Our Personal Injury Lawyers, Ourselves

There’s a human-interest story I can’t help but think about whenever I see an ad for a personal injury lawyer on TV. It came out in 2015, according to its Wall Street Journal law blog dateline, but it has lodged itself into the crevices of my brain in the five years since it was published.

It featured a normal family in Louisiana and normal two-year-old boy named Grayson Dobra. For his first birthday, Grayson had a normal Mickey Mouse birthday party theme. But for his second birthday, his mom chose a theme more aligned with Grayson’s passions: Morris Bart, a…