Dirk Julius Derrick

In 1991, Dirk left a partnership and established Derrick Law Firm Injury Lawyers. For the next 20 years, Dirk operated his firm like most small law firms, but became very frustrated with the leverages held by the insurance industry which creates obstacles in providing the three things expected by our clients, getting the real value of their claims, as fast as possible, while receiving elite customer service from a trusted lawyer. In 2015, Dirk performed a large focus group on a big case obtaining massive amounts of valuable insight and video footage of each juror’s opinions and deliberations. For the first time, Dirk shared the footage with the opposing party and found an ability to flip the leverages of time, money, uncertainty, and knowledge for his client’s benefit. To provide the same leverage for all his clients, not just those with extremely high values, Dirk constructed a business model and in-house courtrooms to determine truth about his cases, presentation models, and jurors. Derrick Law Firm Injury Lawyers has since grown from Dirk and one associate to 25 attorneys and over 60 staff members. Dirk also expanded the firm from one location to 10 offices throughout South Carolina with in-house courtrooms in Myrtle Beach, Conway, and North Charleston. Courtrooms are presently under construction in both Greenville and Columbia. As of February 2025, Dirk has obtained personal data from 19,000 citizens and has case decisions and opinions from over 10,000 participants. He has also partnered with a team of data scientists to develop a proprietary interactive database to analyze the data. Dirk partners with attorneys both inside and outside the state of South Carolina in determining the truths in their cases and how to leverage the same. He has recently begun “The Appraisers Podcast”, a closed podcast for plaintiff lawyers only sharing what is being learned through the individual focus groups and the big data coming from all of them collectively.