If you're a personal injury attorney, you already know that no verdict can restore a life.
Every day, you help families rebuild after crashes that never should have happened. You have seen the devastating consequences of distracted driving, reckless decisions, and preventable collisions. While compensation can provide financial security and accountability can bring justice, neither can give a family back the person they lost.
Hunter's Fund exists for one purpose: to help prevent the next tragedy before it happens.
Created in memory of Hunter Watson, who was killed as a passenger in a distracted-driving crash while in college, Hunter's Fund reaches young drivers while their driving habits are still being formed. Through student-led Safe Driving Week campaigns, Hunter's Pledge, and peer-to-peer education, students encourage one another to make safer choices behind the wheel.
We believe the greatest victory isn't winning a case after a tragedy—it's helping prevent the tragedy altogether.
More than 200 Safe Driving Weeks have been held, more than 125,000 students have signed Hunter's Pledge, and thousands of student volunteers have helped carry this lifesaving message to campuses across the country.
If your career has been dedicated to helping families after tragedy, we invite you to help us prevent the next one.
Every law firm wants to make a difference in its community.
For firms that represent victims of serious crashes, supporting Hunter's Fund is a natural extension of that commitment.
It demonstrates that your firm is committed not only to helping families after tragedy but also to preventing future tragedies through education.
Law firms partner with Hunter's Fund because they believe prevention is every bit as important as recovery.
Together, we can help:
Reach young drivers before dangerous habits become lifelong habits.
Encourage students to make a personal commitment not to drive distracted.
Bring Safe Driving Week campaigns to more colleges and high schools.
Honor clients or loved ones whose lives have been changed by preventable crashes.
Demonstrate your firm's commitment to safer communities.
Many firms also find that supporting prevention aligns naturally with their community outreach and public service efforts.
Why Would a Law Firm Partner with Hunter's Fund
What Your Support Makes Possible
Your support has a direct and measurable impact.
For example, a sponsorship of approximately $1,000 can help equip a student-led Safe Driving Week with campaign materials such as banners, pledge cards, educational displays, promotional items, planning resources, and ongoing support from Hunter's Fund.
A single campaign may reach hundreds, or even thousands, of students during one week on campus.
Every conversation started.
Every pledge signed.
Every safer decision behind the wheel.
These are opportunities to prevent a tragedy before it happens.
Our Impact
Since Hunter's Fund was established:
Behind every number is a young person who paused long enough to think about the responsibility of getting behind the wheel.
Why This Work Matters
Personal injury attorneys understand better than almost anyone that distracted driving changes lives in an instant.
You have witnessed traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, permanent disabilities, and the unimaginable grief that follows the wrongful death of a loved one.
Hunter's Fund works upstream from those tragedies.
Rather than waiting until lives have been changed forever, we seek to reach young drivers before they ever become your clients.
By encouraging students to make a personal commitment not to drive distracted—and by having that commitment reinforced by friends and classmates—we believe lives can be saved.
Hunter's Fund provides everything students need to organize a successful Safe Driving Week.
Student volunteers receive campaign materials, planning guides, promotional resources, and ongoing support from our staff.
During the week they staff information tables, speak with classmates, collect Hunter's Pledge signatures, organize educational events, and encourage conversations about distracted driving.
The campaign is intentionally student-led because young people often listen most closely to their peers.
How Safe Driving Week Works
Hunter’s Fund Story
Hunter Watson was a talented college student, entrepreneur, and friend whose life was cut short by a distracted-driving crash.
His family established Hunter's Fund so that his story could help save others.
Today, Hunter's story continues to inspire students across the country to make safer choices behind the wheel and reminds all of us that one brief distraction can change countless lives.
Every Case You Never Have to Handle Is a Victory
If your work brings you face-to-face with the consequences of distracted driving, Hunter's Fund offers a meaningful way to help prevent the next tragedy before it happens.
Whether you sponsor a campus campaign, share Hunter's Pledge with your community, or make a charitable gift, you become part of a movement focused on prevention rather than aftermath.
Together, we can help ensure that fewer families experience the loss, injuries, and heartbreak you see every day.
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Help us reach young drivers before another family receives the phone call that changes everything.