When a truck loaded with lumber crashed into my body in 2005, I was condemned to a life sentence of pain, disability and poverty. The first time I met Joe Borsellino I could not talk because my jaw had been put back together with screws and plates and my gums sewn together. I knew that I would never again walk. The defense claimed that there was minimal insurance to recover. Joe relentlessly investigated every item of evidence - construction supplier sales, phone records, credit card records, bank records, town hall filings, real estate staging records - and every potential witness and insurer, for years, without ever giving up. He found the evidence our family needed and achieved the highest possible settlement. He also helped us to apply funds to allow our children to go to college. Joe became not only my lawyer, but a lifetime friend. He is an exceptional lawyer but, more importantly, and exceptional human being. Because of him, my family was able to survive a catastrophic event, and this means more than money alone (although the financial settlement he obtained was spectacular). It means that during the process we were never left to feel that our lives were of no importance, but that justice and truth existed and that even in the face of despair someone was able to shine a bright light of hope.