the change and
some sort of gentrification that's happening in that area because
back then it was more of an Italian community, correct,
and now it's more Hispanic.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, when I grew up again, this was a long
time ago, but it was predominantly Italian Americans and people
who are you first generation? All of my family came
from Italy. I was born here in this country, but
there was also a significant but smaller number of Irish,

(02:27):
but it was predominantly an Italian neighborhood. Okay, so I
grew up among immigrants, but they were from Italy, and
today it's predominantly Hispanic and same community, same lovely cases.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Changing two.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was at the toll Ship the other day and
I saw the new buildings and how beautiful the waterfront
properties are. And I see a lot of new couples now,
and also students that are coming into the East Boston area.
And you know what I love about that is that
they get to experience what our restaurants are all about.
Because East Boston it's full with amazing, eclectic and ethnic foods.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Wonderful I was. It's funny you mentioned that because I
was at the Real House yesterday, which is right near
the Tall yes and I was having lunch with my
intake manager and who was born in Mexico and his
family is here visiting. So I took them to lunch
and I explained to them that as a child growing up,
this was the part of East Boston that my parents

(03:30):
told me to stay away from. It was what they
considered to be the dangerous section of East Boston, which
looking back now, I'm not so sure how dangerous it was.
But I was not to go there because it was
not built up. It was, you know, just an area
that your mom and dad didn't want you to go to.
And now it's this beautiful area with gorgeous apartment.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
What a vision they had, right, Menino had that vision also,
like becoming the seaport East Boston, all that waterfront.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Beautiful view of the city. It's actually a better view
than you if you were in downtown Boston looking over
the other way.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, I completely agree. Before my role here at iHeart,
I used to run the seplane company that took off
from East Boston that area and flew to New York.
And that was my favorite part, just being in the
East Boston side and was looking over at the CD.
But with this view, you also have different points of

(04:23):
view on your own because you grow up in East
Boston and then you decide to go to school and
become an attorney.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Why, well, I was working. I went to college. College
is named Bentley College, and I was a business major.
And while I was in college, I had a supervisor,
a boss, and her husband was the chief homicide prosecutor
in Boston in the DA's office. So he was always

(04:51):
on the news, he was always in the press, and
he was a big deal. All the big cases he
was trying. And my boss, that was her so we
would chat about it. And because I worked in Boston
City Hall, on my lunch hours, I used to cross
the street. I became so intrigued by what he was doing.
I would watch him on trial. So I would cross

(05:11):
the street during my lunch and i'd go watch. His
name was Jim Hamrock, great lawyer, and I would go
watch him. And I followed him. And while I was
in college, I realized, you know, I don't want to
go into business. I would really like to go to
law school. So people have other people that inspire them.
And Jim Hamrock, I'm not even sure he knows he
inspired me. He'll know now he does know. Now. I

(05:34):
went to law school, and I followed in his footsteps.
I went to the same law school, and I went
to the DA's office. After I did a lot of
the things, I didn't become the chief homicide prosecutor, but
I was in the DA's office for several years trying cases.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
How is that? How is dealing with all these homicide
and honestly, it was.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
The best job, one of the best jobs I've ever had.
And if the money was such that I could have
raised a family and put my kids through schooling on
the salary, I'm not so sure I would have left,
or at least I would have stayed a lot longer.
It was a wonderful job. You felt like you were
doing really really important work. And once you stop playing sports,

(06:15):
once you stop being an athlete as a young man,
you still need those competitive juices. Yeah, and being on trial,
going one on one against another lawyer and trying a case,
I felt that same level of excitement and it was
the adrenaline and I love that. And it was just
talking about now I can feel it. You know, you're

(06:36):
in court, people are watching. We tried some cases that
had some prominence so the press would be there and
local politicians to make sure this particular bad criminal would
be put away. I loved it. It was very, very exciting.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's fantastic. So that is the beginning of your career.
And then how did you turn into the specifics of
injury and all these type of cases that you manage? Now, Yeah,
were you working for someone before, or just started on
your own right away.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I left the DA's office and I was you know,
my wife and I had been married for thirty one
years and we were serious and we knew, you know,
we were going to start a family. And the DA's
salary was very low. You didn't do it for the money.
You did it for the love of the work. Yeah,
of course, But coming from East Boston, I needed to
earn better money. So I felt like I had to

(07:28):
leave in order to get married and try to buy
a home. So I looked for a job, and I
took a job at a big law firm Okay and
downtown Boston. And you know, I was making great money.
It was prestigious. And I did that for several years,
and I was doing the opposite side of the work
i'm doing now. So somebody gets into a car accident

(07:50):
now and they hire me, and I file a lawsuit.
Somebody else will defend that lawsuit. Yes, I was that
other person, so the insurance companies would pay me to
defend the cases.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
That makes you perfect, because now you know both sides
of the equation, right.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
It is absolutely the best training. Somebody that is doing
what I do could have because I saw how the
insurance companies worked. I understood what their game plan was,
and I really really got a sound foundation on the
way to flip the switch and to help people, you know.

(08:29):
And I also saw lawyers doing what I now do
and I don't, in my opinion, doing it ineffectively, poorly
and not really putting any passion or commitment into it.
And they weren't doing their clients as service, and I
knew I could do better. And it's also a more
creative process being on my side. We're the ones that

(08:51):
have the burden of proving the case, so we have
to put a case together. We have to be creative,
and whereas the other side just has to poke holes.
So I was much more always, much more interested in
the other side. And also, I'm helping people, not a corporation.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
You just shared a word help. You're helping people, and
it's very intriguing to me because most of the times
that I speak to all my guests or other professionals,
they use that as the you know, their job, their role,
their guidance. But help is a very different word. The
meaning it goes beyond. And I appreciate that because when

(09:30):
you're talking and using your resources and your knowledge to
make somebody else's life better or circumstances better. That means
a lot to me. What does it mean to you
to help these other individuals? Why do you feel the
urge of helping?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know? That's a really good question and it's one
that I've I have ponded in multiple ways in my life.
I think growing up, I've always had a soft spot
for the underdog. My parents were underdogs. They you know,
they just they came to they you know, they had challenges.

(10:08):
So I always felt like God blessed me with a
good brain, God blessed me with a good work ethic.
And I don't like bullies and I don't like people
taking advantage of people. So when given the opportunity to
try to help somebody that's unfamiliar with the language, the culture,
the country, the legal system, and know that once they

(10:30):
hire me, they have it's going to be a fair
fight because I know what I'm doing and I get
a real kick out of that, you know. And I
saw how people get taken advantage of my big insurance companies.
I don't want to be the guy who just sits
here and says, oh, they're evil, but they're not out
to help.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's a business. It's all about revenue, right.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
But when someone hires me or a member of my firm,
they get a fair fight. That's one of our slogans,
you know, the insurance company like to fight, and with us,
it's a fair fight. And I love that. I love having,
you know, a man or a woman or a child
that is relying on me as their you know, one

(11:12):
of their warriors, you know, want someone to go to
bat for them. And I love that feeling. And I
know that they can relax and be comfortable, take care
of getting better because they're all physically injured, and leave
all the rest of it to us. I don't know
exactly why that resonates so strongly with me, but it does.
And I get I like making money, yeah, but I

(11:33):
have to be honest with you. When I help somebody
through a tough situation, the joy I get from that
outweighs any financial compensation I'm getting. And now people be like,
that's bulloney. It's true. I like making money just like
everyone else, but I love helping people get through a
tough challenge against the bully.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I think there's a misconception really with the making
money and helping people, because we've been taught, especially in
the spanning culture, right, you've been told that money is
not good, that it's a negative source somehow, is like
it makes you a bad person or bad intentions. I
believe that money is a resource that helps you help people,

(12:15):
that helps you grow, that helps you achieve whatever means dreams,
goals you have, and the fact that you're able to
grow your passion, your quality, and your education, and then
at the same time feed your family and give them
a good life.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Why not why not make money? Right?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I don't think that it's a bad thing or it's
a negative connotation making money or having an attorney that
charges enough to help you, because if it was me,
and I also you know, have my rates and I
don't do anything close to legal, right.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
But also I feel very proud.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Of what I know and my accomplishments and my learning
lessons in order to help other people. So if anything,
I want my community to learn that it's okay to
have a good career and also make money and feel
comfortable receiving that money. That's a side note from your story,
but it is very important.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I've also not to interrupt. But I also feel like
as I've gotten older and more successful and more financially secure,
I help more people. My business has become successful because
the community trusts me. And guess what part of that
money that I earn, I do so much more in

(13:36):
the community. I can spend money, I can help commune.
I can I can do you know, community or community events.
I can give back to the community. I can sponsor
you know, athletic teams. I can help with back to
school backpack. I have money to do things that's helpful.
I don't do that.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's why I wanted to touch on this point because I
saw that you have also a scholarship program that you
donate it, you know, every year to the north Shore
students seniors right seniors.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
In high school. This is our believe it's our sixth year,
fifth or sixth year, and we give one thousand dollars
to five different recipients. And in order for them to
be qualified to be considered for the scholarship, they have
to write an essay, and being someone who came from

(14:26):
the inner city, they have to write a short essay
about what challenges that they may have encountered in their
young life. What they've done to overcome them and what
lessons they've learned from them. And I get some amazing,
amazing stories and a lot of them are you know,
young men and women from the community, Latinos Latinas. You know,

(14:49):
people who are their parents are feeling exactly like my
parents do. Yes, their son or daughter's going off to school,
making a great life for themselves. They're so proud. It's
the best money I've ever given away. And we have
had kids going off from Chelsea going to Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Boston College. I mean, it's one of the best things

(15:11):
we do.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Thank you so much for doing that, because you know
what you do and how you give back. It also
resonates a lot with the legacy that you're building and
leaving behind. And your kids must be really proud to
know that you're working not just to fit them, but
to make sure that there're surrounding and the community is
also thriving and surviving and doing better. Because I am

(15:34):
a believer that if you grow and you help others grow,
everything just works out. In this case, when can I
call you and speaking of growing, right, you have the
growth of the city construction all these situations that happen
around us that could cause accidents. Is that the only

(15:56):
case that I can call you or any of your
attorneys to help me. What type of law do you
do you actually serve?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, we we personally only handle accident cases. So if
somebody gets hurt and they have questions, we should be
their first call and we can help them. If it's
something that we can't, you know, help them with, we're
we're in the best position to sit down and discuss

(16:26):
the situation with them. I don't want people thinking, oh,
I got hurt, but I'm not so sure. If you
got hurt and it's somebody else's fault, you believe Okay,
call us. We'll have a cam. You know, we'll have
a chance to sit down and talk. We can then
make the decision. Hey, Spada Law Group can help you
or we can't, but we think this particular I like
being the first resource. Call us. Now. I don't handle

(16:50):
other types of work personally, but we have developed a
partnership program where there are other lawyers doing other types
of work that I personally have vetted, so I know
they're trustworthy.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, So if someone calls, so you
refer them.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Absolutely. Someone calls me, I need an immigration lawyer. Well,
I'm not going to put you with just anybody. I'm
going to put you with somebody that I've spent time
making sure that they're trustworthy. Okay, because my name is
attached to that. Yes, call me. If you need someone
for real estate. You may be you're a first time
home buyer, or you're selling, or a business situation or divorce.

(17:26):
Unfortunately people get divorced. We can help in so many
types of areas of law that I personally won't do well.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Businesses, if you're starting a business.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
About business formations. So many people in the community, I mean,
look around, there's so many first generation Latinos opening businesses
of all kinds, construction, restaurants.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
And I believe they should be also aware of what
the responsibility is as a business owner. I imagine that also
calling you as a personal injury yes, exactly, just because
you need to know what your liabilities are.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Risk assessment exactly exactly. So that could be also a
good call of saying.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Like, listen, I'm thinking about opening a construction company. What
does that mean for me? As liability and responsibility? Risk opportunity,
et cetera, and you can guide them right to the
right place.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Absolutely, we can do that risk assessments. We've spent I
spent so much of my career looking at situations that
weren't right that I now can. I'm in a position
to say, listen, if I were you opening this, you
should be careful of this. For example, we're doing a
lot of a lot of people now stay at airbnbs. Yes,
a lot of people are foregoing hotels, and we have

(18:42):
been representing more and more people who get hurt while
they're staying.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
There, so it doesn't matter they're not local.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
So because if you say airbnb, the first thing I'm
thinking is the beach, Like I want to go away
from the cold, and I'm you know, out of state
or even out of the country, Like, what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well, out of the country's more complicated. Okay, Okay, we
certainly would try to put you in a situation where
you could find someone, but anywhere in the United States.
If you get hurt at an Airbnb or a vacation
rental b own of vrbos and you get hurt, we're
a really good first call. Okay, Because a lot of

(19:21):
people aren't aware of the fact that just because of
a Massachusetts licensed lawyer, I still with certain permissions can
practice in different states. And we have cases now in Ohio,
North Carolina. We have many of them in Massachusetts where
we're able to help people. So we have a billboard.
We just have a new billboard on the way into

(19:41):
Logan Airport that basically tells people, if you're injured in
an airbnb, we can help you. We hope no what
he does, but people do. And the conditions that many
of these rentals are in, Like when you rent the hotel,
there are commercial regulations to how safe.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
They must be, given the carbon monarch side, you know,
alarms and everything that airbnbs sometimes they don't have.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Oh there was a tragic case that was in the
news recently where a family died because carbon monoxide detectors
did not go off, and there's a big lawsuit as
a result of that. But people rent their homes sometimes
as the airbnbs, and they don't take care of the places,
not all of them. Some of them are beautiful, but
some of them, the ones we've dealt with, the stairs

(20:27):
are falling apart, the rugs are ripped, the hand railings
on decks, the structural integrity of like the decking outside.
So many things can go wrong and do and then
the people feel lost as to what they what their
rights are. And that's an area of war that I
find really interesting. So we've been doing.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
A lot of that, and what are there Let's define injury, right,
or let's define an accident. What does that mean for
anybody that is, you know, going through this processes. When
can I assume or decide that I have had an
accident that was caused by others?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
That's a that's an excellent question. And I always tell
people most people, unless they're lawyers, are not in a
good position to assess whether or not there is somebody
else that's responsible for the accent. So to answer your question,
if the listeners, if somebody gets hurt, okay, call us.

(21:26):
A simple call to us can quickly assess that whether
or not they'll have any type of legal rights or not.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, we can sorry, right, it all takes as a
phone call.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
We're happy to speak with you and we'll go through
the question.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
You can do it in any language too, which I
am very very familiar with.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Absolutely, there's no one that answers my phone that does
not speak Spanish as well, no one, you'll no one'll
ever answer the phone and spade a lot group that
doesn't speak Spanish. Okay, and we can even help with
Portuguese if somebody gets hurt and they call us. Now,
the next step is is there somebody else responsible for
your injuries? For example, somebody might fall at an airbnb,

(22:06):
like we just discussed using this as an example, and
some woman steps off a decking and she severely breaks
her leg. She may think it's just a freak accident, right.
She may be like, oh, I don't what am I
gonna call a lawyer for? Or I stepped down, I
twisted my ankle. Well, we have a case like that,
and we were able to determine that the reason she
twisted her ankle was because the step that she came

(22:28):
down was higher than code regulation. The place where she
put her foot is supposed to be level and smooth.
In fact, it was irregular or broken concrete. So it's
clearly she would not have broken her leg had the
owner done what they were supposed to do. So that's
a case where someone might be oh, I just had
an accident.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
What if my neighbor's dog bites me.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
You're in Massachusetts. If you own a dog and your
dog hurts someone else, whether it be a bite or
it pushes them over and you get injured, the person
who owns the dog is responsible.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Meal.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'm going to talk to my daughter right now.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
So you are responsible. If you are a dog owner, Yes,
you are responsible if that dog hurts someone else. There
are very few exceptions to that rule in Massachusetts, one
being if you're teasing the dog, or you're tormenting the dog,
or you're trespassing. In other words, you have a dog
in your yard and I climb over the fence, he
bites you while you climb over the fence.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
What are you doing climbing the fence.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
You kind of got what you deserve. Okay. Other than that,
some of the dog cases we handle, people think, oh,
dog bites a little. No. We've had horrific injuries as
a result of dog injuries, knocking people over. Yeah, a
dog chases you, it's aggressive and you run into the
street and get hit by a car. We've had a

(23:49):
situation where the reason the person got hit by the
car was because a dog was chasing them. The person
who hit them in the car is not responsible. They
were just driving along someone ran in the road, But
the person who let the dog out without a leacious responsible.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
You must need a therapist after you deal with all
these cases, because I'll be so concerned about everybody on line.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
There are many people out there who would agree with
you that I need a therapist. My wife, My wife
from the first on the list.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I believe that we have to be responsible, but also
culturally in our community may agree. In listeners, we are,
like I mentioned before, we're taught to not share certain information,
you know, like your family name, or like don't you
get embarrassed? And that's one of the things that I
taught my daughter very very early on, and it was

(24:42):
like are you hurt or are you embarrassed? Why are
you crying? And it's just the difference that the difference
between one and the other, because your emotions and your
feelings might be hurt, but that doesn't mean that physically
you're injured. And sometimes that could be also challenging for
us to make that phone call to you or anybody else,
even a doctor. I mean, my mother, she gets embarrassed

(25:05):
and she doesn't want to tell us when she suffers
any accident or any injury because she's afraid of like, oh,
I don't want to bother them, or I don't want
to do this or that, or I don't know the
language and I don't want to take them out of
the way to translate, and so she holds back. And
I know a lot in a lot of people in
our community do that. So I want to reinforce the

(25:28):
fact that if they call you, would that cost them
any money?

Speaker 3 (25:33):
No? No, absolutely enough.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, so it's a first call. It's just a free assessment.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
It's always free. So let me you raise something that
probably a lot of people listening don't know the type
of work I do with injuries and accidents. You will
never have to pay us out of your pocket. You
don't write us a check, you don't give us cash.
The only time we ever get money is when an
insurance company just to pay you because we fought, and

(26:02):
then we take the money out of the insurance proceeds.
So if we try to help you and we're not successful,
you don't knowwe us a penny. If we try and
we are successful, we take a percentage, and that's all discussed.
But you will it's free all the way through. So
there's no reason why somebody who gets hurt should be

(26:24):
concerned about I don't have the money to pay a lawyer.
You don't have to pay the lawyer.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
And even though you know, I've been in situations where
I get into a car accident and I feel so
bad for the other person, so I know they didn't
mean it. They really didn't mean it. Maybe they were
distracted or what not. Right, But you're like, and I
come from Mexico where I was not used to suing anybody.
I mean, like an attorney who's an attorney like you

(26:51):
will be in a very different scope of business. Right,
But I learned that when you have those kind of accidents,
even if they don't mean it, there's a responsibility that
it's attached to anybody driving, even ourselves. But also the
insurance is mostly covering most of these situations.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
That is correct a lot of people. I've encountered this
so many times in my career where people will come
to me and be I don't want to sue. I
don't want to harm that other person. People are good
human beings for the most part. Okay, I can't there's
no one listening to this right now who's never been
distracted while they were driving. No one, myself included, not
the best driver.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, oh thank god you told me you Ever again, my.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Family will attest to that. We have laws and we
have insurance, so we are really taking money from insurance companies.
If somebody comes to me and says, hey, I was
hurt in an accident, but the person who hurt me
has no insurance. I've been practicing law since nineteen ninety one.
I've never taken money from somebody who hasn't had insurance.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I've never heard unless it's somebody that is reckless, right,
and I don't have insurance, I don't have a license,
I'm driving and i'm doing you know, I'm drinking and
driving or whatnot.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, this is difference. The only time I can tell
you in my career we took money from somebody who
didn't have insurance is It's a long story, but it
almost never happens. And you know something, you have control
over that. So if you call me and we're talking
about having a case get started, if I determine that
there's no insurance, I'll explain to you how this works,

(28:30):
and you make the decision, Hey, I don't want to
hurt something like you are the boss. Like, we don't
do anything, We don't go to court without your permission.
You drive the case. You make decisions based on your
own moral feelings about things. But let me just say this.
If somebody has insurance, they paid for that. Every month

(28:51):
they're paying insurance, and you get hurt and you feel
bad because you don't want to sue that person. The
only person or entity that's making money is an insurance company.
That's crazy. You're entitled to that. Our laws are written
so that you deserve compensation, there's insurance for it. If

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you choose not to do anything, the insurance company gets
richer and richer and richer. And that just doesn't make sense.
That's not fair. So I always tell people, take the
money and donate it to charity if you want, but
don't let the insurance companies keep it.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I agree, I agree. What number can we call then?

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Six one, seven, eight, eight, nine, five thousand.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Did you have a website?

Speaker 3 (29:35):
We do Beta, lag group dot com, SPA, DA law.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
And you know people SPA, DA l.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
A, w.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
R OUP dot com, YEP, excellent and on top of that.
You have a great social media partner here Tara, A big,
big shout out to her. And you have to check
out your social media what's your handle? Spatalog group, so
you just go in Instagram based first.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
I had a look over to tyr and be like,
what's my handle? The first question is what's a handle?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
And do I have?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Barnie?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Of course you do, because we do a lot with
you and we appreciate you as a partner, as a supporter,
as an educational source for us, and we appreciate again
all the knowledge that you have shared with the Kapasa
Boston community. Thank you so much, Land for being with
us today and we can wait to see you at
the Puerto Rican Festival so you know it and any

(30:38):
any other events that we have. You can always find
Len and his group with us at Robano in ninety
seven seven and gemin ninety four or five. So don't
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with more stories and more knowledge.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Thank you.