My philosophy as a lawyer I sort of developed with my partner Frank and we see ourselves as problem solvers. The practice of law is a great academic field and there are lots and lots of interesting questions but when you translate those things to the real world, a lot of lawyers have problems seeing the forest for the trees. And so they concentrate on some particular legal theories or they concentrate on actions that they believe were inappropriate and forget the focus on what the ultimate goal is, which is to solve your clients problem.

Frank and I recognized this together early, early on in our practice within the first five years or so. And so, what we try to do is we try to get to the bottom of what needs to be done to solve our problems. And just because there is some things that we can complain about along the way that might be correct and we might prevail on those that doesn’t mean we want to pursue those things and complain about those things if they’re not going ot help our clients case move forward.

The other thing we try to do that I think is unique and Frank has his own set of talents and I have my own set of talents and weaknesses. Ad Kim’s come along since Frank and I began practicing and I think the same thing is true of Kim although, I have to say Kim in a lot of respects is the total package. But we try to minimize our colleague’s weaknesses and maximize our colleague’s strengths. And because we’ve been together so long, we have a really good perspective on what those are. And if a case is difficult, if it’s a big case, if the problem is something that is something for our client that we just know we’ve got to win, then we’re going to work as team to make that happen rather than letting our egos get in the way and try to handle things on our own. And that’s our philosophy here at the office and that’s my philosophy when I practice.