Counsel Leverage | Capital + Capability for Plaintiff Firms
About Tim Young, Plaintiff Lawyer & Founder of Counsel Leverage
Plaintiff lawyer. Law firm owner. Builder.
I have practiced plaintiff law for more than 33 years and continue to own and operate The Young Firm. I earned my J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School in 1993, after a B.A. in political science from Wake Forest University.
The firm was built as a niche practice around complex, often multi-party maritime injury claims, typically in federal court venues, working on contingency and paid only for results. That work has included individual cases resolved through multiple eight-figure jury verdicts and settlements. Over the last six years we have added a mass tort practice serving thousands of clients across multiple MDLs, handled inside the firm with tort-specific work processes, custom-built databases, purpose-built AI and in-house national digital marketing.
Living through those stages kept me interested in the practical relationship between the cases and the operation supporting them. What information do the lawyers need? Where is the work slowing down? What should we build before taking on more? Where would additional capital be useful?
Counsel Leverage brings those questions into partnership with other plaintiff firms.
Process improvement with a practical purpose.
I hold a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Purdue University, am a Certified Pinnacle Guide and have been a longtime member of Strategic Coach's 10x program. That training shapes how I approach a workflow: understand the work before redesigning it, including who performs each step, what information they need, where delays arise and where the process creates avoidable repetition.
The point is not to introduce terminology or a new management framework. It is to help a team do necessary work with fewer information gaps and less friction.
Building tools around real work.
I work with AI daily and build or direct the development of custom technology, databases and workflow tools. Our firm successfully uses a closed, HIPAA-compliant AI application to extract key medical data across client medical records at scale, along with AI voice agents for intake and client communication. I have spoken to trial lawyer groups, including the Louisiana Association for Justice and an Injury Board national webinar, on the technology a modern plaintiff firm needs.
The questions always begin with actual legal and business tasks, not with a decision to use a particular product. Sometimes the answer is a better database. Sometimes it is a connection between systems. Sometimes it is an AI-assisted application that helps a lawyer work through a large volume of material.
What interests me is the connection between a firm's knowledge and a tool its team can actually use.
Why the capital and the capability belong together.
I am interested in firms that see an opportunity and know why they want to pursue it. They do not need another lawyer telling them what their niche is. They may need resources, implementation capacity and a thoughtful working relationship around what comes next.
In a funded Counsel Leverage partnership, I contribute capital and hands-on collaboration in AI, technology, databases and workflow. Both are part of the relationship; the plan determines how they are applied to the participating cases.
That is a different proposition from selling a technology project or providing capital without an implementation role.
Your expertise remains central.
Your firm may know its case type better than anyone else involved. I want to understand what you have learned and help turn the useful parts of that knowledge into a scalable approach.
The technology should reflect the litigation, and the capital should support a defined opportunity. Neither should dictate the professional judgment required in representing a client.
Still close to the work.
I continue to run an active plaintiff practice. Clients, lawyers, staff, case information and financial decisions remain part of my working week.
Away from the office, I serve on the boards of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, where I chair the Nomination and Governance Committee, and the Catholic Community Foundation of New Orleans. My wife and I were both born and raised in New Orleans, and it remains home.
That is the perspective I bring to Counsel Leverage: capital and practical implementation around opportunities other plaintiff firms already see.
